Having given up my company car recently in exchange for cash money every month I have taken to using the train to travel to head office once-or-so a month, and very pleasant it is too, and quicker than driving, and cheaper, so everyone wins then. Its been yonks since I used the train before these [...]

Rhod Gilbert, he’s quite funny

I keep coming back to this one – sublime

One of my favourite Public Information TV Adverts from the 1970s, “Charley Says” was published with several morally guiding messages, what a good job that Charley was such a  sensible cat, well able to make moral judgments and understand the complexities of raising a child in difficult times whilst avoiding all of lifes dangers. Its just a [...]

Oh how I wished I had had occasion to dial 999 and ask for the coastguard. I used to spend all my days as a child strolling along clifftops, eyes screwed against the glaring sun, gazing out to sea, perusing the waves on the lookout for capsizing boats or swimmers in difficulties just so that [...]

There are many hundreds of calls every twenty four hours, every one is investigated –  The Police don’t mind how many calls they get – Tell the Police. See how it used to be ? See how easy it was to get a policeman to come and investigate when two strangers knocked on your neighbours [...]

So the British way of life continued for hundreds of years, each new generation of children reciting parrot-fashion until they learned it by heart that twelve pennies made a shilling and twenty shillings made a pound and all the other coins fell somewhere  in between and they were not to ask too many questions, because [...]

Monday 15th February 1971, a day forever known to those who were there as “Decimal Day”, the day that the UK went Decimal Mad, the day when we finally joined the rest of the sane world and decided to scrap our ancient way of accounting with strange coinage and use the far more sensible decimal [...]

Ahhh, 1973, such sophistication, such glamour, such fashion, we all thought we looked ace by the simple act of growing our hair long and trying to grow a moustache as demonstrated with various levels of success by the band The Strawbs. I was in a union once, just for a few weeks, the electricians union [...]

They all went in the skip, the assorted china and silver plated tat that my mother had collected during her 70 years on earth. Its amazing what old people will gather around them during their whole life span, more amazing that none of it is worth anything except the memories but mainly they don’t even [...]