Baby boomers coming of age, Mary Whitehouse, Lady Chatterley and the Pill went on sale, hemlines rose, hippies said "make love not war",
The Beatles and the Rolling Stones topped the charts, Mods & Rockers fought each other at the seaside. Radio Luxemourg and Caroline,
Tony Blackburn, Twiggy, Jean Shrimpton. "I am the greatest" Casius Clay, Henry Cooper, The Hovercraft & Concorde, first man on the moon ' Neil Armstrong'. The Mini car and the breathalyser, credit cards, yellow pages and Coronation street, That was the week that was 'David Frost & Millicent Martin', Steptoe & Son on our black & white TV's. and who could forget that Great English Team that brought home the World Cup after defeating West germany?. The death of that great statesman Sir Winston Churchill,The assassination of JF Kennedy, and later his brother Bobby. Vietnam & Aden, Unrest in Northern Ireland .......
What a decade!!

I hope this has jogged a few memories

Old sage

morning all

dull and wet this morning 40 f the spring bulbs are loving it

Nothing much too important to do this morning
Just a trip to the bank to deposit my Premium Bond Winnings
(no begging letters please)

Evening all

Light rain for most of the day so I had to make use of my umbrella on the walk to the supermarket. Still it is getting milder so the boiler spends more of its day off rather than on.

Some trouble at the local exchange means that my connection is a tad dodgy at the moment and I have to wait for the steady light on the ADSL modem to upload or download. Yesterday, when I rang they said it should be OK by today but, as usual, that was their comfort news position.

Good morning everyone.

Ponder this some might strike chords
To soggy biscuits, tea and crumpets. To Waterloo, Trafalgar and Dunkirk. To Vera Lynn, Beckham and the other Spice Girls. To Alec Guinness and the Lavender Hill Mob. To Alistair Sims in 'Christmas Carol' by Charles Dickens - who wrote it one dark and stormy night in the Midland Hotel, Manchester. To cricket and rugby and soccer and tiddlywinks.

To Manx Kippers on British Rail. To Liverpool and the Beatles and the Battle of Britain and to What We Want Is Watneys. To Lassies from Lancashire and the latest Test score and the Springboks and Tottenham Hotspur and Whipsnade Zoo and "Kiss Me Quick Under The Pier" and Butlins and Perinporth and Colonel Bloodnock and How Green Was My Valley and to whatever it is that Scotsmen wear under their kilts.

To a leg of New Zealand Lamb with mint sauce, new potatoes and Yorkshire Pud. Or a good hot Indian Curry. To fish and chips and cockles in vinegar with a good pint of wallop.

To Kruger Park and Frobisher Bay and Waltzing Matilda and Daisy and a Bicycle Made For Two and double decker buses and the Piccadilly Line and Derbyshire and Brighton and the Channel Ferry and Knees Up Mrs. Brown and Cowes Week and Mick Jagger and Winston and Jamaican Farewell and good old Kafoozalem the Harlot of Jerusalem and the Bowmen of Agincourt and Oliver Cromwell and Laurence Olivier and Norman Wisdom and Tommy Cooper and Eric Morecambe and William Shakespeare and Elgar with Gilbert and / or Sullivan Marge Proops Cassandra, Jimpy and Teddy Tail Belinda And Jane (phew) pip squeak & Wilfred useless eustace and the Perishers



And to Princess Diana and Dylan Thomas and Robert Bruce and Beachcomber and Turner and Newcastle Brown Ale, Double Diamond and Rowntrees Pastilles,Spangles Refreshers and Marks and Sparks and Miss Marples and steak and kidney pudding with chips and mushy peas and Babycham and I'll have a port and lemon dearie please I don't mind if I do. Ooh Bert you are a one!

Cheers! Bottoms Up Alfie.....

To the Battle of Hastings in 1066. There'll always be an England. This happy place. This sceptred isle set in a silver sea. And there'll always be bluebirds over the white cliffs of Dover, just you wait and see.



Because as you know - there's no place like Home...