Itsy bitsy spider?

[Barman]

When RJH was living with BF and I for a bit I came home from work one evening to find him huddled on the sofa staring at the wall. HUGE spider! We put a glass on it and hate to wait for BF to come home and sort it out. We were both to afraid to move. 

BF has some skills then? 



Well at least one?

[Misunderstood]

We are on the fringe of the Sky satellite (a geostationary satellite I’ll have you know) footprint so you need a huge dish (between 2.7m and 4.2m depending on which end of the island you are on) to get a signal at all…

You have a 4.2 metre dish on your ROOF? 

Do you perchance sail over to Tartus when the wind is right?

[Barman]

We are on the fringe of the Sky satellite (a geostationary satellite I’ll have you know) footprint so you need a huge dish (between 2.7m and 4.2m depending on which end of the island you are on) to get a signal at all…

You have a 4.2 metre dish on your ROOF? 

Do you perchance sail over to Tartus when the wind is right?

No, ours is a mere 2.7m in diameter but we're (I'm  ) thinking of upgrading to a 3m to improve reception... 

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[Nick]

I got to thinking about the "old threads"

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[Snoopy]

You are Leslie Welsh and I demand my ?5

[Nick]

Who is? We had a thread about that dish too. Shall I go and fetch it?

[Snoopy]

Who is? We had a thread about that dish too. Shall I go and fetch it?

Leslie Welsh was known as "The Memory Man" ~ An old Music Hall act who later appeared on Radio and TV answering questions from the audience designed to test his memory.

    TAKE IT FROM HERE

There are a couple of post-war radio series that can be said to have shaped comedy and this is certainly one of them. Written by Denis Norden and the late Frank Muir, this show first aired in 1948 and ran for 13 seasons. It was different in its outlook to shows like ITMA and was completely post war in its attitudes, acknowledging more than a passing nod that the audience was both intelligent and with some level of literacy. The style of the show was more akin to that of revue, and showed influences of the American style of radio comedy.

It is probably wiser to start with a show before TIFH, Navy Mixture, which ran for 25 editions from the 5th July, 1947. This show was one in the variety vein, with comedy, music and novelty, all introduced by the young Australian radio prodigy, Joy Nicholls. Featuring 'Professor' Jimmy Edwards (an odd association considering that Edwards, complete with handle-bar moustache, spent the war serving in the RAF), Vic Oliver, a regular on Hi Gang!, Leslie Welsh (a memory man) and The Song Pedlars. Edwards' regular spot, a sort of light hearted lecture, was written by Frank Muir, and a guest on one show, Dick Bentley (incidentally another Australian) performed material penned by Denis Norden. It was the producer Charles Maxwell who joined Muir and Norden, after the end of the series, to plan another vehicle for Nicholls, Bentley and Edwards, this was to be Take it From Here.

[Nick]

Oh, like in the 39 Steps.

[Snoopy]

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