This page lists and links all posts roughly in chronological order (rather than by
posting date). Some posts recall people and experiences, others try to take a humorous view, and some are of the “look how the world has changed” kind. Essentially, I am interested in how Britain and the world have changed during the decades I have lived through, and the effects of what happened then upon the present day.
List of posts to 10th July 2025
The Past
Living Memory - BathHospital 1839 - What Is Wrong In This Room? - What Is Wrong With This Steamer? - What Is Wrong In These Pictures? - George Gibbard Jackson - Carolus II Dei Gratia Mag Br Fra et Hib Rex - Brown's Self-Interpreting Family Bible - Drunk - Penistone - Cinema Paradiso - Wainwright’s Mardale Green - Ashby Decoy - Reginald - Edwards’ “Harlene” -Childhood
Home and School:Gram Motherem - Colours I See With - Pounds, Shillings and Pence - Washing Machines Old and New - Donkey Stone - Farmwashing - Housewives’ Choice - Dirty Old Town - Hartlepool, 1963 - In praise of bicycles - Rags and Bones - The Old Apple Tree - M Dunham Are Crap - The White Stool - My Brother The Engineer - We Know Where You’re From - Class Journey - Talk like a pirate - Too Much Television - The Horse Race Game - Plums - Haunted Houses - Christmas Tree - Trainspotting - Coal
Family and Friends:
Follow The Moon - Doreen - Uncle Jimmy - Mrs Quackworth - Pals - Didlem - The Restless Friend - Do Elephants Get Seasick? - The Man With The Hebrew Bible - Tips, Ships and Executorships - Teenage Mums - The R100 - Georgina Pockington - Ivy - Please Help The Children - Cartophilic Concerns - Aunty Bina’s Farm - Warp Land - The Village - The Carnival Is Over - Premium Bonds - A Family History Mystery
Dad at Play:
Lost Entitlements - Dad’s Thursday Helper - A Practical Wife - Little Ships - My Picture Book of Ships - Crossbar Excursions - Haley Paley Snow on the Ground - Hornby ‘O’ Gauge and revisited - Dad’s 1950s Films - The Song Book - I Haven’t Time To Be A Millionaire
Holidays:
Trump - Bridlington - Filey - Great Yarmouth 1960 - Whitby, Staithes and Scarborough - The day we saw the Queen Mary sail
Childhood Music:
I am a Mole - Sisters - Windmills Of Our Minds - Bangers And Mash - Uncool Singers - Flanders And Swann
Teenage Years
Home, Hobbies and Reading:Sooty
Bright in the Background
Hedge Trimmer Safety 1968
Developing, Printing and a trip to London
Doing the Pools
Reel-to-Reel Recordings
Guitar Books
Knockout, Knowledge and Arthur Mee
How Well Do You Know Morse Code?
Back In Time For The Weekend 1
Be Prepared
Philately will get you nowhere
Airfix Modelling
The Yellow Shed
Playing With Dictionaries
School:
Selective Education
Lookin’ for a ‘feet’
Home Chemistry and Explosives Precursors
School Chemistry
Biology Made Simple
School Metalwork
School Woodwork
School English (Mrs Hird of Cowes)
A Silly Christmas Love Story
Tackling Rugby
Jim Laker, Mr. Ellis and the Eagle Annual
Pythagoras, Proof of the Pi and Factorials
Different Lives
1960s Belgium:
In England They Eat Cat Food
More Memories of 1960s Belgium
Votre Billet, Monsieur?
Belgian Youth Abroad
Peyton Place and Top Deck Shandy
1966
Out and About:
Brylcreem
Rather a studious kind of boy
A Body Like Mine
Ready Steady Go
The Great Cigarette Machine Robbery
Mists: a tale for Halloween
Teenage ‘X’ Certificate
Young Thugs
Hornsea Pottery
Shoot The Ruddy Sods
Beer Mats
Tour de Yorkshire
Hand Signals and Semaphor Indicatory
Teenage Part-Time Jobs
Late Teens and Early Twenties
Accountancy:Articled Clerk
Clients and Further Thoughts Amout Clients
Caer Rhun Hall
Paranoia?
Ties Teens and Sells
Agents of Maths Destruction
Vulgar Money Bags
Partners and Seniors
The Old House
One Man's Week 1974
The Compton Road Library
The Vauxhall Griffin
The Cats With A Bank Account
Career Analysts
The Shared House:
Brendan and the Shared House
The Beatles Song Book
Jokers Wild
I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue
Not The Best Policy
Posters on the Wall
Back In Time For Tea
Strange Brew (Back in Time 3)
Drought
The Clergy House
Music
Mickey's Son and Daughter
Barclay James Harvest (for Northsider)
Playlist: Fixing a Hole
Heathkit AD-27
Paul McCartney's RAM
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Recording Artiste
Top of the Pops 1983
How not to forget PINs
Where were you?
A Visit From The Police
The Goole to Leeds Train and Signal Boxes
A family tragedy
The Ghost of Airmyn Crossings
The Real Marigold Hotel
Twelve Balls
250 Words a Minute
The Play That Goes Wrong
Old and New Cars
The Phone Phreak
Petrol Rationing
Short Shorts
Lost Colour
Brian Cant and Play Away
The Blue Mini (previous title "Back In Time For The Weekend 2")
Pour The Macallan on my grave
Influences:
The Ascent of Man
Ray Gosling's Goole
Eric Kershaw’s Guitar Class
Lytton Strachey
The Mighty Micro
Working Class
Stiff Upper Lip
Walking:
North Yorks Walks
Kinder Scout
North John Merrill, Alport Castles and the Horbury Cut
Road to the Isles
Switzerland 1975
Walking In Iceland (series of linked posts)
Compass
Loch Muick
Later
College and UniversityWeekend in College
‘A’ Levels Again
‘A’ Level English 1977
‘A’ Level Geography 1977
Night Cleaner
The Canning Factory
Mature Student
Professional Foul
Philip Larkin’s Foot
Ontogeny Recapitulates Phylogeny
Research Before The Internet
Infallibility
Acornsoft
Computers, Education and the Conservatives
Grandad Dunham’s Flight Simulator
Rewriting Rewritten Writing
VAX and VAXen
Full Circle?
Castleford
Bonking
The Wrong Door
Hi there Duggy!
Marie Tidball
Significant Plagiarism Detected
The Commercialisation of Universities
UMIST
Snowing Like Buggery
Academics
Mick Copier
Giants
Computing Industry
Information Systems
From Ferrybridge to Finland
Unprincipled Spivs
Norn Iron
Writers At Heart
The Nineteen-Eighties
Jumped Down Catholics
Luxury Travel
Talbot Samba
Every Car We’ve Owned
A Tale of Two Tea Pots
Doubters, Doomsters, Gloomsters
The Inter-Varsity Club
Signalling
Not Seeing Pink
Wise Words and Jokes
Recent
Home and around
Stair Rail
Doorstep Deliveries
Kitchens Old and New
Contrails
A Walk to the Post Office
Knitted
Garden
Help, my courgette looks like a duck!
Sungold
Köhler’s Apes
Bird Water
Don’t They Know It’s Christmas Time?
I’m Not A Foxglove
Leek
Red In Beak And Talon
Pumpkin? Gourd? Giant Puffball?
Garden Birds
Half a Brick
Last Apple
Carrot Tub
Cheery Little Pansy
Garden Cam
Easter Hedgehogs 2020
Night Cats
Hedgehog Update 1 and Update 2
Snail Bogeys
Pigeon For Breakfast
Fox in the Night in the Rain
Catch Me If You Can
Foxy Is Injured
Foxy Is Back, Foxy Is Better
I Hate Hedgehog Biscuits
Bathtime Fun
Late Fruit
Holidays
Checked Out
Trains and Boats
Fort William
North Wales
Family
The Exorcist
Don't Tell 'Em
Strange Conversation
People who can't say 'ul
Molly's Family and Molly's Twin
Accents and Subtitles
Downtown
Dill in Mustard Sauce
Blessed By Snowdrops
On Visiting A Daughter At University
Fish Finger Sandwiches
Blue Star
Dominosteine
phoebe’s wee blog
Phoebe
Airmyn Clock
The Eccentric Great Aunt: the Painter
Great-Grandma: Another Painter
A Birthday Surprise
Hobgoblin, For Foul Fiend
A New Job
Pottery
Hello, Cheeky!
Things
Siemens A55
My IKEA Bekant Sit/Stand Desk
Occupational Therapy Corners
Musical Instruments
Bike Gadget
Television and Media
The Morecambe and Wise IRA Sketch
Keith Richard’s Lost Weekend
A Very British Revolution
Julius Caesar
Solar System
Health
General: Green Dog - The Peter Rabbit Plate - Self-Doubt and Imposter Syndrome - Lonely Brown Hair - Brain Fog - Health Gadget - Another Health Gadget -Brugada Syndrome - Sebhorreic Keratosis - Physician Heal Thyself
Cancer: Laid Up - Cancer Treatment - Morbid Statistics and the NHS - Exon 14 -Wilson Keppel and Betty - Breasts - Mutations - Diverticular Disease - Ten Years - Politically Incorrect - Not So Smart - Metastatic Lung Cancer - Not Wall - Chest Drain - Brain Inflammation - Streptocarpus Blue Leila
Music
Come
Lasses and Lads to Bangor
Buddy Can You Spare a Dime?
Musical Snobbery
Folk Ensemble
Other
Does Anyone Want Some Drinks?
Get Tret Better
Limerick Leanings
The Signalman’s Dilemma
Traffic Cam
Accident
Moon
The Planets
Plagiarised
Council Tax
Bouncing Balls
Memoir and Blogging
Nice Little Earner
Powerlessness
Throw or Keep? (old items no longer used)
Mum’s Little Bear
Old Tools
Old Wires
A Fiddle Too Far (The Carriage Clock)
The Mirror
Petrol Cans
Parking Machine Tickets
Panora
Oil Lamp
Tuning Gadget
My Very First Mother Goose
Cameras
Lenses and Tubes
Slide Copier
Slide Projector
Strings
The Songwriter
Pocket Hand Warmer
Deaf Duster
Template
Off Topic and Technical
TechnicalAdsense, Blogger and YouTube - Adsense Revisited - Blog Address - Side by Side Images in Blogger - Alt-0247 and Rule - Blocked! - Scammed - Faded Page - Dear Google User... - Inflation - The Prophets of Profit
Just Playing
The Riddle of the £30 Restaurant Bill - Supermarket Loyalty Badge Scheme - Trump and Tusk - This Hi-de-Hi Government - Some Memorable Posts - Coronavirus Pacman - Colourisation - Facial Animation - Equal Rights for Toes! - The Yorkshire Story of the Creation - Sunday Silliness - Have Fun With Your Tax
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