Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

dr.erwin hartmann

As the previous owner of the coin collectin, do we know if he had any CH connections?

I don't get the feeling it was a collection of CH coins, Gerrie.We shall have to see if any others from this collection have a CH provenance, when the seller starts to put them up for auction. They are probably floating this one first, to see how well it goes.
Kerren

Hmmm,

I think I certainly seem to follow Josh's no.5 - is anyone going to the carol concert next Wednesday?

I will be there, a bit lost and alone, but with camera and pen poised trying to find a new angle for the Feb 2009 Old Blue report

I wouldn't normally step inside a church willingly, but I sort of found myself volunteering, and actually I do quite like a bit of a bellow at the old carols.

Yes - I am going. Trekking all the way up from Cornwall, no less.

Oh - and Michelle would welcome any strong volunteers to help set up. I will be there from about 1:30/2:00 to give what help I can, but a couple of you with about half a century less of anno domini than me, would be most helpful.

Sorry folks... I am having surgery to my half-dead left hand on 8 December and will be out of action for 2-3 weeks thereafter. I wish you all well, especially DBTS assuming the mantle of Adrian as the front man for the Carol Concert. I hope it all goes well and I look forward to reading about it on the Forum after next Wednesday.

Safe and speedy recovery then Kerren!

We will be thinking of you at the concert, Kerren. This will be the first you have missed,

(I, too, have had a hand op this year - dyputrens - and still wear a splint at night.)

DavebytheSea wrote:We will be thinking of you at the concert, Kerren. This will be the first you have missed,

(I, too, have had a hand op this year - dyputrens - and still wear a splint at night.)

Thats what I'm waiting to have corrected. I was 'offered' a hospital miles away, with a surgeon I hadn't heard of.

"No thanks ! - I'll wait my turn locally !!"

Marvellous how the NHS can bridge their official waiting-list times !

Thanks, all (and by the way I wasn't there last year either, DBTS - it was just after the first (botched) attempt at my local hospital and I was similarly incapacitated).
This time I am going to a specialist hand unit at Queen Victoria Hospital East Grinstead - the man who is doing the op. is supposed to be the UK's top hand surgeon. I'm on the NHS, referred from the local butchery, after my insistent demands over 9 months.
The downside is that it IS a long way from home, but it is only one day and I am blessed with an Old Blue friend who is coming to do the driving and the cooking for a few days.
Will be with you in spirit on Wednesday. Two years ago we talked about podcasting it, but I guess that idea never went any further.

I hope all goes well for you, Kerren.

Jo wrote:I will be there, a bit lost and alone, but with camera and pen poised trying to find a new angle for the Feb 2009 Old Blue report

I wouldn't normally step inside a church willingly, but I sort of found myself volunteering, and actually I do quite like a bit of a bellow at the old carols.

Oh Jo

You've become a Pap

Myself, I'd prefer to be a pirate.

Off to find my marbles


In an effort to encourage Munch, Phil and others to submit an article, perhaps those of us of a certain age could contribute to weddings around the World?

Any other ideas to help Jo out/spare her from an unsolicited bolt of lightening?

xxxx

DavebytheSea wrote:We will be thinking of you at the concert, Kerren. This will be the first you have missed,

(I, too, have had a hand op this year - dyputrens - and still wear a splint at night.)

Isn't that caused by excessive intake of rough red?
(That's what a previous Supervisor told me after diagnosing it in my left hand. Fortunately mine self-resolved).

Big hugs for Monday Kerren, and very best wishes for a successful outcome and speedy recovery.

xxxxxx

icomefromalanddownunder wrote:

Jo wrote:I will be there, a bit lost and alone, but with camera and pen poised trying to find a new angle for the Feb 2009 Old Blue report

I wouldn't normally step inside a church willingly, but I sort of found myself volunteering, and actually I do quite like a bit of a bellow at the old carols.

Oh Jo

You've become a Pap

Myself, I'd prefer to be a pirate.

Off to find my marbles


In an effort to encourage Munch, Phil and others to submit an article, perhaps those of us of a certain age could contribute to weddings around the World?

Any other ideas to help Jo out/spare her from an unsolicited bolt of lightening?

xxxx

A pap...... I hadn't quite thought of it like that The report isn't just a page filler, the purpose is actually to get a report of the carol service, so unless Munch or Phil plan to come.... I suppose "fantasy carol service" might be a novel article but not quite what JH intends, I think

Actually I am secretly looking forward to it. I can't sing, but that doesn't stop me enjoying trying. Normally I only go to church for the usual BMDs and all that promising kind of freaks me out. A carol service is different. And being there with a purpose gives me a pretext to waylay people I don't know and ask them for their thoughts. Oh, plus it will be fun to meet people from the forum, not least my co-pap and our esteemed MC DBTS.

icomefromalanddownunder wrote:
Isn't that caused by excessive intake of rough red ?

(That's what a previous Supervisor told me after diagnosing it in my left hand. Fortunately mine self-resolved).

Just about eveything you read about this 'syndrome' points to the fact that alcohol can have a serious effect on the situation.

Strangely enough, when I saw the consultant surgeon, the subject of daily/weekly alcohol intake (his or mine), was NEVER raised, so I have my doubts !!