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I am PM'ing KDorse but doesn't his photo bring the book well the excerpts from it life? It really does look an upmarket establishment.

Fascinating stuff

Good to know it is still a shop!

I told my Birth Mother on Whatsapp last night, she said go and buy it. She is 87 today. She has a dry sense of humour.

Is it 50s

My uncle thinks this is a 1950 Nuffield. It is in a garden centre

Flame of the forest outside is budding usually clusters of white bells, vbut ery small this year and they look pink! Always flowers in the winter is this normal?

It might re seed itself

And one by one they disappear

The steepest staircase in a house that I ever climbed was in Marston Green, at a friends. Probably built around 1900. They had 2 stories. The top was reached by really steep very narrow stairs. I was alright going up, but not coming down. I was in my mid 30s too then. The other steepest stair...

Our tin baths, in the very early 60s, we had two my parents' was long with rounded ends and mine was oval. Nan kept my mum's baby bath for her washing, it was while aluminium with a navy rim. It had a matching lidded pail, with a ventilated top. Mum said thee used to be a potty to complete the...

That's how my Nan's wardrobe went in. I moved in put in new windows had to smash it up to get it out.

Was in a French back to back.It was beautiful inside. It had a yard at the front the owner had made in to a pretty garden.It was a shop in WW2 produce sold from the kitchen window. The oriel Window in the outhouse looked out on to a farm yard. The stairs were really steep and spiralled I had...

My dear neighbours opposite lived just like you describe, a widower and his mum till at least 1990. They both had ulcerated legs. Cold tap, outside loo except they knocked a door through to it off the kitchen, walls peeling, pitted oilcloth, lethal gas cooker, always on for a cup of tea for me...

I think I have one, at least one, and I can't get rid of him, them , it. It has been about 3 years, I had a a bug free year. I think he has gone then ouch. I am the only one gets bitten. I know where I got them from, a B and B up North. Very arty farty but not that clean in that the landlady...

What is a routin house?

PS .re a previous post, where I said I am not Irish, my birth sister has done her DNA and we have about 20 percent Irish but she hasn't found them yet.

Maybe it was the school you went to? My best mate from Dublin went to the same Secondary Modern as me. But an awful lot of Irish children went to RC schools or RC junior and infants. He wished he had too as they all seemed to stick together. He used to be excused assembly with the handful of...

I saw a box of Bezique cards in a charity shop, they are asking £20 for them mine are better condition not that will part with them.

Aubretia is coming out now in an old chimney pot by the front door, with a very drowsy bumble bee in them. Nasturtiums starting to trail. I think something is in the tit box but they do roost for the winter.