Fantastically accurate descriptions

Blinko one of my all time favourites Ever Decreasing Circles. Waiting for it to come back to record all the episodes. Mr Manc is sometimes a bit Martin! X

Billy Connelly tells a lovely tale of 2 older ladies, both with their purses out, arguing over who should pay for coffee. They are both dressed in
‘heather mixture’ which just about sums up my wardrobe now!

I can't find the exact reference but somewhere in 'Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog', Dylan Thomas describes a certain hairstyle as 'corrugated iron perms'.

Witzend that was George's grandma in George's Marvellous Medicine.

I loved Ever Decreasing Circles - Richard Briers' Martin was the perfect depiction of a man with Asperger's syndrome at a time before the syndrome was known. We have all known Harold and Hildas over the years. My friend and I made a mutual agreement never to have the grey curly perm as we get older. There are still many very elderly ladies who seem to go in for them along with the pastel coloured coloured clothes and pale blue anorak. The male equivalent is light brown slacks with a beige anorak.

Howard l mean.

Noel Gallagher famously called his brother Liam a "man with a fork in a world of soup". I have known many who would fit that description!

On another thread I described someone's facial expressions as being like a bulldog licking p*ss off a stinging nettle.

Omg this thread is hilarious ?.

Oh, dear! I have always avoided a perm. I always had fine, straight hair but, lately it has developed a kink.

I am puzzled about what to do with my hair if I can’t have a bob or a perm. What is left, please? Currently, I blow-dry it to get rid of the waves.

You can have a nice sharp bob Tweedle!

I once lost my temper at work and descibed a woman who I disliked as having a face like a smacked a**e.

My boss laughed so hard he fell off the chair.......

GrannieAnnie2010

We used to call them (now us) 'Cottontops'

I was a cauliflower head for 1 day in the early 70s. I went to pick up my young son from nursery school and he didn’t recognise me!. After walking round me in a circle and with me reassuring him that I was mummy he burst into tears. I had it taken out the following morning.

As I have a natural wave in my hair it had frizzed up . I had agreed with my hairdresser that he would take the perm out if I didn’t like it.

A late and very lamented. Geordie chum of mine used to refer to a grumpy person as "having a face like a pox doctor's clerk" which always made me laugh.
My favourite way of getting off to sleep is to snuggle down and say to myself "a warm bed on a winter's night". Works every time.
Howard and Hilda..Ever Decreasing Circles. I loved the flirty next door neighbour..was it Peter Egan? As ever, Richard Briers played a brilliant part. We all know someone like that.

A local farmer here would say "a face like a melted wellie" ?

I have heard of a bus driver who calls his older clientele the "Twirlies", because they're always trying to use their bus passes before 9, and ask "Am I too early"?

I found a photo taken the only time I had a curly perm. It seemed to make me look older and fatter. I was 43 and a Weight Watchers leader. Now I am really older and my naturally curly hair has made a comeback.

I’ve watched most of the Ever Decreasing Circles this last year, they regularly crop up on Dave or Gold, and I enjoyed them even more the second time around.
Good acting and dialogue and plots, both funny and touching.

And then there is helmet hair

Grande, I thought that read ‘a face like a melted WILLIE’.
My mind boggled ?

Sorry autocorrect Grannee

My hairdresser many years ago called the pensioners “ the blue rinse brigade “

Georgesgran I think Billy Connolly also described these ladies as having 'Scone shoes' - the little comfy basketweave wide fitting footwear that scuttled into tea shops, taking their owner with them! That was such a funny sketch.