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  1. RRJ

    Knitted Post Box Toppers

    Best tam o'shanter I've ever seen!!
  2. RRJ

    Charabanc Outing

    I'm loving the drivers keep-fit horn.
  3. RRJ

    Charabanc Outing

    Some of my wife's ancestors.
  4. RRJ

    HAPPY NEW YEAR 2024

    Happy New year everyone!!!
  5. RRJ

    School Dinners

    Milk monitors snaffling an extra bottle.. ;)
  6. RRJ

    CHRISTMAS WISHES 2023

    Merry Christmas everyone!
  7. RRJ

    School Dinners

    Yes, 'chocolate concrete' served up with the worlds thinnest custard. Didn't stop me from going back for seconds when available though.
  8. RRJ

    Respect

    Here in North Devon its: 'Maid' or 'My Lover' or ' My Dear' for women 'Me Handsome' or Boy for men
  9. RRJ

    Sweets

    Horlicks website has 'sold out' but apparently they are being sold through B&M shops. Bit of a trek for me but going tomorrow.
  10. RRJ

    Sweets

    A firm favourite of mine and sorely missed were the Horlicks tablets. Saying that, I'm hearing Horlicks are releasing an 150th anniversary tin of 20 tablets in December so time to start hunting them down!.
  11. RRJ

    Scams: telephone, email, texts 2023, 2024

    Back in 2008 I had a landline call in the middle of a Sunday afternoon from someone who said " Hi this is the Natwest security team, could you answer a few security questions? " I responded with a laugh and hung up. Picking up some groceries from Lidl on the way home from work the following...
  12. RRJ

    Kunzle Family

    Could only find this.
  13. RRJ

    Scams: telephone, email, texts 2023, 2024

    I got a text, could be a scam, saying I've won either £200 or tickets to an Elvis tribute act. So it's press 1 for the money, or 2 for the show....
  14. RRJ

    Service record unavailable

    Maybe members of SOE ?
  15. RRJ

    Scams: telephone, email, texts 2023, 2024

    I had the " The TV licence is about to expire" text on my phone yesterday. Stay vigilant.
  16. RRJ

    ITS PJMBURNS (janice) BIRTHDAY

    Happy birthday Janice, have a good one!!.
  17. RRJ

    Birmingham Cinemas

    I remember seeing the 'Sound of Music' at the Gaumont as a 10 year old ( didn't everyone! ?) going there for me was a real event. Then taking my new wife who was from a small town in Devon to see 'The Omen' there in 1976. she was gobsmacked!
  18. RRJ

    Birmingham (or very close by) pubs that you would have liked to visit.

    I'd love to have had a few drinks with my grandfather in his favourite boozers, The Norton or The Lad in the Lane.
  19. RRJ

    Birmingham Cinemas

    Thanks for posting this Pete. My father was a Cinema projectionist (his occupation on my birth cert 1956) although I don't know which Cinema in Birmingham. The website gives a good insight into the job itself.
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