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24-03-2019, 11:10 AM
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Greetings!

I've just joined ... because most online forums (I refuse to say fora ... when we adopt a foreign word into the English language there is no need to adopt irregular foreign plurals rather than giving them good regular English plurals ... so it's forums, stadiums, premiums etc. as far as I'm concerned)

Now, where was I? Oh yes ... most online forums seem to be stuffed to overflowing with people young enough to be my children if not my grandchildren (not that I have any of either ... ) and I have so few reference points in common with either of them.

So, yes ... I grew up watching Bill and Ben the Flowerpot Men, Mary, Mungo and Midge, and Trumpton ("Time flies by when you're the driver of a train, and you ride on the footplate there and back again ... ), and replying "Yes" when the Listen With Mother reader asked "Are you sitting comfortably?".

If the preceding paragraph means something to you all, then I guess I'm among friends here (or, at the very least, among people who share my cultural reference points ... )
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24-03-2019, 11:26 AM
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Welcome Shelfordian

Any friend of Bill & Ben is a friend of mine. Not sure about weed though, she was a troublemaker.
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24-03-2019, 11:26 AM
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Hello and welcome to you "Digger".
Enjoy your time on here.
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24-03-2019, 12:10 PM
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Hello Shelfordian a warm welcome to Over50sForum...

I'm from the "Listen with Mother" era so I qualify as being and "Oldie"

I hope you enjoy the forum...
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24-03-2019, 12:12 PM
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Hey ... can everyone please stop calling me Digger!

The profile form asked me for my nicknames so I thought i had to include something ... that's what people called me at school (well, the polite ones .. ) but I never really liked it!

(I do, however, like the fact that people here seem to take the trouble to read other people's profiles ... )
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24-03-2019, 12:55 PM
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Good morning (just) Digger matey and welcome.
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24-03-2019, 01:38 PM
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A warm welcome from me shelly.
Sorry it just sounds nicer.
You can scold me if you like.
Have fun.
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24-03-2019, 01:45 PM
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Hello Digger welcome...

I must be one of the only children in history who loathed Bill and Ben the Flowerpot Men, Mary, Mungo and Midge, and Trumpton I thought they were childish nonsense
I tolerated Muffin the Mule ...

Lassie was more my style I was clearly a precocuous child...
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24-03-2019, 01:48 PM
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Hi Shelfordian .
Welcome!
Where in Bedfordshire?
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24-03-2019, 01:51 PM
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Originally Posted by Meg ->
I tolerated Muffin the Mule ...
I thought that was a sexual offence or even bestiality..........
 
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