When did you last hear someone whistle? The postman, milkman, paper boy? I ask because during an afternoon bingeing on British 1940s black & white films recently, I couldn’t work out what was different. Apart from the over acting, the excruciatingly posh accents, and the cheery subservience of the peasants, that is. Eventually, I realised all the men whistled while they worked. And now almost nobody does. Thinking about it, almost no women ever did.
Naturally, being a keen
