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- Mon Jul 16, 2012 12:30 am
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: What Were You Useless At?
- Replies: 35
- Views: 12000
Re: What Were You Useless At?
I disliked all sport, being fairly weedy and poorly coordinated. However, it had to be done, so I learned to tolerate it and to accept - even to exploit - my reputation for uselessness. "They" learned to put me in teams which didn't matter, or to send me on runs (when I could keep going, s...
- Tue Jul 10, 2012 7:30 pm
- Forum: General Chat - Non CH
- Topic: House Of Lords Reform
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2435
Re: House Of Lords Reform
According to Montesquieu's "Spirit Of The Laws" the separation of power between an elected House of Commons (representing the will and interests of the people) and an un-elected House of Lords (representing the will and interests of the monarchy) ... Did the House of Lords ever represent ...
- Tue Jul 10, 2012 7:11 pm
- Forum: General Chat - Non CH
- Topic: Does anyone on this forum go to church?
- Replies: 396
- Views: 79721
Re: Does anyone on this forum go to church?
Probably because every other verse in the Song of Solomon is even more, er, explicit. Apart, perhaps, from "awake, awake, O Northern wind, blow on my garden fair". Think yourself lucky you don't have to read ch5v2-5.Angela Woodford wrote:Why this passage?
- Sun Jun 17, 2012 7:45 pm
- Forum: General Chat - Non CH
- Topic: Grocer's apostrophe's
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2454
Re: Grocer's apostrophe's
Indeed we do. It's only in place names that I can tolerate missing apostrophes, and "Christ's Hospital" is more than a place name.sejintenej wrote:Yet we refer to Christ's Hospital
- Sun Jun 17, 2012 11:49 am
- Forum: General Chat - Non CH
- Topic: Grocer's apostrophe's
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2454
Re: Grocer's apostrophe's
Although I'm very fussy about apostrophes in general usage, I have different standards when it comes to place names. I'm quite content for the city and the university to call themselves "St Andrews". It would look silly and affected to use an apostrophe there, as it would in "Princes ...
- Fri Jun 08, 2012 11:08 am
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: RIP Charlotte Mitchell, actress and poet
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1915
Re: RIP Charlotte Mitchell, actress and poet
The Guardian says "hated", but it also says "West Sussex". Either the Guardian is confused, or she would have been confused by an education in an all-boys boarding school, as it obviously was in her time.
- Fri May 18, 2012 9:39 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Chapel choir, c. 1956
- Replies: 10
- Views: 13017
Re: Chapel choir, c. 1956
I wonder who commissioned the photo. And who took it. You were right. Christmas 1956. That clue let me establish that the photo appeared in The Times that year, and it was taken by one of their staff photographers. Probably on a press or technical camera of the period, which would use plates or cut...
- Fri May 18, 2012 9:17 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Poling
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1758
Re: Poling
... a long pole was pushed up against the bolster of adjoining beds to ensure that they were in line. ... It was still used in Col A in 1946/7. I'm confident that it was not used in Col A when I arrived in 1954. I remember who my nursemaid was, and I remember him teaching me how to make a bed to th...
- Fri May 04, 2012 7:36 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: School Prospectus
- Replies: 61
- Views: 18449
Re: School Prospectus
And have you noticed the carefully photo-shopped pics which add to the rosy glow? In particular though, have a look at the aerial shot which shows that Col A has mysteriously grown an extra entrance porch tower! Thank goodness somebody else has noticed this bizarre photograph. I was beginning to wo...
- Thu Mar 22, 2012 7:59 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: TOP SCHOOL?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1878
Re: TOP SCHOOL?
Indeed. Given CH's advantages, to be "one of the top" in a not-very-large county is no great boast. Actually to be top would be worth writing about. I did misread that line in "Housey", and when I saw your posting I was disappointed. Not by CH's academic standards, which are exce...
- Sun Mar 11, 2012 6:39 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Out Of Bounds signs.
- Replies: 24
- Views: 5947
Re: Out Of Bounds signs.
... I have the School Rules of 1961 in front of me again, and Chapter C is entitled 'Bounds'. Needless to say, it bears all the marks of Seaman's pedantry. Such as: "If in use, the playing fields beyond the 1st XV Pitch are in bounds." I've got that version of the Rules somewhere. When th...
- Tue Mar 06, 2012 9:56 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Out Of Bounds signs.
- Replies: 24
- Views: 5947
Re: Out Of Bounds signs.
Was the Doctor's Lake also one? I recall Doctor's Lake so well that I feel I must have visited it often. I was a bit risk-averse, so it probably wasn't out of bounds in my day. But I don't actually remember any "out of bounds" notices, which suggests either (a) there weren't any, or (b) t...
- Sat Mar 03, 2012 9:43 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Old Blues - Ex pupils or Former pupils?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2593
Re: Old Blues - Ex pupils or Former pupils?
True enough, and what made it worse that the speaker could say it to somebody else, with almost the same tone, to express real friendship. Perhaps that's why it has fallen into disuse.sejintenej wrote:"Old boy" was used almost as a form of insult ...
- Sat Mar 03, 2012 9:36 pm
- Forum: General Chat - Non CH
- Topic: Hockney
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1322
Re: Hockney
In the early 60s, a self-appointed committee of students spent an inordinate amount of our Junior Common Room's funds - probably more than £100! - on a large and hideous canvas by some unknown dauber. I was numbered among the noisy objectors. It was, of course, a Hockney, and I was, of course, a bu...
- Sat Mar 03, 2012 12:34 am
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Old Blues - Ex pupils or Former pupils?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2593
Re: Old Blues - Ex pupils or Former pupils?
I realise Old Blues are both, but which is the correct or more acceptable terminology? When I left CH, the generally accepted phrase was "old boys" (or "old girls") if you didn't want to use the specific phrase for whatever school (e.g., "old Harrovian"). It wasn't unt...