Just thinking back to the rhymes we used to say or sing when we were wee. Some were hysterically funny, some just plain and simple and some on the border line which, if we said or sang them today, would land us in trouble with the Politically Correct Police and maybe law suits. It’s funny when we lo...
Last night: The choice of either Australian beef and Merlot with vegetables in puff pastry, or parmesan crusted chicken breast with a tomato, cheese and smoked ham filling. Both with spinach and ricotta potato gratin.
I took that as a suggestion to a newcomer that the recipe would be more relevant to the "tea" topic, not that it was off topic where it was. :extrawink: I thought the same but it takes a while to get used to the norms of the site.... Thanks for that. I obviously took it the wrong way but ...
Why is it that good people are always the ones who get screwed over? The other day I gave my seat to an old lady on the bus and then I got fired from my job as a bus driver.
I can’t comment on British TV but here in Melbourne, Australia, when I arrived in November 1965 there was four channels, ABV2, HSV7, GTV9, and ATV0. In January 1980, ATV0 became ATV10. In October 1980, a new channel SBS0/28 began broadcasting. By January 1986, SBS0/28 became SBS28. By January 2005, ...
plaques wrote: ↑15 May 2018, 07:49
Funny how we wait until Sue goes on holiday then everybody starts talking in french. Perhaps Russ finds Steam Engines.. a bit boring, he, he, he,
Remember when there was only 1 film showing each week at the local picture theatre? (We used to call 'our local' the flea-pit :smile: ) We had two picture houses to choose from, the Regal at the top of the town or the Rio at the bottom of the town. Depending of course on what the film was, the Rio ...
Sorry Russ, I should have made myself more clear. The author Catriona McPherson has a series of very good `detective type' novels featuring a lady called Dandy Gilver. They are all set in Scotland and they're good on social history background. The one titled `Bury Her Deep' has a background of chil...
Stanley wrote: ↑15 May 2018, 03:03
Good man. I'll give it another day.... Of course people could always have a look at Steam engines and Waterwheels....
Not really of interest to me but I went there anyway.