blakeyboy

Ah yes, but only with 'Rex' after it...our current queen had 'REG' after it, but only in 1953- I never found out why it was dropped. Thing is, we don't have any marking of origin, yet everyone else does...that's an attitude and a half!! Even the Euro coins have all the countries of europe somewhere on them.... Are there any countries that haven't their name on their coins??? I can't think of one...

We don't seem to put identifiers on our coins any more - 'BRITT OMN' long gone. Any other countries with the same attitude?

About ten years ago I got all my spares together, just under 2 tons in weight, and we had a sale on the lawn at Mike's house, and what was left we sold to his daughter who had taken over the business. I had some rare stuff in there - we had two cars turn up from Holland for the sale..... Mike did a barbecue in the sun, and it was a great day.

BMW thanked their 2002 car ( late 60's-early 70's ) for saving the company, since it was a runaway success, by taking out full page ads in better newspapers all over the world, with pictures of cars that were still being used, on 2nd Feb 2002. I had 11 of them. Fabulous simple strong design. Most reliable vehicles I've ever owned.

Has anyone ever broached the subject of this Forum's members meeting anywhere? If some Member's sense of humour is anything to go by, it would work really well....

Or the newspaper headline, after the man broke out of the asylum, raped some launderette workers and escaped, that read: "Nut screws washers and bolts"....

You're skating on thin ice, Mike...!

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....