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Good on you for standing up to the resident comedians on here. It's going to cost a lot to put new locks on the car plus a new ignition barrel with a new and different transponder code (the microchip in the key that 'talks' to the dashboard....sorry if I'm teaching you how to suck eggs here...

I still gag when remembering the scene in Spartacus between Laurence Olivier playing the Roman centurion and Tony Curtis as the bath house slave where Larry says 'do you prefer snails or oysters?......I prefer both snails and oysters....' Don't reach down for the imperial leather Tony!

In answer to the original post isn't it all about risk to the insurer? It can't be much different to a motor policy where if you have speeding fines and points or previous crashes they class it as risk and increase the premium. Glad you are on the mend bud. Best wishes.

Peter Waterman was illiterate as a young man. Loads of bluster and confidence but he couldn't read or write.

Commissar Corbyn

I wish I'd never got rid of my Scalextric

Quite true and a good point. I enjoyed listening to Radio Moscow on my shortwave radio in the 80's (more for laughing at the banal tripe they churned out) and lo and behold there was Scargill being interviewed about his revolutionary principles. This man of 'principles' had a brand new Jag...

One of my many agency jobs whilst a student on holidays I worked at a small engineering company in Melbourne, Derbyshire. Some really beautiful engineering going on. Skilled work. Parts for South African artillery pieces going via Tanzania (the back door to South Africa avoiding the sanctions at...

All this talk of the coal industry as it was has reminded me of the other nationalised industries. British Rail was a den of thieves. An example was the Carriage and Wagon Works and the Loco Works in Derby. Brand new aluminium sheeting would arrive at the works at 8 am and by midday it was down...

Good point I'd forgotten about the sugar shortages. When we cleared my grandmothers council house when she went into a home there were a dozen bags of rock hard sugar right at the back of the pantry that had been there for years. Like concrete. The Govt said 'don't panic but there's a shortage...

I worked in the coal industry briefly as a young man. Some of the old sweats told me about Scargill. A classic thug and bully boy. He always had a crew of big hard goons around him. When the miners came off their shift and were in the showers one goon would put a ballot paper on the changing...

Does that include The Bay City Rollers? I like to remind my sister occasionally of her wearing a tartan scarf around her wrist and getting my mother to sew a tartan band on the bottoms of the legs of her flared jeans. She cringes about it. Then there's Prog Rock. I remember the sixth form...

I agree Soap was a good comedy show. As I recall it was on tv on friday evenings followed by WKRP in Cincinatti.

Bilko was excellent. In the 80's I used to watch WKRP in Cincinatti. I didn't know anyone else that watched it but it made me laugh.

Daphne's cod-Manchester accent was so bad. John Mahoney was originally from Manchester (UK) and I often wondered if that's where the tv show got the Manchester connection from. His older sister was a GI bride and sponsored him when he was 18 to emigrate to America. He got two degrees from...

Sturgeon is a bloke in drag. Mean right hook.

There used to be a great butcher in Derby called Mr. Goodall. He made his own black puddings, savoury duck, pasties etc. The queue out of his shop on Ashbourne Road on a saturday morning stretched round the corner. I've never had savoury duck like it since. He died donkeys years ago.

I was watching some of these brain dead tracksuit wearing dope smokers on my cctv last night walking past my house.

It was years old but worked great. I remember tuning into Radio Bern on the short wave band and listening to the Bern Cathedral bells ringing at noon. To a small boy who'd never been very far it was magical to hear bells ringing in Switzerland. The world was a much bigger place then.

I'm one of us who can remember how bad things got in the 70's. Power stations on strike so folk were using candles to light their houses (you couldn't buy a Tilley type camping light or paraffin lantern for love nor money they sold out completely). So candles were causing house fires which burnt...