Jane Petrie

I’m 70 & remember Churchill’s funeral and my grandmother saying she was glad he was dead. She remembered Tonypandy. I can’t remember him alive though.

Sometime in the 90s when she was in her 80s my great aunt fell and injured her leg. It didn’t heal so she went to her GP. They couldn’t find her records so asked if she was at the right practice. She said yes- they had sent her a card when they went nationalised. It was the first time she’d been.

Not by me!

Meet Mackenzie Bly (not his real name; see back cover).
I wanted to write something purely funny, but fell in love with my lead character along the way.
It's out in August, but the lovely proofs, with cover by Jim Kay, have just arrived.
Repost before tomorrow (Sun) evening, and I'll pick a winner.

Ah, he who smelt it, dealt it.

@privateeyenews.bsky.social Goodness, read that as Brenda had met Epstein and though goodness, I thought theQueen had more nous than that

I shall grow old, I shall grow old, I shall buy my joints ready rolled ppl

I was a bit concerned that spelling was fettled so early- fettled as in sorted & cleared out

Sorry about your awful day. Wish I could help.

Sorry to hear that.

Looks like the set for a 1970s episode of Dr Who

I remember being very cold and miserable in the late 60s. We moved from a house with solid fuel central heating to a house without. My parents installed oil fired central heating pretty quickly.

Or VFE (value for effort)

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

I’m agog (seriously). I made a special trip to big Tescos (and I’m not a Tesco person, prefer Sainsbury’s) because they sell chocolate covered orange biscuits. I also bought a charging cable to cover the frivolous nature of my visit.

It was the first mass-produced diesel bus, and would become the London bus of the 1930s and 1940s.

Wikipedia says it was saved from neglect in the 1930s by ramblers, so probably was all voluntary

Sometimes (often) I am pleased I can’t drive and don’t have a car!

You can travel to the continent from St Pancras today but not to Sheffield

But there was also popular scepticism-see “A day in the life” from 1967 mocking the idea that “the English Army had just won the war”

A merchant of some sort? He and Marley had a warehouse & Dickens describes him as a man of business in his counting-house at Christmas…

Thank you.

Me! And it’s black bin day as well, the one that’s usually pretty full anyway

My ambition was always to be an educated layabout and in retirement I am well on my way

I’m sorry; some people are just not very nice (one of my most damning verdicts)

In British English we use both spellings, but judgment without the e is for legal judgments, and judgement with an e is for the rest

I did no work (or not enough work) at University in Law (& had to make up later to become a lawyer) but because I was distracted by being a Trot I read lots of history & politics & feminism. I have no real regrets- it was a very good education

@davidolusoga.bsky.social Learnt loads from “Empire” & currently rewatching “Union”. Thanks to you & the BBC for both the series. Shame on the Telegraph for their ill-informed attacks on “ Empire”.

You can have both of course

Only just seen your post. I’m so sorry. Losing a cat is awful and deciding to have your loved furry one PTS is very painful.