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When we moved just over a year ago there was a small shop at the end of our road - mostly an off licence - but they had some basic food items. Walking distance (for me), rather then the Co-op the other end of the village. We nicknamed it the 'inconvenience store' as it was tiny, cramped, and...

Also, in series 8, "Enter The Phantom" (before Wesley became a regular) Foggy was fixing up a motorbike for Compo to impress Nora with, in a garage/workshop in a terrace of houses ...

Fifi (dog or girlfriend)

Is that better or worse than having a Travis?

they cheated - only a few keys worked so they didn't get them stuck together!

Its an age-old music hall clown trip trick

oooh, oh, me, me sir!

Something a bit different for me ... I was invited to talk on Tom Kwei's excellent podcast 'Blurtin' Mrs Merton', to talk about an episode of Caroline Ahern's spoof chat show, The Mrs. Merton Show. You can hear the podcast here: Blurtin' Mrs Merton #7 w/Upstaged by a Dog

If the YouTube channel is monetised, the channel owner decides whether to have 'mid-roll' adverts or not. They can choose where to place them. However, YT has introduced 'AI' Ad placement by default - you have to disable it on each video if you want to choose your own ad breaks. Existing videos...

probably, this one: (apologies in advance if there's any swearing!)

There is one episode where Nora and Compo are both in the same shot, when she is looking up at his window. You'll have to watch my Location Trivia video to see where Compo's bedroom window really was!

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It's not in FotSW... I have 'shazammed' every episode!

We had one in the mid-to-late-1970s. I only vaguely remember when as I know we we moved in or a bit before 1973. It was nothing like Aunties shop van, just an ordinary Bedford panel van, I guess it had a side door - but I do remember the back doors opening and it almost resembled A-A-Arkwright's...

Oh! What a disappointment - it's wasn't "a hilarious name" ... but it does have the following wording on the side of the driver's cab: "Fish & Chip Saloon". 'Saloon'? That's not the first word I'd associate with a chippy - and - the van isn't an 'eat in' affair, so ....?

they look like flies on the windscreen! The choppers from Turweston didn't fly over us unless they had to re-route due to crowding, there's another airfield at Hinton in the Hedges a few miles to the west (left)

I lived in a small town called Brackley near Silverstone for 17 years. During the first part of that time every year when the British Grand Prix was on, just 6 miles down the road, the main road through town and town centre came to a standstill. Clogged with cars looking for a place to stop...

just look at her postmark!

will have to wait till next Monday!