[jambutty]

One of the joys of listening to the wireless instead of ogling that box in the corner is that you can hear some very interesting debates and phone ins.

During the Ken Bruce show this morning listeners were invited to phone in and name an object that they had that was still in use but should have been pensioned off years ago.

One lady rang in to praise her mother’s or was it her grandmother’s smoothing iron. The type that did not have a thermostat and when it got too hot you had to unplug it from the mains. Those types of iron were very good for making toast but it did make a mess of the face of the iron.

So forum members what artefact have you got from yesteryear that you still use today? I think that we should exclude furniture.

Apart from the most ancient object in my flat – me – I have a shoe/boot polishing brush. It belonged to my dad and he got it in a Red Cross parcel whilst he was interned in a German prisoner of war camp for the duration of WWII. So that makes it between 62 and 67 years old.