Canny lass

...getting back to basics, I swear that when I looked at the weather 30 seconds ago it said "Smoke" and there was a symbol to match. Was it really there or should I take more water with the whisky?

... plastered and forgot the words perhaps?

Thanks Eggy!

I remember this phrase from the 'wireless' and I remember that it was Wilfred Pickles who said it but which programme was it? Reply quickly and save my sanity!

... and a very merry Christmas to everyone from me too!

Well, I was going to ask for two but ....

So do I, Pilgrim, so do I. Last year I asked for one of those Oykos buttons to put on the arm of the sofa to be able to summon nubile, lightly clothed, bronzed, young men with feather dusters and pots of yoghurt. The nearest i got was a new duster.

Are you any relation to Hiawatha?

I want one for Christmas!!!!

Thank heavens for that. It didn't go at all well with my wallpaper!

It did it again! I can't have pink! I'm strictly purple!

Why did my screen turn pink when i wrote that?

I think it's the crown of Santa Lucia.

Well worth the wait!! That's a BIG like from me.

Nick away bonny lad. You never miss what a friend has!

If she'd be in her fifties now then she couldn't have been very old at the time i have in mind - the fifties. I know Olive lived at number 2 then, because I visited with a relative a couple of times. Bob and Esther didn't have any children then. I don't think they ever had any and I think that's why they loved the colliery 'bairns' as much as they did. They werea really nice couple. Bob had several brothers and sisters. It may have been one of their children who visited Olive. I don't think Olive ever married and she had no children of her own. Not 100% certain on that though.

You must have ours, Vic! It came. It went. It never came back! Christmas is not the same without snow. They are frantically saving the 'scrape' from the ice rinks to use for skiing here.

That would be Olive Rochester, sister of Bob Rochester who was married to Esther who ran the 'shop' in the small green hut at Netherton Colliery. Olive helped out in the shop at odd times when Esther needed a day off. Nice woman but not as generous as Esther when weighing up sweets. Threepence went a lot further with Esther at the scales.

One or two things to think about when you're sitting around, unable to move, after the Xmas dinner (quotes of Stephen Wright): 1 - I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize. 2 - Borrow money from pessimists -- they don't expect it back. 3 - Half the people you know are below average. 4 - 99% of lawyers give the rest a bad name. 5 - 82.7% of all statistics are made up on the spot. 6 - A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good. 7 - A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory. 8 - If you want the rainbow, you got to put up with the rain. 9 - All those who believe in psycho kinesis, raise my hand. 10 - The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese. 11 - I almost had a psychic girlfriend, ..... But she left me before we met. 12 - OK, so what's the speed of dark? 13 - How do you tell when you're out of invisible ink? 14 - If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something. 15 - Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm. 16 - When everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane. 17 - Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy. 18 - Hard work pays off in the future; laziness pays off now. 19 - I intend to live forever ... So far, so good. 20 - If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends? 21 - Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines. 22 - What happens if you get scared half to death twice? 23 - My mechanic told me, "I couldn't repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder." 24 - Why do psychics have to ask you for your name 25 - If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried. 26 - A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking. 27 - Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it. 28 - The hardness of the butter is proportional to the softness of the bread. 29 - To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research. 30 - The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard. 31 - The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to catch up. 32 - The colder the x-ray table, the more of your body is required to be on it. 33 - Everyone has a photographic memory; some just don't have film. 34 - If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you. 35 - If your car could travel at the speed of light, would your headlights work?

There's another Fenwick Redpath, born 1886. Father, Hugh Redpath, mother Margaret (born Chorley , Lancs). Living at Choppington New pit in 1901. Fenwick had, at that time, 5 brothers and sisters: John, William, Elizabeth, Hugh and Frederick. Could that be the Fenwick you are looking for?

Would he have been born in or around 1904 at Choppington Station?

... must get new specs as well!

Has the big switch on happened? The tree appears to be completely dead when I look at it on 'Live'.

What's the difference between the birth of Jesus and the formation of Trump's advisory team? Infinitely more wise men appear at one of them.

Always good to have an 'insider's' view HPW. I watched that programme too but didn't think of any of those things you just told us.