Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

Does this mean you are at work today Ruth?

no i'm in internet cafe in Streatham

came here to do some important stuff... oh dear how long have i been on the forum, 3 hours? ouch

and now someone behind me is singing tunelessly at their PC

least i feel less guilty for occasionally laughing...

Ruthie-Baby wrote:I'm as good now as I was at school....

That's the trouble with Housie; you were so imbued with the sense that even thinking of having fun is immoral so even now you can't be anything that might be less that more Victorian than the late Queen.




Poor girl ...........

David

The longer leave weekend is popular with staff and pupils. Most pupils now live within an hours drive of the school so all but a dozen or so go home.

Have you forgotten your password again INS?

amazing that pupils live so close to the school now...

sejintenej wrote:

Ruthie-Baby wrote:I'm as good now as I was at school....

That's the trouble with Housie; you were so imbued with the sense that even thinking of having fun is immoral so even now you can't be anything that might be less that more Victorian than the late Queen.




Poor girl ...........

David

I know, it's a terrible thing to happen to a girl...

Ruthie-Baby wrote:I know, it's a terrible thing to happen to a girl...

so I hope you are being led astray at the brewery? OBs have a duty to look after their own

well I had about six glasses of Old and then two of bitter, but they weren't quite full pints

and that was a whole lot more sober than the weekend before when I fell asleep in the train (see Horsham beer Fest topic)...

I think introducing the longer leave weekend was one of the best things that happened while I was at CH. Many people such as myself took a long time to get home and with (in the old system) you not being allowed to go until after midday on Saturday, it was possible not to actually get home until the evening and you had literally 12 hours at home and no more. I think it's just common sense and overdue really that it got extended.

but is it necessary to go home?

we were quite happy with a leave day from 12.30 to 6pm - I lived miles away but through my juniors my parents generally came to see me and took me out for a pub lunch...

Ruthie-Baby wrote:but is it necessary to go home?

we were quite happy with a leave day from 12.30 to 6pm - I lived miles away but through my juniors my parents generally came to see me and took me out for a pub lunch...

As some of us old codgers have said before, we never went home at all! .... no half terms, no leave week-ends. Three times a term (maximum) your parents were allowed to visit. You could order a table for lunch in the tuckshop (price 4/6d a head) and sit with your parents in what is now, I think, the play school. Ma Tickner would serve you with a fairly basic cottage pie and pud.

We thought we were lucky. A mere hundred years before our time, they didn't even get any holidays. You arrived aged eight and stayed until you left for university or wherever - just 2 days off for Christmas if you were lucky.

Talking of the the play school, one does wonder why it is needed. When I first saw it, I assumed that marriage among pupils had become commonplace since the merger (it was, if not unknown among pupils in the early days in London, at least fairly unusual). However, I now presume that, since the days of the bachelor housemaster living in his study downstairs and bedroom upstairs are now long past, the breeding programme at the school is in fact due to the increased fecundity of its staff rather than the pupils.

As for your last paragraph - I think you would be correct...

to be honest, there are not that many weddings between pupils...

does anyone know of any weddings between pupils?

not that i know of!