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Love all kinds of music except rap. Such inanely juvenile lyrics and laughable posturing - it's the low point in popular music and I pity the generation that has that to look back on as the background to their youth. Agree with Town Called Malice - it's just too jangly.

Also carol singing, penny for the guying, and bob-a-job week but obviously all seasonal. Collecting Corona bottles for the deposit was a good little earner.

Never had a paper round but was always scheming with mates to earn a few pennies. Tried selling eggs door to door, potato picking (back-breaking work for £1 - loads of us kids picked up in the back of a lorry outside Bell Green Precinct), collecting newspaper - had to get a ton I seem to...

Prince Charles

Superbly acted and gripping to the end. The little girl was heart-breaking. Good as any Scandi drama.

Several things about detective dramas on TV: If there's a famous or well-known actor then they probably play a significant part in the crime - was watching one recently and a famous actor was the barman so I said to the family - he did it as he can't be in it just to play a barman. Sure enough...

To the detriment of others is an interesting one as we could argue that mutilating the sexual organ of a male infant might be detrimental, poisoning young minds with nonsense and denying them access to other points of view might be detrimental. Religion gets special dispensation to label...

Yes Otis it's a sad state of affairs, my late father-in-law found a little girl crying and lost in a department store. He took her by the hand and led her to a till so they could tannoy the parents. I couldn't help thinking - would I have done that? Just imagine being apprehended by an angry...

Enjoyed my roaming free childhood and pretty much identical to most of the posts on here - street games, footy till dark, making swings from trees, battles with kids from other areas, walking to Bulkington to squash pennies on the train track, making trolleys for racing, pimping our bikes with...

Are you sure? Would you really ask for a ham tea cake?

What does it mean?

All this talk of jetties -seems weird for the most landlocked city in England. I'll have to ask my parents about this.

Thanks Yoda

No but it's an explanation about you.

Yes definitely mushy peas as the gourmet option - the chef always used to ask which side or batch slapped. Never went to Mr Porky so defo The Parson's Nose

There must have been hundreds and thousands at his funeral.

Can remember getting a faggot batch from The Parson's Nose.

Yup all the kids would ask for a d di when they heard the chimes. Are D Di still going?

The 'I'll go to Stoke!' always puzzles me, why Stoke? I suppose it's a bit similar to the Yorkshire, 'I'll go to the foot of our stairs!'

Passage and loke I've seen used in other regions - also useful for jokes I suppose about going up someone's back passage