blakeyboy

Oh here we go.....

Oh wow yes....forgotten...real un-homoginised milk. I remember when the milkman delivered jam, and the blue tits got to work as usual. The tops were all pectin. Quality midweek pun for you all there.

I was working in an upstairs nightclub in Milton Keynes on the Great Storm night. I couldn't hear the wind for the music, but I looked out of the window and the top of the street lights were moving a full metre side to side like puppies tails and I wondered what the hell was happening. The Winter of '63 - with snow, even in the Midlands, up to the window ledges, with my dad optimistically pushing his bike up the drive, hoping to get to work..... In the summer of 64 he arrived with a brand new white Ford Corsair. It looked like something from a film to me. Stunning.

In the Seventies I had to take a friend to hospital in West Wales- and there were two signs by a low doorway that said " Psychiatry Department" and "Please mind your head" My friend Simon almost got expelled for removing a letter from every Fire Alarm sign in his school so they read: "In case of fire, contact a ember of staff"

Oh my God yes...PG tips cards - a obsession of mine. Still got the lot somewhere... And - Schweppes ginger beer in those curious brown bottles that blew your head off when you were eight. On Tenby beach with a bottle of that in my hand - didn't get much better than that! Mind you, my sister and I still find Vimto and a packet of Quavers an excellent combination.

Well, I bet it wasn't the first time in his life that that had happened....!!

Anyone want to form a Blaster Bates Appreciation Society? Bob Newhart's bomb defusing skit is also worth a listen.

I used to have a sign in one of my workshops years ago that read "DANGER! UNEXPLODED DIAGRAM!"

Apart from checking your relative's change ( I drove them crazy doing that EVERY time we met ), Kellog's 'Variety Pack' was always such a treat to see on the breakfast table. Anyone else share this view? i am always reminded of those memories whenever I breakfast at a hotel that still uses this individual boxes... Such a waste packaging nightmare now, really.... Any one else with small brilliant memories like this?

Very sad but not unexpected. His stuff with Palin was superb. The Bert Fegg book is still a favourite- I've bought a few as presents over the years...

I'm also amazed at coins like this - they always look so so much older- technology in all areas of life just 'froze' for a thousand years, the whoosh steam power changed everything....

I had been trying to find anything anywhere that vaguely matched- I'm amazed how tiny it is... the Explorer is some machine. I have an XP Goldmaxx Power and I'm finding it tricky to get it to find things that small... It's so easy to recognise later Henry v111 coins, but it's easy to forget that early on in his reign he wasn't the round figure that's so familiar!

Actually, there is a hint of Noddy Holder about that portrait....

Trump makes Diane Abbott look like Stephen Hawking.

"Friends all over the world- all over the world! - None in this country, but all over the world!" Timeless. The genius of Galton and Simpson .

I sold my 1862 'B' halfpenny for £245, after it fell out of a £1.50 pile of halfpennies. I had to pass it, along with a loupe, to my wife, asking if she could see anything by the lighthouse. "Oh it's a little letter 'B'- is that important?" I really really thought that my hope had made me see things....

of the £320....

"PFNNY and ONF" is the Moldovan version of Tom and Jerry....

Minnie The Minx the Third, I think....

My sister?

AHAHAHA! Well spotted!

..and even more when in a city (- the silver contacts in audio mixing consoles need special attention in polluted air ). Mind you, surely that sort of rubbing with fingers or a polishing cloth generate one type of worn surface, and continual abrasion from pockets or being slid across shop counters generate another? Thinking of this abrasion, and misquoting Shakespeare in Peckis' vein: "To sleep, perchance to dream, is illogical, Captain - aye, there's the rub...: "To be or not to beam me up Scotty."

Ooh- just had a thought- surely the more commonly used denominations would wear more quickly? I can't see a crown moving about as much as a shilling....

How many times on an antiques programme has a piece of silver been seen with the hallmark polished out??? I pop curio coins that I want to de-polish into my pocket, and yes, all that happens is a change in tone, and in the case of a dark bronze coin, the high spots lighten, but that's it. To shift from UNC to VF say, would take years and years...

Exactly my view of the RM at times..