Recent content by Ray T

Very sad news. I sometimes responded to his posts on Twitter/X and then followed his health situation there, but he didn't reveal much from his hospital bed. Michael was one of the few genuinely knowledgeable antiques experts who didn't suffer fools at all. The antiques world will miss his presence.

I think it really pays to check the success record of Ebay sellers. Around 98-99% is generally OK.

I've just deleted an email purportedly informing me that my Microsoft Cloud storage is full. It provided a tab for me to put it right, etc. Lots wrong with it, first being it used my email name and not my Microsoft account name. Also, I opted out of Cloud storage on set-up. If I'd clicked the...

It wasn't my dad, he was in there in the 50s!

Yes, I used to love roe and chips. It was fish eggs, wasn't it?

Our 1950s back-to-back in Sparkbrook was infested with the little devils.

When I played Birmingham club chess back in the 1960s Tal was a hero of mine. He'd sacrifice pieces in seemingly harmless positions and force resignations after lengthy attacks. He was brilliant.

Tales From The Riverbank, voice-overed by Johnny Morris. My father was a keen fisherman and he once took the day off work to watch it, expecting it to be all about angling. He was most disappointed to find it featured various live action animals running about or riding on model speedboats.

Thank you very much for all your information on "Hicky" and Joyce, Jenni. It's always great to know how people got on after partings of the ways. Our family moved from Long St to Acocks Green around 1965, so that would have been the last time we used the chippy. I hope you're enjoying life in...

This was a new on on me. Some days ago I went to check my emails with Virgin Media. I clicked on the menu page prior to selecting email and box appeared with a message telling me my usual email had been discontinued and I was to click on a tab that would allow me to start a brand new email...

Wishing you a very happy birthday, Lyn.

Apart from the ones mentioned above, there was one such rock in Farm Park, off Farm Rd in Sparkbrook. In the 1950s we kids used to climb on it and we were convinced it was a meteorite. I don't think it's still there.

I recently received an email supposedly from Amazon informing me I'd been allocated a Prime account that would automatically bill me for so much a month unless I chose to opt out. It provided a link to a site that would let me opt out if I wished. Having an Amazon account, I admit I did click to...

I can't remember the branch of Woollies my mother took me to as a boy. Was there one in Ladypool Rd? I do remember the women at their tills stuffing pound notes and fivers into those strange capsules which were then whisked away to some mysterious place via a series of vacuum tubes. And I...

Most of my local sparrows and blackbirds have gone AWOL too, leaving the robins and tits. But I've noticed this happens every summer with them returning by autumn. My guess is that with food plentiful, they head out away from the traffic and humans to enjoy the greenery of summer. They come back...