I leafed through family photos the other day. Some were a series of one set of grandparents taken in Porthcawl circa 1955. It was plainly a sweltering day gauging from how some children were dressed in a few shots.

But he, grandfather, along with other men in a some all wore familiar drab looking jackets of the time, some wore ties too.

Back then a stiff upper lip had to be maintained at all times. Moaning Minnies and other softies the like of the thread starter, who has morphed into CCMB's Derek the Weatherman of late, would have received a swift kick up the Khyber had he been around then.