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Not quite the same as it wasn't army conscripts but my great uncle told me his story of how Italian people living in England were sent to 'camps' as they were considered a risk of spying etc. He was seconded into the one near his house as he could speak Italian. He became great friends with an Italian man who immediately went back to Italy after the war but they visited each till they were too old to travel. He told me lots about the 'camp', fascinating to hear first hand about aspects of the second world war

It wasn't too bad. I don't normally even watch movies for adults as I have a short attention span/get bored but the children love it so I do take them to the odd children's movie.

In general I was never a big fan.

The saying a picture is worth a thousand words is so very apt in this case. Sad and thought provoking.

Wow, what a photo then seeing as its real! I knew the storm was pretty severe as I was stuck in the middle of it but the photo just looked so surreal to me.

Ok, I didn't realise what it looked like from a distance, as was in the middle of it. Maybe it is a real photo then....

They say this was from yesterday but personally I am not too sure if it's real or photo shop editing.

OK. Thank you.

Is that the one set on a council estate in Manchester? Heard of it but never seen it if it's the same one.

Hoping that I'm not the only one that subconsciously read that in a Scottish accent and only realised at the end.

Ha ha. That and small metal cars....... a real test of strength to keep totally quiet as you creep out of your eventually sleeping child's room and stand on one.

I have read two of them so far and enjoyed one of them far more than the other. Might try a third and see.

I loved Grandad, always cracked me up with his 2 tellies. Del boy was a close second.

I have just read my first Nicci French book 'Saturday Requiem' and really enjoyed it. Any recommendations on other titles of the same author/s that were good?

Yep, very confident but don't ask me to say 'groot' or similar....

Yes, some weird anomalies. Still it has been fun to look at and see some bands I had forgotten all about.

Perhaps they were considered too 'mainstream' and not really alternative by whoever drew this up?

Some things have a correlation like Siouxsie, Adam Ant, Sex Pistols and Pil. Also Joy Division and New Order. I think the only reason they lumped Stone Roses, Oasis etc. with The Smiths is the Manchester connection cos there is nothing else. The ska type bands (for want of a better word to describe them cos I don't know any other) are kind of together such The Specials, The Beat, Madness etc. Happy Mondays and Joy Division the only correlation is Tony Wilson Others are totally random.

Thanks, I will now give it a try, I read her first book ' Waiting for Christopher' and found it very irritating and her 'complaints' trite but in hindsight I think it was more me and what I was going through as opposed to the actual book.

So true, a good book is one of life's pleasures.

That sounds very interesting, what I found amazing was that I was at school in Britain, yet never once in history did we study the Boer War, I can tell you all about the Battle of Hastings etc. It was like it didn't exist, the only reason I had vaguely heard of it was because some relative of my Great Gran was killed in it. I attended pretty decent private schools so it wasn't that it was the schooling. Selective history I think.....

Christine was one of the few films that translated well from the novel to the big screen.