Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

Haven't been to HK or Shenzen, but spent 12 years in Borneo with many Chinese friends there. Don't be surprised if your neighbour at a meal picks out the best parts and puts them on your plate with his chopsticks - he is just sharing them and honouring you. I hope you can eat with chopsticks, our fr...

Don't get me started on the worried mother lark. I have one with depression, before Christmas he went totally incommunicado and I seriously worried about suicide (him not me). The other son is proving himself totally unable to manage money with a similar wife. She had three children when they marrie...

raised ruddy soft, the lot of you.... I dont remember get any sort of biscuits at Hertford, burnt or otherwise We had a tin of biscuits in the kitchen in 6s. It was officially kept for times like before the early Communion on Sunday morning. I do, however remember that it was raided at other times ...

Euterpe13 wrote:aah, but we do get endometriosis, dysmennorhea, AND ...PMS !! ( where is my axe ?)

Here is 'guy with axe'

and if it really grim!!:reaper:

graham wrote:mine is wider too (oh dear, that's just asking for a JR comment )

do you use mac, Katherine? maybe it's an apple specific thing.

Yes, Graham it is a Mac - and by the way my name has an A after the H. (and that's being gentle with you as you understood my problem!)

Is it just my computer, this thread seems far wider than any other? I could not see the poll at first and had to scroll over a long way to find it.

Bourbons are named for a royal dynasty and are the food of royals so they must get the vote!!!!

Last night for some reason talk in the Dobson home turned to opportunities at school. In passing I said my VI form Maths teacher, Joy Holmes (Old Girl, herself) had left CH at the end of the school year when I had left at Christmas, and had gone to teach in Nigeria. John queried the name, he knew he...

Back to uniform, the name of this thread. When I went to the school, in the winter terms all girls in senior houses wore LISLE stockings as every day, with Seniors of some category that I didn't aspire to having SILK ones for special occasions. The girls in the junior houses wore brown knee socks. G...

99yorkpj wrote:Jude, sounds like i should never complain about uniform EVER again!!! Wow, you had it unlucky...... hehehehe....

Go on to the Hertford thread about uniform, and you will see what we went through over the years!

Next weekend I'll be going to Belfast for the Annual Conference of Inner Wheel Clubs in Great Britain and Ireland. Inner Wheel is a ladies service organisation originally formed by the wives of Rotarians, now with a (slightly) wider membership. My membership is one way of fulfilling the Charge I was...

In the new Old Blue there is the death notice for Mrs Johnson who taught Physics. She was ambidextrous and stood in front of the blackboard and started writing with her left hand and then when the writing reached her body transferred the chalk to her right hand and continued. This proceeded down the...

Mrs C - which line is going to change? the "Make their number to increase?" When we sang this at All Saints, Hertford in 2000, the line which gave concern was Brothers, best with righteous living As I recall Judith Lillie, past Head Girl and one of the officiating clerics said there had b...

fabulist • noun - a person who composes or relates fables. • a liar, especially one who invents elaborately dishonest stories. — origin late 16th cent.: from French fabuliste , from Latin fabula That could be a useful word to describe many children. It's the sort of word where others might th...

Inara Araújo - do we all have the sexy red thong? My poor dear husband would have a heart attack!!!

fivethreeone wrote: Yes - I still use 531 in pins, passwords etc!

Sad isn't it, if you came across my suitcase you could open it says 6.14!! It's ingrained for life!!