Noted Mal and thank you.

Hi Mike, To be fair to Diane she was probably going by my written description as much as anything... The spines are in fact white, the picture was taken digitally under artificial lighting and I didn't make any adjustment for that so that's possibly where the yellowish tinge you can see crept in. I'...

Thank you Diane, much appreciated.

A request, if I may, for ID help please. I'm sure lots of you will know this one as I'm certain its no rarity... I paid the ransom of just two or three pounds to rescue it from the local mini-mart. And I've since seen a bigger example in a local florists for a fiver. It is, I would say, a rather dar...

Hi and welcome from a fellow newbie!

Thanks, the welcome is appreciated. A one liner competition sounds like a cracking idea, but I'm much too new to the forum to have judged the prevailing sense of humour yet..! Hi Rod, nice to know there's someone else in this part of the world that shares the interest. Fabulous weather around here j...

Cheers for that, much appreciated. No, park keeper's daughter came to nothing... Years later I spotted her on the Friends Reunited web site, and messaged her to ask if she remembered our school days - and she had absolutely no memory of me at all! So much for my efforts, but I did come away with a l...

Hello folks, Having signed up a couple of months ago I thought I'd better join the forum and introduce myself. It all started for me many years ago "when I were a lad" of about 9 in junior school. I had a crush on the local park keeper's daughter and in an effort to bring myself to her att...