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by sejintenej
Fri Sep 22, 2023 12:31 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Amelia White (in the Daily Mail) deplores her CH years
Replies: 21
Views: 113653

Re: Amelia White (in the Daily Mail) deplores her CH years

I may have attended CH more than 10 years before Amelia, but I certainly recall experiencing homesickness, anxiety and rejection in my first couple of years at the school. To survive these feelings, you have to dig deep and learn how to stand on your own two feet, while helping others who are strug...
by sejintenej
Tue Aug 22, 2023 5:48 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: teaching relevance in later life
Replies: 24
Views: 47231

Re: teaching relevance in later life

As for languages, CH struggled to teach languages, French, Latin and German O-levels obtained, not fluency, but at GE my mother moved to Spain then Portugal where I learned both languages, on my own for Portuguese and with one lesson a week at CH for Spanish from a nice chap who taught a motley cre...
by sejintenej
Sun Aug 06, 2023 1:59 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Freaky returns to Sussex (by the sea)
Replies: 4
Views: 12425

Re: Freaky returns to Sussex (by the sea)

Yesterday I turned 80. The day before, Mick Jagger (and Katherine's brother P Hills), turned 80. In the meantime I don't really have any comment to make about my own life, except perhaps the words of the Grateful Dead: "What a long strange trip it's been." So I beat you by a month -when o...
by sejintenej
Thu Jun 29, 2023 7:50 am
Forum: General
Topic: Christs Hospital 5/8/17
Replies: 0
Views: 25253

Christs Hospital 5/8/17

found by chance, CH from the air

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RjqUnf1NmY
by sejintenej
Sat Jun 10, 2023 9:20 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Re: Housey special...
Replies: 7
Views: 5972

Re: Housey special...

copied from another thread Christ's Hospital - Schools Class locomotive Post by Great Plum » Fri May 12, 2006 12:30 pm I found out recently that there was a steam locomotive called Christ's Hospital that was one of the 'Schools' Class of locos - so called as they were named after famous public schoo...
by sejintenej
Wed Jun 07, 2023 9:21 am
Forum: General Chat - Non CH
Topic: Brexit
Replies: 117
Views: 266271

Re: Brexit

You need to show you have the right to automatically enter the country otherwise you need to answer a lot of questions about visas, lengths of stay, etc. Even if you have been through immigration you can be accosted with mal intent. Having come through immigration at Stanstead using a British passp...
by sejintenej
Thu May 25, 2023 5:43 pm
Forum: General Chat - Non CH
Topic: AI the future or the end?
Replies: 7
Views: 17857

Re: AI the future or the end?

Good or bad? I'm far from an expert, but I'd say a bit of both since AI is just a tool and so any question of good/bad depends on the motivations and intentions of the user. I can think of a number of fields where it could have a massive positive impact,......................... I think we're close...
by sejintenej
Thu May 25, 2023 5:29 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: CH and slavery
Replies: 15
Views: 48969

Re: CH and slavery

What exactly should people do with their ill-gotten wealth if giving it to charity simply tars that charity with the same brush as them? For example, how big a beneficiary of slavery was the Church of England or Salvation Army or any other well respected pillar of our society? One example is the em...
by sejintenej
Fri May 19, 2023 10:35 am
Forum: Abuse cases and related discussions
Topic: Statement of Acknowledgement from CH
Replies: 12
Views: 32601

Re: Statement of Acknowledgement from CH

Unfortunately I have found that my experiences at CH have affected me in lots of complex ways, some of which I am only beginning to discover many decades on. The education I received and the resilience I developed came at a cost. In my mid-forties, a lot of this trauma has resurfaced – I'd been kee...
by sejintenej
Fri May 19, 2023 10:26 am
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: CH and slavery
Replies: 15
Views: 48969

Re: CH and slavery

I had the same thought but when I mentioned it to my son, he advised me not to go that route as it would be badly interpreted. You have said it much more eloquently than I would have. I also asked him how far back it was reasonable to go to apologise and rectify the errors of our ancestors. It seem...
by sejintenej
Tue May 09, 2023 7:29 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: CH and slavery
Replies: 15
Views: 48969

Re: CH and slavery

rockfreak wrote: Fri May 05, 2023 8:02 pm Come on guys! Has no-one seen the Guardian's exposure of CH benefitting from slavery? Connections with Edward Colston? Dear oh dear! Are we all Daily Mail readers? Doesn't anyone read a proper newspaper?
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by sejintenej
Tue May 09, 2023 7:24 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Strange CH connection with Coronation
Replies: 3
Views: 1485

Re: Strange CH connection with Coronation

I remember it all too well. We had had previous contact both with Queen Elizabeth their mother in 1943 and with the two princesses before the marriage in 1948. I was sent to stay with my godmother who was close to the then princesses but was not included in the Westminster festivities. I am not sure...
by sejintenej
Sat Apr 01, 2023 12:29 pm
Forum: General Chat - Non CH
Topic: Brexit
Replies: 117
Views: 266271

Re: Brexit

I went on holiday with my wife to South Africa. My visa was for a period up to my expected exit date plus a few days. My wife, beside me with a UK passport, was given an unlimited stay visa . She was born there and her parents got her UK naturalisation but the immigration officials noticed she was b...
by sejintenej
Sat Apr 01, 2023 12:21 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Accents at CH Horsham
Replies: 14
Views: 14732

Re: Accents at CH Horsham

The maids in our house were Spanish. No mistaking their accent. John - Spanish but which Spanish? I learned Andaluz when I worked in Gibraltar and still understand it. I used to talk by phone with Buenos Aires and Santiago de Chile but I cannot understand a word of spoken Castilleno which is anothe...
by sejintenej
Tue Mar 28, 2023 5:14 pm
Forum: General Chat - Non CH
Topic: Brexit
Replies: 117
Views: 266271

Re: Brexit

My son has always wanted to work in Europe, but is hampered by having to get a work permit, so is now thinking of improving his french to get a French passport. Although I am comfortable with French after so many years a friend took the oral exam with a gendarme and the sound of it was frightening....