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Meat pie; plum crumble; Christmas pud; roast lamb; the Pecan Cafe in The Land of Green Ginger.. like scenes from the later life of Blyton's Julian or Dick.
Frank F | 08.11.25 - 7:27 a.m. | #
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Ah yes Sunday 8th Nov 1998. I was in the passenger seat of said small hatchback with a piece of string around the neck of the cuddly alsation hoping it wasn't about to take a lump our of my shoulder. It was a very long 5 miles and the memory of slobber remains...
MRBW | 08.11.25 - 7:35 a.m. | #
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What's happened to the text on the site, its really small and if I try to expand the page I can't view it properly
Rachel | 08.11.25 - 8:58 a.m. | #
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Tomorrow's Remembrance Sunday silence (where I am at least) will be pretty much exactly 2 minutes long because I'll be marking its start and end by chiming a bell, and I can use a stopwatch.
Andrew S | 08.11.25 - 9:19 a.m. | #
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So in 1975 we did exactly the same thing, while in 1980 I did half of what you did.
I'm sure you can see the common thread between the two, which would also hold for many possible Saturdays in the 1970s.
Steve
Steve Conway | 08.11.25 - 9:27 a.m. | #
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I was fitted with glasses at the age of four (almost perfect vision in one eye and effectively blind in the other). I wore them until I went to grammar school. Then practically gave up wearing them until age 32 when I thought it would be better to go to the NHS for a new pair before going out to Bahrain to work there. Mistake, it would have been cheaper in Bahrain.
Mike Roberts | 08.11.25 - 9:28 a.m. | #
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I used to always used to crash while trying to dock at the space station in Elite. I play it's modern day descendent Elite Dangerous, much easier to dock in that.
Neil | 08.11.25 - 11:46 a.m. | #
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(1992) My son was the barman (only room for one) at the St Rad's, though after you visited. It's recently been refurbished and said to be much improved.
Peter (of Cambridge) | 08.11.25 - 12:22 p.m. | #
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Remember, remember the 8th of November
Bonfire party and dog!
Cornish Cockney | 08.11.25 - 2:49 p.m. | #
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Land of Green Ginger: possibly the best street name in the whole of the UK.
Man of Kent | 08.11.25 - 4:49 p.m. | #
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I saw the date. I knew what was coming. How is that 27 years ago?
Blue Witch | 08.11.25 - 6:59 p.m. | #
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I wished my lovely mum a very happy birthday on each of those dates and also today, Happy 90th Mum!
Anyoldname | 08.11.25 - 7:39 p.m. | #
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1977: I had you down as a contact lens man, even if only later on.
sheepdog | 08.11.25 - 9:02 p.m. | #
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The Land of Green Ginger was used as the name of a book, an (unofficial) sequel to Aladdin.
It was read on Jackanory by Kenneth Williams, and was in turn sampled by The Orb for their song ‘The Land of Green Ginger’.
The phrase a portable back garden really caught my ear…
There are two versions of the book apparently, the one read by Kenneth Williams the first one is appears to be the Aladdin themed sequel, the second one being a travelogue.
Yes, in my search as to where the name came from Hull seemed to be the source.
zeristor | 09.11.25 - 12:01 p.m. | #
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Re 8.11.88, my favourite was 13.7.91 as the factors are prime. My wife tells me it's also our wedding day. I'll take her word for it.
Alex | 09.11.25 - 6:05 p.m. | #
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