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I wonder why a pigs ear is used in a mostly derogatory tense. They serve pigs well enough as audio recievers. Could it be that they are one of the few parts of a pig thats almost inedible ? I would have thought that butchers would have ground them up and used them in sausage filling. Mossy's use...

"My first pedal car looked like a minature version of an Austin Somerset but ended up looking like a stretched limo, sawn in half and lengthened with a couple of planks" Chocks2 quote. Thats what happened to my Triang Police Car but I think it was a door instead of planks. Had a great little...

You have me looking at and photographing pillar boxes now. More CDs cluttering up the place . My mrs will go mad. I have to say our local postpeople ( we have both genders) are always smartly dressed in their uniform and the bus drivers seem to prefer the white or blue pilots shirt with dark...

I have two Colombian daughter in laws who love sucking plain lemon slices with no sort of sweetener. Perhaps this is why they are so sharped tounged. They also put honey on some strange things like meat.A traditional roast dinner is a nightmare, it comes out in bits and pieces and is always...

Many people think " Camp" no longer available because supermarkets dont place it with the real coffee. I suppose being a chicory essence they place it with food flavourings.Must say I have not had it for quite a while. When I was a kid in the fifties I do remember having Golden Syrup as a...

Photos of chaps in British Army uniforms never look Heroic Supermen. They came in all shapes and sizes,some hairy some bald and even some with glasses. Its nice to know they took on a so called Super Race of War Mongers and beat them as a matter of course.Because as Monty said " It was the only...

A comment on Sizzling pubs. Cheap prices on a grill based menu. Quality can vary enormously from very good to awful. We never miss the one at Quinton ( Stag & Threehorse Shoes).I realise that is to far out, I just put it in for the locals. I have never been disapointed in any pub I have eaten...

And soon Walsall will have a spanking new Tesco superstore ( surprise, surprise ) on the site of what I know as the old Technical College, close to the bus station.

The Highgate Brewery is still going . I think there are plans to redevelop the Bus Station which has never popular with its users..drivers or passengers. In Worcester we have a subterranean cavern of a bus station that stinks of deisel fumes. I lived in the Walsall area until the early 1960's...

On re-reading this thread a thought came to me .Could this tram damaged by a Zepelin be the one in which Walsall's Lady Mayoress was killed ? The poor lady I understand was decapitated probably by the lack of safety glass.

Thanks Colin for the information, I have passed it on. I am having a dig around West Mids memorial sites. To be a SGT. Pilot I would think he would have been a Grammar School boy at least. Not much on the net at all.

A friend on another forum has asked if further information can be found on the following RAF pilot lost in WW2. Sargent. Arthur Raymond JONES. Service Number. 1056257 124 Squadron ...Spitfires Died 27th July , 1941 when his Spitfire crashed into the sea off the coast of Scotland. Raymond...

It surprises me how relatively few reports of air to ground attacks on transport by German aircraft there were. Any one know the full total ? Were the reports banned by the government and now the only witnesses left are aged people who sadly are rarely listened to and whose veracity is...

Has anyone had a look at the MSN home page today. It would appear all the violence about today is us lot eating sweets in childhood. There was me and the Chief Constables thinking it was everything from binge drinking to single parent families. The October issue of The British Journal of...

"Morris Dancing ? How verrye interesting. Put that in the report for Uncle Heinrich, Von Smallhousen" "Yes Herr Flick" Its terrifying thinking about what agencies legally know about you. With these massive data bases the Government and control freaks are building on us all it really is naive...

Was there not a hoohaa about mothers giving their babies undiluted Ribena in the bottle ? This resulted in milk teeth rotting ? Never liked over sweet stuff ( if that makes any sense) preferring sharp flavours. Manufacturers are like politicians , they tell lies so often they become to believe...

My stepson called in this morning to say he was taking his Korean built 4 X 4 to the garage because it intermittently ran on only two cylinders. He rattled off a number of cures he had tried with out success one of which was Redex. So there are still people about who expect Redex to perform...

Yes Mike thats the wrapper., must be the memory cells misfiring again. May be the prices are different but kids today are still getting their fair share of sweets. When looking after the grandkids they asked for some sweets and pointed to a cupboard well out of their reach. On opening the door...

My Mrs has had a troublesome cough recently which nothing will shift or ease. While nosing around the local pharmacy I found a packet of " Zubes". Not seen them for ages and I remember them in a tin rather than a packet. They were no more successful than the others but I have a thing for old...