I do love Christmas, always have. I don't ever go over the top spending, this is why I start so early and collect over the year. I am trying to get my family to do a 'Secret Santa' this year now that the grandchildren are grown up. I do love to shop for the stocking fillers though, I sometimes...
If we go back to First of the Summer Wine he was employed by the Co-Op for a while. He would have paid an insurance stamp for a time, and he did also serve in the army so he would be entitiled to some benefits I suppose.
I have go a bit lost here. I do have the one pictured on casette somewhere in the house, but like a lot of other things it is hiding from me! If the item concerned is a Appretiation Society product, try asking Clive Eardley
I would have liked to see Henry Winkler as The Fonz. He did pantomime for quite a few years and enjoyed it so he would have fitted in just fine in one of the 'Ladies Entertainments'.
I read recently that he part wrote 'Educating Archie' which I listened to as a girl with my head pressed up against the radio/wireless if the batteries were flat. Watching my grandsons with their ears pressed up against their I-pods, things seem to have gone full circle.