RIP Ian St John

[George 1978]

Continuing on the Angel theme, I used to get excited about Minnie Crozier aka Katrina Divine (or Devine?) on Shortland Street when it was shown in the Central region at 5.10 pm in the mid 1990s....

[George 1978]

He wasn't a teacher, was he?

Marginal, but Peter King and Fay Lucas from Grange Hill......

[George 1978]

Not to be confused with teacher Tom Lucas, played by John McTernan in the final few episodes of PCBH....

[George 1978]

Thanks, Heather. Nice to be popular.

[George 1978]

It's just best to ignore them and they will soon be gone....

[George 1978]

I have seen clothes banks next to bottle banks for people to put old clothes in....

[George 1978]

Scotland and Liverpool footballer Ian St John has died aged 82.

Of course, just like a lot of other people from more recent generations, he will be best remembered as being one half (or the straight-man if you like) of the footballing pundit double act Saint and Greavesie, both giving their...

[George 1978]

It comes around once every ten years, and last week I had received a leaflet in my letterbox about this year's (or indeed this decade's) census will be happening on Sunday 21st March 2021. I am certain however that I did hear that due to COVID that the Census might have been postponed until next year...

[George 1978]

I believe that Britain was even thinking about decimalisation in the 19th century as well, as early as Gladstone's time....

[George 1978]

All I can say that when we went decimal back in 1971, we thankfully didn't have to worry about that sort of thing happening for obvious reasons....

[George 1978]

Great actor - as Mike Baldwin,. the character always seemed to be portrayed as being the richest character in the series amongst characters who were prominently working class, especially within his factory workforce - (I believe that the actress who played Shirley Armitage is the only surviving Baldwin's...

[George 1978]

Happy Birthday David

[George 1978]

I agree - I might have wanted to stay in the EU by voting Remain in the 2016 Referendum but I would never have voted to adopt the Euro....

[George 1978]

Looking at the URL, I thought that the advert being referred to was actually from 1977!

Didn't that "Ello Tosh" advert make it onto the 100 Greatest TV Ads on Channel 4?...

[George 1978]

Do you think that Britain will officially become "100% decimal"?...

[George 1978]

I have been watching the economy 40 minute episodes of Casualty on Saturday nights, although I hope that Grace Beauchamp will leave soon as I cannot stand her....

[George 1978]

You're not the only one. ...

[George 1978]

The social aspect also stems in the way that we listen such as old That's What I Call Music albums, charts on Pick of the Pops and other ways of listing songs from the same era....

[George 1978]

I think that the word "guineas" in horse racing is just to continue tradition. Don't forget that when David Osuloga did that Bristol house in A House Through Time last year, the house was on a Guinea Street which has origins back to the early 18th century....

[George 1978]

Was the guinea abolished on the same time as decimalisation or was that abolished a few years before? The DCB didn't really make any reference to it in their 1968-1971 advertising, and so I assume that it went before 1971 - at the end of the day it was one pound and 5p combined in value....