Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

I do feel that the inclusion of a French town / city comparison could be misleading. And my point was that such comparisons are (and usually are intended to be) misleading. The mayor of Doncaster's policy is to reduce the number of councillors, so therefore he chooses a ludicrous comparison with th...

Mr Davies said: "If 100 senators can run the United States of America , I can't see how 63 councillors are needed to run Doncaster ". Of course 100 senators don't run the US - a comparison of elected officials by number that is as silly as most of these things are. But let's look at some ...

Tennyson's Birthday I will not spurn some Tennyson but, for my taste, some venison has more poetic menace un- derneath than rhythms any son of Somersby could ken. He sung though thund'ring pen; he sun- dered soldiers' lives in many hun- dreds (six, in fact) or anyone with half a league, and then he...

I really need to have a sort out of my bookshelves - entropy has set in and various tomes are not where I expect them to be. So far this week I have been unable to lay my hands on my Russian law dictionary (I've been called out by the police twice this week - I was at the police station until 10.40 ...

That was my last play in Spring of 1984...an odd and somewhat quieter DNP production compared to the other ones you have mentioned here... "Charles Forster's very successful portrayal of Doctor Dorn seemed to come naturally. Here was a confident man of the world. It was not difficult to believ...

I recall many "Funky Duncy" blockusters and indeed did act in some My photos from "The Seagull" will be released unless you cough up the hush money, Chaz :wink: Stuff I appeared in: One of my regrets in life is not having taken the early opportunity when it was offered to have a...

NEILL THE NOTORIOUS wrote:And in perfect meter

The classroom too hot
to concentrate on maths books
so I never now remember how to count or to properly calculate the correct number of syllables for haiku.

Garden Quad sunshine
on bright pages of poems
and library's red bricks

I am not, I have to admit, an avid reader of the Times Educational Supplement, but if I'm obliged to kick my heels in a staff room in some school or other I occasionally browse a TES. This afternoon I caught up with last week's issue - and there was a large photo of a couple of CH girls in the clois...

:lol: :lol: :lol: Double entendre? Moi? Anyway, for a further taste of bachîn ringing, there are a couple of vids in which I feature (the sound isn't too clear, so you don't really catch the ringing tone): http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=32331287 http://vid...

When's it going to be on TV? Can we all watch??!! Tell us how to identify which one is YOU I think the series currently filming will be broadcast Winter/Spring 2009/2010, but I don't have a television (as I keep explaining to the crooks at TV Licensing) so I'm not up on the schedules. I'm with Noel...

To raise the tone again slightly, and since it appears that we're agreed we can have Leaving and Foundation hymns as freebies, I'll add "The Royal Banners Forward Go" which is always tinged with incense and visions of vestments for me. Looking back on it, those full-blown liturgical CH exp...

Reviving an old thread for the sake of namedropping - and to incite jealousy among any Fiona-fanciers: I've just spent the latter part of the afternoon filming with Fiona Bruce. The Antiques Roadshow is in the Island, and they've been filming some establishing shots today and picking up some culture...

But when so sad thou canst not sadder Cry - and upon thy so sore loss Shall shine the traffic of Jacob’s ladder Pitched between Heaven and Charing Cross. It had a good stirring tune too. I love the poem - but I've never encountered it sung as a hymn. Can you identify the tune? Anyway, my top five...

Thanks all for the birthday wishes! Mèrcie bein des fais pouor toute la souhait'tie! Sorry I haven't been around to receive them in time. It's been a frantic week. I'm working on two books at the moment (and my computer has spent the last week crashing every 20 minutes or so) and I've been trying t...