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by loringa
Mon Jun 01, 2020 5:06 am
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Leave Days in Horsham
Replies: 20
Views: 10822

Re: Leave Days in Horsham

Are Leave Days a renamed ‘Whole Holiday’ that forced us off the grounds with a brown paper bag containing a fish paste sandwich and a shriveled apple? In the 1970s we used to be issued with bag rats along these lines for Speech Day and Old Blues' Day when, presumably, the dining hall was in use by ...
by loringa
Sat May 30, 2020 8:13 am
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Article about the Tube
Replies: 12
Views: 4691

Re: Article about the Tube

The Subterranea Britannica website is full of fascinating stuff about abandoned underground sites including, amongst others, all the London Underground stations and spurs that are no longer used. It is well worth a few minutes (hours) of your isolation / lockdown time. Thanks for posting this - I lo...
by loringa
Thu May 28, 2020 9:38 am
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: What is CH for these days?
Replies: 32
Views: 13943

Re: What is CH for these days?

Ajarn Philip wrote: Thu May 28, 2020 8:39 am
loringa wrote: Thu May 28, 2020 5:12 am ...indeed, I may be in a better position myself to help those less well off than me.
Excellent, could you lend me a tenner? :)
Absolutely, but as I am unable to travel then I'm afraid you'll have to come and collect it. :D
by loringa
Thu May 28, 2020 5:12 am
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: What is CH for these days?
Replies: 32
Views: 13943

Re: What is CH for these days?

So what does the existence of independent schools got to do with homelessness/food banks etc etc...? It's central to it. If you can't work that out then your education at CH has been wasted. They're not"independent" schools, they're private schools. The Orwellian title was dreamed up some...
by loringa
Tue May 26, 2020 7:23 am
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: What is CH for these days?
Replies: 32
Views: 13943

Re: What is CH for these days?

So what does the existence of independent schools got to do with homelessness/food banks etc etc...? The answer, of course, is nothing; the far left, however, love to conflate the relative privilege / wealth of one part of society with the relative poverty / disadvantage of another part. For them, ...
by loringa
Mon May 25, 2020 11:34 am
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: What is CH for these days?
Replies: 32
Views: 13943

Re: What is CH for these days?

I shall not go over the now well-known arguments against this except to remark that it often seems to me that all the building and expansion of facilities is more to satisfy management/masters amour propre than for the benefit of children. One very, very expensive undertaking that upset me greatly ...
by loringa
Sat May 23, 2020 11:19 am
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: What is CH for these days?
Replies: 32
Views: 13943

Re: What is CH for these days?

The parents of many of these pupils paid a fee to the master who looked after them, but some of the children of masters at the school were also admitted on the same scheme, although whether they paid fees or not, I do not know. This business of 'off the roll' persisted well into the 1960s/70s - it ...
by loringa
Sat May 23, 2020 8:55 am
Forum: General Chat - Non CH
Topic: COVID19
Replies: 36
Views: 13726

Re: COVID19

It was a satirical reminder that Old Etonian Boris said "wash your hands and sing Happy Birthday" while Old Etonian Jacob Rees-Mogg said "wash your hands and sing the national anthem". Both of these went to the most expensive school in the land. ... and here I was thinking they ...
by loringa
Sat May 23, 2020 8:51 am
Forum: General Chat - Non CH
Topic: Mr Redshaw's Rednecks
Replies: 14
Views: 5189

Re: Mr Redshaw's Rednecks

Let's not forget the North American Trailer Trash. Can anyone explain the difference? There are poor folk everywhere, and they are invariably looked down upon or condescended to by those that see themselves as superior. The term 'redneck', however, is traditionally used to describe less well-off, l...
by loringa
Sat May 23, 2020 8:35 am
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: What is CH for these days?
Replies: 32
Views: 13943

Re: What is CH for these days?

For once I find myself broadly agreeing with the thrust of Mr Redshaw's arguments though obviously not his, as-usual, intemperate language. Christ's Hospital exists to supply a first-class education to children in need; there is nothing in the original charter that modifies this to include ... and a...
by loringa
Thu May 21, 2020 6:07 am
Forum: General Chat - Non CH
Topic: Mr Redshaw's Rednecks
Replies: 14
Views: 5189

Re: Mr Redshaw's Rednecks

An excellent book on this period (in the unlikely event that any of you immensely serious, snotty English public school types actually like country music) is 'The Improbable Rise of Redneck Rock' by ex-Rolling Stone writer Jan Reid. Yi-haaaa! Well, you clearly do and, as that description would seem...
by loringa
Sat May 16, 2020 1:33 pm
Forum: General Chat - Non CH
Topic: Pilgrim Fathers 1620 -- 400th anniversary -- any connections?
Replies: 7
Views: 3849

Re: Pilgrim Fathers 1620 -- 400th anniversary -- any connections?

Not quite but one of my forebears, Deacon Thomas Loring, arrived at Hingham in Massachusetts on 23 December 1634 which, taking the date of the Mayflower's arrival as 11 Nov 1620, is virtually the same amount of time after the Pilgrim Fathers' arrival, as their arrival was after the founding of James...
by loringa
Sat May 16, 2020 9:20 am
Forum: General Chat - Non CH
Topic: Mr Redshaw's Rednecks
Replies: 14
Views: 5189

Mr Redshaw's Rednecks

New thread as off-topic for Covid-19: Why do you assume that all working class people are rednecks? Rednecks come from all classes. There's an upper class redneck (ex-Bullingdon club) running the government at present. I didn't - you did. I most certainly do not think for that all working class peop...
by loringa
Sat May 16, 2020 8:47 am
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Pongo - Eric Littlefield
Replies: 34
Views: 18518

Re: Pongo - Eric Littlefield

I hadn't heard the term bootneck before - and it comes up in your link about Buster Howes! US Marines are known as leathernecks for the same reason. The US Marine Corps was founded back in 1775 and modelled on the Royal Marines; even today they enjoy very close ties despite, of course, having the U...
by loringa
Sat May 16, 2020 8:36 am
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Pongo - Eric Littlefield
Replies: 34
Views: 18518

Re: Pongo - Eric Littlefield

I admire the way the Marines treat their chaplains, they are deemed to have the rank of the person they are speaking to at the time - or so my late godfather told me who was one. My father was an RAF chaplain in the war and was given the rank of Squadron Leader as the most junior who could leave th...