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Okay, thanks. I left in '68, but both of my younger brothers Keith and the youngest, Roger, followed along there, two and four years behind me, so they may well have known Stuart.

Thanks for posting the sad new of Stuart's (RIP) passing. What years range would Stuart have attended the school?

That's too funny! The rear engine mount on Imps was a hanger type mount bolted to the removable rear body panel that was held in place to the body with about 4 fasteners, 2 each side. So, it doesn't surprise me that the engine almost fell out on the ground on the "Plastic Fantastic", as we...

Canada Geese for sure. They are everywhere here and we see the same pairs return to the same location to roost every year outside the main entrance at work and on our main campus. Every park is pretty much covered with goose poop!

It is much the same here on the west coast of Canada too. The grass is like golden straw, exactly matching your "Weetabix" description. Watering the borders pretty much just stirs up the dust. Deep watering of the "grass" twice weekly is allowed, but futile at this point. I cannot call it...

LOL Richard. Yeah, life was like that in the late '60s to early '70s. "Free as a bird" and being a confirmed bachelor was my motto. Not a care in the world. Then, I fell in love with a local gal I never knew before, whose family had immigrated here during the '60s and I immigrated to be with...

I frequented the Rum Runner, Rebeccas and Barbarellas in the early '70s. The RR casino entrance was down at the left side of the alley. You had to look back to see it from the club entrance. I never did go into the Casino, but shuffled around on the dance floor, leaned up the pillars and made...

It is a rare occasion to see foxes in this area. We do have coyotes wandering the streets at night sometimes. We have skunks, racoons and a visit from the occasional bear. The little skunks don't spray, but the adults tend to wreak all of the time. There are some permananent yellow stains on the...

Thank goodness it was a little fire that was knocked down quickly! Hundreds of acres are currently burning here in BC and in California again this year, with homes and property lost, plus lives and livestock at severe risk. Some fires are due to natural causes, lightning strikes etc, but a...

Dave, it was exactly the same experience for me when I arrived here in Canada in November 1974, fresh from Brum. Yes, it was rather annoying for me too to see words misspelled, or is that misspelt? When I apparently mentioned how it was "back home" with some frequency, I was told that if it was...

Richard, I attend an annual GM conference that is in the Detroit area, as it has been for the past several years since GM USA had to restructure. It allows the engineers to participate in the conference, to our benefit. With another forum, we held our annual conference at the Henry Ford Hotel...

To change Sulphuric, is truly annoying after the fact! Nobody consulted with me, whether it was okay to change the spelling! The word "tyre", is probably the one word that I stopped spelling as I always had, almost the day after I immigrated to Canada in 1974. However, I caught myself using the...

During my last visit to the Henry Ford Museum a three years ago, I spotted the same living room wall clock that we received as a wedding present in 1975 and this alarm radio that I was still using, because it works fine! I find it very challenging to call "modern" furniture attractive and the...

Agreed, much like the word "sick" which has a completely meaning to most adults. It was completely changed to mean "cool" by one of the XYZ or whichever younger generations wish to take credit". Oops, I just did it myself (intentionally though). The English language is already one of the most...

It definitely appears that the Titanic anchor was made in Netherton according to this and other articles. https://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/15136049.titanics-worcestershire-links-revealed/ You may well be right on the nature of people in all walks of life in work and play these days. The...

LOL John! As I sit here typing and watching the F1 Hungarian GP practice 2, my wife has vanished into another room to read. Qualifying is on tomorrow and the race on Sunday. I used to get up early to watch it, but record the racing these days so that I can choose when to view. It's "pay back"...

My Mom (RIP) would have been glued to the TV while standing at the ironing board in the living room! Honestly, I'd rather watch paint drying! To each their own though. From "inside" any given sport, it provides a very different perspective of the competitive moves and strategy. Others view...

Correct. The common name is "Christmas Rose" as well as Helleborus for shorter version of the full name. https://www.gardenia.net/plant/helleborus-niger-christmas-rose We have a couple of different plants some with white and others with deeply coloured flowers. They stick their thumb right in...

Agreed. All of the concessions that are made for huge sporting events in cities, also come with a lot of incovenience to those whose work days must continue, along with detours and more that add several hours to the time away from home, but for no more pay. A few years ago, my employer, BCIT...

My Mom was always glued to the cricket test matches that were about as much fun as watch paint dry! There had to be deathly silence in the house in case she missed the commentator utter a word!