The maternity ward of the early 1980s was a very different place

Virginia McMillan/Creative Commons Now the PM and her partner, Clarke Gayford, have shown off their daughter to the world (video at the end of this post), it reminded me of my own experiences in the maternity ward many years ago.    I’m not a parent at the time of writing: I’m talking about the 1980s […]

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Starting Upstairs, Downstairs this weekend

I know I did this on November 23 on my Tumblr, but I have to share this joke with the Ashes to Ashes fans out there.    Will the opening of Upstairs, Downstairs on Boxing Day on BBC1 (at 9 p.m.) begin with the Alexander Faris theme tune (see also below), or will Keeley Hawes […]

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