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Welcome Helen and Family! It's great when a whole family can have something they enjoy together.

In Hail Smiling Morn Clegg also talks about ending up in Wales in all innocence until you hear the rustle of thinly slices lettuce and describes Ireland as Dodge City with Guiness. I think Grahm has it with the War or the Roses, and as for Scotland, Wales, and Ireland, Adanor is likely right on...

That is absolutely delightful!

That is very interesting. I suppose a multitude of plaques could become unsightly. I don't know how a train station is set up, we don't use trains here the way they are used in Britain, especially where I am now, and I haven't ridden a train since high school, but you might think they could find...

I have wondered about this too. As an outside observer I'm not sure how useful my impression is, but it always seems like in Britain different populations are like different races. Yorkshire, Northumberland, Cornwall etc. despite being considered English, are all so distinctly separate in...

If the weather was cool or they were going very far they often put a little scarf over, tied at the back of the neck, but it would slow down the drying, so sometimes a hair net. I think hair dryers were probably more expensive then and I know that there was great consternation about the amount...

On the street I grew up on, the women, after sending their kids off on their uphill both ways trek to school (husbands already off to work), were commonly seen visiting one another in their curlers, if not their robes and slippers. Most certainly women went to the grocery in full curlers, and a...

That was a really neat film clip. Sometimes you do forget how much things have changed! A couple of the scenes from the seventies were very familiar. Other things I remember are the little window you returned bottles to at the back of the store, the enormous barrels of pickles, the penny candy...

Not really a statue, more in line with Captain's railway stations, I grew up with one of the biggest commemorative landmarks, The Arch in St. Louis. My school had a perverse obsession with getting us to walk up the stairs inside it once a year. Normally you take a lift which is round, with...

That is a really nice statue Captain. I think it's important for a town, village, or city to develop a sense of continuity, embrace the past and continue to progress as well. To take your example, even if people aren't fans of Laurel and Hardy or little kids don't have a clue who that funny...

All very valid points, sadly. I have Google alerts set for Last of the Summer wine and now and then what it flags actually is about the show. More often than not it is an article using the show as a reference or example and the connotation is not positive. I get the impression that there are...

I am sorry to say that in my experience this is normal in America. There may be a star on the Walk of Fame in California, handprints outside a Chinese restaurant (We had the Beach Boys handprints outside a Peaches record store in St. Louis but it went out of business and the cement was taken...

I have a recipe for stotty cake but I haven’t tried it yet. As I understand in the days of communal ovens they went in last as the oven cooled and gave it a heavier texture. The real reason for my outcry was that when I looked up breadcake, not having heard the term before, the pale, mass...

I didn't know there were that many either, but Britbox is carrying the current season and has quite a few seasons available to view.

Here it seems that unless someone chooses to turn a site like that into a museum it ends up neglected and in disrepair. Quite often, even residential locations might have very strict rules about not altering the appearance or layout of the structure or attached property, making it difficult for...

I had to look up "breadcake", that is a hamburger bun! Certainly not a rewarding thing to receive for one's evening pudding, but not unlike what one might encounter as a dinner roll in the states.

I enjoyed your post Chuffer, and the tale of your bittersweet adventure. Losing all of them was enough, to lose the stone wall and the very place they were seems too much for words. I have been burning leaves all afternoon and I read your tale sitting on my front porch watching the smoke, the...

Sorry for your tribulations Peri. Over here the word bun, depending on where you are in the country, is going to be a dinner bun, more commonly called a dinner roll. A bun most often refers to that ball of hair many women wear on top of their heads. A dinner bun or roll is a little like a bap I...

My favorite movie of all time is The Man Who Would be King (Michael Caine, Sean Connery, Dir. John Huston) I saw it first as a child and it stuck with me ever since.

It doesn't sound like Sid's voice. I really can't place the voice. My guess is that when the scene was being filmed there is audio involved and then in production the audio may have to be re-done, an actor might be called in to say a line that didn't come through clearly or what have you, it...