If you thought there was a lot of good TV shows that first aired in 1970, there’s a lot more in 1971 including a few long lasting shows that will be recognisable to many people, if only because of TV re-runs. Here’s a few of the highlights. The Waltons Season One – available on DVD from Amazon The Two Ronnies – This was a comedy sketch show featuring a pair of British comedians, Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett. It lasted from 1971 until 1987, and ran to 93 episodes. Their bi

The first computer games sprung up in the 1950s and 1960s, not long after the inception of the computer. Early computer games were very basic and very few people had access to them (they were played on expensive mainframes and the ironically named ‘mini-computers’ – they were the size of filing cabinets). The 1970s though was the decade when all that started to change – firstly with arcade video machines and then not much later the first video games consoles hit the shelves.

When you think of France, where are you thinking of? Paris? Calais? A childhood holiday in Brittany? Maybe the picture you conjure up is of the Eiffel tower, a Parisian café or a vineyard somewhere. The chances are, you are only thinking of one or two of the many diverse regions of France. This article aims to tell you a bit more about the different areas of France, what they are like, what there is to see and do there. How many different regions of France are there? This is

I’ve never been a big reader of short stories, always preferring novels, and I don’t think that is going to change anytime soon, but I’ve recently started reading some short stories and I have been surprised how much I’ve enjoyed some of the stories I’ve read. There’s also quite a lot that left my cold (and bored and at times confused). In this and more posts to come I’ll be talking about my findings and reviewing some of the stories I’ve read, particularly ones I’ve really e