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Tuesday 14 July 2020

On This Day The Way We Were tinyurl.com/wrhhtt7 tinyurl.com/t3ds6a5 Sue Lawley Araldite Sue Lawley is a brilliant When I think of my grandad, I broadcaster. She is calm and always picture him in the place unflappable. She is also warm where he was happiest – in and engaging. his shed! And that makes me Sue Lawley was born in the think about the smell in there. West Midlands on 14th July It was a pungent place, with a 1946. She first came onto our mixture of wood shaving smells screens in 1972. She became and linseed oil. It often also a presenter on Nationwide. smelt of glue. Grandad used It was a chatty magazine to mix his own recipe, usually programme that followed the shellac along with something news on the BBC. fishy. Then she became a Modern glues often have little newsreader. She was a smell. They’re much easier familiar face on the TV. And to use too, as long as you’re she also was a splendid host careful. Superglue is great of ‘Desert Island Discs’ on the because it gives an invisible radio. It was always a pleasure join, but beware of sticking to listen to her. your fingers together!

Copyright © 2020 Everyday Miracles Ltd T/A The Daily Sparkle ® www.dailysparkle.co.uk 14 July 2020 1 That’s Life Over To You bit.ly/2sXg1Ku tinyurl.com/rlj6sl4 Micrometer Naming ceremony Before I retired I was an Dear Mary and Jimmy engineer. I’d always liked Where do nicknames come tinkering with machines and from I wonder? Some people motors. I enjoyed metalwork call their children by names at school too. Later, I did that can’t be shortened to engineering at college. try and avoid it happening. One of the tools I always Our friends Pete and Nora found fascinating was the called their sons Benjamin micrometer. I first used it in and Thomas. I suppose it was metalwork classes at school. inevitable that they would be We had to turn a bar on a lathe shortened to Ben and Tom. to exactly 2.345 centimetres. But it didn’t stop there. Ben’s It took me a while to work out girlfriend always calls him that was 23.45 millimetres. ‘Titch’. And, they both refer Then I had to grapple with to Tom as ‘Badger’. Goodness the vernier scale on the knows where that nickname micrometer. came from! I thought it was really clever When I was a child we were the way it could measure discouraged from shortening so accurately. And, yes, I someone’s name. It was managed to turn that bar regarded as rather rude. exactly spot on! Best wishes, from Elizabeth

Show me the way to go h _ _ _ I’m tired and I wa _ _ to go to bed

bit.ly/37Vm1aF I had a little drink 1. Which famous pier is in about an hour ago Essex? And it went right to my head Blackpool or Southend Where ever I may r _ _ _ 2. Is Essex to the north or the On land or sea or foam south of the Thames estuary? You will alw _ _ _ hear me singing this song 3. Is Essex to the east or the Show me the way to go home west of London? 4. Which Butlin’s holiday Miss Fitzsimmons went camp was in Essex? in swim _ _ _ _ Clacton or Filey Early one summer morn 5. Which Queen addressed She took a d _ _ and her troops at Tilbury at the she heard a rip time of the Spanish Armada? She knew her suit was torn 6. Which one of these New She stayed til the change Towns is NOT in Essex? of t _ _ _ took the water out Basildon, Harlow or When no longer she could hide Crawley She began to sh _ _ t 7. Which important Roman town is in Essex? Cirencester or Colchester

Answers

8. Shout 8.

8. Is Stansted Airport or Tide 7.

6. Dip 6.

Gatwick Airport in Essex? Swimming 5. 4. Always 4. Roam 3.

2. Want Want 2. 9. E _ _ ing Forest is in Essex. Home 1.

Copyright © 2020 Everyday Miracles Ltd T/A The Daily Sparkle ® www.dailysparkle.co.uk 14 July 2020 3 Carer’s Notes Background Information plus Reminiscence and Cognitive Stimulation Therapy Questions Tuesday 14 July 2020

PAGE 1 ~ ON THIS DAY ~ 14 July 1946 ~ Sue Lawley, journalist and news presenter, born Background: Sue Lawley has had a long and distinguished broadcasting career, all of it with the BBC. She started out on newspapers in South Wales, but then got a job with the BBC in Plymouth, and then on to ‘Nationwide’ (the modern equivalent is ‘The One Show’). ‘Desert Island Discs’ on Friday and Sunday mornings on BBC Radio 4 is one of the most popular and long running programmes on the radio. Questions: Do you remember the broadcaster, Sue Lawley? Did you watch the magazine programme, ‘Nationwide’, on the telly? What other television newsreaders do you remember? [Eg: Richard Baker, Robert Dougall, Kenneth Kendall, Alastair Burnet, Reginald Bosanquet, Angela Rippon, Trevor McDonald, Moira Stuart] Did/do you listen to ‘Desert Island Discs’ on radio 4?

PAGE 1 ~ THE WAY WE WERE ~ (by Mary) ~ The different kinds glues – some smelly Background: A lot of glues used to be very inflammable and smelt like petrol. Some were brown-y coloured and if you used them to mend something delicate, the join always looked clumsy and obtrusive. Some glues used two different compounds that had to be mixed together, or applied separately to each surface and left to dry for a while. Copydex, Araldite and Bostik were popular brands. Questions: Were you good at mending things? What sort of glues and adhesives did you usually use? How easy were they to use? Were you good at reading instructions? Have you ever used modern superglue? What is it like? Have you had any accidents with superglue? What is the most difficult repair job you have ever tackled? What smells do you associate with mending and DIY jobs around the house?

PAGE 2 ~ THAT’S LIFE ~ (by Jimmy) ~ Using a micrometer and turning a metal bar Background: A micrometer is a gauge which measures small distances between two faces, and can be moved away or towards the other by turning a screw with a fine thread. Many men may well have used a micrometer at school or college. The main measurement is made on the fixed barrel, then you add on the parts of the millimetre by turning the screw on the barrel until it clicks, and read from the vernier scale. Questions: Have you ever used a micrometer? Where was this? What were you doing? Were you or any of your family or friends employed as engineers? What sort of engineers? Which was your favourite practical subject? Do you know what a vernier scale is? [A graduated moveable scale to get small sub-divisions on a measuring instrument] Do you prefer to work in feet & inches or in metres & centimetres?

PAGE 2 ~ OVER TO YOU ~ Shortening names and being given a nickname Background: Sometimes names do get shortened, and sometimes friends call each other by all kinds of names based on habits, characteristics or something that’s a private joke in the circle of friends. Sometimes people are called by their initials like ‘J.B’. Children are often given their Christian or first names officially at a ceremony such as baptisms and christenings, but there are also other religious and non-religious ceremonies for naming a child. Questions: Was your name shortened? Did you shorten people’s names? Did you have a nickname? Did your family use it, or just friends? Which names are difficult to shorten? [short ones eg Ian, Ann] How did you choose names for your children? Are there any famous people with the same name as you? What ceremonies are associated with naming? If you were choosing a nickname for yourself what would it be? PAGE 3 ~ QUIZ : Essex County Quiz Answers: 1. Southend 2. North 3. East 4. Clacton 5. Elizabeth I 6. Crawley (Sussex) 7. Colchester 8. Stansted 9. Epping Forest