O Levels
Just mentioned your O Level in Mathematics? You’ve done more than announce your intellectual superiority…
Just mentioned your O Level in Mathematics? You’ve done more than announce your intellectual superiority…
That knock on your door. At least it won’t be someone trying to sell you an encyclopaedia any more.
The Queen of the Skies is no longer being made. Get into that upper deck while you still can.
Carbonated beverages? They come and go. They come and go…
What’s wrong with us all? Why don’t we want shiny shoes any more?
They were once ubiquitous, these spiralised sausages of suspicion. Then, overnight, they vanished. Could they make a triumphant return?
Stamps have been the same for almost 200 years. Now, they’re changing.
The Queen liked your chocolate? Your tonic water? Your wallpaper? Ah, now you have to change the label.
Internal mail is now usually instant. In the past, it was decidedly slow and uncertain. That was part of its charm.
The vaccination rollout was a miracle. But even miracles are over sometimes.
June 2022. The day the browser died.
Postal orders, it turns out, are clinging on to life. The Night Mail, though? No.
Bye bye, EHIC. Hello, EHIC in disguise.
A free lunch? Surely such a thing has never existed? Actually, for decades, in Britain, there was.
Colours? Codes? It’s Wordle! Except, I’ve seen this before…
(...and sometimes from a bus)
What happens when words disappear