Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

sejintenej wrote: Thu Jan 01, 2026 3:47 pm
Alex. Not sure about melbec whatever that is. I go with dealing with foreigners and their languages. Made life fun..
Alex is a bot.

Bot; gaelic for the larva of a botfly.. Otherwise related to botany or a bottle! Brilliant.
Tried that on the internet ...

Alex. Not sure about melbec whatever that is. I go with dealing with foreigners and their languages. Made life fun..

My French teacher was to meet the man who effectively adopted me; he was brought up in France for about 12 years, fluent in hoch and plat Deutche (all First war in Prison camp ) and ...

first; dwelt is a correct past tense from to dwell. In the early years the younger boys lived at Hertford - I don't know but suspect that girls were there at he same time.

As for the overall wording; do better.

1961 Col A house play; Pirates of Penzance. Still remember it; I was running the electrics and one of the stage crew who added their voices to those on stage . So hot standing over the lighting controls I was permanantly soaked. Thoroughly enjoyed it after being forced nto abysmal in-house ...

I learnt more about English grammar in Pongo's German class that I did in (supposedly) English classes. A year after leaving C.H. I spent a month on an exchange visit in Austria where my host family refused to utter one word of English, and that, coupled with Pongo's excellent grounding in German ...

Does anyone have any memories of their first day at CH?

Been away for a little while - mainly abroad and out of contact.

First day hell and worse.
I had been brought up in a tiny village in Devon leagues from nowhere and leagues squared from civilisation. Local language was adrift from English ...

I cannot remember any such material in Col A in my day but
A certain boy used to get "letters" from a female friend until Kit heard something. Thereafter all mail to him had to be opened in front of Kit and I don't think any "interesting" material got out of Kit's study!
Once a member here (I ...

surprised at an incident in yestrdays final. Somehow a player got upsidse down in the awms of a player from the other side. The upside down girl was slowly lowered so that she could avoid hitting her head or otherwise beuing injured.
The player who lowered her was sent off presumably because she ...

Interesting what David writes about Pon go Littlefield and German. After wouking in many countries the firm arranged 2 years classes (2 hours a week) German taught by a German woman. She, as a person was probably OK but as a teacher - yeuch. I learned absolutely nothing except that I always ...

couple of interesting notes there.
re employment I didn't really have a choice - I had lived my outside CH life away from everyone and everywhere so I had absolutely no idea about jobs and the job market. I was an orphan by that time with no registered adults in control but a family I had known for ...

Karim won his appeal so his sentence has been reduced from 21 to 15 months because not enough weight was given to his previous sentence for similiar offences.

He could be out shortly on a tag.

IMHO for equal acts the punishment should be the same or worse. What really is the reason for prison ...

This may well resound with our Banker Brown who will have spent most of his working life in the rather more stable, pre-Lawsonite eras before huge bankers bonuses and when there was a separation between the two functions of the banks and the building societies.

Fortunately I was otherwise engaged ...

Reading back is just infuriating. I was dumped at the gate after nearly a full day travelling in a place where they didn't speak proper English. I knew Devonian perhaps, a bit of Breton perhaps, I don't know but that the housemaster had been to our town but didn't understand that our patois was not ...

David. I do hope Mr Pink did not actually put his hand there .... I wonder if the concept actually happened in my day but....

I was actually referring to inward mail to a member of this group from a female who apparently used very hot and rather direct and detailed language! I suspect, from what I ...

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21months with another ...