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Breakfast first thing Elevenses mid morning to keep one going Luncheon about 12.30 Afternoon tea about 4 Dinner about 7 Nightcap about 11 when I lived in a Castle (can prove this as I have arriving license with it as my address somewhere) Until recently it was tea and tablets when I GOT UP...

If you compare the scripts for the pilot and first series (seven in all) which were published in a paperback there are differences to the actual filmed material. So the idea of a book with new material would work - and also you could allow Foggy to come back and even Blamire (they knew each...

Yes I think we have been both in the naughty seat for our liking this particular portion ....

As a young married couple, a husband and a wife lived in a cheap housing complex near the military base where he was working. Their chief complaint was that the walls were paper-thin and that they had no privacy. This was painfully obvious when one morning the husband was upstairs and the wife...

HUSBAND: When I get mad at you, you never fight back. How do you control your anger? WIFE: I clean the toilet. HUSBAND: How does that help? WIFE: I use your toothbrush.

"I'm prescribing these pills for you," said the doctor to the overweight patient who wanted to lose weight without exercising. "I don't want you to swallow them. Just spill them on the floor twice a day and pick them up, one at a time."

If your feet smell and your nose runs, you're likely built upside down.

Buy your thermometers in the wintertime. They're much lower then.

Question on Economics Exam: "In any given year, and to the nearest ton, how much wheat did the United States export?" Smart answer: "In 1492, none."

Me: I taught my dog to play chess. Friend: He must be very smart? Me: Not really, I beat him two games out of three.

George was going up to bed when his wife told him that he'd left the light on in the garden shed, which she could see from the bedroom window. George opened the back door to go turn off the light but saw that there were people in the shed stealing things. He phoned the police, who asked "Is...

Sam: Do you know the difference between a guest towel and toilet paper? Bob: No... Sam: In that case, don't use our bathroom.

Loxley Lozenge -

Interestingly somebody I know commented that the trains in southern Spain are not slowing down for the heat! ~ we do not plan for extremes it seems.

Yes silver thrupenny bits had ceased to be minted and modern 'silver' coinage had a nickel content which is not too good for cooking! Which is why foil (probably aluminium) would be used to cover anything else such as the newer thrupenny bits with twelve sides as they had quite a high nickel...