Anybody else watching the classic TV series A Family at War on TPTV? I'm really enjoying it - only slightly frustrated by the old-style drip feed of one episode a week, as nowadays I'm a fervent binge-watcher. It originally aired from 1970-72 which is even longer ago than I recall; in fact, I don't remember watching it back then as I wasn't much of a television-viewer in my teens - I'd have been hogging the 'front room', ostensibly doing my homework but actually immersed in my stash of Jackie magazines and obsessing about my split ends. (Whatever happened to split ends? Does anybody have them any more? How many gallons of Protein 21 shampoo did it take before I grasped that advertisers saw me coming?) However, somebody must have been watching - because that Vaughan Williams theme music and the opening titles with the sandcastle waft me right back ... get a grip, I'm not really nostalgic for O-levels revision! High-class television, though, great writing and a great cast - and doesn't the young Barbara Flynn, as Freda Ashton, look so pretty?