A La Recherche…..blah…….blah….

OLD GEEZER (1) ( for it is they!):  Had  a Proustian moment…. mint sauce!

OLD GEEZER (2) :  Sunday Lunch?

Two-way Family Favourites and Round the Horn.

BFPO……

Monday to Friday…. Watch with Mother.

Monday…. PICTURE BOOK.

Tuesday….ANDY PANDY.

Wednesday…..BILL AND BEN.

Thursday…..RAG, TAG AND BOBTAIL.

Friday….. THE WOODENTOPS  (…. the biggest spotty-dog you ever did see!)

Saturday tea-time?

THE TELEPRINTER…. THE LONE RANGER….. DOCTOR WHO…

Thursday?

TOP OF THE POPS!

Those countless puppets…  MUFFIN THE MULE…. TWIZZLE…. TORCHY.

SUPERCAR   (with Mike Mercury)….

STINGRAY   (Troy Tempest)….

FIREBALL XL5   (Steve Zodiac feat. Zoony the Lazoon)….

JOE 90….

THUNDERBIRDS…. ( ….anything can happen in the next half hour!)…

CAPTAIN SCARLETT…. ( ‘ This is the Voice of the Mysterons…’ )….

Not forgetting the genius that was OLIVER POSTGATE!

IVOR THE ENGINE…. NOGGIN THE NOG….THE CLANGERS….

Do you remember the evil one in Noggin the Nog?

Nogbad the Bad!

So, do you think in 50 or 60 years 2 old geezers will be sitting reminiscing about their childhood? There is no collective memory anymore!

Wasn’t all benign…. My Lai, Selma, Dallas, Pol Pot, Pinochet, Jan Palach, Aberfan, Torrey Canyon, Sharpeville…..

And we’d probably have made the same choices……

Not sure….SUBBUTEO    vs   FIFA?

‘All I want for Christmas is a Dukla Prague away kit!’

HALF MAN, HALF BISCUIT!

CRIBBAGE  vs FORTNITE?

No contest….your deal!

 

 

SOUTH OF THE RIVER. (14)

OLD GEEZER (1):  I see old Trump’s gone OTT …..again!

OLD GEEZER (2):   Beyond the Pale!

He can’t take all the blame though.

Why not?

He may have been alone in the Book Depository…. but there were  62,984,828 Americans on the Grassy Knoll.

Carrying on the great tradition of Republican presidents….. Nixon!

Enough said!

Reagan!

Apparently he developed Alzeimer’s.

How could they tell?

The Bush family….in bed with the Bin Ladens…. gave them safe passage out of the country after 9/11… not to mention Osama getting his CIA paycheck!

Democrats not much better… Kennedy and Johnson began using Agent Orange in Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam.

After the British had used it in Malaysia!

You know , if you travel by train in Vietnam today you can get a discount if you’re elderly ,a student …. or a victim of Agent Orange!

Let’s make America great again!

Let’s have a drink…..your shout!