Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

.....practically everything is closed not only on Sunday but also lots on Monday too. And the lifestyle of workplaces taking two hours off at lunchtime and closing takes some getting used to...in the UK you can just head down to any shop anytime between 9 and 5 and it'll be open, but two hours is t...

A couple of years ago Paul McKenna did a series of shows where he helped people by hypnotising them. He reckoned phobias were one of the easiest things to del with and had a woman who had been thrown in the deep end as a child and was phobic about water. She would not even walk through the door of ...

I don't want to go shopping on Sunday and so I rarely do - it's up to the shops if they want to open though! I try to avoid the English shops on Saturdays and Sundays - too many mums and kids so the roads are blocked, the car parks full, you can't get to she shelves for kids, the cashiers are too b...

They are indeed irrational but really terrifying, but they are learned behaviour and can therefore be unlearned. International director at work had a phobia about flying and on several occasions had to be physically carried off BA flights before they even took off. He took the BA antiphobia course ...

I think the interest here is rather what happened than who was involved. (The who is often interesting too, but very often must be left unsaid). Let's have some local colour as what happened behind Chelshams or on the old railway line (Vonny :) ); Strange garments appearing where they shouldn't; lo...

I'm pretty sure that's just the freemen of the city of London. ............. and the Senior Grecian?? Given that the Senior Grecian seems to get away with just about anything, no doubt he / she can drive one sheep** over London Bridge as well as entertain kitchen / sicker staff in the tube ** There...

There was the member of this forum (no names mentioned) who had a rather attractive sister who used to visit at regular intervals! Not connected, he started getting rather "hot" letters to the extent that not only was he banned from getting letters from the "lady" in question but...

The current scam hitting the Mole Valley area, (Dorking/Leatherhead), at the moment centres on two specific garages, one in Leatherhead, and one at Buckland between Dorking and Reigate and involves payment for fuel/goods via pin and chip cards. Users are horrified to find large amounts of money dis...

Don't know when the Spanish maids arrived. I remember Irish girls; the Eithne springs to mind. I remember that name... she had the most wonderful way of walking... what I would call deportment with added spice!! Were you at CH at the same time as me? - If so then we are talking about the same lady....

Has anyone else seen the latest scam--El Gordo Loteria Primitiva. Joe had a letter this morning telling him that he had won 600,000 euros! BUT he should not tell anyone about it until the cash was safely deposited in his bank account. There's a whole lot of stuff on one of the rip-off seeking web-s...

no this job is not for me (just look at my age!) ... but that makes me wonder, has anyone else felt this way - not having a real interest in teaching but still thinking it would be great to go back there in some way like that? Mr Kirby and Dr Scott (that I remember) felt that way and did something ...

I might just be wrong but I reckon they got that advert wrong. Typical.

The 400 year celebrations took place in 1953 - which means the school started in 155(but then perhaps CH taught maths wrongly)

I do hate the term "professional referees". Should they be on the FA's payroll?

Also had savoury eggs, mini sausages AND Viennese Whirls* :shock: *Are we still allowed to call them that though? http://www.thisisweymouth.co.uk/display.var.1362517.0.pig_sick.php I have demanded that they have words with Tesco for either selling Coca cola without the coca leaves or alternatively ...

Not sure I've ever heard it as such (shock, horror) but there is one excellent track which was used as the second title song (different words) for Pantanal - a soap with a thrice weekly audience probably of over 60 million! I even used to watch it myself for the music and views. Got it on CD and ta...

Katharine wrote: I still bless my CH training in darning at times!

All right for some - I had to learn darning and embroidery in primary school and even had to darn my own socks at home, age about 7!