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More Sentimental old tat turned up today,,,an old suitcase was full of stuff i'd not seen for years,,,,lots of pictures of long departed relatives,,many of the photos over 80 years old.plus photos of my infant school (Henry Whipple) almost 70 years ago,,,May day about 1950 where i'm dancing with a girl called Ann Shelton,,,i mention her name because you never know she may read this,,and for the same reason the others are Marian Perry,,Roy Burton,,Edith Nix,,Michael Laurence,,Beryl Hughes,,Roy Whyers,,and Valerie Biddulph,,,would love any of them to recognise themselves or a relation or friend.

I suspect that most people won't notice any great change in their lives, either for better or worse. The positives and the negatives won't be as extreme as predicted. In a typical British way, we'll just carry on as normal and make a few running adjustments here and there.

I imagine that's broadly right for us in the middle. .. What worries me is that the already super rich will make a 'killing', and the already poor.. will be more so.. Aaron Banks is reported to have spent £10 million on promoting Brexit. I doubt he did that for the benefit of you and me.

The EU was portrayed entirely negatively by the right wing media, Farage and others for decades. Most of that negativity was based on either lies, or deliberate misinterpretation of facts. Just one example.. 'we can't make our own laws'. Simply not true. Meanwhile, none of the clearly positive aspects of membership was mentioned. I have pleaded repeatedly on all platforms, for somebody.. anybody.. to tell me the benefits of leaving. Apart from endless parroting of the mythical disadvantages of membership. nothing has been revealed. It is therefore entirely reasonable that I conclude that

You jogged some memories there Den We used to catch two buses to get there to meet my dad at the top of Hartley road (If you remember he worked at Players) All four of us (Mum ,Dad, my sister and I )entering the fair via the top driveway to pass the pleathora of stalls selling the usual old tat, the bow and arrow, the Robin hood hat and the 8ft long balloons that you couldn,t blow up,it seemed to take forever to walk that short way with the anxiety and trepedation building up inside you. The smells are starting to permitate through my usual October cold and the scarf I am wearing, onions,