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I suppose if you understand it, it was a good game, all I saw was a load of bullies jumping on top of each other! I will stick with bowls!

Do you mean Bubbles as in obscure glass for bathroom windows, Ron, or the old fashioned Bullseye window panes which we see in old houses and shops? I love the latter, but have nowhere to put one.

There is politics and politics, Susan. What you are saying is fair comment as far as I can see. It spreads itself of all parties.

My husband, who worked on building sites way before cool bags and plastic wrap always had jam sandwiches which he dipped in his tea. This was because they would have been very dry by 'dinner' time.

We just got our gas bill. I worked it out that if I paid it off with my extra two pounds a week, it would only take three years to pay off.

Golly Dick, I got a rise of £2.00. What shall we spend it on? One cup of coffee perhaps. I could have bought 8 hot cross buns in Sainsburys.

Well you just make sure you treat him right. He is a nice old boy.

I once asked Tom, what had happened to Waldo. He said that Alan Bell thought he had had his day. Like every dog I suppose!

I started work in 1955. I worked in a shop which was similar to 'Grace Brothers' from 'Are You Being Served'. I was there five years and it was not always fun, but I learned how to talk to customers properly, this has served me well in later life. I can talk to anyone, high or low. So often now...

Categorized, is the word I was looking for this morning.

Our Norm, was a gentleman, and as such he would have found it hard to say no to any woman. This was how he came to be married in the first place. The classic line 'I asked for cream, but she converted me to custard' says it all really.

We are all seen in a bad light by some one. I hate the way we British are shown as posh talking dimwits in a lot of American TV shows. Columbo, and Bones, were classic. Any of you who have seen LOTSW know better. I live in the South of England, and I hate the way Northern shows portray us as...

If you visit a site called 'cottages4you' and look for the holiday places to rent in Yorkshire and then Holmfirth you will find pictures of Nora's house interior as it is now. My cousin stayed there in February and was not that impressed, but she has a cottage of her own to rent so she may have...

I think the expession Limeys came from the Limehouse area of London, I will look it up, and isn't there a song 'The Yanks Are Coming'. I myself am eternally grateful that they did.

Thanks for the tip, but we get them on 'Freeview'. We gave up our Sky subscription years ago, we can still get Free Sat through our box though. I refuse to pay for repeat after repeat.

Especially if she folds her arms and taps her feet.

I knew I had spelt it wrongly as soon as I hit the send button, but I hoped no one would notice!

A lot of Where the Heart Is was filmed in the Colne Valley. Slaightwaight was used a lot, and also Marsden. The pub they used called The Green Man, as I remember, is actually 'The Silent Woman'. Not too many of those about. And I mean pubs gentlemen!

It is not only GOLD either. We get old episodes on the Yesterday chanel every afternoon and three on Sunday