Do it Herself - Grampian TV series from the mid 1980s

[George 1978]

Would anyone agree with me that in around series 13 (1990), Justine and Chrissy already looked like adult women at that point, while Tegs and Matthew still looked like little kids? I am almost certain that Tegs ironically called Justine "Mum" at some point as well. Amazing how different youngsters...

[George 1978]

I didn't like that as I thought that it wasn't enough privacy. Anyone could use force and catch you doing what one should do provately. A bit ironic considering the urinals in the gents with only one's back to everyone else.

It reminds me of Roland in Grange Hill being forced out of the...

[George 1978]

I was going to do the "I remember Him" joke as well... Never mind. He would have loved the irony of being sent to Coventry!

My late parents had at least three Ifield singles in their collection of 1960s records - the Yodeling Song; I Remember You; and The Wayward Wind (this collection...

[George 1978]

That 12.30 pm slot between Rainbow and News at One on ITV was so precious - if The Sullivans were not on in that slot (just like in the Central region) various programmes from middle-to-low ranking ITV companies turned up here, Tyne Tees had Play it Again which was Desert Island Discs on the TV with...

[George 1978]

Gives a different meaning to Going Dutch, methinks? We are not going to get a "50 years of Teach-In" tribute next year. At least the UK was no longer 13th to play since the incident, but we were unlucky to be the only country to get nothing from the televote. Again, I feel sorry about Olly...

[George 1978]

I would save grease-proof paper for the Food Technology lessons.

I hated the very little privacy that I had in the toilet cubicles - some doors didn't even close properly, never mind lock, and I caught someone once (one of the youngsters) eyeing up what I was doing in there with very little...

[George 1978]

I received one of those advertising leaflets from Farmfoods courtesy of the postman (as if he doesn't have enough to deal with delivering letters, cards and parcels), and it mentions that Sunblest bread was 75p and is now 69p!

I could have sworn that Sunblest went out of business years...

[George 1978]

Was April Stevens a Northern Soul act? I have listened to her 1967(?) hit Wanting You on YT - Gem AM used to play it now and again, often on the late Brian Tansley's shows at the weekend. She also sung the Teach Me Tiger song from a few years previously which turned up in a 1997 Whiskas catfood advert....

[George 1978]

I am certain that Victoria Centre does - they did up to the 2000s. I assume that is also why restaurants do that sort of music as well, because they don't have the PRS to deal with....

[George 1978]

A lot of people seem to put them both in the same boat - I for one, dislike people with Asperger Syndrome being called "autistic". I once compmained to a TV company which made a drama where a character had called some with autism "spastic", which is not only offensive, hence the...