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Tarts and gay gobbles
I spent much of today down in Loughborough helping take stock of the Gould Theatre Collection, the life accumulations of Mervyn Stockbridge Gould, raconteur extrordinaire and keeper of the Schnorbitz.
I expected to find myself getting rather maudlin as he was a very close friend and sadly missed. Surprisingly enough, I found the experience therapeutic and [...]
“Tuppenny Rushes”
Saturday morning picture shows are looked back on with affection by many people over fifty in Britain. For a few pennies, children had the chance to spend an hour or two watching Westerns, cartoons and Serials with the cliffhanger endings that the hero always managed to resolve really easily in the thirty seconds of [...]
In: Memories, Shady stuff, Showbiz · Tagged with: Saturday Cinema
Pepparkakshus
Karen was told of a little Christmas tradition from a colleague of hers at work. It was to take a trip to the Ikea Swedish Shop and to buy a Gingerbread House kit. Coming from Ikea, of course, it comes as a flat-pack knock-down construction…
After a bit of icing sugar glueing, David was able [...]
In: Shady stuff · Tagged with: Christmas
Happy Anniversary to me…
Today, the blog is five years old.
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Here’s to another five!
I might really push the boat out and do another videoblog for my 2,000th post.
In: Shady stuff, Well fancy that!
The two Queens
Now I wouldn’t normally associate a steam preservation society with Pub memories, but one occurred to me this afternoon.
When I used to live in Maidenhead, a colleague lived on the way to Reading and he had two Pubs just round the corner down a lane- The Queen Victoria, and the Queen Adelaide, known locally as [...]
