Actually, I think they were zephyrs and not zays, had a shiny trim down both sides
Mine are just black boxes. Two way, but were the best things Iâd heard at the time and what got me on the hifi roller coaster.
Damn you tree-ongle!
Short work by Tavistock golf course, and Tescos, bit misty out
When I was a kid, in my first couple of years at primary school, I was taught to read and write using a phonetic spelling alphabet system called ITA.
This had some disadvantages, as I discovered when it transpired that âSunday Worshipâ on the telly was not a weekend version of the 70s Royal Navy drama âWarshipâ
I assume you were taught the same system and are having a flashback.
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I do seem to be writing certain words wrong a lot lately
Get it checked out, not joking.
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Where Mrs VBâs from (Northmbrlnd) those words sound the same as they do down here, but they mean the other thing. Thereâs even a joke about a miner whoâs injured his foot and goes to see his GP. The medic says not to worry, heâll be walking again in no time, and the miner replies with the punchline âWalk ? Walk !? Man, I can hardly work.â.
Iâll get me Kurt.
VB
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I had the same done to me, and when I changed schools it really messed up my spelling and handwriting. Didnât help the primary school I went to was doing joined up writing already. Fuck it was hard to try and copy off the blackboard both the words and the style of the letters.
Pitman I think was involved in its invention.
Youâre from Oldham iirc, like me? That was one of the places it was tried out.
When we moved away my new school thought I had learning difficulties.
I still remember a couple of the books âRĂŚnbow PĂŚvmentâ and one about a kangaroo.
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Thats correct, I went to Limehurst in Limeside until 1975 when we moved to Middleton.
It would certainly make a interesting study to see what the difference between kids from Oldham and similar social/economic areas which didnât.
Funny enough did a Google streetmap walk of the area at the weekend and although the school and local shops have been rebuilt much of the area is very very similar 45 years later.
I went to St Thomasâ in Moorside. Just had a quick look, itâs still there and our old house on Stevenson Drive is too. Itâs a bit (a lot) shittier than I remember itâŚ
Thats not an area of Oldham I know I am afraid. I do occasionally travel through Lees when visiting my brother in Greenfield but thats it these days. To be honest once we left for Middleton we went to our grandparents in Hollins and to Oldham town centre but that was it. When I got older I did go to the pubs and to the Romeos and Julliets night club in the former Gaumont cinema. This back when doormen turned a blind eye to underage drinking. So much so that my 16th birthday night out had to be called my 19th as I had already been attending for a year.
Anyway I have very much drifted off topic.
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Considering buying a Parrot / parakeet or other mimic bird. This shit has made me laugh all day
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Some real anguish & soul in those interpretations. Be a shame to put it through autotune and make the parrot sound as bland and anodyne as most contestants on the Voice or Pop Idol.
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We have looked after a parrot a few times while the owner went on holiday. Wonderful creatures.
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Yeah, great.
Take a parrot that has a huge natural range in (more often than not) a rainforest and place it in a cage in a house.
Some have been illegally imported, some are endangered species and ALL of them are in a disgustingly alien habitat.
And donât give me any of that reared in captivity bullshit.
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Begrudgingly, agreed.
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ftfy
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