Things we used to do

[Slioch]

mmm, but the dirty mac character he was portrayed as a a something of a pathetic loser, a figure of contempt who would never actually get the girl, so perhaps not so bad morally? maybe?

Without wishing to get too technical about the PC'ness of it all, I can't get that ruddy tune out of my head now

De dee dee diddly diddly dee dee diddly diddly dee dee diddly diddly dum, (and repeat etc)

 

[Padraig]

Working in a green grocers as a 14 year old, taught me selling skills I still use.

Let's hope it didn't compromise your command of the apostrophe.

 

[Trickedem]

Holding a broadsheet over the fire that was just lit to draw up the flames, I'd like to see what health & safety would say about now days

We still do this today in Trickedem Towers. It can be a bit dangerous (don't ask how I know)

 

[screenman]

Let's hope it didn't compromise your command of the apostrophe.

I had already packed up English at school by then, and was helping out at home financially. Later on in life I employed people as clever as you to do my writing for me.

Please accept my apologies for not being as clever as you.

 

[Tim Hall]

My mother was a part-time housekeeper at our local presbytery. They had a full-time live-in housekeeper in those days, but she filled in on days off, as well as counting all the Sunday collections. The candles used on the altar were very high quality. It was specified that they should contain a certain percentage of beeswax, and they were very aromatic as they burnt. When they'd been partly used up, they were replaced with new ones, and we got to take them home.

Did you go on to found Fortnum and Mason?

 

[Hip Priest]

I had already packed up English at school by then, and was helping out at home financially. Later on in life I employed people as clever as you to do my writing for me.

Please accept my apologies for not being as clever as you.

I think he was making a joke about the famed "grocer's apostrophe". No need to take it so personally.

 

[screenman]

I think he was making a joke about the famed "grocer's apostrophe". No need to take it so personally.

If that was the case then I certainly apologise sincerely, only I have seen many people shot down on here before for grammar mistakes.

Thinking about it now I have seen that often, it is not something I noticed in the shop I worked at.

 

[slowmotion]

Yes I remember Radio Luxembourg, and Radio Caroline, Radio London and a few others the names of which I've forgotten, wasn't there one on a Fort offshore, Themes estuary somewhere?

Have a gander at this article....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maunsell_Forts
I remember Sunk Head fort being blown up to stop it being used for pirate broadcasting.

 

[cyberknight]

Beef dripping sarnies with salt

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Have a gander at this article....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maunsell_Forts
I remember Sunk Head fort being blown up to stop it being used for pirate broadcasting.

It was radio 390 that I remember listening to, I lived in Folkstone at the time.

 

[Sunny Portrush]

Washing, peeling and then cutting a potato into regular rectangles before plunging them into scarily hot liquid to make things called chips!

 

[Sharky]

Still listen to Radio Caroline

 

[Mrs M]

Sister and I liked Stuart and Ollie on Radio Luxembourg.

 

[Sillyoldman]

Wind back C90 tapes with a pencil to save batteries in the radio cassette player.
Introduction to Vesta curries
My dad putting a paraffin sump heater under the car engine in winter
Having a bath in front of the coal fire as a nipper

 

[Padraig]

I fully accept that we all have different areas of expertise. Mine is English, but I'm reasonably useless at everything else. As stated above, it was the grocer's apostrophe I was referring to. Absolutely no offence meant, and my profuse apologies if any other impression was given. As for founding Fortnum and Mason's, I'm not quite old enough, although I sometimes feel as if I might be. Did you know Radio Caroline was named for Caroline Kennedy, daughter of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy? I have to confess that I used to fancy her as a teenager. The founder of Radio Caroline, the Canadian businessman Ronan O'Rahilly, was related to Michael Joseph O'Rahilly (The O'Rahilly), one of the leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin, who was fatally shot by a British officer just off Moore Street. I understand a plaque commemorates the event, although that area, long the site of Dublin's fruit and vegetable market, is scheduled for redevelopment.