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Bits and pieces
This is the place for posts which don’t fit into other categories… unless they were a category all to themselves!
Where have all the comic songs of yesteryear gone?
As a child I remember so many comic songs being played on the radio…or wireless as we called it then. I’m sure they were mostly of little real merit and probably not very comical but we loved them. I can’t imagine anything more ghastly now than ‘The Laughing Policeman’ and yet it was on Children’s Favourites almost every weekend. Then here was ‘You’re A […]
MoreHero… or villain… or just a very naughty boy?
I can’t say that the little gingerbread boy is a hero, but I can’t help love how naughty he is! Every child wants to be defiant, wants to stick out their tongue and run away… but only children made of gingerbread should do so! “Run, run as fast as you can, you can’t catch me […]
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Bikes!
Once the streets of villages, towns and cities would have been thronged with delivery boys on bikes like his. Every small business would have had at least one, the baker sending out fresh bread every day, the butcher delivering his meat, the grocer sending out his goods to households in the area. The post office must have had thousands […]
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