Robert,
Thanks for that. I do suggest you contact Rex Sweeny, as he has an extraordinarily deep knowledge of school and partiicularly Old Blue affairss over the past 50-60 years and would be able to tell you whether your chap has ever featured in The Blue.
David
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- Fri Apr 11, 2008 5:10 pm
- Forum: FIRST TIME VISITORS & Feedback
- Topic: Francis Ramsey Bourne, OB, 1887 - 1984
- Replies: 6
- Views: 8552
- Fri Apr 11, 2008 5:06 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: New houseparents' accommodation on the back avenue
- Replies: 137
- Views: 26304
Re: New houseparents' accommodation on the back avenue
Please permit me to play my usual role of adding to the confusion! There are some masters houses on the outside of the ring fence and between that fence and the station. I think its called King Edward Road or some such. (Out of Peele gate and head for the station and they are on your left, between y...
- Fri Apr 11, 2008 8:50 am
- Forum: General Chat - Non CH
- Topic: Mallett's Mallet
- Replies: 32963
- Views: 3704839
Re: Mallett's Mallet
Verrio
- Thu Apr 10, 2008 5:52 am
- Forum: General Chat - Non CH
- Topic: Mallett's Mallet
- Replies: 32963
- Views: 3704839
Re: Mallett's Mallet
chewing gum
- Mon Apr 07, 2008 9:06 pm
- Forum: General Chat - Non CH
- Topic: You've all had
- Replies: 24
- Views: 4379
Re: You've all had
Actually, the real showstopper at a Norwegian party is to say "By the way, there are two bottles of whiskey in my rucksack."If you want to cause a ruckus at a Norwegian party,
- Mon Apr 07, 2008 8:56 pm
- Forum: General Chat - Non CH
- Topic: Mallett's Mallet
- Replies: 32963
- Views: 3704839
Re: Mallett's Mallet
cod (as in "piece of...")
- Sun Apr 06, 2008 9:04 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Charitable status of independent schools
- Replies: 70
- Views: 16576
Re: Charitable status of independent schools
Thanks - did not realise letter to the editor appeared on website. Well done Maggie!
It's a bit worrying that somebody in the position of Head of the Charity Commissioners shoulkd take such a blinkered and ignorant view.
It's a bit worrying that somebody in the position of Head of the Charity Commissioners shoulkd take such a blinkered and ignorant view.
- Sun Apr 06, 2008 6:53 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Charitable status of independent schools
- Replies: 70
- Views: 16576
Re: Charitable status of independent schools
For those of us who do not subscribe to/buy The Sunday Times is it possible for some kind soul to scan the letter and post it here, please?
- Sat Apr 05, 2008 10:36 pm
- Forum: General Chat - Non CH
- Topic: Mallett's Mallet
- Replies: 32963
- Views: 3704839
Re: Mallett's Mallet
Stick
- Wed Apr 02, 2008 4:52 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Was CH Horsham Designed to Be Gay?
- Replies: 157
- Views: 35885
Re: Was CH Horsham Designed to Be Gay?
Englishangel,
assure you it was not meant to be
:deadhorse: Sorry
Excellent! Actually, what I wrote was meant to be light-hearted, but on rereading it, it sounds a bit patronising, whicvh I canenglishangel wrote:That is exactly what I meant.
assure you it was not meant to be
:deadhorse: Sorry
- Tue Apr 01, 2008 8:41 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Was CH Horsham Designed to Be Gay?
- Replies: 157
- Views: 35885
Re: Was CH Horsham Designed to Be Gay?
Englishangel,
Do you realise that to refer to 'two in a bed' as a double entendre is, in and of itself, a double entendre?
Do you realise that to refer to 'two in a bed' as a double entendre is, in and of itself, a double entendre?
- Tue Apr 01, 2008 2:40 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Old Blue February 2008
- Replies: 38
- Views: 7075
- Mon Mar 31, 2008 8:53 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Was CH Horsham Designed to Be Gay?
- Replies: 157
- Views: 35885
Re: Was CH Horsham Designed to Be Gay?
I have to admit that when I read the first lines of sejintenj's latest posting with the heading "Was CH Horsham Designed to be Gay?" followed by a quote "....absolutely ages since I have embedded two at the same time" I initially came to the wrong conclusion!
- Mon Mar 31, 2008 4:55 am
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: clothes and the man
- Replies: 17
- Views: 6133
Re: clothes and the man
Michael, Fascinated by your reference to "Q-shott", I am sure that you are right but I got as far as probationary Grecian, and have never heard of it before. Can you (or anyone else) elaborate at all, please? Does it still go on? CH has/had many of these quirky customs, many of them now di...
- Wed Mar 26, 2008 10:00 pm
- Forum: FIRST TIME VISITORS & Feedback
- Topic: Francis Ramsey Bourne, OB, 1887 - 1984
- Replies: 6
- Views: 8552
Re: Francis Ramsey Bourne, OB, 1887 - 1984
Dear Ridley (sorry, don't know your first name!), Kerren has asked me to contact you, so here I am! As she says, I have been doing a bit of research into Old Blues in WW1. I have the CH "Record of Service" which lists those Old Blues known to have served. I emphasise the word "known&q...