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Blimey savoury duck that's a blast from the past. The only dish with duck in the name but no duck in it. Comprising the floor sweepings from the abattoir mixed with lard. Utterly delicious. How I've never had a coronary from eating that regularly as a poor kid.

A Ferranti valve radio

I briefly dated a Spanish girl many years ago. She had the biggest, hairiest beaver I'd ever seen. Like a dinner plate.

Yes the polar bear had sunglasses on

Yes my old mum had New World gas stove when I was a kid. Not sure what precise model it was as she got rid of it in 1983 when she married my step dad but the model in the photo looks very similar. I remember the side plate racks well. The drawer at the bottom for baking trays, Yorkshire pudding...

Hope he doesn't come a cropper on the slopes. I've lost count of the number of people I've known in my lifetime come home with busted shoulder blades, thumb snapped right back, broken legs etc. Then there's Schumacher poor fellow. He had it all. Rich, powerful, women fell at his feet....then he...

I have just knocked smoking on the head. I feel a lot better for it and can taste food more.

My ex-wifes brother (a very blonde lad with long hair) visited Morocco whilst backpacking around the world. He spent 24 hours in Morocco trying to evade hordes of local men of all ages wanting to stroke his hair and propositioning him for a vigorous game of leapfrog. It's always put me off...

I used to run the National Lottery syndicate at my place of work years ago. Collecting the subs was always the most difficult with those that earned the most and had the newest cars. One bloke in particular was so irksome when it came to fishing a couple of quid out of his pocket we threw him...

Spangles, Opal Fruits, Cadbury's Bar Six, Marathon bars and Ski yoghurts.

It was 1979 we got our first colour tv (rented). I remember the day well when they delivered it. The old Sobell black and white valve job had died before then and we had a Pye black and white which got relegated to the kitchen when we got the rented Bush colour telly. I used to sneak downstairs...

I drove 75 miles down the M1 this lunchtime. I'd been to Leeds to visit my son last night and came back to the Midlands today. Torrential rain and gibbering muppets tailgating each other. By the way what a great town Leeds is (to any Leeds folk reading this). Smashing people and brilliant pubs.

Her business to do what she wants. Her family might be a tight bunch. Maybe they scrounge off her all year round. Me and the squaw are going to one of her daughters for Crimbo day. We offered to give her some money towards the food but she said no. She's partial to a spot of rose so I'll be...

Received pronunciation (aka the Queens English) grates on me. Can't stand to listen to it. A hat and a standard lamp becomes a 'het end a stendard lemp' etc. Basically a German accent as befitting those pampered sauerkrauts. One day Charlie will be held to account for his crime. Diana's death...

Having a private reg plate is the height of pikeyness.

Re: all the comments about Edinburgh I much prefer Glasgow. Friendlier people, cheaper by a long way, you can always get a table in a restaurant and it's not frequented by the tweed jacket/ waistcoat/ corduroy trousers/ hand tooled brogues crowd.

I saw on old L reg Cavalier at the weekend with a big bore exhaust on its back end. The driver was driving the old crate like it was a Lambo. I bet the exhaust is worth more than the car.

Me and the squaw were in London in January this year for a few days to see a couple of West End shows (the ticket prices are halved just after Crimbo). We usually stay in a tourist hotel in Pimlico on Belgrave Road. Not a particularly expensive hotel and it's clean. Doesn't do food but there's a...

I thought I'd died and gone to heaven when my mum rented a colour tv from Coop Electrical. It was a Bush. No remote control back then but oh joy watching football and snooker in colour!

No heating of any kind. A candlewick bedspread and an eiderdown that pinned me flat to the bed it was so heavy. I did have wallpaper with Hillman Imp rally cars on though.