Lost in Words

Just one of the dumb things that I did at school, when I was a lad. From Son of My Father. I remember the headmaster because of the one tim...

  1)  A cost of living crisis would happen every few years.  Money was tight, inflation was often high, and austerity was the norm for man...

  1) We would often have sugar sandwiches for tea, usually because we had run out of jam — or money to buy jam. White bread, margarine, an...

The big box in the corner. That’s what our first televsion was called. It's the early 1960s, and I have a memory of a rather big box tha...

When I was a young boy, my mother set me a challenge. It was during the long school holiday one year, and she was hoping to keep me busy and...

I was on Twitter X the other day, when I came across a post about the comics that were a big part of life for children back in the 1970s. Th...

1) You ate sugar sandwiches, because jam was not available. 2) You had an aunt who would cut your hair. 3) The local library was the interne...

When I was a lad, I would wonder why Boxing Day was called Boxing Day?  No one in my family had an answer to it.  I came to what I thought w...

My first job, other than doing errands and helping out at home for pocket money, was a paper round. That's not me in the picture, but I ...

Amazingly, this is my most viewed tweet on Twitter X in 2023 and for a brief period, a few weeks after posting, it was trending.  It has 720...

Back in the 1960s and 70s, every house in Britain had one (at least) of these.  The tin rubbish bin. This was long before recycling and diff...

I had a friend at school by the name of Colin. Although we were the same age, he was quite tall and a lot bigger than me. I suspect that be...

From Son of My Father, a further extract. I played for the school football team, but it almost didn't happen. We played on a Council r...

I’m in the back seat of a car parked down the road from a pub. This pub was in the city, but some way from home. It was the pub where, acc...