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Two retired nurses I worked with once or twice a year get their Facebook accounts hacked and its because they answer every stupid question asked on Facebook. We get very few 'scam' calls to our mobile phones, O2 are pretty good at filtering and of course you can block numbers yourself. It was...

Common sense online goes a long way to keeping you safe

These days called Craft sticks. My eleven year old granddaughter has made all sorts from them including a garden fence for a large dolls house she still has.

From age 15 to 62 I was a keen four season camper/hill walker/bushcrafter and long John's were a winter basic for me, very effective base layer. I was given an all in one 'Union Suit', bright red with poop flap by an American friend of mine on one of his visits to the UK, sadly now stored away...

Levi's, Ben Sherman shirts, Chelsea boots, Sta Prest trousers, Afghan coats that stank foul when wet, WW2 Warden's great coat spring to mind. Think back to 'our' parents/grandparents and compared to today they often had little in the way of clothes, us oldies dress much better IMHO and far more...

I signed up to Ancestry about three years ago and family research has proved to be a wonderful 'new' hobby for me. I've found out so many things I'd never dreamed of in the past, things like my father having a sister he never mentioned who died of flu in 1919, to two Army Captains who died...

I only went in there a couple of times but walked past it three nights a week and Sunday mornings on my way the Shukokai Karate Club next door in Park Street to train under the late, great Eddie Daniels, great club and we had a bar

I was hitching up to Snowdonia when I was around 18 so about 1972 and a Volvo estate picked me up driven by Joe Brown who had a shop in Capel Curig and what a nice fella he was. It was late autumn and asked if I was meeting others (I was) and told me the weather was on the turn (and he was...

Penblwydd hapus Pete and good DX, 73

Wishing one and all a wonderful Christmas and 2024

Its that time of year again so all my very best wishes to you and your families

A lot of us moan about the price of things now but if you use the historic inflation calculator (Bank of England) you'll find many things are much cheaper these days, especially consumer electronics which have got cheaper and cheaper while becoming better and better This 1956 picture is a 5...

Its a cracker!!!