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  • You scroll through your old WhatsApp/text messages and are counting those that are no longer with us.
  • You read that Jonny Wilkinson's World Cup winning drop kick happened 20 years ago today.
    Leicester away. Me and Curbit and loads of others on the train when we won 
  • I had to travel on a London bus today for the first time in more years than I care to remember. As I put my 30 pence in coins back in my pocket and tapped the contactless out I moved a few paces down as standing only was available.
    Then a harmonious bellow was heard from the drivers cabin area of All aboard....All aboard... which I felt compelled to reply with gusto "With the D..... D......"
    An eerie echoing silence ensued throughout as I quickly tried to suck the words back in. 
    It then dawned on me that I was quite possibly the eldest traveller on that splendid vehicle. 
    Those of a certain vintage with excessive nasal and ear hair will know the melodic phrase that I spouted. 

    On a side note, it's true that Two Buses do come along at once as after going years without taking one I've got to take another tomorrow to North Greenwich thanks to the Train drivers strike so I can get to Guys at London Bridge. 



  • You read that Jonny Wilkinson's World Cup winning drop kick happened 20 years ago today.
    Leicester away. Me and Curbit and loads of others on the train when we won 
    Quality day that @Greenhithe

    Can’t believe it was 20 years ago 
  • I had to travel on a London bus today for the first time in more years than I care to remember. As I put my 30 pence in coins back in my pocket and tapped the contactless out I moved a few paces down as standing only was available.
    Then a harmonious bellow was heard from the drivers cabin area of All aboard....All aboard... which I felt compelled to reply with gusto "With the D..... D......"
    An eerie echoing silence ensued throughout as I quickly tried to suck the words back in. 
    It then dawned on me that I was quite possibly the eldest traveller on that splendid vehicle. 
    Those of a certain vintage with excessive nasal and ear hair will know the melodic phrase that I spouted. 

    On a side note, it's true that Two Buses do come along at once as after going years without taking one I've got to take another tomorrow to North Greenwich thanks to the Train drivers strike so I can get to Guys at London Bridge. 



    I recently told my young grandaughter to, "Come on ya daft apeth" (she was holding up the flow in a crowded corridor).  It dawned on me a bit later that no one has said that since the ten bob note was around.

    From Googling it seems the half penny left circulation in December 1984 ... even sadder the one to which I referred (pre-decimalisation) died in 1969  :|  
  • all the RIPs on here are my age ...
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  • You read that Jonny Wilkinson's World Cup winning drop kick happened 20 years ago today.
    Leicester away. Me and Curbit and loads of others on the train when we won 
    Quality day that @Greenhithe

    Can’t believe it was 20 years ago 
    It sure was mate, met in the Euston Flyer and it was downhill from there. Funny enough i remember walking out with Dave Thompson and a few others after the game going back to the pub.  
  • Watching Downton Abbey for the high production values
  • Builder insisting that I had his seat on the Elizabeth line, first time it happened to me, then he told his mate to shift so my wife could sit down. Really nice of the bloke and frankly I needed a seat as I got a bad foot. But my wife was vert moody about it. Yes I did feel old but was thankful for such a kind gentleman.
  • edited December 2023
    You smash through your Xmas shopping at Bluewater then spend the whole journey home increasingly fearful you left all the bags in the car park and not in the boot. 
    at least you could remember your car park, and actually find the car, we have 3 cars in the household and I am always looking for the wrong one, and walking past the one I forgot we came in.
  • When you have to think hard about how many days to go to Christmas when there are only three left
  • When you tell youngsters 'When I was young ... or, when I was your age ....'.
  • Stig said:
    Well, there's a small lake and church in the distance but even more curious is the church at the top of the chalk cliffs. There must be some mention of that in records of the history of the area - maybe in The British Library.


    This map suggests that as well as St Luke's at the top of Charlton Church Lane there was another church on Charlton Lane, where the mini roundabout is now. Could that be it?  https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/spy/#zoom=16.3&lat=51.48727&lon=0.02453&layers=1&b=1&r=30

    When I saw that painting my thought was the same as yours that it could be where the East Terrace was. I then had doubts because I thought the perspective looked more as if it was looking downhill rather than up. Of course it's a painting not a photo, so the painter could have messed around with the composition to make it look more appealing, giving an impression of the area rather than a facsimile. 


    Apologies if already been mentioned but could this other church be St Paul's which stood at the junction of Fairfield Grove and Charlton Lane? It has the distinction of being the first church to be destroyed in London in WW11 by enemy action. https://blitzwalkers.blogspot.com/2010/04/other-st-pauls-first-church-in-london.html
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  • Stig said:
    Well, there's a small lake and church in the distance but even more curious is the church at the top of the chalk cliffs. There must be some mention of that in records of the history of the area - maybe in The British Library.


    This map suggests that as well as St Luke's at the top of Charlton Church Lane there was another church on Charlton Lane, where the mini roundabout is now. Could that be it?  https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/spy/#zoom=16.3&lat=51.48727&lon=0.02453&layers=1&b=1&r=30

    When I saw that painting my thought was the same as yours that it could be where the East Terrace was. I then had doubts because I thought the perspective looked more as if it was looking downhill rather than up. Of course it's a painting not a photo, so the painter could have messed around with the composition to make it look more appealing, giving an impression of the area rather than a facsimile. 


    Apologies if already been mentioned but could this other church be St Paul's which stood at the junction of Fairfield Grove and Charlton Lane? It has the distinction of being the first church to be destroyed in London in WW11 by enemy action. https://blitzwalkers.blogspot.com/2010/04/other-st-pauls-first-church-in-london.html
    When does WW11 start please? Will make sure I'm away then 😁
  • Having a Covid jab and telling the nurse it was  "the best jab since Sonny Liston", and getting a blank stare in return, followed by my wife saying "She's not as old as you, you eejit".
    Did the nurse say, “just a little prick”?
  • Having a Covid jab and telling the nurse it was  "the best jab since Sonny Liston", and getting a blank stare in return, followed by my wife saying "She's not as old as you, you eejit".
    Blimey mate, the nurses' mum probably doesn't remember Sonny Liston  ;)
  • edited December 2023
    Watching Cassius Clay beat Sonny Liston on a black and white TV as a wee boy in the middle of the night when my big Brother switched BBC on and Harry Carpenter was the voice and face of boxing.

    I wonder why that memory came into my head 🤔
  • Back in the late 70's being mistaken for David Cassidy, now in 2023, after another fracture of the ankle, you're Hop a long Cassidy !
  • Back in the late 70's being mistaken for David Cassidy, now in 2023, after another fracture of the ankle, you're Hop a long Cassidy !
    ‘Mistaken for David Cassidy’ ?? How can I be sure ?
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