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I only cook chips in lard or dripping, veg oil is devils food :imp:

My wife retired from Mental Health Nursing but went back in March (demands on mental health services have shot through the roof). Last week she did a 12 hour shift inoculating folk at a small local hospital and are managing around 60 people an hour. You do get a high level of protection from...

Just finished both seasons of this Brian Cox plays a ruthless tycoon. Well worth a watch.

VLC plays anything I throw at it. For format conversions I use Handbrake, its free, simple to use and lots of youtube videos for someone new to the software https://handbrake.fr/downloads.php

More research and it seems he fought many battles, was wounded, returned to duty and after all that the weather killed him, he died of exposure :(

I ran the full spectrum of housing growing up. Started in Athole St Highgate, two up two down, outside loo and no bath them moved to a 3 bedroom flat, Balfour House, Cawdor Crescent which had underfloor heating ! My parents divorced and after a few years mom met a smashing fella whom she...

The wife was on duty yesterday, long day shift so I indulged myself and binged on Survivors Perfect viewing for this day and age :)

Birds chippy:) , after swimming and walking home I always had a bag of chips from there, their Cod and chips were fantastic :)

If you've not tried Britbox its well worth £6.99 a month; there is a wealth of classic BBC & ITV shows on there. They just put up 200 classic TV shows...all sorts of stuff there to watch.

This thread got me thinking and looking online at 30s housing ect and on the National Archive site came across some lovely old food images

Collecting film is a hobby so I literally have a couple of thousand to pick and they range across the board in genre and in age. Today I watched Carry On Abroad then the last episode of season 2 The Mandalorian so I'm a bit eclectic in my viewing habits. Yesterday I was on my own so indulged...

There was a barbers/tobacconists on Monument Rd next to the Ivy Bush and they had a fantastic range of cigarettes/cigars/tobacco. The owner retired and the shop and stock was bought by an Italian fella @1975 and I used him for a couple of years. I remember him saying that when he moved intwo...

Wonderful photo's :)

The Midland had its own water supply, a well IIRC, I wonder if its still used?

One of his last 'performances'. What an emotive video.

Sorry if this has been linked before https://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/en/search?keywords=birmingham&country=global&year=all

Great to see younger people keeping older music going and getting feet tapping

If this don't get your feet tapping you just ain't got rhythm

My G5RV is half wave and does OK, the vertical (only £60) skips the UK, I might work far north of England on a good day, in 7 months I've only worked two other Welsh stations using it but...it does a grand job working Europe, east coast USA, Russia, Scandinavia on voice and I've worked Brazil...

I've got a the earlier one U5RV IIRC and that works well, lets me into a couple of repeaters but to be honest 2m is dead round here. On the Xiegu G90 I've been playing with CAT control/FT8 digital and thats a bit of fun. My shed has served me well, started off running off a battery but put...