Chris T Loc: from England across the pond to New England

Here's a funny tidbit, for you …

Do you KNOW where Ian Fleming LIVED, when he wrote most of those James Bond novels???

What about Benny Hill? … and John Cleese in Fawlty Towers?

JAMAICA!

GENorkus Loc: Washington Twp, Michigan

Yea! Those rank right up there too!

No, I don't know where Fleming lived back then but I'm pretty sure Benny Hill was doing his show in Hawaii and died somewhere around there also.

Mtnjerry

"TO LET" sign.

Mcdak

“Mind the gap”

Chris T Loc: from England across the pond to New England

Benny Hill, died in London - where he also taped all of his shows - first for BBC, and later for ITV (Thames.)

He never lived in Hawaii, much less taped any shows, there, GE … in fact, he turned down repeated requests from Johnny Carson, to appear on the Tonight Show, as he didn't wish to travel all the way to LA.

Ian Fleming, on the other hand - moved to Jamaica in the early 50s - where he penned most of his 13 James Bond Novels ….

blackest Loc: Ireland

Seems there are a lot of ideas from the 1950's 60's and earlier mostly from old black & white movies. Which seems reasonable as that maybe was the peak of British movie making (is it any surprise that movies give the impression of america for non americans).

Oil breather pipe on motorcycles is to relieve crank case pressure iff there was any oil mist from that pipe directing to the chain was a good idea.

The Reliant Robin was a 3 wheeled car which legally sat in the same class as a motorcycle and side car. Really a product of the sixties and seventies. Cars were expensive so motorcycles were the common form of transport for a young lad with the girl friend on the back. However that tended to need to have a car later and you could drive these on a motorcycle license, even a provisional. Unlike a car. Blocking the reverse gear to keep it a motorcycle was a thing but the law was changed and reverse gear allowed and it still was allowed to be driven on a motorcycle license. Some old boys stuck with Robins all their life and they were typically driven by pensioners, rather slowly. They were actually fairly fast 90mph was easy to obtain (850cc engine on a platform weighing less than 500Kg is a pretty good power to weight ratio. Pretty easy to sling into a bend and get on 2 wheels. different feel to a car they rocked like a boat.

Fog the notorious london "pea souper" was a product of pollution and coal fires. It really ended with the clean air act the replacement of a coal fire with coke and later with gas fired central heating. Older houses tended to have a fire place in every room but central heating has caused most to be boarded up.

Anyway that kind of fog is a long distant memory for people born before the sixties.

Something very British has to be gardens where possible, the front garden has tended to be turned into parking spaces where houses are under multiple occupancy or divided into flats but most people will have plants somewhere in their home even if its limited to window boxes and plant pots.

RichardTaylor Loc: Sydney, Australia

We have visited a couple of stately homes, Blenheim Palace and Buckingham Palace.

R.G. Loc: Scotland

My further posts on this subject were triggered by your own comment on my initial comment here.

My initial comment was a reference to how Britishness is literally under attack from Islam. The truth is Islam is predatory and yes they do have a political agenda. And Muslims would love it if we were to remain unaware of those facts.

You yourself put me in a position where I needed to defend my initial comment on that subject.

R.G. Loc: Scotland

I wonder what's happened to "There's no compulsion in religion". Yet another example of how overtly two-faced Islam is.

danersmiff

Isle Of Man... and the TT... I can't believe racing, and motorcycles have been mentioned, but not the Isle of Man TT..
Or Big Ben... All the castles? (good currently used and old decrepit)
Moats, and drawbridges... All the current celebs who have been "Knighted"
Golf, and the Open. Tennis.
Stone Henge... Vikings... the word, "Bloody"...
Canterbury Cathedral, Church of England...
William, and Kate,... Harry and Meghan,... Charles and Horse-face....

limeybiker

Windsor Castle is in Berkshire

limeybiker

queue

Pronounced /kyo͞o/

noun: queue; plural noun: queues
British a line or sequence of people or vehicles awaiting their turn to be attended to or to proceed.

Chris T Loc: from England across the pond to New England

Can't remember, Blackest - so long ago, now. Was the Reliant the one with two wheels in the front, or the one with just one wheel in the front? … Yes, they were fairly fast. Didn't know they added reverse, later.

Chris T Loc: from England across the pond to New England

That's nice, Richard ... tell me - where is Blenheim Palace?

RichardTaylor Loc: Sydney, Australia

Oxfordshire.

https://www.blenheimpalace.com/