Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

Girdles? thats awfully amusing. I'd better not talk about them in public though. People mught get the wrong idea.
I ridiculously failed my Pliny test today in latin. I didn't learn it so I just put that Regulus was a bit of a sh*t. I bet I'll get told off for that later but I was in the mood. Doubt I'll be able to get away with things like that at CH though.

Isn't it wonderful that David is such a BRILLIANT typist?! I had to read his message two or three times to get the gist of it.
Don't worry Gemma... we are all totally mad. And you are soon to become one of us! Hang in there, leave your 'friend' behind, and aim to become a fully signed up member of the Christ's Hospital family.
Kerren

sejintenej wrote:0 the dirdles just hang there without falling down.

David

What a wonderful line. When I start writing poetry again (hopefully soon) I shall incorporate this line. Or perhaps it is the first line of a song ???

Whatever ........ I have a feeling there should be a poem (or song) about Gemma - with dirdles in it, of course.

Watch the limerick thread ...

I don't think I want to. I'm nervous. very nervous.
In a year I'll be making jokes no one will understand save a select and precious few. Scary.

Dirdles??.

Don't worry Gemma.
Select (and lunatic) we may be. But there are LOTS of us (even beyond this Forum) and you will most certainly be welcomed with open arms!
Kerren

Oh god they're multiplying. !!!!

Well actually there are indeed several thousand Old Blues out there...but only a tiny minority (sadly) so far participate in this Forum.....
Kerren

gemmygemmerson wrote:I don't think I want to. I'm nervous. very nervous.
In a year I'll be making jokes no one will understand save a select and precious few. Scary.

Dirdles??.

Durdle Door?

kerrensimmonds wrote:Well actually there are indeed several thousand Old Blues out there...but only a tiny minority (sadly) so far participate in this Forum.....
Kerren

Hopefuly Gemma will be able to do her bit in encouraging others to join, by pushing the Deps and Grecians to join-in on here more, especially in the careers section etc.....
Every younger Old Blue (under 50!) I talk to says they be happy to give help/advice to Deps/Grecians with career advice, work experience etc. etc. - the forum could be the unofficial start of really making that work....

J

kerrensimmonds wrote:Isn't it wonderful that David is such a BRILLIANT typist?! I had to read his message two or three times to get the gist of it.
Don't worry Gemma... we are all totally mad. And you are soon to become one of us! Hang in there, leave your 'friend' behind, and aim to become a fully signed up member of the Christ's Hospital family.
Kerren

LOL
We'd just got here, the house has been empty since October and it was freezing in the "barn" and my fingers cover 4 keys at a time. OTOH yes - it was below even my standard which says something! Anyone going to try to compete?

Asa for skiing today - it's cold (ugh) windy and scotch mist. Hope it is beeter up in Pas de la Casa, Andorra (Euterpe - it is said they have a metre up there ATM)

David

I wouldn't worry about failing Latin, unless you intend to take it in classics.

Latin and me parted company after one term. I think it was about the time I told B.S. Gregory I didn't see the point in studying a dead language. Only mediums talk to dead people !

DavebytheSea wrote:

sejintenej wrote:0 the dirdles just hang there without falling down.

David

What a wonderful line. When I start writing poetry again (hopefully soon) I shall incorporate this line. Or perhaps it is the first line of a song ???

Whatever ........ I have a feeling there should be a poem (or song) about Gemma - with dirdles in it, of course.

Watch the limerick thread ...

David, try singing it to the tune of " The mountains of Mourne"! Where is the rest of it?

There is one strange thing about CH, Gemma. Many of us leave with a guilt complex that we were so lucky to go there that we have to Give back to the community at large for the rest of or lives. (We can even have fun while doing it)

Maggie

midget wrote:There is one strange thing about CH, Gemma. Many of us leave with a guilt complex that we were so lucky to go there that we have to Give back to the community at large for the rest of or lives. (We can even have fun while doing it)

How very true!

Katharine wrote:

midget wrote:There is one strange thing about CH, Gemma. Many of us leave with a guilt complex that we were so lucky to go there that we have to Give back to the community at large for the rest of or lives. (We can even have fun while doing it)

How very true!

Ditto !!

Katharine wrote:

midget wrote:There is one strange thing about CH, Gemma. Many of us leave with a guilt complex that we were so lucky to go there that we have to Give back to the community at large for the rest of or lives. (We can even have fun while doing it)

How very true!

Oh. Gemma, the modern CH sounds so terrific that I'm sure you will love it.

But speaking only for myself I just can't say that I have a guilt complex that I was lucky enough to have gone there. But then I didn't excel in any way, unlike the other sucessful ladies who post here. I found all my energies went into Survival! I found the system at Hertford quick to label me as pretty hopeless, so I've been left with a very different sort of complex! I'm sure things are very different now.

Oddly enough, although a school report from Queenie Blench reads tersely
"Angela has no aptitude for Latin", I've found my rudimentary grasp of that dead language useful - church music, deciphering lettering on old buildings, botanical classification, anatomy and physiology.

Love

Munch