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- Where can I buy these comics?
- This is just a fansite I like to talk about these comics but I don’t sell comics on this site. There are a few places that you can find these comics, the big places are ebay and London shop 30th century comic. Check out their website here. There are a few other specialist shops, car boot sales and websites that you may get lucky with too.
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- Happy to help if I can, but good to note the more detail you can give the better, even if its just when you would have read the story. For example “A talented girl that is mistreated by cruel relatives” could be the plot summary for many stories! The comics uk forum is also full of helpful people: http://comicsuk.co.uk/forum/index.php as well as facebook groups like “Girls Comics – UK”.
Hello,
I live in Canada and every Christmas between 1978-1987 my grandmother would send me and my siblings Beano, Dandy, Twinkle and Beezer annuals. For a couple of years she sent Bunty annuals. I was telling my son and daughter about a creepy story about a girl who is being confused for another girl who looks like her. She ends up running into her at a dance club and is frightened because of the girls red/flashing eyes. The end of the story is creepy because her father picks her up in his car and as she gets into the car she explains to her father what happened and the last panel is of him turning to look at his daughter and he has the red/flashing eyes. I would grateful if you could tell me the name of the story and in which annual it can be found…incidentally I’m not 100% sure it was a Bunty annual, but I’m sure it is between 1980-1985.
Hi, I’ve had a check through my Bunty annuals from around that time, I’m missing the 1981 annual but I can definitely rule out the other years. I had thought it was possibly in a Diana annual as there is a “man in black” story with red eyed people but the rest of description doesn’t match. I’ll give a search through my other annuals see if I can find it elsewhere.
What is this red-eyed people Man in Black story anyway? Can you give more details? It may be the story in question. Sometimes memory gets confused and people don’t recall things correctly. We’ve had this happen before with enquiries to “Contact”.
BTW, I don’t have Misty annual 1985, but I can rule out the other Misty annuals for this one. Tammy and Jinty annuals are also out.
There are no red-eyed characters anywhere in the 1981 BUNTY annual.
Hi Derek do you have 2 sons called Andrew and Russell? Please call me on 07932 323146. Kind regards Steve Glenister
Could it be a Debbie annual? There was a Man in Black type in those annuals I think (probably after Spellbound merged).
I just checked Debbie annuals 1980-84 and ruled them out.
I want to say thank-you for everyone’s help so far. I can guarantee that the final panel of the story is a close up of the father’s face turning towards his daughter. He either says “don’t worry” or “tell me all about it”. His eyes look as though they are flashing. I seem to recall it was printed in that monocolour fashion (i.e., black and green and white or black and orange and white). For some reason I could have sworn it was the Bunty annuals, but my grandma did send many different annuals…which I wish I’d taken with me when I moved out of my parents’ house. Anyway, thanks so far.
Can you remember the other types of annuals your gran sent? It might help to narrow things down.
She sent Oor Willie, The Broons, Beano, Dandy, and Twinkle on a regular basis. We would get other ones periodically like Topper, Beezer, Bunty, Cor. My children are positive the story is in a Twinkle annual, but I keep telling them there is no way Twinkle would publish a story like the one I’m looking for.
Just found this. It’s from an 80s Mandy annual and the last frame he looks at his daughter in the car and says “Oh but I do believe you Claire”
Further down the comments we did actually track this to a Mandy 1985 annual, but thanks anyway!
I’m not sure if this helps, but I think there was another creepy story in the same annual. I think it involved a cursed painting and it would trap people inside it. I could be wrong.
Thanks
The closest I have come so far is the Judy 1981 annual. There is a story where a girl is at a disco and the other people at disco’s eyes go funny as they are hypnotized into committing a robbery. The girl is unaffected as she is deaf. In the same annual there is a nasty girl who gets locked in an attic with a painting and when people go looking for her she has disappeared as she is in the painting. I’ve sample pictures here: http://girlscomicsofyesterday.com/2010/01/sample-pictures/
I’ve also added sample from Diana 1986 annual, the story which first sprung to my mind when red eyes were mentioned, but like I mentioned in previous comment none of the other details match, so doubt it is that.
Otherwise I can rule out the other Judy annuals. Mandy annuals I’ve checked 1979, 1981-1983, 1986. Diana annuals I’ve checked 1982-1986. I also checked some older Bunty annuals from 1976-1979, no luck.
So that only leaves a few options for DC Thomson books, I agree it does sound to dark a story for Twinkle, so it must be in an annual that I haven’t got, but we have it narrowed down now!
Maybe it was a later Bunty Annual, perhaps outside the range in question.
Thanks for the scans, but unfortunately neither are the stories that I remember. I really appreciate the time you and the others have invested.
My wife has mentioned this is a bit unusual for me, as I usually am spot on with my child hood memories, but this one has me stumped. I guess my 8 year-old brain should have focussed on the title of the annual instead of the story.
Well we’ll not give up yet. I’ll post the question on the comicsuk forum to see if they can help with those annuals I don’t have.
Ok, success, Goof on the comicsuk forum has identified the story as: Who…? from Mandy Annual 1985. Printed in black, white and orange. Artist Ron Lumsden.
I’ve asked if it’s possible for him to do a scan of story, I’ll update you if he can.
Here’s a picture of annual cover: http://comicsuk.co.uk/images/Annuals/Mandy/MandyAnnual_1985.jpeg
Update: Goof has kindly supplied scan of story here http://comicsuk.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=140&t=7736
That’s it! Thanks so much! I really do not remember getting a Mandy for Christmas, but this is the story. What’s even funnier is my wife’s name is Amanda and her family calls her Mandy. She teased me that I should have definitely remembered getting this annual, but in my defense her hair is blonde and looks more like Bunty than Mandy. Maybe that’s why I thought it was in Bunty. I’m definitely picking this one up.
Thanks again for all you’ve done!
I must admit that I have always assumed that Goof is female.
You may be correct, I actually can’t recall why I thought they are male.
Goofy?
‘they’? How many people is Goof?
Hello all,
I am a Dutch researcher of comics and am researching the Dutch title Tina, which was started at the same time as the British Tina and is still going strong after all these years.
Many of the stories printed in Tina during the sixties to eighties had reprints from the girl comics in them, and some of them are hard to identify.
For instance, a story with the translated title “Together through the Darkness” from 1981. The plot: a young girl’s family moves town and their dog accidentally stays behind. The dog befriends a raven (crow?) and they start a long journey to find his family.
Any help would be appreciated!
Best,
Ramon
The story is The Darkening Journey from Jinty. It ran 1977.
Thanks, Mistyfan!
The Jinty website at https://jintycomic.wordpress.com/translations-and-reprints/translations-dutch/ can help you. They already have lists of what was translated into Dutch and other languages. There are still some gaps, so additional information is most welcome. Many of them were reprinted from Jinty and Tammy. There are many linked entries on the originals. Some have not been covered yet, though.
Wow, what a great resource! Most of my research has been done by others already! I’ll be sure to incorporate this work into the Grand Comics Database entries asap.
Regards,
Ramon
I think you should certainly ask permission first, Ramon. It is, of course, possible that lorrsadmin would be pleased to have her website included in the Grand Comics Database, but it is also equally possible that she wouldn’t. Courtesy costs nothing.
Well I have no problem with information on this site being used on the Grand Comic Database, I have used that site myself to check information at times. The list of Dutch translations of course is from the jintyresources site.
I am finding your ‘blue on black’ replacement idea just as difficult to read as the previous one, Lorraine. What I think I asked for was a sky blue blackground. Could you please consider omitting colour altogether because I can easily read black words on a white background. If this is not an acceptable alternative, there will be little point in my logging in at all.
Derek, sorry that you are still having trouble reading the colours. It’s not as simple as clicking a button to change the colour of the footer and actually I enlisted help to make last changes, because my css knowledge is pretty basic (css being the style coding language that makes website look how it does). My other option is changing the entire look of the blog, using a different theme, but I’d want to make sure to find a suitable one, that wouldn’t change things too much.
Either way this is not something I have time to do right now. It could be two months before change is done. I will try to get it done sooner than that, but just to warn you, you may have to be patient for a while.
I have been known to be patient, Lorraine, so please don’t worry about the time factor. I know you will get round to it when you have enough time. My ex-wife, Lynne, would certainly understand the need for patience where young children are concerned, given that she had to stay at home for several years with our two while I had to go to work. She sees Russ a couple of times a week now, and is in regular contact with Andrew via Facetime, as am I. My routine is like a well-oiled machine, today having been extra busy because I had to pick Alex up from his primary school in St. Erth first, and then pick Lois up from Tesco’s in Carbis Bay, which saves her waiting outside her school for me, take them down to Lynne’s in St. Ives for tea, and eventually take them home. We all had a Chinese tonight.
I can’t find any entries from TRACY in your lists of stories, Lorraine. Is there any particular reason for their absence, or are they hiding in plain sight, and I’m just not seeing them?
Hi, not sure if you mean the page which lists Tracy stories? It is there under the stories tab, it’s listed alphabetically so comes after Suzy. You can click on stories to see list of comics or use drop down menu.
Hi,
Wondering if you might be able to help.
Story inquiry:
I just can find this anywhere, it was in a girl’s annual 70’s or ’80s?
There was a girl/woman who ended up in a theatre, the next day she went looking for the theatre because she had lost one of her gloves, she found it, but the theatre was a ruin had been destroyed years ago? possible by fire?
But she knows she had not imagined her experience as through the mess she could see her lost glove on one of the dusty old seats.
Any ideas?
Much appreciated if anyone can help!
S
Hi Sarah, yes that story is from the 1984 Judy annual, the story is called “The Theatre” It was a good story, I really liked the art too.
You can read more about it here:
http://girlscomicsofyesterday.com/2011/08/judy-1984/
Hello! I’m looking for an annual from the 1970s and it’s either a Mandy or a Bunty I think. There’s a story about a below-stairs maid on Christmas Day who goes about her duties, taking breakfast in bed to the two daughters of the household who are less than pleased with their gifts…one a locket (“I already have a better locket than this”) and one a choker of pearls (“only a single string of pearls. I did so want a full choker”). At the end of the story the maid is given the last bit of Christmas pudding and almost breaks a tooth on the silver sixpence…she’s happy to have got the lucky sixpence. I haven’t been able to track down which annual this is in.
The story is “Wee Slavey” from the Judy Annual 1973.
Thank you SO MUCH!! I’ve investigated the annual here on the page and wow! Yes…that’s it! I even began to remember some of the other stories that I’d forgotten all about, looking at the page pics for this annual.
I can’t tell you How long I’ve been trying to trace this story and the annual it was in! I didn’t even remember that I had a Judy annual So was looking at Completely the wrong annuals! And I’ve seen that I can buy a copy on amazon I’m SO happy! Thank you x
I am constantly being surprised by the sheer breadth and depth of knowledge that are revealed on this platform, and on comicsUK, for the benefit of those people who require an answer to their question. The pleasure and gratitude expressed above by Heather Carr, makes searching for, and providing, the answers to such queries, well worth the effort involved.
I quite agree, Derek. I’m still a beginner at this, compared to other contributors, but I’ve certainly found it worthwhile. Thank you for your reply, Heather.
Derek, I am indeed So grateful for this information as provided by “Goof”! I am retelling the story of my years’ long search again this evening and how Amazing this one little line of reply has resulted in Such joy and a flood of happy memories. The silly thing is that I had searched on this site a few times before but never actually left a comment and Asked anyone if they knew what I was looking for! Thank goodness I finally did. And to have found a copy on amazon!!! Which I now own and am thrilled to bits. Really still can’t thank everyone here enough
Almost breaks her tooth on the lucky sixpence? I wonder if that is lucky or unlucky?
Wonder no longer, Briony. The maid didn’t break her tooth, and she gets to keep the sixpence, so how exactly could she be considered unlucky?
Can members please check their collections of DIANA for me, as I need to know the issue number and date of the very first instalment of ‘Mary Brown’s Schooldays’. It will be somewhere around the 200 mark in 1967. I have checked Lorraine’s excellent Girls Comics Of Yesterday site, where she suggests ‘circa 212’, but unfortunately she is clearly guessing. Her two other suggestions would seem to relate to JACKIE after the amalgamation, so they are not of any interest to me. I really hope to avoid having to go up to the British Library again as it’s five purgatorial hours each way on the train between Hayle and Paddington. Then there’s the Tube. Thanks in anticipation to everyone who searches on my behalf.
I’ve sent you an email Derek, I haven’t got the information you need at the moment, but I may have time to check it in the library in few months.
Just a correction, Diana did merge with Jackie, but Mary Brown’s Schooldays actually appeared in Debbie after Diana finished.
Are you sure that ‘Mary Brown’s Schooldays’ appeared in DEBBIE? I have all the serials in DEBBIE listed, with dates and issue numbers as far as issue 317. My recollection is that the principal school serial in DEBBIE was ‘Jane Green’s Schooldays’, which was successful enough to have further series, but all I really needed to know was when it started in DIANA. If I can’t find that information, rather than go to London to extract the information from a bound volume in the British Library, I will simply leave it out. After all, the subtitle of the book will be ‘The Great Stories’ or ‘Memorable Stories’, so it would be easy for me to argue that ‘Mary Brown’s Schooldays’ wasn’t all that memorable, and certainly not great.
Yes I’m certain it appeared in Debbie, though the earliest issue I’ve noted with it, is #349. The story also appeared in several of the Debbie annuals.
Up-to-Date Kate is another story that appeared in Debbie after Diana ended.
It’s a bit late tonight to do a complete check, Lorraine. However, according to my notes I DO have that issue, but unfortunately it isn’t in the pile of issues for that year. I can only assume that it will surface soon. I won’t lose any sleep over it. I didn’t have any responsibility for my grandchildren today so I went on the train to Truro for the day. I bought three new books from Waterstones and three secondhand ones from a fascinating shop in Pydar Mews, which I can certainly recommend to any members planning a holiday in the area.
Pretty sure Up to date Kate was done by the great Bill Ritchie?
I’m more familiar with Ritchies Toots and Baby Crockett, though I could maybe see a similarity with Handy Mandy it does seem that Up-to-Date Kate would be different from his usual style if it is him. http://girlscomicsofyesterday.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/up-to-date-kate.jpg
Peter, I recently saw a biographical article that you wrote about Bill Ritchie that was published on the phil-comics site. Unless I misunderstood it, the caption to one of the photos seemed to suggest that the Up-to-Date Kate artist was Mike Barrett.
http://www.phil-comics.com/bill.pdf
I have found the relevant issues of DEBBIE. ‘Mary Brown’s Schooldays’ runs between 342 (September 1 1979) and 356 (December 8 1979). As I thought, I do have the full run.
Hi, I wonder if anyone can advise me….I’m not interested in buying/collecting, but, as a now pensioner, I would love to reread Jinty and Jinty & Lindy comics from my childhood. Does anyone know how I can achieve this without having to fork out a fortune? Thank you.
I remember a story called “Lady Locksley’s Secret”. The second wife of Lord Locksley faked the death of her stepdaughter so that her daughter would inherit. The stepdaughter was taken to an orphanage. Some years later Lady Locksley got the child back to Locksley Hall as a servant to keep an eye on her. I think one of the other servants was suspicious. Lord Locksley was away in the army. I think it ended when Lord Locksley returned and I think Lady Locksley died. I can’t remember the names except the bad Lady was called Bella and her daughter was called Marianne. The story might have been in Judy.
‘Lady Locksley’s Secret’ ran in JUDY 412 (December 2 1967) – 417 (January 6 1968).
Only six episodes? That’s not very long.
It only needed to be as long as the story required it to be. As I can’t recall having read it, I cannot comment further.
I do have issue #418 in which a lot of new stories start, so maybe it was finished off quickly to make way for them. Though as Derek says 6 episodes can be long enough to tell a story anyway.
I’ve just extracted issues 412 to 417 from my collection of JUDY for 1967/68. I’ll read them tomorrow afternoon and report back. I would struggle to find time in the morning as I’m collecting Lois at 10.30 from hers to take her up to St Michael’s Hospital for her 11 o’clock appointment for the latest physiotherapy session relating to the arm she broke last summer.
Even though Alex told me last week that he and Jess were ‘an item’, because Jess’s mother has grounded her for some misdemeanour or other, he will probably play out with Autumn. She’s a really nice girl. Yesterday lunchtime she came down to my house on her own just to ask me if I was feeling better than I had been the day before. I told her I was feeling much better and she went away happy.
The other day I made my comments on ‘Lady Locksley’s Secret’, but clearly I didn’t add them to this thread. I don’t have time now to look for the post as I am about to take my grandchildren to the indoor swimming pool in Penzance, so those interested members will need to use their initiative.
In the later sixties, I remember a story about a young girl who is visited by a strange orb in her bedroom. It shrinks her to the size of the orb and it turns out to be some kind of craft?
I would be most grateful if you could trace this for me as it would solve a fifty year old puzzle. Me reading a girl’s comic at Junior School, thinking it was wrong as a boy, but thoroughly enjoying this story with its SCI-FI narrative.
Do you remember any more details about the orb story? For example, the title it might have appeared in, or more story information, like what the orb does with the girl once it shrinks her e.g. take her to an alien planet. Was the story humorous or was it adventure/thriller?
Balloon Girl, came to mind first, as someone that is transported around in an orb like spacecraft but then the rest of story doesn’t fit. http://girlscomicsofyesterday.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/B84_BalloonGirl.jpg
You mention reading Bobby Dazzler, so possibly this was also a Judy story.
I’ve had a look through my Judys. I think the story you may want is “Slaves of the Silver Sphere” the girls find the orb outside but bring it into their dorm. I only have the first episode myself, but I’ve added that to the entry.
http://girlscomicsofyesterday.com/2014/10/slaves-of-the-silver-sphere/
By the way, must confess, I was in love with Bobby Dazzler-thinking she just had to be based upon someone real. Or was it simply the way she was drawn…?
Can any member please tell me the issue number and date of DIANA that contains the first instalment of ‘Mary Brown’s Schooldays’. It is somewhere between 198 (26 November 1966) and 212 (11 March 1967). As I need to include this information in BUNTY AND HER SISTERS, leaving the serial out is really not an option, but I am trying to avoid having to make a five-hour journey from Cornwall to London just to get this information from the British Library.
I can’t help with this one, I would have offered to pop to National Library of Scotland, which is close by to me, but have recently discovered they don’t have any of these comics prior to 1972! So if you do need anything after that date I’d be happy to help, in the meantime I hope someone else will be able to help with your current query.
Thank you for that lovely thought, Lorraine. I do appreciate it. I have to admit that the matter has been concerning me. I even went down to the Copperhouse this afternoon for a quiet pint, in order to assess my options. It seems that I only have two, leave the three-line summary out altogether, and refer back to the first series when I summarise the second one, or go up by train to the British Library, and of the two, the former does not appeal because I would be missing something out of the book that should be in. It will have to be London, I suspect. I can’t go immediately though as it’s Lois and Alex’s half term this week, and Andrew’s daughters, Aurora and Kelsey’s half term next week. He’s driving down here with them on Saturday to spend a few days with his mother. His taking time off work is more or less unheard of, but obviously very welcome.
Have you checked 30th Century Comics? Maybe they have the Diana issue.
Yes I have, Briony. They do have issues of DIANA, just not the ones I want to consult.
Ok, how about Comics UK?
I hadn’t given them a moment’s thought. I’ve been out most of the afternoon anyway as I had to go to Penzance railway station to renew my annual Railcard, which expires today at midnight. I went and came back by bus as my Merseytravel card allows me to travel free of charge on all official service buses anywhere in the British Isles. It is certainly an effective petrol-saving device, which I appreciate, given that from Monday I will again be picking Lois up from school every day, and transporting her to and from her ballet classes twice a week.
I will no longer need to pick Lois up from school from next Monday because since the family moved house, she has been able to catch a bus home. I will still be driving her to her ballet classes, and taking her home though. She is quite excited at the moment because Liz Nolan has asked her to take the leading role in the next production, yet she doesn’t turn 14 until August 4th. Rehearsals will probably start next Monday, and continue weekly on Wednesdays and Thursdays as well. In my opinion she is mature enough to cope with the extra pressure that comes with being a principal. To judge by the energy she expended yesterday and today swimming in the public baths in Penzance, she’ll not lack staying power either.
Hope you had a nice Christmas Derek. Your grandaughter is growing up to be fine girl, I’m glad the ballet is going well.
Hi Lorraine. Happy New Year to you and your family, and here’s hoping that Father Christmas came down the chimney with lots of lovely presents for Ruby. Christmas Day here was basically spent in the Brewers Arms in Hayle. We had already booked the tables a couple of months earlier, and at the same time we ordered and paid for the two courses. It was just as well as the place was packed. Russ, Rach, Lois, Alex and I were joined by my ex-wife Lynne, her brother Philip and his wife Lynn, Jordan, his partner Kerry, and their daughter Ava, and Kerry’s mum and dad. The beer and wine were flowing as you might expect, but as I was going to drive Lynne home to St Ives, I limited myself to one pint, but bought a bottle of red on the way out. As far as Christmas presents for the children were concerned, lots of us clubbed together to get Alex (10) a pair of boxing gloves and a punch ball on a very heavy base so that no matter how hard he hit it, it would not fall over, although it could hit him on the nose if he wasn’t quick enough to avoid it. We got it on eBay and it arrived in plenty of time. For Lois, we all contributed 40 pounds so that we could pay for a trip to Harry Potter World for her sometime in the late summer. Jordan will drive her down to a hotel that has been booked and paid for. She couldn’t believe her luck, and was nearly in tears.
As Rach has this week off work, she took Lois to her ballet today (Monday), but I will be taking her on Wednesday, and Rach will take her on Thursday. Next week things will be back to normal so I’ll be taking her three times a week, and have my pint in the Badger while I’m waiting for her to come into the pub.
Correction!!!!! Jordan will drive her UP. Driving her DOWN will land the pair of them in the sea at Penzance.
Hello – Glad to find your website. This is an ‘SOS’ (Save Old Stories; comic ones) !!
I have my girlhood comics probably 200 of them (2 big plastic bags full):- Bunty x 74 comics, Mandy x 53 comics, Jinty & Lindy, Jinty, Tammy, Debbie etc from 1972 – 78.
I would love them to go to a good home. I am happy to donate them FREE to yourselves or someone else for free on collection. Can you help…? I live in Kent near Dover. Tel: 01304 369799 for anyone interested in becoming the proud new owner of a wonderful vintage archive. I would be very sad to throw them out. They gave me such pleasure. Best Lucia
What are the dates of the Jintys and the Tammys please?
I would be interested but I live bit far away for collection. I’ll pass along to other possible interested people who live closer!
How about Millies Magic Broomstick.
And there was me thinking it was Molly who owned the Magic Broomstick!!!!!
Hi there,
For many years now I have been looking for what I think is a Bunty story that I loved as a child. It was about twins who were made to dress the same. One was happy and pretty but the other felt sad and not as popular as the other. In the end she has her hair cut short and has her own clothes and is much happier. Do you remember this? I have have yet to find it anywhere!
This sounds like “Penny the Post” from Judy Annual 1966. There is an illustration from the story on this website here:
http://girlscomicsofyesterday.com/2019/07/judy-1966/
If you are not sure from this picture whether this is the one, I can post another page which shows the ending, where she has her hair cut and wears a different dress from her sister.
Thanks Goof, I have the pages handy and there’s only 5 pages, so to save you the trouble, I’ve added them here:
http://girlscomicsofyesterday.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/J66_PennyPost1.jpg
http://girlscomicsofyesterday.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/J66_PennyPost2.jpg
http://girlscomicsofyesterday.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/J66_PennyPost3.jpg
http://girlscomicsofyesterday.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/J66_PennyPost4.jpg
http://girlscomicsofyesterday.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/J66_PennyPost5.jpg
Apologies, Lorrsadmin, I should have thanked you earlier for posting these pages.
Can anyone help identify a serial that was printed in Bunty around issue 1224 (27 June 1982) and was reprinted in Greek as “Always First”. I don’t have those issues myself to check.
Examples here:
http://girlscomicsofyesterday.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/01-1.jpg
http://girlscomicsofyesterday.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/02-1.jpg
The BUNTY story, Lorraine, is ‘The Winfield Winner’, which ran from 1217 (May 9 1981) to 1230 (August 8 1981). The first of the two pages you posted is identical to the first page of ‘The Winfield Winner’ apart from the fact that the Greek page is in colour where the BUNTY page is in black and white. Can I now finish my cheese, lettuce and tomato baguette from Subway please before the edges of the lettuce leaves start curling upwards? Actually I’m not really too bothered because later on I’m collecting Lois and Alex from their house and taking them to their nan’s (my ex-wife). We’ll have Chinese except for Alex, who will, as usual, have about 20 nuggets, just as he does when I take the children to McDonalds. He can be just plain awkward that child, but it’s best to humour him.
Lynne has just told me that Alex is having chicken fried rice tonight as usual. It must just be when he goes out with me that he has nuggets!!!!! Or maybe I’m just less observant than I thought I was!!
Thanks Derek. Hope you are having a nice evening with family and enjoying your Chinese food.
I did, thank you, Lorraine. I had a King Prawn Chow Mein with boiled rice. As the portion was very generous, I didn’t manage to finish it. The children are staying the night at Lynne’s, and I have to go over at 3 o’clock tomorrow afternoon to pick them up and take them home.
A big thank you to Derek & Lorraine for your help identifying this series…