Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

embroidery

(one of my hobbies is making cards with bead embroidery)

worry

I'm going to play in someone elses play-ground because Marty is a particularly dapper young intellectually deficient person who keeps reminding those brave and forgiving young pupils that life can sometimes and almost will drop various unsavoury yet unaccountably caerulean tinted onomatopoeic dysfun...

School

ale

Not really appropriate for me here! The Welsh are quite fond of their dragon and tend not to like people who do nasty things to dragons!!!

lisp

I'm pleased to see another in Wales. I am surprised to find the southern bias there.

obstruction

lawn

midget wrote: I still have my CH darning mushroom

How many people would recognise one for what it is nowadays? I had a very high tech plastic one which had a torch inside it so that the mushroom top became translucent - it was confiscated as Miss Jenkins thought it really was a torch for nefarious activities!!!

FrogBoxed wrote:I hoard (neatly ), too. Maybe this is a CH trait after all?

I'm trying to think why we should hoard? I do it too, it gave me great pleasure this morning to use something priced in Malaysian Ringgit - we left Malaysia 10 years ago this month!

cheat

Andy I do agree with you, I am far more often to be found behind a charity stall raising funds by selling something. It is quite a rare experience for me to just hold a tin, but with the connection to my sister I could not say no ( the organisers know me too well!). I publicise Gift Aid as much as I...

I have just spent part of the afternoon standing on a street corner soliciting ....... wearing a sash saying Leukaemia Research, and holding a collecting tin in my hand. I began to think I was invisible, however nobody bumped into me, so I don't think I was. It was just that many people chose not to...