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 30th 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 - 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 - 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
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
Other:
How not to forget PINs - Where were you? - A Visit From The Police - The Goole to Leeds Train - 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
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
Other:
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 - Jokes
Recent
Home and aroundStair 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 - 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 - Oedema - Sodium, Seizures, and Oedema
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)
Record Box:
1-Beethoven,
2-Classical,
3-The Who,
4-The Beatles, 5-Jethro Tull, 6-Female Singer-Songwriters
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
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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