Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

Before I die, and i do seem to have a while according to that website, I'll bring this thread back to films.... Sobbing helplessly over Tale of Two cities and Whistle Down the Wind in the hall are very clear memories. We went "out" to see The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery, Khartoum (mor...

I'd say that, given sufficient financial incentive, he'd accept moving out of his lair altogether and living in a wheelie bin. Munch, I do hope tomorrow's viewings go well, and that they all get into an unseemly battle to give you far more than you are asking, with or without Rachel Stevens. They do...

Re Husband of couple number 1; Will Henry be negotiating a separate deal for the glamour model? Or is she part of fixtures and fittings?

To fuel this juicy Wednesday debate, you might want to read "Billions and Billions by Carl Sagan.

Oh dear oh dear oh dear! I so wish you hadn't reminded me. Nutto was, i think, supervising prep and we were behaving appallingly. She was so easy to wind up it was hard to resist. But it all went a bit far and someone, I honestly don't remember who, called her a Nazi. She cried, and I can still reme...

Why was I so fearful of her? Maybe she was the first bully I had encountered, so had still to develop my defenses? Can anyone remember precisely how she controlled us, other than by her demeanour and disparaging turns of phrase? Off for a lie down :roll:[/quote] This seems to me to be a VERY interes...

Ah yes! Miss Scream. Who used to cook up disgusting concoctions made from the internal organs of several different animals for her beloved dog in the house kitchen... who had a book entitled "Children under pressure" prominently displayed in her sitting room (I was convinced it was actuall...

Jo! It's so nice to see you here, we 5s being few and far between! And so spooky that you raise the subject of "periods" as I was just thinking about it earlier today, in the context of CH that is, not myself (no idea why!). Do you remember how we used to have to write the dates of our per...

I suffered doubly because she was the wardrobe mistress as well, and being somewhat larger than standard size I always copped a good ticking off for causing extra work and special orders for my uniform. Jo, If it's any consolation, being small was also cause for complaint. "Well, if you can't ...

Funnily enough, several residents of our street do refer to our house as the addams family mansion, because it's large, crumbling and has several generations of scary nutters living in it. Laeticia and Venetia should start a business - clean it then flog it -

I know, we're seriously off topic now, but I can so relate to this; "I used to find a surprisingly casual attitude to things like snakes when we were overseas." We came home a few weeks ago to find a scorpion and a tarantula on the kitchen wall (in Mexico, not Ireland, obviously). A couple...

Henry's room to be done a neutral colour rather than his choice of sinister dark blue. More "de-personalisation". Sounds like your Henry should meet our Sean. Sinister dark blue walls, peeling, slightly torn posters of dead rockstars, blood red shutters and door, a partially dismembered st...

This made me laugh out loud, Maggie! I don't remember seniors doling out housemarks, only the housemistress (Curtis?) who looked like Maggie Thatcher. Our seniors were all much messier than the juniors (sorry, girls) with the exception of Linden who was perfect in every way, and so astonishingly pol...

Thanks Craig. Have plugged amp into macbook and am off to yoga having left alarm to wake up The Teenager and get him to turn over the vinyl - perfect multitasking! I've managed to replace most of my vinyl with CD, but some of the digitised versions are just horrible, especially Incredible String Ban...

Maybe you were in a pretty well behaved, or at least, tidy house, Munch! I think I remember that house marks were accumulated and called out at the end of term. The idea being that, if you got lots of them your house would be "shamed and named" in front of the whole school. 5s being a bunc...