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Brilliant photograph, John, and may you share many more. We had to make do with the electronic stuff as we're still in tight lockdown with all but food shops shut. But a cuddle means much more. Maurice :cool:

John, With "music" you've left the door wide open and I could fill a whole book with stuff that I didn't like, plus that which I thought was musically worthless - atonal stuff such as Schoenberg and Alban Berg, it's simply tuneless, and electronic dance music. As a child I didn't like Money is...

I don't think my old joints would allow be to get around the back at all, and it's grown so long now, I wouldn't trust anyone but a hairdresser to get it back into shape! Maurice :cool:

The death has just been announced of pianist Chich Corea aged 79 from a rare form of cancer. A big loss to the jazz world. RIP Chick Maurice :cool:

Smudger, We're getting a bit off topic, but when the customers outnumber the supplies, gentlemen's agreemants go out of the window and, as we have seen, it is still dog eat dog. :) Maurice :cool:

Finally got my appointment for 5 March and the second one for 3 weeks later. But our friendly pharmacist, a great guy, said on 15 February they are taking bookings for next age group which is the one my other half Jan is in. On that date he will get book Jan's appointment and make them at the...

I really prefer to see them hopping about, but they certainly eat them here and rabbit is available in a few restaurants (when they're open again!). When it's getting close to dusk, mainly in the summer, you sometimes see two or three guys out on the headland north of us with shotguns, and less...

Wendy, I'm still twiddling my thumbs & the lockdow is even tighter, not surpringly, but I'll message you with the details. Adding to that, our beautiful Spring weather, really warm and dry for this time of the year, is right now looking rather gloomy. We read real crazy forecasts of 1947-style...

Reg, There is a whole thread about the place here:- https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/index.php?threads/c-brandauer-sons.3821/ Naurice :cool:

Lynn, i'm tempted to say, so I will, that he could have done a lot more with Summertime than he did. But that is Bechet with his obsession with those long quivering notes. They do get boring after a bit and he wasn't short on technique. So my report is "cold try harder". :) Maurice :cool:

Thanks, John, though it really doesn't come alive for me until the last chorus. The Alberts reminds me of my Dad trying to play the piano just after the war, all the right notes but in the wrong places! Maurice :cool:

John, Thanks for that. Eric Gibson and I can now see the entrance that led to our grandmother's houses in what used to be called Barton's Place way back when the houses were built. We were more often known as back of 15. Cheers. Maurice :cool:

Ha ha, Bazz, there's about 200 miles of sea between us and Hydra, and I've no idea when Crete first got electricity, though I have photographs taken here in 1930 and there are street lamps, and the only gas on Crete is the bottled variety. So I assume it was before 1930. I don't know when...

Same here. Janice, in 1962. As my wife had had it as an infant, I had to have it before the first of our children was born and each of our four children had it shortly after birth. Maurice :cool:

Dave, I should have had an appointment last week, but after all the EU vaccine fracas it has now done deadly quiet. < Twiddle thumbs > Maurice :cool:

No, Pete, and never had flowers in my hair or visited San Francisco, but perhaps you are referring to a certain photo that I posted somewhere, but just to wind you up, here it is again! :) Maurice :cool:

MWS, Find My Past also displays mmn back into the mid 1860s, though there might me one or two holes - or maybe more illegitimate births! :) Maurice :cool:

John, That's an excellent piece of work. One which appears to be missing is the Traveller's Rest on the corner of Bartons Bank and Whitehead Road and there is a picture in post #11 here:-...

Was this a peculiarly Birmingham or big city thing? I was in business in Bournemouth & Poole during this period and I can't remember any such group activity. The Teddy boy era was over pretty quickly and then for a year or so, being a seaside town, we had the mods -v- rockers gatherings. But...

Alison, The house was sold on 30 June 2006 for £139,950, but a Land Registry search (not free) would tell you more perhaps. The original auction was listed in the Sandwell Evening Mail 18 December 1987 as LOT 2, but no other entries for this address. Maurice :cool: