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[eighthobstruction]

....I'm teaching my grand children to coo appropriately....it's a very joyful/ delightful manner....(even better with fingers in a V shape cupping the chin....
Anyone else teaching off-spring [sic] family traits...??

[french frank]

Remember those 1950s cinema ads in exaggerated Technicolor for new household products, ff?

Not really. Occasionally mother would drive us in her Morris 8 into the next town on Saturday afternoons for the children's matinee performance, such as an old Hopalong Cassidy film. I don't think they showed that kind of advert for a juvenile audience.

We had an Ascot water heater for hot water and clothes were boiled in a large galvanised pan on the top of the gas cooker. The bath was upstairs in a proper bathroom though.


Into Clevedon to see a Hopalong Cassidy film

[smittims]

There's a delightful 1950s (I think) short information film which is repeated occasionally on TPTV about 'setting up a home' designed to encourage people to apply for grants to fit a new bathroom from Bilston Foundry (I bet they're not still there!). It reminds us that there were still a lot of houses without a bathroom or even hot water.

[gradus]

A day for a bike ride with daughter and grandson through the woods and countryside - a Wand of Youth day.

[Serial_Apologist]

A day for a bike ride with daughter and grandson through the woods and countryside - a Wand of Youth day.

Tomorrow should be my first proper bike ride of 2025 if I feel up for it - probably due south as far as to where the Kent and Surrey suburbs end and countryside begins, but if I'm fit enough beyond and into the rolling North Downs in the direction of Biggin Hill. That particular run is not too arduous as regards the ascent, and it affords a 4-mile downhill free wheel conveniently ending at a place with a veranda near West Wycombe that sells teas and snacky things; then its the final 6 miler home - mostly downhill apart from the final mile and a half. At 79 I'm wondering how much longer I can keep these long rides going!

[Roger Webb]

.................. and into the rolling North Downs in the direction of Biggin Hill......

Ah! Biggin-in-the-bump! Before retailing CDs, I was a communications technician, and worked in various capacities, one of my favourites was to install the comms gear for the annual air show at Biggin. The old control tower was an infant school most of the year, but a month before the airshow it was stripped of its desks, blackboards etc and a fully working (usually!) air traffic control tower directed operations during the Battle of Britain airshow.

I still have a fondness for the area, although I haven't been back for years....I wonder if the White Hart at Brasted is still serving excellent beer, as they did to thirsty Battle of Britain pilots who signed a blackboard there....still there when we drank in the pub!

[Serial_Apologist]

Ah! Biggin-in-the-bump! Before retailing CDs, I was a communications technician, and worked in various capacities, one of my favourites was to install the comms gear for the annual air show at Biggin. The old control tower was an infant school most of the year, but a month before the airshow it was stripped of its desks, blackboards etc and a fully working (usually!) air traffic control tower directed operations during the Battle of Britain airshow.

I still have a fondness for the area, although I haven't been back for years....I wonder if the White Hart at Brasted is still serving excellent beer, as they did to thirsty Battle of Britain pilots who signed a blackboard there....still there when we drank in the pub!

The place I like (deserve after the long climb) to go to is the White Bear, about a mile west of Biggin Hill across a deep valley. The last time I panted my uphill way there I found the place all boarded up for renovation: never felt so thirsty in my life!

[Roger Webb]

The place I like (deserve after the long climb) to go to is the White Bear, about a mile west of Biggin Hill across a deep valley. The last time I panted my uphill way there I found the place all boarded up for renovation: never felt so thirsty in my life!

Alas I never encountered the White Bear, but it saddens me to hear of any pub now 'silent'....there are many such here in the Wye Valley.

[Serial_Apologist]

I have just now received a "Friend" request from Alan Tomlinson.



Alan died on February 23 last year.

[Serial_Apologist]

On the news just now: "A fire has brought flights at Heathrow to a standstill".

I thought she was going to say, "to a Stansted"!

[gradus]

Any idea where I left my glasses?

[Serial_Apologist]

Any idea where I left my glasses?

One could speculate...............

[LMcD]

Any idea where I left my glasses?

Well, I've had a look, but they're not here, I'm afraid!

[french frank]

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[Pulcinella]

Any idea where I left my glasses?

I can tell you that you'll find them in the last place you think of looking for them!