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I went from working in local government where I was paid peanuts for working a five and a half day week and only ten days leave a year to train as a teacher. As a mature student, I got a grant which enough to pay a small mortgage which was handy as our first son was born then. We didn't lack for...

Where did you get the pen?

Did he cook your breakfast too?

When I worked in the Bahamas the mosquitoes no longer bothered me after the first few weeks. It may be that I had built up a natural resistance as has been suggested above. But it may be because I took a local's advice and ate a lot of garlic: don't know about mosquitoes but it works on humans.

So what's French for lacking a sense of humour?

Stay on deck in the fresh air as much as possible. Keep your mind off being sick. Remember that mal de mer is just French for I'm sick of my mother.

Land of my greatgrandfathers!

No-one in Venice for the wedding?

Sanction

Mellors

Unused

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Beautiful photo. Deceptively simple image showing an imaginative eye. Worthy winner.

Soon you'll be able to transition from hip op to HipHop.

Pair of hares in their usual field. Today we'd obviously disturbed them at something intimate to judge from the dirty looks they gave us. They are used to us and clearly realised we were not a threat and ambled into the copse from the field edge. They didn't see our local red kite circling over...

When I started camping 75 years ago we had to make do with wool blankets made up into sleeping bags using blanket pins which were oversized safety pins. They were bulky, heavy and itchy. I was so pleased when we could afford proper down filled sleeping bags: never used a wool blanket since. I...

I photocopy the bits I want for the trip on A4 sheets and put in map case.

This thread makes me realise how much things have changed over my lifetime. My earliest memories date from when I lived in a village store of which my mother was the manageress. It being wartime, many things were rationed. Nothing was pre-wrapped and goods were usually put straight into...

We are both right handed. The elder of our two sons is left handed the younger is right handed. No other family members are left handed. This would suggest that handedness is neither genetically nor socially acquired. There are, however, variations in dominant eyes within our families. I wonder...

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