Ah - the good old "BEEB" I get all the info, but rarely have the time to listen! They used to have a system with which you could re-play really OLD things, like "HHHHancock's Half Hour" or "Dads Army" etc... Must have a look in and see if it still exists! >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Email this to a friend | View Online Version | Schedules and frequencies | Documentary archive Welcome, Ian Mitchell to your weekly edition of the BBC World Service Email Network. Click here to listen to BBC World Service live Don't Miss Third Agers Exploring different customs and attitudes to being old in the world today. 2 March audio preview | details OTHER PROGRAMMES A-Z programme finder Times News | Arts | Documentaries | Business The View From Here BBC World Service prese...

I just saw a Series Called "Blackpool" on the TV, for the first time, and I didn't recognise anything, apart from an odd tram and the Eiffel Tower! The one-arm bandits looked familiar as well, but that was about it! One of the most difficult things in my own married life was to find time for Holidays, so when the opportunity arose, during contract breaks of 4 months, we profited as much as possible to find small "help-out" contracts. These contracts were found by the International Agency who took care of our other contracts world-wide, and were generally very useful.One of these fill-in contracts was the offer presented by "Pontin's" Holiday Camp, at Blackpool. We always had to decide very quickly on these fill-ins, because they were always as a result of somebody else either falling ill, being incompetent, or any of the other reasons for giving up a contract, and the employers were therefore always in a hurry! After a bit of here and there between...

Here is an amusing little article which concerns itself with Schools, a little later than in my own period. It includes an amusing little description of the great game of cricket, which I don't agree with! Just click on the link to read it! Slow Down Now: The almost serious antidote to workaholism - Little School

With the famous ashes starting today. and with the "Barmy Army" in place, I thought a few words about what I always appreciated in Cricket wouldn't come amiss! S o here they are! When I was an active player (which I was, for many years, at many levels, in many countries) the Barmy Army didn't exist. The charm of Cricket was made up of things which won't be present, or hearable in Australia . Already we tended to play at weekends, or on Bank Holidays, apart from the Army, where we got ourselves the time off, free of liabilities, like upset bosses! These matches, as in most Village cricket, even in the London area, were played mainly on Village greens, or at private c lubs, complete with the pavillion and the bar! The nicest sounds, after the chinking of ice cubes into the gin and tonic glasses, I recall, was the solid "plunk" of what has been described as leather hitting willow. The "chink" of a bail (or both) coming off the stumps was also ...