General Chat

We also have presenters like that, Tec, but mainly on commercial radio!

Allan

Can inteligent people spell inteligent?

I may get worse - please humour me.

Well as the brain is asleep, I had better go to bed.
Enjoy your day Sue, Allan, and all Down Under,
sleep well Up Top.
which eye has Diane got on us? hope it's her good one.

Goodnight,
Tec.

Satellite Telly, Sue!!

We still have to use a couple of coat hangers to even receive 'Skippy' :0))

Allan

I know Allan - you WAers are waaaay behind:-))

I'm off too for the day. Enjoy your day Allan.

Diane.....go to bed!!!

Sue xx

Good night and G'day to one and all

Allan

I have just spent some time on here typing away - got to the last little bit and Genes spat the dummy and went all of a quiver.

Je Suis Pi**ed off!!!!!!!

CC - where in the City did you work? I have often wondered how things have changed since I was there in 1953/4. I worked in part of what had been a monastery and was divided into offices. It was right next to the entrance to Leadenhall market.
I walked in from street level and went up a few stairs to our City office rooms (mezanine style). The walls were 14 inches thick with a small window looking out onto backs of other buildings, around a small square which had graves in it from the 18th century.
I've often felt that the area would be updated in some way, but I wonder about the graves.

Hello all.

This talk of WW 2 and black and white TV has just reminded me that I recently saw a film about German Submarines on TV. It was in German

It was really exciting, but everytime a crew member spoke up would flash 'U-25', 'U-39' or any other combination of 'U' and numbers

I realised that they were the sub-titles :0))

Allan

I gave up on what I was talking about and besides the dementia kicked in whilst I was away and I forgot what I was saying.

I just watched an interesting little article on TV - sort of a local news item - where men and women (mainly women because they live longer) around the ages of about 68 - 80 odd were making their own coffins. They were taking to the task with gay abandon - one coffin was white with big pink and red flowers on it. They were having a lovely time and one chap said he hadn't had so much fun in years. It was giving them a new outlook on death - and they had built some amazing coffins and one woman said ( she also had tinkerbell tattooed on her right buttock a couple of years ago) that if anyone died before their particular coffin was ready the others would pool resources and finish it.

Then when they had downed tools they all had a glass or two of wine - I think it was very enterprising of them and I reckon they will have jolly interesting funerals as well.

Awhile ago at a funeral I was talking to one gentleman who is in his late seventies and he was browned off because he was going to all these funerals and none of them would be able to come to his.

Persey

Hi Persey and Joan:-))

Persey - I ain't making my own coffin. Sounds too morbid for me. Still each to their own.

Joan we Aussies - yes I'm in Oz - usually come on about 8 - 8:30 in the morning Sydney time. That makes it 11 - 11.30 at night in the UK. I think you're half an hour behind, Allan and Janet in Perth are 2 hours behind and Persey is 2 hours ahead of Sydney time. Sometimes we pop on in our evening when it's morning in the UK. That's probably clear as mud:-))

Sue xx

They seemed such a happy go lucky lot Sue - they reckoned they now looked askance at the ones they see at funerals eg mahogany with brass handles.
Though one of them did provide a bit too much detail when they talked about lining them.

Anyway how's your Bio Rhythm and Blues - you okay tonight?

Everyone was talking TV and I always think of us lot as being a bunch of Sooty and Sweeps and you being the Sue in charge of us all.

We are celebrating our first 50 years of TV this month - and they aren't half a bunch of prats the way they have been going about it all.
You can send Graham Norton and Rolf Harris over here Allan they would fit in beautifully. As Victor Meldrew would say "I don't believe it"

Persephone...xx ☺☺☺☺☺☺

Joan, I just post my thoughts, winges, questions and answers when it is convenient for me. At 8 - 8.30 Sydney time I am just getting to work. I leave home not much after 7 which is early enough without spending time on the computer.

Sydney got Commercial TV in 1956 (b/w) and by the end of the year we had two commercial channel, indistinguishable in content, and the ABC which had a higher tone. My family did not get a TV set until about 1960. Three hundred pounds it cost. We got colour AFTER New Zealand. It had fewer channels to convert, I guess plus the Commonwealth games in Christchurch in 1974. I was in NZ in May 1974 and the first programs I saw in colour were a quiz show (Selwyn Toogood?) and Softly Softly.
Nowadays, being an elevated sort of person, I mainly watch ABC 1 and 2 digital but not HD. I cannot stomach Graeme Norton either. Hyper camp turns me off I'm afraid.
'Night all, and hello to those on t'other side of the world. It's quite chilly here, but I would rather our whether to yours.
I am in Allan's side regarding football. I vaguely follow Rugby League as it was bred into me from an early age. Have given up on my original team, they broke my heart once too often in the 1980s-1990s. They are not doing too badly this year.At school, those who could played Rugby Union. The others were sent down to the near swamp to pretend to play soccer.
Nowadays I don't like it, especially the English Premier League style which seems to me be built on the theory that it is no good kicking the ball towards the goal- the goalie will get it. So kick it way over the top or off to one side. That said, I saw some of the World Cup when it was in Japan and Korea, (near our time zone) and it was truly entertaining and such a contrast.
The main problem at the moment here that seem to think that we could have won the last one. In our match against Italy they scored on a very dubious foul, and Italy won the Cup that year. I mean, who's kidding who? We are in the top 32, but so are 31 other teams. Other than that, I really have no idea who might win but South Africa as host may be in the semi-finals.
I like watching the tennis but not enough to stay awake until the early hours to watch the French Open or Wimbledon.
Now it is bedtime. CK.

Hello I am back, more in spirit than in body. We didn't get home until 2.30am, but as Greece is two hours ahead of the UK, it seemed like 4.30am to us. I hoped that I would sleep late, but no, I awoke early,so now I am absolutely shattered and can hardly keep my eyes open.

I have made so many mistakes in typing the last paragraph. my brain knows what I want to write, but won't connect to my fingers correctly. I hope that everyone is well and has behaved in my absence.

Good Evening Linda,

Welcome back - Hope you had a lovely holiday with lots of sun, sea, relaxation, and the odd glass of wine maybe?

You were missed, but we have all been terribly well behaved. Mother continues to rule with a rod of iron. Yesterday she was especially gracious in stating that while she expects the gentlemen on the thread to be clean shaven, and sitting up straight when she is present, we need not wear our ties. What a relief, especially now that summers here.

There are three new posters on the thread, Pam in Nth Qld, Joan in SA, and Richard in WA - I expect you will meet them in due course.

Hope you get to catch up on your sleep soon.

Tec.

Persey,

The Welsh Rugby Team left Wales tonight for NZ - their first test match is in Dunedin in a few days.
Our rugby team have never beaten the All Blacks in NZ. Please be gentle with them - we don't expect them to win, but we would like them back in one piece if possible.

Tec.

Welcome back, Linda and good evening to you

Good evening Tec.

Hello to Sue, Persephone, Joan and Colin

I see that my joke about submarines at the bottom of page 1275 sank without trace :0))

Allan

Good morning/evening:-)) Linda is back!!! I've missed you, lady.

I feel so much better today. The sun is shining and although it's chilly it looks like being a nice day.

Talking about submarines. Awhile back I discovered an ancestor was on the E11 in WW1. The crew of this sub were very intrepid and were in the Dardanelles. I ordered a book through Amazon and there is a wonderful discription of my ancestor. He was in the merchant navy but was seconded into the royal navy because of his navigational skills. He served with Captain Naismith. This book takes pride of place in my brother's home together with a book called General Jack's Diary which details my great-grandfather's death in France also during WW1.

Sue xx

Good morning Sue

On matters historical, I received an email yesterday from an Academic at the University of West Ontario who is writing a book about Fort York/ Stanley Barracks.

It seems that one of the sketches that I sent off to the Curator of Fort Henry at Kingston is of fort York and is one of the earliest sketches yet found. The person wants to include a copy in her book.

Allan

Good Morning Allan,
Good Morning Sue,

I appreciated your submarine joke Allan, but I feel it was wasted on the Sisterhood. Never mind - Up periscope.

Glad your in better spirits today Sue - That's very interesting about your ancestor in subs - those WWI subs were very basic, and dangerous.
I admire any submariners that served in them - very brave men.

Tec.

The submariners in the early submarines had a 50/50% chance of survival. The sad thing is that his father - a master mariner - heard the news of their success in the Dardanelles, sat in his chair and passed away.

Allan - that's wonderful news. He will be credited as the artist? A book to add to your family library. It would be wonderful to now find more information about the man himself.

Sue xx