Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

Today I get another of my letters in the FT. In this case in the FT Weekend edition in response to their last week's article about why customer service is such crap these days. It went: "Further evidence of idiocy down the rabbit hole. I have been awarded a Top Fan Badge by EDF Energy as a resu...

Thanks Mr Ed for putting the link to Maddy and the Carnival Band. As an old codger who came late to the internet I'm useless at putting links. I suppose I'm what is today described as a Cultural Christian - someone who was brought up with this stuff and still has a lingering affection for it, while ...

I suppose many of my older generation will not be believers but may still respond to the stirring hymns we used to sing in chapel. I've recently discovered an interesting set of albums by Maddy Pryor, taking one of her periodic rests from being singer with Steeleye Span, and titled "Maddy Pryor...

I've just caught up with this on You Tube. Why were comments turned off? I've had my issues with CH (admittedly from the 1950s) but I was pleased to see the Marines with their buzzcuts alongside CH's very mixed musicians and the lead drum major proudly sporting very Afro-Caribbean dreadlocks. Bravo!

Today's podcast shows Piers Cross (ex-CH) interviewing Princess Di's brother about his recent book. A bit sobering. I thought there were times when CH was bad enough but Maidwell Prep seemed to be setting new standards in nastiness.

I don't know about the media, apart from the fact that it reported football, but in the Euro 2000s there was Cocu, Totti and Windass in one tournament, and if it had been the World Cup they would have had Titi Camarra who, I think, played for Nigeria. And then there was, many years ago, that French ...

Years after I'd left they appeared to have resurrected the theme from Sports Report. This was where we all went silent at home (partly to hear the fortunes of Spurs (my team) or Middlesbrough (my Dad's team) and so my dad could work out whether he'd won a fortune on Littlewoods Pools (he never did).

Back to Geoffrey Cannon who posted originally on this site. He crops up in a new book: "Days in the Life: Voices from the English Underground, 1961 to 1971". It's a new edition of a 1988 book by Jonathon Green which does what it says; collected unexpurgated opinions on the counter culture ...

Did anyone catch the BBC documentary on Levin just recently? Fascinating. CH got briefly featured. Levin - small, bespectacled and Jewish - admitted to being bullied. But at election time he'd managed to hang a red flag around the clock on Big School. I seem to have heard another version that he'd h...

Deafness in Later Life: I think a limerick is due.

Keibat went deaf through a bang,
While Le Freak heard the loud guitars clang.
But it must be more cheering
To be losing your hearing
As opposed to be losing your wang.

He has fallen on his feet since Wasps collapsed and been snapped up by Harlequins. Smith, Dombrandt, Care, Louis Lynagh, Joe Marler. You couldn't have picked a better team Joe. You would know I was a Quins fan wouldn't you. The Gallagher Premiership has seen three famous names fall by the wayside: W...

Hooray! At last the Tory MP Peter Bone has been found out. Apart from the fact that he was a Brexiteer I always found him pompous and arrogant. He was a well-advertised, so-called Christian (the Plymouth Brethren in this case) but he always seemed too arrogant to me. After all we were always taught ...

I checked out the websites on him and what became apparent was how restrained the murals in the CH chapel were. At what seemed to me his best, his stuff could be a riot of sunflower yellows, emerald greens and vibrant purples. In the early 20th century he seems to have been part of the strain of Ger...

Football definitely not acceptable back then. Even though the Magnificent Magyars had taught us a lesson at Wembley, Brazil were on the rise, and footie would shortly take over the attention of the world - even the snotty, middle class populace of the public schools. At CH those who liked soccer use...

Spoony (Spooney?) did indeed have a robust set of bouncing bomb opinions which pleased some and infuriated others. Upon his return to the site after an interval I wrote a limerick about him which he responded to with one of his own. Here's mine which may perhaps serve as his epitaph. Some welcomed t...