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May word, that's a bit saucy. I didn't realise that the Edgbaston Reservoir went back that long.

BTW does anyone have a recipe for sausages that I could use over here to get a taste of home? I've got a Mrs. Beaton's recipe which I've tried but it's a bit 'vague' and I wasn't sure I'd made them right.

OK maybe it will be posted on YouTube or another video site. That's how I usually get my stuff.

British sausages are the best. I mistakenly bought turkey sausage with maple, thinking they'd make a nice Autumnal Brunch for Sunday. God were they sickly. There was, I think about 24 in the pack (sausages over here are very thin, thinner than thin in England) so I tried the other half of the...

I never knew there was a prison anywhere in town.

That's why my mail list was 'moderated'. And, for some reason, being a fashion related topic, someone would always try and bring up men in skirts, and then, people would get carried away. So it needed to be moderated.

Thanks Mike, but, the BBC iplayer doesn't work over here.

You just reminded me. I used to tell everyone that my father had died in the war. I was born in 55, and was too young to do the sums. I really believed that is what must have happened to him. It was something you heard about all the time, even in the 50's.

This sounds like a good series. Wish I could get it over here.

Yes, it was an exciting period, I was one of the first women on the web, so I got interviewed a lot, by Vogue magazine, The New York Times, Dallas morning news, Japanese TV, and fashion designers approached me to be featured on my website. The only problem was, not many people were aware of the...

Sounds like you had a great time. We toured Europe a couple of years ago - did 3,000 miles in 16 days, with our 15 yr old son. Really opened his eyes.

I remember those vending machines, a pub in Saltley used to have one. Were they only outside pubs I'm wondering. I never really thought about it before, but, that was the only one I ever saw.

This is slightly off topic, but, there is an unexplained murder here called 'the Dean murder' Your mention of spies reminded me. The theory is that Dr. Dean had some knowledge of German spies signaling Boston from the top of Mt. Monadnock. There are still people around here that refuse to talk...

thanks for the pics. I used to catch the 64, when I was 16, there to Erdington every night to get to my boyfriends. I can't imagine doing that now and feeling safe.

My website 'The Fashion Page' was the first fashion related site on the web, first published August 1994. It was made possible by the browser 'Mosaic' this made it possible to publish photos and videos. Before that I had a moderated mailing list. The web was a much friendlier place then.

Floppies...We bought our first computer from Santa Monica, LA in 1979 from Radio Shack (24k I think) it cost a $1000.00 and programs were loaded from cassette tapes. The first thing my husband did when we got it back to Brum was take it apart - I remember squirming on the sofa as I watched (or...

We've still got one of those, up in the attic. Do you remember the cards you had to collect from weetabix. We've got a few of those too.

We've got one of those, we inherited it from my father-in-law.

My mum used to get pink stamps from the garage at the bottom of The Rock, on Washwood heath Road, when she bought a gallon of paraffin .

Thanks for the memories (I think). It wasn't quite like that when I went, there was only one dentist chair in the room, and I had gas a few times, but, the dentist changed to a needle , which he inserted under my tongue. Afterwards it was very sore. I remember the smell of the mask (even into my...