Elisabeth J. Hobbes author

Yes, plus we got regaled with stories about mess tents and blanco quite a lot. It didn’t stop the boys mucking around as far as I remember either. 🙄

I just found it annoying. To a teenage girl he was just a stupid man who messed his girlfriends around.
We had a very old school English teacher who was ex army and chose very boy friendly texts. We also did The Long and The Short and The Tall, Buddy and Kes (though I quite enjoyed the last two).

I had to read that for GCSE (along with Wilfred Owen and Billy Liar) and I hated all three.

Well this is the nicest thing you’ll see today…

I just remember expecting a great romance that my friends kept going on about and not seeing it at all.

I never liked Wuthering Heights. I adored The Tenant of Wildfell Hall though.

RP1 was ok but the second was bloody awful.

We spent an evening in a restaurant listening to a group taking about how they have just started investing. ‘It’s the start of money!’

Our school secretary is stuck out there. She went to visit family over half term but had to extend her stay because of family issues and now she can’t get back. 😫

😂

Postmen weren’t allowed facial hair.

A monochrome ‘spot the mistake’ scene featuring a postman cycling along a lane besides a half timbered thatched cottage

An observation test for your inner 8-year-old.
Can you spot 12 deliberate mistakes?

From Treasure magazine, 1965
Official answers coming soon

(Even if you don’t reply, could you please ‘like’ or share this one?)

Is the hat and uniform a wrong combination?
The girl is wearing wellies and if isn’t raining- a fashion faux pas.

Paul Simon was under ambitious with his ways to leave your lover.

Get mauled by a lion, Brian.
Get hit by a train, Dwayne.
Fall in a hole, Joel.
#totp

Fall down a hole, Joel.

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I don’t think so, I’ll check it out. There is just something completely glorious about AG singing the last chorus.

This performance of Bridge Over Troubled Water gets me every time. 😭😭😭 #notTotp

Four dog toy lobsters hanging upside down on a washing line.

On Fridays we wash the lobsters.

So is The Great Pottery Throwdown’ which always has a diverse group of contestants who are always lovely.

911 isn’t really a private number though. #totp

He’d be the first agent Bond took down, probably sitting on the loo with his y-fronts round his ankles and his phone in his hand.

Scrawny balding man with fuzz on his chin and shit glasses. It is Lawrence Fox.

Thank you. It’s nice when people don’t get them from the big company too. 😊

The silver linings just keep on coming!

Book covers of The Promise Tree and Daughter of the Sea by Elisabeth Hobbes

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He could do a TV show.

Woman in black skirt, white shirt and black hat with flowers.

Woman in black hat with flowers, red hair and snake earrings.

World book day. Officially I’m Mary Poppins but with the red hair and snake I’m secretly Crowley. #worldbookday #goodomens #marypoppins

Thank you. It’s a pics I’ve loved since I first saw it decades ago.

Thank you. You should definitely try it if you get the chance.