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There must have been something in the air at Wharf Lane which gave people long life - Frank Watkins and Nigel Plowman both lived into their 90's. I used to see your Dad from time to time in Solihull. Last time we had a chat he told me he was living in a flat in or off Lode Lane so I presume...

Janice - small world! I spent a lot of time with the commercial engineers at Solihull when I was a student apprentice and knew your dad well. I very much enjoyed working there - all the members of that district were great. I was hoping to join the staff there but unfortunately was appointed to...

I was with the MEB from 1960 to 1967. At that time Birmingham Area was divided into 5 'districts' - Birmingham North-West (Henrietta Street then Summer Lane), Birmingham North-East (not sure if it was then in George Road as I never went there), Birmingham South-West (Kings Road, Kings Heath)...

In early '60s I used to buy TV aerials and associated items such as splitter boxes from a shop which I think was Plotniks. If I remember correctly it was up Soho Road or near abouts. Can anyone recall it? Before the days of Maplins!

That's brilliant OM. I can't compete with that! John

Well I like a challenge! I'm working on it but may take a while.

It's actually his 83rd birthday today (30th November)!

Yes Amazon have a few - search 'Bluetooth Adaptor for PC'. Try sending the pics by email to yourself and picking them up on your PC.

I was thinking he (or she?) had his (or her) arm in a sling.

Channel 5 recently showed a series of 3 programmes titled 'The Great Plague' now available on catchup (My5). Although it doesn't mention Birmingham it's interesting to learn how the plague was spread and with particular reference to Eyam how they discovered it could be prevented from spreading...

The problem could either be the switch (usually a very small button on the motherboard) or debris which is preventing the left click lever from going down far enough (e.g. dust, biscuit crumbs, red wine residue - in a past life maintaining staff laptops at a school I've seen them all!!)...

Happy Birthday Lyn :)

I bought some KitKats the other day and I'm sure they weren't as nice as they were when they were Rowntrees

Quite agree with your comments - I thought Andrews used to fizz but the latest container I bought doesn't unless I have a duff one!

This explains all! https://www.thurrott.com/windows/windows-10/242806/whats-new-in-windows-10-version-20h2

In Town Tonight. https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p00nw1kn/in-town-tonight-29101955

If you're not printing colour you'd be better off with a laser printer. I have an HP 1020 (no longer available!) which is fast, prints well and cheap to run - a compatible cartridge at around £10 to 15 lasts me over 12 months. Current HP wireless lasers are around £90.

Just came across this article. I hope something can be done to stop this happening again. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-54451672 P.S. I didn't intend this to be a political comment!

Looks like the same medal as Daniel's but someone has removed the rifles from his!