It's amazing how sarcasm isn't so popular in other countries, the North East has monopoly on it, my parents where so dead pan the southerners down here didn't stand a chance.
I had a friend who had a motorbike dismantled with all the parts stored in one of his bedrooms .He was effectively the landlord of a pair of flats he was downstairs , tenants upstairs they had issues with guttering so he bought lengths...
I can't imagine The Lost Weekend in color. It wouldn't have been nearly as terrifying, especially the scene in which the hallucination of a bat squeezing out of a crack in the plaster wall appears.
I hated cross country! Middle of winter in gym skirt and t shirt, it wasn't the cold in minded it was the gym teacher in tracksuit, scarf and hat that piddled us off, evil witch she was.
As for scarf and gloves we wear what we used to...
I think Rick will be delighted if he returns to the Forum because he was mentioning this series a while back and was either hoping to see it or was perhaps attempting to purchase copies.