philmayfield

Do you mean physically shift to another location or "shift" in that you want someone to assist you in consuming it?

Talking Pictures in the North of Scotland! I didn’t realise there was electricity up there yet!

I wondered if I might get picked up on that!

I think you got a bargain at £85. As you say - British engineering!

You’ve been living on borrowed time. That cam belt should be changed every 5 years or 60,000 miles.

I would’t buy a French car on principal - but that’s purely prejudice! Regarding the auto stop/start, I believe that’s common on most new vehicles now; we’ve certainly got it on our cars. It’s designed to be a fuel saving measure and if your’re stopped for a short time it’s not a problem. However, when you’re in a slow moving queue it’s a pain to have the engine stopping and starting all the time and mechanically and electrically it must take a toll on the relevant systems. There is an option to switch it off which is what I always do unless stopped for some time and then, once the accela

I only went on the sleeper once from Victoria Station to Edinburgh. It was 1962. I think it was a steam train. It departed at around 11pm on a Sunday. They seemed to shunt it around in York which wasn’t conducive to a good night’s sleep. I recollect I was brought a digestive biscuit and a cup of tea at around 6 am. Not the best of journeys and then I had to change trains in Edinborough for Perth on the Monday morning. That was my first visit to Scotland. I always drive now!

I’ve not had a railway breakfast for over 30 years but I do remember them well. Bacon, kidneys, sausages served from a silver tray and toast with Cooper’s marmalade. Returning from London it was dinner on the train in the evening but I could never understand why they served soup as it used to slosh around dangerously with the motion of the train!

He had a bungalow in St. Mary’s on the Scillies which I was shown when I went there a few years ago. Apparently it’s still owned by his wife Mary, the poet, who is still alive and now well over 100.

My last pipe smoking friend died about 20 years ago. Not from pipe smoking but from old age! He was a pilot in the war. It was always interesting to watch him going through the lighting up ritual which usually took some time to achieve full ignition. It seems to be a habit that has all but died out now.

His constituency was Liverpool Huyton. My wife lived there briefly when she was at college.

Ah yes, but that was a posh car.

That’s been a compulsory requirement for a few years now on all new cars. European law!

Bulb failure indicators are the norm on today’s cars. What are you driving - a Morris Minor!

Don’t want to be picky but it’s “canbus”and it’s on all cars now. Controller area network.

I entirely agree. The more sophisticated the control systems the more there is to go wrong. It's just the same with modern cars; you press a button to put the handbrake on and servo motors kick in to do the job that a simple lever and cable used to do. The problem is that the fitters can't do a repair job because of the electronic complexity so the whole unit or a circuit board has to be replaced. A friend asked me to look at his caravan power supply/battery charger yesterday. After eliminating all the obvious externals the next phase would have been to drill out the rivets and open up the cas

You can easily tell those houses who’ve got combis in our village. The heating engineer’s van is regularly parked outside. Need I say more!

A 7” what?

I went to the Port of Lancaster Smoke House shop last year and was intrigued by the sign on the factory door which said "No Smoking".

You had bread!

I had a brief romance in Bulwell Market. A naive lad from Woodthorpe and a Bulwell girl. Certainly opened my eyes!

Actually it makes Bulwell Market sound more romantic than it ever was. If it really is Bulwell Market.

The open field directly facing was very popular with model aeroplane flyers. I remember an uncle having to retrieve one from the top of those flat roofed houses on the left. Another uncle, Bob Burton, was a coal merchant and he used to load his lorry at that coal wharf. I think the coal was hauled up the hill from the pit by a stationary engine which went back down the hill at the end of the day.

7 years at Mellish - I do have an affinity with Bulwell!

So the place I can visualise is Bulwell Market. Brew gets first prize. Do I come second?