My children’s primary school was a polling station. One polling day, the only election in our area was for the Police & Crime Commissioner. 415 kids lost a day of schooling & all their families had to arrange alternative care. 13 people voted.

“Yellow car, no returns!” has been a thing here in Sussex for a year or two, & I’ve seen my goddaughter & her brother in Kent low-level assault each other over it too.

It may not be English rural life, but I still reckon @themerl.bsky.social would like to see this

A family friend lent my dad a Nixdorf, something like this, for a couple of days around 1979. I remember him telling tiny me that it was the future. In the mid-80s we had a BBC Micro at primary school and one at home. The cool kids had ZX Spectrums.

Share by Anthea Simmons & Georgie Birkett was the book my two-year-old requested most when her little brother arrived.
www.amazon.co.uk/Share-Anthea...

I'm always tickled when @aiannucci.bsky.social pronounces it "Ellen Musk" on the #StrongMessageHere podcast with @helenlewis.bsky.social

One thing that’s stayed with me from Ethel & Ernest, Raymond Briggs’ story of his parents’ marriage, is that Ernest’s salary as a milkman in 1930 secures them a mortgage to buy a family home in Wimbledon Park!

Discovered recently that the Autoglass jingle is a global phenomenon 🤯 m.youtube.com/watch?v=STiP...

Nightmare-fodder watched at primary school: The Boy from Space was a creepy series within the BBC's Look & Read educational programme; Robbie a public information film about the dangers of playing near railway lines - football-loving Robbie has his legs sliced off by a speeding train 😱

This thread is already terrifying, and no one's mentioned these horrors yet

Children put out a mince pie for Santa… but Jemima beat him to it!

I think my son's asked for this set for Christmas