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Ah the Silver Jubilee Mugs, we had a grey one with that weird bumpy ceramic effect.

Anyway, on the cameras you're spot on. I do wonder how much UK cameras are used though - like a microcosm of our national potential, the cameras have potential but how often are they really used: half are likely faulty, most have the person monitoring them on a tea break when something happens and it seems to need an extreme act of violence before they get used in earnest.

>>nmstok+(OP)
We lived in Manc in 1977 (Dad was a soldier and did a year at UMIST to get to Lt Col, family in tow). Then we buggered off to Germany (again). For a kiddie, I had an amazing life! We were posted to Cyprus too.

Our Jub mugs were mostly transfer printed. We had coloured ones and ones with a sort of silvery monochrome effort.

I'm not too sure that the meme that the UK is the most monitored nation in the world is too true.

You probably remember 1984. I went to a jolly posh school in Devon (Wolborough Hill School, Newton Abbot) and we had to discuss 1984 in 1984.

Do you feel too monitored? I suspect that monitoring is under-reported elsewhere.