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Firstly, thanks to knitting website Knitspot for the image accompanying this post.
The cold weather really seems to be kicking in now here in the UK, so the other day I was forced into hunting through my sock draw for a pair of gloves. Now, I know somewhere I’ve got a lovely warm insulated pair but I couldn’t find them, so instead ended up with a pair of knitted fingerless gloves. Not ideal, but better than nothing.
Whilst finding these gloves out I did come across a single knitted glove. I’ve no idea what has happened to the other half of the pair but it did remind me of the practice of sewing elastic on your gloves to stop you losing them, something my Mum used to do for me when I was at primary school.
The idea was simple enough. Take a piece of elastic that when unstretched is long enough to run up one arm, across your shoulders and back down the other arm. Then sew a glove or mitten onto each end of the elastic and thread the whole affair up one arm of your coat and back down the other. When you put the coat on the mittens will dangle out the bottom of the arms, so you can take them off without fear of losing them because they fell out of your bag or pocket.
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There were some strange things we did as kids in the school playground to annoy each other, but boy were they effective. 
A quick plug for a new book which the author, Dean Wilkinson, was good enough to e-mail me about. It’s called The Classic Children’s Television Quiz Book and it sounds rather good, with a range of questions about kids TV programs stretching back at least as far as the Thunderbirds era and right up to more modern classics such as Spongebob Squarepants, so there’s bound to be a smattering of questions about 1980’s shows in there too.
Emu and Rod Hull were one of those variety acts that were forever cropping up on British TV, either in their own shows (
Bigfoot and the Hendersons is a 1987 film about an American family who encounter the legendary Bigfoot whilst returning from a family holiday in the wilderness. It was released in the UK under this title, but in the US it was known as Harry and the Hendersons.
If there was one sure way of knowing in the 1980s that Christmas was just around the corner it was the Woolworths Christmas TV Advert. Every year Woolworths would pull out all the stops and run a stupidly long advert that was packed with celebrity stars making a fool of themselves, all in the name of selling some Chevron music tapes or a carriage clock.
