Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

Hello Liz - and Mary - Liz, destroy any poem I ever wrote which has survived. Please! Do you remember when Siobhan, chilled presumably at the prospect of compulsory hockey, wore scarlet long-johns to play? As she sped up the right wing, her tunic flew up to reveal the glorious flash of this illicit ...

There is a Sixes query to which I have never known an answer. When I entered the House in 1965 (eek!) the cold dank loos at the side of the cloakroom were known by a Latin name. I believe it began with a 'v'. Can anybody help? Welcome to the forum, Angela. If you came in August 1965 we overlapped j...

I was always in trouble, and spent 8 years in a state of high anxiety. but the baddest thing I did, in league with my (still) dear friend Deirdre Hobbs of Sevens, was to lead my House, Sixes, in a trail in and out of the trees lining the Square when we were supposed to march in a regimented way up t...

Hello Liz Jay! I remember you very well - you were effortlessly, divinely slim... I was one of the buxum. It was not easy to lose weight at CH - don't you remember Syrup Stodge? Thames Mud and Barges? There is a Sixes query to which I have never known an answer. When I entered the House in 1965 (eek...

At various times the ability to bring on rain with this Dance has been invaluable. At CH, I mostly performed it to avoid the hideous exertions of hockey, but the Dance successfully brought rain during this summer of drought. As a Gardener at a historic house, this skill was tremendously useful. The ...