Thank you for all your good wishes

DiamondLil

annieb64 said:

I live in east Kent. It has been fairly sunny but the wind is very cold. Where were you staying DiamondLil?

I stayed in Broadstairs visiting family; we have strong family connections to that part of Kent and visit often. I'm told the wind was coming from the north instead of the usual south west which is the reason for it being so cold.

It always feels like coming home once I cross the Medway. Not sure why as I've never actually lived there myself.

DiamondLil

London_1 said:

My friend in America says us Brits are obsessed with the weather, and I think we probably are, as I bet most people will remark at some point about it during their day .

A long time ago someone told me we are obsessed with the weather because during WW2 there were no weather reports at all.

So once weather reporting resumed, we were all glued to the wireless (remember that ?)  at every opportunity.

carolbee

I am about three miles from Margate and it’s so windy here!

annieb64

I'm near Sandwich and it's still windy.

DiamondLil

I love Sandwich and Margate - used to take the children to both to show them my old haunts. As well as Ramsgate and Broadstairs. I have a few "antiques" from Margate bought when the Old Town was truly old. Also a complete set of Beatles E.P. s and (ahem !) a few  vinyl records.

London_1

DiamondLil, gosh my children and grandchildren think its hoot because I still call it the wireless, but as we never had tv in my house until 1962 the wireless was what it was. Dunno why as my late Mums wireless was full of valves and certainly had a wire trailing down behind it. It was a wedding present in 1935 from her colleagues at work in Glasgow.She polished it daily until her death in Dec 1963 and as children we were threatened with dire retribution if we 'fiddled about with the tuning dial on the front'

It survive WW2 even when she had been bombed out twice in the east end of London. Apart from my Father and her children it was her prized possession. It had a big sunburst on the front of it round where the speaker was, and the tuning dial underneath , and the wooden cabinet surround gleamed with her efforts.
As a little girl I was fascinated to know where Hilversum was and longed to turn the dial to it, but daren't or she would have been so cross. Turns out I think its in Holland  

It had lots of far flung places on the dial ,but I bet it couldn't pick them up even after she died I wouldn't turn the dial to find out. But by then I had a little transistor one so wasn't that bothered as I could get Radio Luxembourg on mine which had all the top records on.Where as my Mums seemed to have only the Light programme and the Home service or the Third programme in english.

JackieO xx

tooldle

Wireless refers to the transmission (radio waves) and not to the apparatus receiving the signal. 

We always called our radio set ‘the wireless’ when I lived at home (moved out in late 80’s).

jaybee

. . . . . and films were always called 'the flicks' and going to the cinema was 'going to the pictures'. Showing my age!!!

bouicca21

And we had railway stations rather than train stations.

Katiehound

bouicca21 said:

And we had railway stations rather than train stations.

or we just talked about 'the station' because there wasn't a bus station!! you automatically meant it was for trains!!
(or the name of the station such as I am going to Victoria or London Bridge- of course you meant the station but you didn't have to say so!!)