Things that time forgot.

[oddoneout]

I wasn't so much querying why the council might want textiles to be usable or wearable as why people wouldn't be using or wearing them rather than putting them in a recycling box. I don't call giving away wearable cast-offs 'recycling'.

My new repairs man, Hamid, has just put a very professional patch on the knee of my jeans. I was interested to see that he put a circular patch on the inside over the hole rather than my old repairs man who put a rectangular patch on the outside over the hole. I shan't know what to do with them when the other knee gets a hole as the council will be even less likely to take them. It will be an endless round of right knee patch, left knee patch, right knee patch, left … Now the young things buy their jeans new with ready-made rips to save them time.

Clothes that don't fit anymore (adults and children) or those from dead relatives?
Perhaps the jeans will need japanese style mendings? Boro and sashiko were born of necessity but are now becoming popular in their own right. https://www.japancrafts.co.uk/boro.html#/
Double kneed jeans can be turned into shorts with a bit of ripping action - I made a pair for gardening from an old(charity shop) pair that had finally got too worn at both knee and hem to merit repairs. The redundant fabric went for patchwork.

[oddoneout]

Soor Plooms

Still available though, including an artisan version https://www.aquarterof.co.uk/hand-made-soor-plooms which I suppose makes some kind of sense, if one's going to eat sweeties might as well be vegan and support small business at the same time - offset the adverse health issues?

[french frank]

Clothes that don't fit anymore (adults and children) or those from dead relatives?

Never thought of those Not that any of those is likely to apply to this household. My 'best' shirt is nigh on 60 years old, and might as well be mended (cuffs) professionally and passed on as it's a Pierre Cardin that doesn't get worn for years/decades on end.

[LMcD]

Damson jam?
Greengages?
Cheap phone calls after 6.00 p.m. and at weekends.

[Zucchini]

My 'best' shirt is nigh on 60 years old, and might as well be mended (cuffs) professionally as it's a Pierre Cardin that doesn't get worn for years/decades on end ...

... but should be of interest to the V&A

[french frank]

... but should be of interest to the V&A

http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/p/pierre-cardin/

[johncorrigan]

Cheap phone calls after 6.00 p.m. and at weekends.

Party lines - I can still hear my Uncle Bobby's voice shouting out, so that the neighbours could hear through the wall: 'Sadie, next door's still on that phone - when's she going to shut up and give us a shot?'

[Bryn]

The only use mine gets is for plugging in the satnav.

https://www.howtogeek.com/840178/why-you-should-stop-using-gps-navigation/

[Nick Armstrong]

Radio 3 having sufficient status for its anniversary to receive this sort of coverage:

[smittims]

Thanks for reminding me of Antony Hopkins. I was recently listening to his 'Desert Island Discs ' episode. What a splendid fellow he was; one felt everything he said was of vital interest.

[kernelbogey]

[COLOR="#0000FF"]Radio 3 having sufficient status for its anniversary to receive this sort of coverage:

As a ticket inspector on the Brighton Line said to my friend, sometime in the 1960s, in reply to his commenting that he'd pressed the bell-push which said 'Press for service', but no one had come: 'Oh no Sir, them days is no more'.

[oddoneout]

Antony Hopkins was a must listen. I remember the confusion with my friends when the actor Anthony Hopkins appeared on the scene and I realised we weren't talking about the same person...
Which British composer would we have these days in Tippett's place? The very idea seems so unlikely in this (not so) brave new world.

[Serial_Apologist]

Antony Hopkins was a must listen. I remember the confusion with my friends when the actor Anthony Hopkins appeared on the scene and I realised we weren't talking about the same person...
Which British composer would we have these days in Tippett's place? The very idea seems so unlikely in this (not so) brave new world.

Adès - te fidelis?

[Pulcinella]

Televising or broadcasting the Royal Maundy service (though I admit I've not scoured the schedules).
No intention of going into York city centre this morning, but I wouldn't have minded watching/listening.
The Minster website has been curiously quiet about the whole service: no details at all on the music list.

[Petrushka]

Televising or broadcasting the Royal Maundy service (though I admit I've not scoured the schedules).
No intention of going into York city centre this morning, but I wouldn't have minded watching/listening.
The Minster website has been curiously quiet about the whole service: no details at all on the music list.

The Royal Maundy service was an annual fixture on Radio 4 (and BBC1) for many years but, as far as I know, hasn't been broadcast for a good while now. Another one of those things that the BBC has quietly dropped hoping nobody notices.