The Old Blue - A big bit

blondie95 · Post by **blondie95** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 1:02 pm

i thougroughly enjoyed it, i was in a fould mood when i got in last night but was prompltly cheered up at the the thought of reading that!
Good bit about all of us on here, lets hope it encourages some more to post

sejintenej · Post by **sejintenej** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 5:34 pm

J.R. wrote:
Mid A 15 wrote:Good job once again John!

My only observation is that there no longer appears to be a letters page.

Maybe nobody has written to you though!
Probably from France !

(titters into coffee cup !)

Seems to be some sort of insult - I'm lost.

Incidentally, nice bit about police with criminal records for assault, theft etc. (especially in the Met) in the Times today

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/global ... 471409.ece

midget · Post by **midget** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 7:59 pm

I'll let you know what I think of it when my copy arrives. I've only recently got registered with CHA after a couple of abortive attempts, and I received the August 2006 OB last week, so I'll probably have to wait a while for the latest one.

kerrensimmonds · Post by **kerrensimmonds** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 8:54 pm

I'm sorry about the aborted attempts to 'join' the CHA, Midget. Actually all Old Blues are automatically members... so I wonder what went wrong in your case?
Were you a member of the OGA - which then transmuted itself into the CH Club - which in turn got swallowed up by the CHA? If so, then something must have gone wrong along the line, and I can only say that, as the former Chair of the OGA, I am sorry about that. I wonder how many others have been similarly affected...(or disaffected?).
Kerren

englishangel · Post by **englishangel** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 11:24 pm

No probs here, but I'm on everythign going so no trouble finding me.

sejintenej · Post by **sejintenej** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 6:48 am

kerrensimmonds wrote:I'm sorry about the aborted attempts to 'join' the CHA, Midget. Actually all Old Blues are automatically members... so I wonder what went wrong in your case?
Were you a member of the OGA -

Kerren

Probably clased as a GOD (Grand Old Dame)

cj · Post by cj » Thu Mar 08, 2007 12:00 pm

kerrensimmonds wrote:I'm sorry about the aborted attempts to 'join' the CHA, Midget. Actually all Old Blues are automatically members... so I wonder what went wrong in your case?
Were you a member of the OGA - which then transmuted itself into the CH Club - which in turn got swallowed up by the CHA? If so, then something must have gone wrong along the line, and I can only say that, as the former Chair of the OGA, I am sorry about that. I wonder how many others have been similarly affected...(or disaffected?).
Kerren

I never had anything after I left. I just assumed they were glad to be rid of me ...

kerrensimmonds · Post by **kerrensimmonds** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 12:23 pm

That's because by 1990 Old Blues could only be members of the CH Club (the OGA stopped recruiting when Hertford closed, and many of its members joined the CH Club separately). But you should have had at least one (if not two.....) year(s) of 'free' membership of the CH Club after you left school, before they started asking you for an annual subscription. Now that the CH Club has been subsumed into the CHA, you are automatically a member of the CHA (for free), whether or not you had previously paid to be a member of the Club.
Sounds complicated, but...!!

jhopgood · Post by **jhopgood** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 1:15 pm

Mid A 15 wrote:Good job once again John!

My only observation is that there no longer appears to be a letters page.

Maybe nobody has written to you though!

I took a decision, which I can always change, to include any correspondence in the appropriate section. Lots of people write prompted by some article, so why not spread the correspondence out so that there is some coherence.
I know that few magazines or newspapers do this, but why not experiment at this stage until we see what people are happy with.
I get a fair amount of e-mails and the occasional letter, which Wendy now has the dubious pleasure of translating from hieroglyphics to Word document. (Lots of frustrated doctors out there).
I try to include as much as I can, whilst still keeping the main thrust of articles that are of interest to large groups of Old Blues, rather than incidents that whilst very interesting, only mean something to a much smaller number.
Its all very subjective, but the only real complaint I have was along the lines:

"the paper is too glossy, the style is too slick, the article about Everest has nothing to do with the school, not a major achievement, makes the OB look like a travel brochure and promotes racism because the photo only features the two (white) pupils and not the supporting sherpasâ€¦."

So you see, I do get correspondence, just don't publish it all and hide the rest.

midget · Post by **midget** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 3:28 pm

With regard to the complaint above, the only possible reply is "Oh dear"!
My failure to join Cha was almost certainly my own fault. I had wiped all memories of CH after I failed at medicine, and upset DR in the process. I kept in touch through Maureen Harding, but nothing "official". Never mind, here I am now.

The Old Blue arrived today- I like it.

kerrensimmonds · Post by **kerrensimmonds** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 3:52 pm

Glad you are here now, then, Maggie!

J.R. · Post by **J.R.** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 4:13 pm

blondie95 wrote:i thougroughly enjoyed it, i was in a fould mood when i got in last night but was prompltly cheered up at the the thought of reading that!
Good bit about all of us on here, lets hope it encourages some more to post

take a detention !

gemmygemmerson · Post by **gemmygemmerson** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 6:04 pm

Is there going to be a copy put on the net of this?.

Katharine · Post by **Katharine** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 6:07 pm

gemmygemmerson wrote:Is there going to be a copy put on the net of this?.

When I have finished reading it, Gemma, I'll send you my copy, if you like. I have got your address still in my inbox.

gemmygemmerson · Post by **gemmygemmerson** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 6:23 pm

Oh thank you so much!. Would you want it back afterwards?. I still have your address!