I have here “Ladybird learners: Vehicles, Land, Sea, Air”, featuring amongst other things, Concorde (“today supersonic planes take people all over the world”) the Space Shuttle, a commercial hovercraft. How do I explain to my sons that these are just as much a part of history as steam trains? I remember watching the first Shuttle launch – what big feats will capture their imagination?

a commercial hovercraft.

still oeprating portsmouth to Ryde on the IOW.

Although maybe not today – they’ve had to cancel most of the normal ferries due to the high winds.

The Queen Mum, gawd bless er jellied eels.

Our youth…

A sense of decorum.

Can I get back to you at about 21:45?

Our identity as a nation.

all sense of reality

Our waistlines…

Rhodesia!

my hair 😥

Hopefully Northern Ireland one day.

Leningrad or is it St Petersburg?

Istanbul or is it Constantinople?

Ceylon or is it Sri Lanka?

Really need to brush up on my Geography/International Politics…

Forgot about the old Eastern Bloc/Warsaw Pact countries too. They’ve changed loads over the past decade or so. Can’t keep track of it all!

Nostalgia ain’t what it used to be.

Istanbul or is it Constantinople?

Byzantium. 😉

We had ladybird books on the Army, Navy & Airforce – think I will have to explain that we had those too in the not too distant future.

In the mean time I always preferred Ceylon to Sri Lanka

It’s still a fupping Marathon, alright?

I’ve lost my green pen.

In the mean time I always preferred Ceylon to Sri Lanka

The tea always stayed as Ceylon, which just confused me even more!

a commercial hovercraft

you never crossed the channel on one then, terrible utterly terrible experience

Byzantium.

D’oh. 😳

Respect for each other.

Is that the book with the rolls royce inside a flippy-open-front jet plane? Can you still do that?

The art of conversation

A sense of perspective.

politcal conviction

will to live

a commercial hovercraft

you never crossed the channel on one then, terrible utterly terrible experience
Thought it was fun. Bouncy up front and so loud you need to use sign language to communicate at the back. Quick though. 35mins to Boulogne (or however you spell it).

Spangles.
Opal Fruits.
Treats.

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Freedom Independence.

Ceylon or is it Sri Lanka?

Serendip.

Scotlandshire, damn you Gibson! 😆

My eternity ring.

My eternity ring

😯

20kg thanks mr iDave for 10kg of it

The will to live?

My ability to get through a day without the internet.

the ability to finish a

alistair crowley

sorry, where was I?

where am I?

My virgi….
Oh, no, you didn’t want to know that 😳