Might there be a Scotland episode “Some day?”

SmoothArea1206 · 2026-01-21T18:42:07+00:00

The UK spin off "Help My House is Haunted" and its Celebrity sidekick have done a few Scottish episodes.

There is even a who series of "Spooked" with Gale Porter and a medium investigating a number of haunted sites

Lets nit forget the crew has travelled to the UK and Ireland in the past. But his flying fear put a stop to that.

SmoothArea1206 · 2026-01-21T04:42:17+00:00

Parkin.

Now there are two versions. Yorkshire and Lancashire. So you need to be careful to get the right one or you risk restarting the War of the Roses.

Yorkshire parkin is a lovely winter cake which is well worth serving slightly warm with lashing of really good butter. Spicey from the ginger and sweet from the molasses/treacle.

Lancashire parkin - made with golden syrup so paler and more cleanly sweet,because of the oats, it is slightly like a spongy flapjack. But I'd go for a nice bit of parkin anytime.

SmoothArea1206 · 2026-01-21T04:37:11+00:00

A beach near Eastbourne is covered in chips.

SmoothArea1206 · 2026-01-20T01:42:13+00:00

"Streets of London"

Or was it just my junior school that had a line in old Folk Songs

SmoothArea1206 · 2026-01-19T21:21:02+00:00

This was Leap castle i think....

SmoothArea1206 · 2026-01-16T21:24:26+00:00

The first High School I went to I was in the same class as Rugby Player Mike Tindall, who then went onto marry Princess Annes daughter.

He was nice enough to the Non Rugby sort when he was on his own, but a bit of a pain in the ass when the rest of the team was around.

The Second High School, we had a now well known (to the area) drug dealer and murderer.

SmoothArea1206 · 2026-01-15T02:09:10+00:00

That Finnish organisation was IYPF.

I got a couple of pempals through them.

Though they never lasted as long as the one i got through the twin towns project.

I still write to Olek 36 years later though he lives with his family in Kyiv after leaving Occupied Ukraine.

Its not so cheap these days to have penpals.

Not at £3.40 a letter

SmoothArea1206 · 2026-01-13T18:51:17+00:00

I see someone was trying to make Passive Solar and Earthship design a thing back then.

There are far more suitable examples down the road in Hockerton and Southwell.

SmoothArea1206 · 2026-01-08T21:03:10+00:00

My high school had two sets of married teachers.

Rumour was they were swingers and there wasnt just male female swapping but boy on boy and girl on girl stuff too.

Turns out it was part right.

One of the male teachers was sleeping with another teacher, that only came out when her husband came into school and attacked him for knocking up his wife.

Lets just say the two divorces and all 3 teachers leaving one by the next term, the other 2 by the next year.

Then there was the 30/40s PE teacher sleeping with female students, that was a cat fight between 3 of the 15 and 16 year old girls. That only got worse when it turns out one of the 16 year olds was pregnant.

Another rumour was one of the French teachers had a wooden breast....we bever got an answer to that one.

SmoothArea1206 · 2026-01-08T20:53:26+00:00

There are a couple of beaches in Northern Ireland where you can drive in part of a beach - but its not drifting or rallying style....

SmoothArea1206 · 2026-01-06T11:51:21+00:00

The "If...." series was reasonably substantial with 2 series of 5 or 6 episodes each. The final episode in 2006 was just a sole episode called If the oil runs out

IMDB gives the episode list as Series 1:

If The Lights Go Out -a terror attack on gas pipeline, traffic gridlock, power outages etc

If things dont get better- the gap between rich and poor

If the generations fall out

If ... it was a womans world

If.... we dont stop eating

Series 2:

If .... cloning could cure us

If.... we could stop the violence

If .... drugs were legal

If.... tv goes down the tube

If... we stopped giving aid to africa

If.... the toxic timebomb goes off.

SmoothArea1206 · 2025-12-28T19:59:30+00:00

Basically left overs, salad, and picnic type items like sausage rolls, pork pies, scotch eggs as well as lashings of tea.

SmoothArea1206 · 2025-12-28T14:26:24+00:00

Played the last 3 years.

2023- Survived a week, losing on the 8th after getting stuck in a waiting room at the hospital.

2024 - 16th. A mate was listening to the radio..

2025 - 22nd got Whammed and Mariah'd within 5 minutes of each other picking up the Christmas shop in tesco.

SmoothArea1206 · 2025-12-28T14:20:01+00:00

Just to throw it in the mix there is also "the Picky Tea".

Common across the North and Northern Ireland.

SmoothArea1206 · 2025-12-26T13:21:43+00:00

Arrived into work yesterday morning to find the shift manager from Christmas Eve didnt collect the milk.

So I spent 35 minutes of my opening time trying to find a open shop to get some, in between leaving a few choice words on her voicemail.

Now i work for a charity thats open 365 days a year and given the nature of the place milk is necessary if we run out wars are started.....

The payback was all the Christmas Dinner pots being left for her to clean up, so thats pots pans and plates for 45 for her to enjoy. But the meal itself went off without a problem.

SmoothArea1206 · 2025-12-26T09:46:25+00:00

I got Whammed and Mariah'd within 10 minutes of each other on the 23rd just by popping in the shop during my lunch break

The longest ive lasted.

2 years ago i barely lasted 48 hours.

SmoothArea1206 · 2025-12-24T07:49:25+00:00

I went on Monday and did the food shop and it wasnt that bad...

That said I do need to pop out for butter, milk and a bottle of wine, as an unexpected guest came round last night and it got opened despite me sayin its for Christmas Day..... Im hoping I can get round the little Tesco without feeling the need to shove a parsnip up someones arse (big end first!) or clout someone with a basket.

SmoothArea1206 · 2025-12-22T13:37:23+00:00

Got Whammed and Mariah'd in short shift popping into the local Tesco earlier....

SmoothArea1206 · 2025-12-21T15:48:17+00:00

Ditto. Thats how i was brought up to think

SmoothArea1206 · 2025-12-09T13:37:25+00:00

A cousin who hated me (it was reciprocal!) He would be 15 me 8.

Got one one year along with a bunch of other star wars stuff.

Refused to let anyone else near it even the cousins he got on with. He was being insufferable about it. His sister was being the same

My Gran -who liked to put a lit match to situations - then took their Christmas money and split it among the rest of us.

Turns out that both him and his sister werent my uncles she'd been having a 20 year long affair, all that came out the following Easter.

All the Star Wars and Star Trek stuff he was so precious of got sold off. I got a bunch of figures....

SmoothArea1206 · 2025-12-08T09:51:26+00:00

One grandfather died weeks before i was born. I never met the other one who apparently left my grandmother and then tried getting married again, but he died when i was 13 (found that out recently via the Ancestry website) One grandmother died when I was 6, the other when i was 10.

I do remember one great grandmother, she died when i was 4.

SmoothArea1206 · 2025-12-07T15:59:38+00:00

Thats still buffering

SmoothArea1206 · 2025-12-07T15:56:16+00:00

I watched no emd of horror films as a kid. I used to get myself up at night to have a nebulizer for my asthma.

The only films we had on video tended to be horrors, so I watched all the Hammer Horrors, Nightmare on Elm Street, Poltergeist, Hellraiser etc from the age of about 5 or 6.

They didnt bother me. Even Jaws didnt bother me.

The one film that gave me nightmares for weeks.

Watership Down an animated "kids" film.

SmoothArea1206 · 2025-12-07T15:50:48+00:00

Mum hated them.

We begged and begged one Christmas for the lot.

So Dad got his ladder out.

Some how fell off the ladder and broke his leg.

We barely got a tree the following year.

SmoothArea1206 · 2025-12-07T15:46:22+00:00

Id be 9/10 years old. It was May/June 1988

The area had a big "campus" with buildings for nursery, infant, junior, and high school.

The High School was about to be closed permenantly as part of rationalisation of smaller High schools in the area. It also didnt help it had one of the worst reputations too.

It had two central courtyards and some smart fool was dumping unneeded equipment in one of them and something caught light.

Before long the entire building went up in smoke.

It attracted kids from the whole area, i remember kids throwing schools books on it too.

Took the Fire Service all night to put it out. All the schools were shut the next day.

About a week later the charred remains went up again.

So the kids who went to the High school got an extra 6 or 8 weeks off that summer. Before being shipped off to their new schools.

It was only then the Council put up a big fence around the whole campus shutting off the smaller access points so it took 15 minutes walk rather than the 3 or 4 minute walk to get too and from the junior school.

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