Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

Rory wrote:On slang - yer mum - I never used that at school - but its rife in the City.

How bizarre was that! Yer mum on toast, yer mum on a motorbike etc. I thought it was just a housieism. What does it mean in "the City" It popped out involuntarily from my mouth one dinner time as my elder daughter was regaling us with tales of 10 year old relationship traumas. I laughed. They didn't. Surprising what sticks in the brain. And bockers is the other one we still seem to use.

Is there a slang thread elsewhere?

cj wrote:Is there a slang thread elsewhere?

Try this : viewtopic.php?t=66

How did you do that? I'm not very good with computers. Thanks anyway.

Went to the thread, copied the address from the address bar, and pasted it into my reply.

Believe me, if I can do it anybody can.

Your Mum - how I remember that..

Richard Ruck wrote:Went to the thread, copied the address from the address bar, and pasted it into my reply.

Believe me, if I can do it anybody can.

I think you have to be sober !!!!

J.R. wrote:

Richard Ruck wrote:Went to the thread, copied the address from the address bar, and pasted it into my reply.

Believe me, if I can do it anybody can.

I think you have to be sober !!!!

It helps!

Talking of which, how is The Bull these days?

Richard Ruck wrote:

J.R. wrote:

Richard Ruck wrote:Went to the thread, copied the address from the address bar, and pasted it into my reply.

Believe me, if I can do it anybody can.

I think you have to be sober !!!!

It helps!

Talking of which, how is The Bull these days?

Jan and I were in there yesterday afternoon.

'Blondie' still in residence and the beer still GOOD !!

Didn't find out its future though.

As when I was at CH I was one of the few early risers a feat which I carried on all through my CH career (but naturally have been unable to maintain whilst at uni), my memories of rising are rather restricted to my own alarm clock. However I will always remember the classic stylings of the house staff in Grecians West and how they managed to wake the masses up every morning (being awake and dressed every time meant this was a source of great amusment to me). Miss Larrive a french teachers techniques were based on the clomp up the stairs and on every landing bellow 'It iz ze morning, it iz a lovely day, time to get up' then if you feel there is little activity pick a few select rooms and turn on their overhead lights so the Grecian would have to get out of bed to turn it off. Mrs Fleming had a more personal approach but like Miss Larrive it also involved clomping up the stair and throwing every door open meaning you could hear her coming two floors down. She would then proceed to knock on the door but before a response could be given she'd be in telling you to wake up, (or in my case present a look of total disappointment as yet again she had failed to catch me snoozing).
We girls always had a rather easy time I felt as when male housestaff were on duty we were left alone whereas with the lads whoever it was on duty would go and wake them (or so was my belife).

Laura M wrote:As when I was at CH I was one of the few early risers a feat which I carried on all through my CH career (but naturally have been unable to maintain whilst at uni), my memories of rising are rather restricted to my own alarm clock. However I will always remember the classic stylings of the house staff in Grecians West and how they managed to wake the masses up every morning (being awake and dressed every time meant this was a source of great amusment to me). Miss Larrive a french teachers techniques were based on the clomp up the stairs and on every landing bellow 'It iz ze morning, it iz a lovely day, time to get up' then if you feel there is little activity pick a few select rooms and turn on their overhead lights so the Grecian would have to get out of bed to turn it off. Mrs Fleming had a more personal approach but like Miss Larrive it also involved clomping up the stair and throwing every door open meaning you could hear her coming two floors down. She would then proceed to knock on the door but before a response could be given she'd be in telling you to wake up, (or in my case present a look of total disappointment as yet again she had failed to catch me snoozing).
We girls always had a rather easy time I felt as when male housestaff were on duty we were left alone whereas with the lads whoever it was on duty would go and wake them (or so was my belife).

Hmmmm. Woken up be a french mistress, better than a bell.

Laura M wrote:As when I was at CH I was one of the few early risers a feat which I carried on all through my CH career (but naturally have been unable to maintain whilst at uni), my memories of rising are rather restricted to my own alarm clock. However I will always remember the classic stylings of the house staff in Grecians West and how they managed to wake the masses up every morning (being awake and dressed every time meant this was a source of great amusment to me). Miss Larrive a french teachers techniques were based on the clomp up the stairs and on every landing bellow 'It iz ze morning, it iz a lovely day, time to get up' then if you feel there is little activity pick a few select rooms and turn on their overhead lights so the Grecian would have to get out of bed to turn it off. Mrs Fleming had a more personal approach but like Miss Larrive it also involved clomping up the stair and throwing every door open meaning you could hear her coming two floors down. She would then proceed to knock on the door but before a response could be given she'd be in telling you to wake up, (or in my case present a look of total disappointment as yet again she had failed to catch me snoozing).
We girls always had a rather easy time I felt as when male housestaff were on duty we were left alone whereas with the lads whoever it was on duty would go and wake them (or so was my belife).

Speaking from "the other side of the door" , as it were, experience tells us that is always the lads who NEED to be woken in a morning!!

(pleased you didn`t mention me there!!)

Thats ok Mrs C as I said being an early riser I have few memories of being woken up, I do remember you coming to do room inspections though, never a problem there I felt, you'll be pleased to know unlike early rising I have managed to keep up that habit.

I was always an early riser at school - for my last year when I slept in Maine A, I was never woken up by any member of staff...

Great Plum wrote: I was always an early riser at school - for my last year when I slept in Maine A, I was never woken up by any member of staff...

Errrrmmmmmmmmmmm ????

The Morning H*rn