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Santa’s Secrets
There's a shop in York which sells soap. It's called the Yorkshire Soap Company, strangely...
Is Autumn all that?
Remember when bees were all 'Argh! A Bee' and you used to run around, doing...
Gadgets of the 1980s (Part 2)
Calculator watch Remember when teachers told you that you needed to learn mental arithmetic because...
Service charges, politeness tax and unwelcome sausages
Imagine you're in Asda and you've got your little basket with a mega pack of...
The Best and Worst Toys of the 1980s (Part 2)
Etch-A-Sketch This was the precursor to the Laptop. A Laptop that could only run Microsoft...
The best and worst of School in the 1980s
School in the 1980s School in the 1980s was great. It was just after corporal...
Click Bait
The fact we're all desensitised to everything these days and nothing seems implausible, journalists have...
The top 10 best TV Theme Tunes of the 80s
In the 80s, there were two things that had my full attention. The music chart...
It’s Christmas, but it’s not Christmas
It's Christmas, but it's not Christmas Every year I trawl the shops looking for stuff...
The best and worst of 80s Food (Part 2)
Curly Wurly Curly Wurlies are a kind of chocolate trellis up which you can train...
The Ballad of Michael Collins (the NASA one!)
Something has bothered me since 1969. It was six years before I was born but...
