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The tour bus has already expanded a bit to include local history. Perhaps with further expansion, it might attract a broader audience. Like you, I fear for the future of the exhibition.

I didn't catch a glimpse of an ocean until I was in my mid-40s. I've always lived about 375 miles from the Atlantic coast, and grew up in a family for whom travel was "outlandish". When I had to travel for my job, I developed a taste for it, and I've never looked back. Yes, Roger is lucky...

I saw When the Boat Comes In on Masterpiece Theatre on my local PBS station years ago. Watched it through to the bitter end. It was very informative. Now the theme song is running through my head! Had to look up a performance of it to stop it from becoming an ear worm. There's an electronic...

Referring to the thread title: Have you read Orwell's The Road to Wigan Pier? I'm partway through it, reading it for insight into living and working conditions in the north of England between the wars. It's interesting enough so that I probably would have read it without that extra motivation.

6/7 here.

I haven't used the treadmill in a few years, but hope to get back to it. For the last three years, I've needed the support of a walker to avoid falling. First a couple of right hip muscles tore away from the bone, and had to be surgically reattached. Two years post-op, I was still rehabbing from...

My exercise bike had a book rack, which helped with the boredom. My treadmill has a book rack, as well, and it's in front of the TV. There's always a supply of recordings on my TiVo that I haven't watched, just in case I don't have a book on the go.

Was that taken from the area near Cliff Rec?

Mine certainly did, until I gave it to an electrician/friend who was doing some work for me. The only exercise equipment I own that I've been happy to use is my treadmill, but I'd still much rather walk outside.

When I make my daily pot of tea (Assam loose leaf) before I add the tea Arkwright asks, "Did you warm that pot?!" Crikey! I'm not Granville, and anyway he had always pre-warmed the pot.

Mousehole! And sample a piece of Stargazy pie. I've been there on a long-ago walking holiday, but didn't know then about the pies or their origin. Lizard Point. Been there and spent a few hours on the same holiday.

Blithe Spirit is a wonderful play. The funniest play I've even seen, though, was Lend Me a Tenor. I saw the adapted version, in which no blackface is used.

The depth of snow in the photo looks like what I recall from my childhood. Somehow, the teacher in our one-room country school almost always managed to drive the ten miles out from her home in town, so we had very few snow days. 1962 was the year I graduated from high school. I was very happy...

15/15 for me!

In the 3 months that I was in a nursing home for rehab after my bout of sepsis, about 6 of the dinners consisted of hamburgers. Very few of them were properly dressed with, from bottom to top, mayo, lettuce, sliced tomato, the burger, a slice of sweet onion, dill pickle slices, and ketchup...

9/10 for me!

How observant of you! Now that you've pointed them out, I can see them, too. Maybe it's an indicator that the economy is looking up!

The scene in the movie The Lost Weekend in which the main character is suffering from DTs and imagines that he sees a bat emerging from a crack in the plaster wall. I saw this movie on TV when I was far too young. Wouldn't have been permitted to watch if my mother hadn't been too busy in the...

It could do with a lick of paint, but it's an effective commentary on the state of the economy.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240325-barm-vs-cob-why-britain-has-so-many-names-for-a-bread-roll I knew that if I searched thoroughly enough, I'd find the article that I read just yesterday. This is the one that set me off on this quest.