Rotating washing lines

[George 1978]

There was a nice difference of sitting on the dirty floor (Primary) and sitting on chairs (Secondary) - one preferred the latter.

Sometimes, assembly was the only time that we ever saw the Headteacher aka THE BOSS (well, it felt like that, anyway).

[George 1978]

I got myself a CD radio cassette recorder just a few years ago, and as recently as a couple of years ago I used a cassette tape (a TDK brand - certainly not a "market stall" brand) in order to record various tracks from my CD collection; Lene Lovich; Toni Basil; The Masionettes; Boyzone; and...

[George 1978]

Don't worry - not too many keyboards have pound sign keys on them.

[George 1978]

Or even every cent? ...

[George 1978]

I notice that Lene Lovich (please do see my signature if you must) was obviously one of the artistes on the Stiff record label at the time and I have just noticed that you and the poster have mentioned her - 1978 was the year before she had that Lucky Number hit. I have never owned a 7 inch single of...

[George 1978]

I have to say that I am certainly not in the mood for dancing after I heard this devastating news on Radio 5 Live on Wednesday lunchtime. Linda Nolan was the same age as Tony Slattery and they were both born in 1959, I believe.

She was part of a great vocal group and was so talented as...

[George 1978]

I was reminded about this when I watched a YouTube video over the weekend about technology and fashion which were around the the 1980s - Ttat deacde seemed to be the one famous for trying to put everything in one plece to save both space and time and it was a modernisation of something that people have...

[George 1978]

I use it all the time, but the main problem with the charts compiled on that website is that they split months into three parts: the early; the mid; and the late parts of the month, unlike weekly charts, and of course, it only goes up to around 2012 - I prefer the weekly chart archives. It does make...

[George 1978]

My autograph book come back from the New Victoria Theatre - great end to the panto season.

[George 1978]

When football was shown on the TV and there was bad weather such as snow (and the match had not quite been postponed or cancelled but was not too far away from that happening), the traditional white (or black and white, hexagon and pentagon-patterned) ball was substututed for an orange ball which looked...

[George 1978]

I know that around September 1985 Kellogg's Corn Flakes gave free model aeroplane kits inside their cereal boxes which needed to be assembled a la the toy in the Kinder Surprise eggs - Kellogg's advertised them on TV around that time, and a Thames TV off-air of the Superman film on the 5th of that month...

[George 1978]

Saw the funeral coverage on the BBC News Channel this afternoon even though the Sky EPG had removed the funeral titles and replaced it with a generic "BBC News" - I am certain that Reagan's funeral was shown on BBC One. Carter's grandsons really paid tribute to their grandfather with great...

[George 1978]

I used to assume that the shop was probably an inspiration for Mrs Goggins' Post Office in Postman Pat.

[George 1978]

Yes, it was Emmerdale in a kilt to be honest - was it Mrs Mack who ran the Post Office in the village?

It was shown around 6.30 pm after Scotland Today in Scotland, but mid-afternoon at around 3.00 pm south of the border.

[George 1978]

Britain's answer to Alfred Hitchcock Presents - earlier series had Roald Dahl in an armchair telling us about the episode that we are about to see, and it proves that Dahl was also known for reasons other than being a children's author, and could easily point his typewriter in other directions of writing...

[George 1978]

The Christmas episode of Casualty on 21st December played Fairytale of New York towards the start of the episode, but not surpringly just before we were to hear "you cheap lousy...", a character had switched the radio off in their kjitchen.

[George 1978]

I know that its from the 1960s (yes, I know), but the B-side of the Eurovision Song Contest victor Sandie Shaw's Puppet on a String - titled Tell the Boys, sounded better - Puppet just sounds too much like a novelty song, whie the flipside of it sounds like a lot more like a "straight" song....

[George 1978]

I wonder what 90 crocodile years are in human years - I know that dogs have seven years to one human years, but crocodiles are such huge animals I assume that they almost live as long as humans.

[George 1978]

The BBC News Channel will be showing Jimmy Carter's funeral on Thursday 9th January 2025 in the afternoon between 1.30 pm and 5.30 pm, GMT, UK time. Sky Digital channel 503. I will be watching.

[George 1978]

Johnnie Walker, the DJ and radio presenter has died aged 79.

Born in Martch 1945 just over a month before the end of the Second World War, Walker, born, Peter Waters Dingley (and assumably gave himself the stage name namesake after the famous alcoholic whisky beverage), had a varied career,...