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Message: [QUOTE="Colin, post: 120053, member: 5507"] Hi, Many thanks for your suggestion Logan. Yes Bron and I watch Gardeners World both live on TV and through YouTube. His Goldie's are well laid back aren't they? Gardeners World and Grand designs are the only two programs we watch on normal TV unless something special pops up we are interested in. Last nights Grand Designs was a beauty and most unexpected; at the start of the program we thought the couple were going to be living with lots of rust and cobwebs and looking at the building they bought it being an old dairy they appeared mad to have paid something like £960k for it but what a truly splendid home they made of it so top credit to the both of them. Bron and I would enjoy a long running series catching up on 60's singers and groups but each time something like this comes on as a one off its nothing but critics and friends full of their own importance doing nothing other than give their opinions. It would be nice to find out what has happened to so many of these singers/groups who gave us a great deal of pleasure all those years ago and even now I play their songs in the workshop from CD and we watch them via YouTube; the songs in those days were heard once and immediately remembered for life. I bet you thought of other things Logan whilst sewing the overalls? My late mother was a founder machinist for Double2 in Wakefield. [URL]https://www.doubletwo.co.uk/blog/video-the-history-of-double-two/[/URL] In later years my mother was an "out machinist" sewing shirts at home. In those days the UK was buzzing with huge factories; little pay but plenty of work and we always worked hard. Double2 is still an household name here in the UK. My late father and both my grandfathers were coal miners hence I went straight into the pit on leaving school to learn mechanical engineering and to this day I feel honoured to have been taught by the engineers who taught me so much. Kind regards, Colin. [/QUOTE]

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