Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

Mark Sutcliffe, now thats a name I haven't heard for years. We started at CH in the 3rd form together. He was great at getting in trouble. Didn't he get expelled in the end?
I had phalik Matthews too, oh those cigarettes and the bunsen burner. I will never forget the day he nearly blew the lab up by sticking the wrong chemical into the flame.

If you look around you will find some truly hilarious accounts of jolly japes with Phallick poor old chap

I think i already told about the boy who poured conc sulphuric acid into a drawer

"Fire!!! FIRE!!! DON'T PANIC, SIR!!!" etc etc

Perhaps it was you

The was a teacher who had the lab in the science block accessed via the outer stairs next to the old school library and the science quad. I was in that lab when the teacher dropped a bottle of mercury. Three of us came down sick within 24 hours.

There was loads of speculation we would die as a result of the mercury poisoning. It was two days before my second leave day. I was then discovered on leave day that we all had tonsilitis.

I once used an electric drill + attachment to scour the paint of a blue asbestos gutter all around a house

It was about 25 yrs ago and I remember breathing CLOUDS of the dust in

When I think about it I start to cough

Otherwise no cough

Remember

I gave up Da Weed!!!!!!!

soc wrote:The was a teacher who had the lab in the science block accessed via the outer stairs next to the old school library and the science quad. I was in that lab when the teacher dropped a bottle of mercury. Three of us came down sick within 24 hours.

There was loads of speculation we would die as a result of the mercury poisoning. It was two days before my second leave day. I was then discovered on leave day that we all had tonsilitis.

Can you catch that from mercury?

NO, but (erudite and wise again) you can get MS type symptoms from it, leaking from your fillings. It is a nerve poison.

Actually, I read that in one of Mrs Plum's girly mags...

I had a (Brit) friend in the USwho was diagnosed with MS although she fell outside the usual demographic. She bought a book on it and it gave mercury poisoning as an alternative diagnosis, so she had her fillings replaced and recoverd completely.

has anyone else noticed there seems to be a lot of Crane Flies around at the moment. Just reminds me of the times at CH when there was lots annoying us

There are none here in London but on the radio
they say there is a huge number due to the warm
temperature and the rain we've had recently

In London we have more big fat spiders than I have
ever seen before, probably due to the climate as well

huntertitus wrote:There are none here in London but on the radio
they say there is a huge number due to the warm
temperature and the rain we've had recently

In London we have more big fat spiders than I have
ever seen before, probably due to the climate as well

Britain doesn't have climate, it has weather.

So true!

Did you hear Desert Island Discs this week?

It was Quentin Blake and one of the records was Flanders & Swann singing "A Song of the Weather" which is all about the wonderful English "climate"

Great Plum wrote:Actually, I read that in one of Mrs Plum's girly mags...

Do elaborate !!!

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