Recent content by Marianna

Or a rail station, as long as they're the kind that allow access to the restrooms without showing a ticket.

I remember when Christmas started with the arrival of the Sears & Roebuck Christmas catalog. Seems as though it was shortly before Thanksgiving (last Thursday in November, for friends across the pond.)

Good thing you don't live in Kirklees (where Holmfirth is)! Quite a while ago they closed all of their public conveniences, leaving only the ones in Holmfirth, which are owned by the town.

Yes, it's very scenic, especially when the leaves have started to change color.

This is the 44th annual Wineglass Marathon weekend. It starts near Hammondsport, on the edge of Finger Lakes wine country, and ends in downtown Corning, which used to be a major glass manufacturing city. The runners pass behind my house about four miles short of the finish line, so many of them...

If I ever can travel again, I'll have to look up contactless and educate myself before arriving in the UK!

Living on a farm and doing a fair share of the work using the usual machinery did a fairly good job of that.

Just read today's news about Storm Amy. I hope everyone on the forum is OK. Please stay in, keep your heads down, and try to ride it out.

One of us used to climb up on the roof of our two-story house and turn the antenna while another of us watched the effect on the screen and shouted updates to the one on the roof. Our parents probably were horrified at the danger, but as pre-teens and teenagers we didn't know any better. Now I...

Did you have some soft food on hand for your next meal after the extraction? My usual meal in that situation is two-thirds of my favorite Greek dessert: a dish of full-fat Greek yogurt topped with honey. The missing third ingredient is the dusting of finely chopped walnuts. Can you tell that...

For me, the tone was a bit ominous because we were given the date at the start of each episode as a reminder that war was coming closer and closer. That added a sense of desperation to the normal adolescent social fumbling.

Given how prohibitively expensive that show was in terms of "aging" the background, I wouldn't have expected them to eliminate the cables just for a photo, although they could possibly have been edited out.

Seymour's car was a three-wheeler. In addition to his persistence, that was the stuck-up young woman's objection to him.

Who is the man in the shades, partly visible at the back, third from the left? Looks like an attempt at a photobomb.

To answer the original question, no, I don't miss the old TV sets. Now, for a lower price you can buy a set that will do much more.