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Do you remember queuing up in your kipper tie and bell bottoms, bum fluff moustache trying to look 18? I do. One of the reps on hard times I worked with in the 70s was bullied by the boss as he was a bit unkempt. He had been sleeping in his car due to a break up. The boss threw some loo roll at...

We have to be all inclusive now. I think its nice you can wear what you want know but some things just don't suit sone people. I was in Monaco once in the 70s you could not walk on the prom shirtless and covering up to go in to holy places is understandable. My partner coming from the continent...

Some clothes are made to look like dressing gowns and Jim jams and chefs trousers, and slippers, but some are the real thing. Our granddaughter insisted on going to the restaurant in her donkey costume she wore at the nativity. That would not have been allowed in our day but we never went out...

There's nothing like a cold beer in a beautiful garden with the birdies singing is there!

Hope the beer tastes good.

I put one safe box with 3 or 4 in. Then I moved it. Partner saw the rat looking under stones and it was in the thyme pot and the chives. Web said thoroughly wash the herbs. One of my birth family died from rat poison. He had a silly habit of picking up cigarette buts and smoking them, they were...

Remember when you had to sit outside and freeze to death if you had children or sometimes there was a lean to in a garden. I remember on holiday and the Beatles were big and mum didn't want to go to this pub with beatniks outside. I did as they were playing the Beatles and had a pink neon...

Saw him on the pier at Bournemouth, circa 1974 he was still trading on his Roses advert, Roses grow on you oooh! He was very thin and pale, he didn't look well. He did a sketch where he had like a bin round him suspended from bracers, bare chest and legs.

HEY John (as they say) am just getting the hang of abbreviated cursing like OMG.... but worse. If I had to continued to do that in the 60s I would have been clouted for taking the Lord's name in vain. I canna bare awesome often pronounced are some & used for a nice drink instead of say...

Mine went black I had to heat it up and scrub it off

I detest, .....Can I get, instead of ....can I have, and the reply, of course you can, like they are doing you a favour serving you, and.....hi guys, and enjoy your day (not looking at you),. I get business correspondence ....I hope you are well and on the phone, how are you today and when you...

I am told I could wear the Mac An Phearson / MacPherson Tartan and I am very very distantly related to the Turnbull Clan. I don;t if they street a point my friend a Bird was told he was Baird. That;s how I melted the carpet with that reversible tape and it didn't stick. Now I just turn cotton...

We had a Cinnabar moth today and a blue demoiselle dragonfly yesterday but I was unable to take a photo they didn't hang about. Have taken some over the years.

My birth sister did her DNA we are 30% Irish I am Brummie born she is Worcester. But to find them they would have to have their DNA done and be on an ancestry site. And it changes, I don' get that.

remember we had nuttin' week to gather nuts. Friend said she went hop picking an tater picking. All In the holidays, and mushroom picking and they couldn't stand up afterwards.

We saw giant wasps a couple of years ago on a public footpath in Berkswell. Feeding on flowers.They didn't bother us but they were hugsI would say 3 cos and fat.

Don't know about today but people seemed to do several jobs then. I had 2 when I was saving up for a car. Some of the women in my family had three.

We usually get a few they are reluctant to fly. Not seen any this year. Not many insets at all. Saw a big wasp. Not many bees other than hover flies it is worrying, quite a few butterflies though.

Is it a May beetle, they seem ti just drop. Some chestnut some green if it is

I tried removing turnups myself. a disaster I tried turning trousers up using iron on tape and I melted the carpet. I tried dieing apple green flares black apple green was fashionable but they only looked good on other people, ended up bottle green which was OK but I spilled dye on the...