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"Everybody out" and the glorious Wanda Ventham

Was it one of these DJ360

Mary, According to Wiki The Archers started on 1st January 1951 and has been broadcast for 70 years with some 18,740 broadcasts Whilst not soap operas Desert Island Discs has been on for 79 years. A program called The Daily Service which I have never heard of has been running since 1928 and the grand daddy of all is The Shipping Forecast, on air since since 1st January 1924 and has been broadcast over 130,000 times. It was first broadcast via telegraph in 1859. The longest running Australian radio soap opera was Blue Hills that started in 1949 before the Archers it was cancelled in 1

Ben I was expecting to hear the theme from the shipping forecast Sailing By Ronald Binge Same goes for the Rod Stewart song, Sailing that is.

DJ360, a mate of mine had the same problems in the nether regions as you have. After much pain and discomfort and long discussions with his medical advisors he decided to have an ar$e transplant. It rejected him.

FTA (Free to Air) TV is my main exposure to advertising and at times I do find some of them quite clever and amusing. Most of them I struggle to work out what they are trying to sell me. If you want to sell to me tell me what you have got, where I can get it and how much it is that's all. I always put the mute on during ads and if you keep repeating the same advert at every break in the program or even twice in the same break you have lost me as a customer. I try but don't always remember to record the programs I want to watch so I can zap through the ads. Thank goodness we don't have to pay f

Does anyone still use wallpaper in modern houses? Last time I used it was in 1972. It was anaglypta to cover minor cracks, due to mining subsidence in the hard plaster faced walls and then painted to whatever her indoors wanted.

Yes, heaven help you if you forgot to give them your divi number. Ours is long forgotten. I wonder how many on here use similar unforgettable numbers as passwords

nonnaB I wouldn't need anything until Wednesday if I had that for Sunday lunch and to go out for pizza afterwards, have they got hollow legs?

Yes Ben, I remember when England wanted a new fast bowler they just shouted down the shaft at one of the local pits. I enjoy most music genres but certainly not Opera or (c)RAP music. Trad Jazz I don't mind but not too keen on the other types.

Good one Ben, The Banana Boat Song and Island in the Sun are two of his other classic calypso songs Always wanted to go to Jamaica to watch the cricket and fancied having a go at making one of those steel pan drums made from oil drums. He is still going strong at 94.

Never heard that expression before where did it come from?

Monday dinner was often cold roast beef, from the Sunday joint, chips and fried eggs with lashings of HP sauce. Quick and easy for mum after washing day.

I worked at 38 Central Workshops Chilwell in the early seventies. I worked for QAD (FVE) part of the job was checking if the rebuilt FV432's and Chieftain's conformed to specifications as well as sorting out engineering errors in the stores stock.

Be careful it doesn't turn brown and blow away in the autumn.

No I was taught English at the local council school in Nottinghamshire by a teacher that loved the language. Avaricious meaning....... having or showing an extreme greed for wealth or material gain. Much like the clubs that tried to form the super league.

I like to eat Parsnip and Turnip raw, in fact i prefer most vegetables raw, except potatoes. I think parsnip in a stew overpowers the taste of the other veggies.

Control of covid restrictions have reached a farcial stage here in Australia. If you live in Victoria you are limited to having 100 people at your home and it is recommended that masks are worn. If you want to meet other people in a public space outdoors you are limited to groups are limited to 200 and you must have a face mask with you. Yesterday the government allowed the great avaricious god AFL football to have 70,000 people attend a match at the MCG. Is it just me or does anyone else see the sense in the way restrictions are being supplied? In the UK I was deeply saddened to see

Yes it was me nonnaB and thank you, i'll have a good look next time.

Enigma, You last two posts were ladies with unforgettable voices.

Hancock at his best. Had a friend who gave you a choice with her gravy and custard. Lumps or slices.

Great Post DJ360 a real trip down memory lane to the best era of music. I could have sworn that some of those certainly went to No1. Like Please Please Me, My Generation, God Only Knows, Penny Lane, Magical Mystery Tour and probably one of the most evocative songs of the time Waterloo Sunset Then again some didn't even deserve to be in the charts and were absolute rubbish. This has been posted on here before but well worth another look, mixed memories.

Just had a look to see what it costs to see an EPL game these days. Crickey from 97 quid to see Arsenal, ManU and ManC in the fifties down to 36 quid to see Hull City. I can't see the average joe being able to afford that every week.

Like you Ben I lost any real interest years ago and on the odd occasion it is on live TV here I don't usually bother to watch it. Still look how the local teams do though. What happened to the youth programs that many clubs had that found many world class local players. Many of these tattooed prima donnas are paid a fortune to sit on their arrises in the stand and do not produce any worthwhile results or indeed effort. The reason England could not win a raffle if there were more than two tickets is because there is no core player group from one club that they can build a team around. It is jus

When I first started watching Forest they were in what was the old second division Billy Walker was the manager. Since the reign of Brian Clough 1975 to 1993 Forest have had 32 managers. I hope they regularly service the bearings on the revolving door at the entrance to the club. Maybe someone will realize that the recent problems lie with the players. They just cannot seem to score goals on a regular basis.