Confessions of a late night movie viewer

[George 1978]

I wouldn't mind getting a PGCE so that I could go to school... as a member of teaching staff.

No, as a pupil, I would just do the lessons which interest me and then go home again.

[George 1978]

My Infants and Juniors didn't have uniform, so I can say it was basic jumper, jeans and t-shirt....

[George 1978]

I didn't know that the £1 coin literally replaced the 50p coin when it came to new coins being minted - pity that they went smaller years ago, Waggon Wheels-style, otherwise I would have searched my wallet to find one....

[George 1978]

I was thinking about this thread when I thought about our new PM Sir Keir Starmer who seems to wear glasses more on a regular basis these days since he's moved into Downing Street, but when he was Director of Public Prosecutions, he hardly worn them - I don't really remember him wearing them back then....

[George 1978]

So, I was correct that it was for Cellnet and not BT, although for some reason I thought that the advert was a parody of a 1950s advert with some stereotypical housewife singing the aformentioned song.

I think that I was probably thinking of the Mercury Communications advert from around...

[George 1978]

I know that the song had appeared in an advert - I believe that it was shot in monochrome even though it was made in the 1990s, and it featured a woman who was supposedly singing the tune. I have a feeling that it was for one of those early mobile phone companies such as Cellnet or Vodaphone when mobile...

[George 1978]

Any fans out there of those Robin Askwith films from the mid 1970s? I thought that I would mention that there is nothing quite like a British-made film from the 1970s - noistalgia at its very best. Take any Carry On film, or even any sitcom movie spin-off from around that time. As I have been an adult...

[George 1978]

In a week in which I have been following the Shanghai Masters on Eurosport with its colclusion on Sunday, the sad news of one of snooker's finest also made me think of big personbalities in the sport siuch as "Whispering" Ted Lowe who had passed away during the semi-finals of the World Snooker...

[George 1978]

On the BBC News website last week, they mentioned an old plastic bag which once-upon-a-time (the late 1960s perhaps?) contained garden peas and had the brand name of Tempo on the packaging. The bag pre-dated decimaloisation in 1971 as it mentioned the pre-decimal (2/6, half-a-crown, 12 1/2p, call it...

[George 1978]

Another memory during my "sitting with my legs crossed on the sofa while wearing a bathrobe" Thursday evenings when Top of the Pops was on, was hearing a song which had the DJ doing that "moving the record backwards and forwards with the needle still on it" sort sound - the word...

[George 1978]

Actually, not quite "the end" as I had meant "1950s and 1960s" in my previous post, and the word spelt "associate". Thought that I would add this as an addendum to my previous post.

Now it is the end.

[George 1978]

Interesting observatons from the OP - I also noticed that "The End" isn't used very often these days, probably because the two words is basically stating the bleedin' obvious that the film, documentary or episode has indeed ended and so therefore one doesn't need to let the viewer know that...

[George 1978]

Sutherland and Christie also appeared in a Play For Today or a Screen One in the late 1970s or 1980s according to Wikipedia - no doubt that the on screen chemistry in Don't Look Now was more than apparent and that they would work together again years later....