Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

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 ...

https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/24793225.christs-hospital-school-teacher-jailed-abusing-girl/

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgmd441lrno

https://www.sussex.police.uk/news/sussex/news/court-results/former-horsham-sports-coach-jailed-for-child-sex-offence/#content

21months with another ...

The refund was not due to Ryanair's graciousness, but because they are required to do this by law.

https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/travel/passenger-rights/air/index_en.htm

(This would not have applied in Fidésien's case because neither the departure nor destination location is in the EU ...

I suspect it is a question of era, of human influences and the tune itself. The post war era is long gone and none of later generations heard the WW!! radio, saw V!s and the like, It seems to be all "me first" and damn the rest.
Growing up during WW!! one was inundated with Britain must win and ...

My wife is handicapped (wheelchair but can walk just a short distance) and we had excellent help at Gatwick North this summer. Yes, you are corralled in an area close to ordinary passenger for a few minutes until a helper takes a group through an security check. Then straight to the waiting area ...

time please wrote: Mon Nov 18, 2024 5:16 pm To Sej inte nej sej kanske kanske.

It is Time Please and not Time Out. Although Time Out is how I feel some ( most ) mornings.

Apologies. I was already ancient when I (deliberately) mis-spelt Saj

My British passport expires in about 3 months and I can’t decide whether to renew it or not. What are the arguments for and against? For: IMO, it's always a good idea to have as many formal documents as possible which prove citizenship. Particularly for a country which has a track record of ...

Are you "without wax"?

Got this from the treatises of an Afrikaaner.. In times gone by sculpters occasionally made mistakes and would grind up some marble, mix it with wax to repair their work.

Of course the best would sell their masterpieces as sine (latin for without) cere (latin for wax ...

Katharine, Time Out. FWIW I was looking up the rules because my daughter wants to get an Irish passport (because of her grand parents) so she has to first get in the "Irish born abroad" register.
Reading further it appears that because my immediate parents were both born in Ireland (north and south ...

Also, if you are overseas and get into a spot of bother that requires consular-level help, it'll make things easier if/when time is a strictly limited commodity and the UK embassy/consulate is the closest one.

Against: takes time and money, plus paperwork is always a pain.

Depending on WHY you ...

I am like many of those who have answered. Mother Co Louth (still family in the family farm there) and father County Down (got decorated in 1942 and my brother died 1942 over Germany) At my age I don't see the effective benefits to me of getting an Irish passport though I have all the documentation ...

"Were the 80s as much fun as Jilly Cooper says?" by FT columnist Robert Shrimsley, who claimed that people had lots of money to spend. Well one for Banker Brown here who was there at the coalface (or bankface) at the time.

Miaow. hardly the bankface; I was very often at 30,000 feet over the ...

dsm wrote: Wed Oct 30, 2024 4:59 am Crug in my time (left in 77), never heard crab.

accent (and language)
Probably regional . When I joined with a mixed Belfast / Devonian accent and vocabulary I certainly couldn't understand the Lunnun pronunciation. Tharbe funny folks up thar.

He was in Col A om before 1955 to about 1958/