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Slight tangent, bit as an MSc student my days entailed:
- wake up about 2pm in time to watch the Country Practice (2pm) - sit around drinking tea, chatting in the kitchen, eat - go out drinking (pint of mild for £1) - back for cell-block H and whatever - Bed mid morning
I had one lecture a week (2pm-4pm on a thursday). I didn't make it once.
The course was funded as a training course, so I basically got my room in halls of residence paid, claimed the dole plus extra £10 week training allowance, plus all sorts of other stuff I could claim (travel home, stationary, books I never bought etc)
I sometimes reflect how I've never been so well off since...
There used to be a women's programme called House Party or something similar. People would ring a doorbell and come on and talk about things like filleting haddock or knitting. Like Loose women but without the sex and drugs. Of course I may been sniffing the crinkly lucozade wrapper.
Also test/Gillette Cup cricket, the itv 7 and the TUC conference with Vic Feather and Joe Gormley and others that Mike Yarwood used to impersonate.
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Programs to watch in bed as a kid when pretending to be ill. on 16:38 - Sep 10 with 990 views
Programs to watch in bed as a kid when pretending to be ill. on 15:16 - Sep 10 by jontysnut
There used to be a women's programme called House Party or something similar. People would ring a doorbell and come on and talk about things like filleting haddock or knitting. Like Loose women but without the sex and drugs. Of course I may been sniffing the crinkly lucozade wrapper.
Also test/Gillette Cup cricket, the itv 7 and the TUC conference with Vic Feather and Joe Gormley and others that Mike Yarwood used to impersonate.
I obviously didn't read this thread fully. :)
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Programs to watch in bed as a kid when pretending to be ill. on 17:13 - Sep 10 with 961 views
Programs to watch in bed as a kid when pretending to be ill. on 18:01 - Sep 10 by Warkystache
Take the High Road, which was Scots and therefore you really had to concentrate to understand a word.
A Country Practice
Sons and Daughters
Whatever crap the Beeb served up on it's Schools programming. Remember Ticky Ticky Tox it's Maths in a Box and Words and Pictures.
Take the High Road reminded me of that Welsh soap Pobol Y Cym. No idea what was going on but it was something to watch - if only to spot English words with no Welsh equivalent, like Ronco Buttoneer or arc welding helmet.
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Programs to watch in bed as a kid when pretending to be ill. on 10:34 - Sep 10 by farkenhell
Showing my age now, but Going for Gold was essential viewing whilst at University. Alongside Neighbours with Des ("I luv yer Daf"), Daphne and Max ("yer flaming galarr"), Maria, Shane ("fair go Arny Madge") and Danny ("I luv yer Dad") Ramsay.
Blockbusters is in this category too but when Polytechnics were still a thing.
"They break our legs and tell us to be grateful when they offer us crutches."
Programs to watch in bed as a kid when pretending to be ill. on 14:52 - Sep 10 by norfsufblue
I was only ill when there was a test match on.... can't have been many kids bunking off to watch crickets
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I was caught in a maths lesson listening to a test match via headphones from a transistor radio with the headphone cable running up my sleeve. Mr Walker wasn't best pleased.
"They break our legs and tell us to be grateful when they offer us crutches."
Programs to watch in bed as a kid when pretending to be ill. on 14:52 - Sep 10 by norfsufblue
I was only ill when there was a test match on.... can't have been many kids bunking off to watch crickets
[Post edited 10 Sep 2024 18:59]
Friend of mine bunked off school at least once to watch a day of a Test Match on the telly and came into school the next day with a cricket score book in which he scored the entire day's play.