Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

You could try Joseph Revely 104 Broadway Yaxley, Peterborough, PE7 3JD tel: 01733242283 From abroad: ++44 1733 242 283 NOTE: I didn't find a "Josh". TRhere are two "John" Revely's As for Pippa (often an abbreviation for Philippa) and referring to a post elsewhere, the only "...

Is this tongue in cheek or do you mean it? How do you find someone based on their hobby? And how is kidney problems going to help? Absolutely not tongue in cheek. Hobby -see the article above Profession - someone has been identified in Germany because of his profession. (ex Peele housemaster) Kidne...

englishangel wrote:My son ...
If he didn't look exactly like my Dad and brother I would have doubts about his parentage.

Now that is worrying - very worrying. I'l leave it to JR to explain why

Given that edges tend to burn before the centre, the more edges you create: a) the more potentially burnt stuff b) the harder it is to get out of the toaster c) the more bits you lose to the bottom of the toaster because there's no crust to hold it together instead of tearing into bits d) It is at l...

:lol: :lol: :lol: bless you, Amy - I'm laughing so much I can hardly type .... Gemma, can you perhaps invent "gemmaspeak" to translate " amyspeak"? No, Barbara. She is totally overcome. Her rich uncle bought her a runabout now she has passed her driving test http://www.dailymoti...

midget wrote:You mean you were allowed to stroll in an undisciplined way? How did they ever allow that?

Did anyone ever do potato de-eyeing

I've heard of Holy Mackerel but to actually create Holy Spuds takes some doing.

In 2's we always had to line up in house number order so you always sat next to the same person. Amongst the boys it tended to be height order within houses. We had to march just about everywhere with the tallest in the front rank gradually getting smaller until the last rank were the runts of the ...

You and I are of the same era, sejintenej . I cannot recall which teacher it was, but he would always announce the punishment by saying....... 'Take a Detention !' I seem to recall it was one of the English teachers. I rarely had detentions - masters seemed to want to get to the bottom of the probl...

gemmygemmerson wrote: I was jubilant because we got to miss spanish!.

I don't know why - it is pretty easy. Just wait until you have to learn Mandarin

Yes, David mine has the various dates, I chose to include the latest date there. I am sure the school had a job lot - how many were in a single year at Horsham? We probably had up to 50 leavers a year which soon mounts up! My guess is 110 or thereabouts. 850 boys doing 8 years each - some (like me)...

Mine is almost certainly the same as Kerren's as she was in the next batch to leave Hertford after me. It is bound in black leather with a gold crest on the front, with the words Christ's Hospital in a scroll under it. On the spine there are two smaller crests and the words Holy Bible with in a sma...

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... :roll: and there's...

J.R. wrote:to Blondie

take a detention !

I thought it was you who was supposed to enforce it. As for "taking" does she have the owner's permission?

I see that he is stealing money from the Lottery again.

I can't believe that this is a "good cause" except for Gordon Brown's self-aggrandisement campaign.

kerrensimmonds wrote:I'm sorry about the aborted attempts to 'join' the CHA, Midget. Actually all Old Blues are automatically members... so I wonder what went wrong in your case?
Were you a member of the OGA -

Kerren

Probably clased as a GOD (Grand Old Dame)