Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)

@Sean Arkless - I had a search on the Facebook 'Public Group' - Morpeth History Matters and used the search facility to look for posting containing the words 'Bertha Burns' They may not be of any help to you but these are the images that my search returned :-

@Vic Patterson - I checked on the Facebook group - Morpeth History Matters. The group is a 'Public group' so non members can view the content and use the search facility. Bertha Bunrs was on Bridge Street, next door to Smails.

1. Who was the first American to orbit the earth? Answer = John Glenn - February 20, 1962 John Glenn became the first American to orbit Earth. From Cape Canaveral, Florida, John Hershel Glenn Jr. was successfully launched into space aboard the Friendship 7 spacecraft. 2. Who was the ‘fastest mouse in all Mexico’? Answer = Speedy Gonzales Speedy Gonzales was fast enough to travel a 30 meter run in about 3 seconds. That's 22.3694 MPH. 3. With which branch of medicine is Mesmer associated? Answer = Hypnotism 1968 – I was hypnotised, on stage, at the Domino night club but I can’t remember the name of the guy – David ?????? 4. What colour is a moonstone? Answer = Adularescence OR a wide range of body colours = white, grey, brown, pink, orange, green, yellow and colourless. 5. Which Irish county is Blarney in? Answer = Cork Did you know that after you do kiss the Blarney Stone, also referred to as the Stone of Eloquence, legend has it you will be bestowed with the gift of gab? People have been visiting Blarney for over 200 years to kiss the Blarney Stone. 6. What do deltiologists collect? Answer = postcards = sadness + stamps 7. What type of tree is a Pirus Malus? Answer = deciduous ( apple ) 8. What is a labret? Answer = stud 9. A pearl wedding celebrates how many years of marriage? Answer = 30 10. In which town do the Flintstones live? Answer = Bedrock 11. Which football player advertised Brut in the 1980s? Answer = Kevin Keegan – alongside Henry Cooper. 12. If B is Bravo and N is November, what is S? Answer = Sierra I’ll bet you didn’t know …. The custom of carrying a flaming torch from Athens to the site of the Olympic Games was started by Adolf Hitler in 1936. I didn’t. The Olympic flame was introduced to the modern Games in 1928 when it burnt atop a pillar above the stadium in Amsterdam. Four years later the same was repeated in Los Angeles. At both of these events the flame was lit on site at the stadium. Carl Diem devised the idea of the torch relay for the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin that was organized by the Nazi Party under the guidance of Joseph Goebbels. The process was ratified by the International Olympic Committee and has been repeated at all the Games that have followed.

@Sean Arkless - you may struggle to get an answer from the three members you messaged. There hasn't been a lot of activity within the group over the last year or more. When you click/select a member's Id the system shows you info on that members activity within the group. I selected the three members you 'messaged' and this extract, from each members activity, shows the last time each member visited = logged into - the group.

We have had to go the opposite = no modern machinery = astro turf and gravel. I can't manage any gardening and Mrs Eggy, Jacquie, who had never gardened before we moved into this bungalow, now has to tend to some small borders but unfortunately she refuses to wear her specs when gardening and what she plants one week gets removed whilst weeding a fortnight later☺️

@Vic Patterson - you will have to blame me 🙂. As the world was coming out of 'Lock-down' I suggested that Canny Lass had a rest from quizzing, after the last one, and returned to tending to her expansive landscape - rather than staying indoors searching the www, and her memory, to keep us occupied on a Friday night.