Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

gemmygemmerson wrote:snip

Are the yellow socks optional in sixth form? as in, can you still wear them if you want?. I'd love a pair, since I love socks but I don't know. Plus they look really groovy.

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For the girlies, you would wear grey socks or tights (depending upon the year) - only junior girls (years 7-9) have to wear yellow socks. However, you do have to wear yellow socks on 'best occasions' such as Speech Day, St Matthew's Day etc...

What is this "girlies"?

midget wrote:

DavebytheSea wrote:

sejintenej wrote:0 the dirdles just hang there without falling down.

David

What a wonderful line. When I start writing poetry again (hopefully soon) I shall incorporate this line. Or perhaps it is the first line of a song ???

Whatever ........ I have a feeling there should be a poem (or song) about Gemma - with dirdles in it, of course.

Watch the limerick thread ...

David, try singing it to the tune of " The mountains of Mourne"! Where is the rest of it?

Maggie

Maggie; don't do it. Daddy Dor never hit me with a baseball bat for out of tune singing - my voice was then too bad for him to dare go anywhere near. It is worse now!

Mountains of Mourne - I hum it and everyone will run a league.

DBTS - I'm sure that dirdles and girdles, oodles and doodles and poodles, lemme and gemmie and jemmy should get the limericks flowing.

Just had another long day - powder snow marvellous yesterday and round the space museum today. Eat your hearts out, but then you know where to come

David

i find that powder snow looks nice but in no way helps my skiing ability!

midget wrote:David, try singing it to the tune of " The mountains of Mourne"! Where is the rest of it?


Maggie

I left Ireland in 1944 aged six. Although I clearly could sing "Moutains of Mourne" at that time, I can now only remember "where the Mountains of Mo-ourne sweep down to the sea" - i.e the last line of the chorus. I agree that DB's dirdle line fits perfectly.

Alas! I had placed my contribution about Gemma on the limerick thread prior to your posting, so did not use the correct metre. However, I do regard your suggestion as something of a challenge and, if you can provide me with the rest of the the lyric I will write an adaptation concluding each chorus with the line:

"Where the dirdles of Emma sweep down to her seat"

You will note that I will thus preserve the anonymity of Gemma by a subtle change of name

http://ingeb.org/songs/ohmaryth.html

How appropriate. (Googlemaitresse strikes again)

Angela Woodford wrote:What is this "girlies"?

The young ladies who are pupils at Christ's Hospital...

I havn't been on here for days and I find a whole new page of comments and a limerick.

I've had far too much work to be getting on with. My D.t project acquired a huge hole so I had to deal with that. grr.
That Limerick was fantastic. It honestly made me squee ( to squee: to make a noise a kin to the noise a piston makes or a highly excited or jubilant teenage girl ). Though, I am not tall at all. 5 foot 1 would be kind. I swear year 7s are taller than me. I do hope sincerely next year people wont think I'm a year seven. I expect a lot of ' look at the socks, do they look yellow to you?' shouts will be heard when i'm around.

I'm going to try and promote the forum. I might not have any luck and the current pupils might think I'm a bit weird advertising a forum about Ch when I've only been there for oh how so many weeks. but I shall try.

Are first impressions important at CH?. Because I highly think I will be in tatters on the first day of the induction week since my prom finished on the same day at 3 in the morning. I'll be too tired and probably a total mess.

My teacher pointed this out to me today when we were talking, do any of you ever feel there is a sort of stigma about going to a boarding school/private school/independant school/charity school?.

I'll be a girlie!!!

Not really, Gemma. Some idiots expect you to be snobbish/brilliantly clever/too big for your boots etc. When I was a student someone said to me "I thought you had to be very poor to go to that school" As I had never hidden the fact that my father was a school caretaker I thought it a strange remark. Keep smiling.
Maggie

I have just spent 40 minutes reading through all of this, but that did inlcude skipping several of the regulars more off topic comments - glad to see the capital punishment debate continues.

Gemma, as I left 18 years ago, I guess from your view even I am an old fogey, but I am sure I wouldn't recognise wome aspects of the school - we still only had leave days and a 3 day half term in the spring, and had to wear uniform all the time in school etc etc. But I think you have found a very balanced and supportive group of new virtual friends.

When I started at 11 I was very apprehensive, but certainly within a week I had a group of friends who I went all the way through the school with, but also it is a small enough community that you get to know loads of people outside your house/class/yeargroup in all the non academic stuff you can do as well. Don't be scared of co-ordination or singing abilities, just get stuck in to sport/drama/music etc until you find soemthing you enjoy.

I think the key thing about the community, as you move on is that there are many friends and acquantances that I have not seen since I left school, but when you read their contributions on the posts the same character still comes through. Grab it all with both hands, and enjoy.

GOOD LUCK

I think one thing that you will find Gemma is that when you are at uni, you will get those who say you went to a boarding school so you must be posh and those who did go to public schools know about CH and thing you are a 'pauper' - that's what someone from Cranleigh called me...

Great Plum wrote:I think one thing that you will find Gemma is that when you are at uni, you will get those who say you went to a boarding school so you must be posh and those who did go to public schools know about CH and thing you are a 'pauper' - that's what someone from Cranleigh called me...

and there's those who think you had/have a nasty disease because you were in hospital for so many years. (You can always say it's highly infectious if you don't like the person)

Yeah. People will just think I got transferred from another one. 'Grey Coat Hospital' to ' Christ's Hospital'. I really should have kept away from school with similiar names.

Great Plum wrote:I think one thing that you will find Gemma is that when you are at uni, you will get those who say you went to a boarding school so you must be posh and those who did go to public schools know about CH and thing you are a 'pauper' - that's what someone from Cranleigh called me...

Not a Charterhouse boy by any chance, Matt ??

As a new girl, I remember Upper and Lower Dormitories - the two rows of sagging iron bedsteads, but on every junior bed at least one bear, bunny or other treasured cuddly toy. I was wondering if the little girls still bring their toys from home, or if they are far too sophisticated these days?

Perhaps you'll have a look for me when you get there, Gemma?

Love

Munch