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OK, tonight's selection comes from Russian, German, and French composers in that order. First comes Tchaikovsky's Andante from the String Quartet No. 1 - echoes of the Song of Volga Boatmen! Next we have the well known Air on the G String by Bach - or Hamlet Cigars if you prefer! -...

Yes, some homes from home for a few people there, and all good photographs, Steve. No doubt some of those pubs have their own threads with exterior views, so in due course, I guess each interior will also be copied to the pub thread. Thanks for posting. Maurice :cool:

OldBrummie, I well remember Barmouth during and just after the war as my uncle & aunt were caretaker's for Greeners of gunsmith fame, who had a house with a lodge there - they lived in the lodge, of course. I remember my younger brother & me being carried on the shoulders of two uncles along...

It still looks much the same, Mort, but I suppose that is the general idea of the canners to make you think that it is the same. Adding sugar to anything kills the taste for me, and potato starch is just a bulking agent, similar to cornflour, to make it all hang together and to disguise the...

I will most certaionly second that. Maurice :cool:

I nor my brother ever had a birthday party when we were kids - Mom had neither the time nor the money. I never even had a 21st because my grandmother was dying at her home half a dozen doors away, and my mother was far too busy taking care of her to worry about birthday parties. By the time all...

Phil, As you say, the best option is the free VLC. In my experience, converting from one video format to another always results in some loss of quality, probably due to the differing compression algorithms used. Maurice :cool:

Glad I finished my most enjoyable supper a while ago! I remember seeing almost daily a pile of cattle heads on a trolley complete with eyes but skinned (a right bloody mess and I'm not swearing) outside a wholesale butcher in Bournemouth - a right gory spectacle, and I always looked the other...

Lyn, Yes, please as one of my DORMANs was living there at some stage. Thank you. Maurice :cool:

That's when you play the vegan card, Mike :) Maurice :cool:

Pete, I notice that young lady hasn't put any of that exotic food in her mouth yet - we have a before picture, where is the after one? :) Maurice :cool:

Mike, I've never seen anyone eating eyes here or even pig's trotters, though quite a few of them eat snails. If I wanted to chew rubber I've got one here on my desk. :) Maurice :cool:

I had to put up the Fauré one as I'm in my second childhood, Pete. :) Just been busy with yet another war memorial project in Bournemouth for the last few days & probably most of next week, so not a lot of time to stick stuff on here. We've also got the roofers in at the moment. Maurice :cool:

Here in Greece offal is frowned upon. The only organ that ever appears on menus is liver and onions, not dissimilar to the UK, so my other half tells me as she likes a lot of that sort of stuff. So if you buy a chicken or a turkey, it rarely has the liver & kidneys left in it. One of the large...

I can eat Marmite because I know what it was made from, but something's brain - that's a big no-no. Maurice :cool:

If it ain't psychologically right, then I won't eat it. In other words, YUK! :eek: Maurice :cool:

Hi Joan, And welcome to the Forum. He seems to have dropped the Simmonds on the prison registers on FindMyPast where there are three separate records that have a date of birth with a year of 1887 and a place as Birmingham. There may be two others not in Birmingham and I haven't looked on...

Here's your coat, Alf! :) Maurice :cool:

Steve, I knew several who worked there in the late 1950s, but all names now escape me apart from one, Gordon Parsons, who had been at school with me Maurice :cool:

Here's one that you all know from Listen With Mother, but did you know the title? It's the Berceuse from the Dolly Suite by Gabriel Fauré played by the Labéque Sisters:- And while we are playing lullabies, here is Chopin's Berceuse - the pianist is Jayson Gillham. Maurice :cool: