Crunchie bars made by Fry's

[George 1978]

I was quite interested to read in the news that someone in Cambridgeshire had found a Crunchie wrapper from before the Decimalisation era of 1971, hence its 6d price on the wrapper. They mention that Fry's used to make them in those days, and I can see the resemblance with the coloured texture of Crunchie...

[George 1978]

It was a Saturday evening in early December 1988; I just finished eating a boiled egg which happened to be the last one that I would consume for nearly a year (and even the following Easter, I was rather cautious about the chocolate ones as well). An ITN Bulletin was on the television, and Trevor McDonald...

[George 1978]

I thought that I would bump this thread up yet again after reading about how dreadful the Here You Come Again cast was treated when they were in Manchester, and how the performance had to be stopped half-way - a case of Here They Can't Continue Again:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

[George 1978]

No, I actually meant that Zodiac Toys didn't have a website in the 1980s as it was before the internet was around!...

[George 1978]

I thought that Zodiac Toys had long gone by the time that the internet arrived....

[George 1978]

There was an Anglia TV ad break from 1985 on YouTube which had a Zodiac Toys advert on it. Fisher Price Jack-in-the-Box was being promoted on it....

[George 1978]

Flying Doctors was half-Scottish? I am not sure where Scotland would fit into that!...

[George 1978]

That one was on the Charley Live video released in the late 1990s - I think it was made in 1971 and it was the one after the 1972 "That's My Sister" PIF about crossing the road.

[George 1978]

Brian Murphy, the comedy actor famous for playing George Roper in both Man About the House and its spin-off George and Mildred has died at the age of 92, outliving his screen wife played by Yootha Joyce by over four decades. Murphy and Joyce played the familiar married couple in both 1970s sitcoms and...

[George 1978]

Marianne Faithfull was almost an icon of 1960s Flower Power and free-spirited values which fitted in well within the latter half of that decade - especially as she did look rather like a model starring in a 1967 Harmony Hairspray advert! She was a great singer - This Little Bird from 1965 was probably...

[George 1978]

I read on BBC News about WHSmith thinking about selling their High Street and shopping centre stores which I think would be a very sad day if it did happen. - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg7zj8yr5x7o - Certainly when I stay in various towns and cities around the UK in August, I often pop into...

[George 1978]

Do you know what? I just can't wait for Saturday 20th Jnauary 2029 when the White House will get a new incumbent - roll on the next four years.

It's good to rant - no need to apologise for it, FG. ...

[George 1978]

I don't think so - Wikipedia lists when the episodes of 'Allo 'Allo was first transmitted, and there were no new episodes between 1989 and 1991, coinciding with Kaye's accident and recovery.

[George 1978]

That's right - I often associated Gorden Kaye more with the accident he had when he was driving in the 1990 Burns Night storms rather than as Rene in 'Allo 'Allo. The previous series of 'Allo 'Allo was in 1989, and the next one was in 1991 - I assume that it was due to Kaye's accident in the storms...

[George 1978]

I was thinking about the Burns Night storm of 1990 and the fact that we have had a lot of windy weather this week that it almost seemed that 35 years to the day we would get the same amount of weather again!

[George 1978]

I haven't been to Beamish myself (or at least I don't remember going there), but I know that my sister went there in around the mid to late 1980s.

[George 1978]

I played one of them on a hi-fi at home, and all I heard was a strange sounding tone going up and down, and something which was not much interest to an average listener of a cassette tape - something more suited to an average 1980s BBC computer....

[George 1978]

In the mid 1980s there were some special cassette tapes for computers which were around ten minutes long on each side just for using them on those machines - my sister did comuter studies at the time and I remember her bringing one home with her, probably as a form of homework.

[George 1978]

More innocent times, I suppose? Classical music was played in the Infants; pop music in the Juniors....