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  2. Even the name 'Easter' has been filched from pre-Christian times: Eostre is the pagan fertility goddess of humans and crops. The traditional colors of the festival are green, yellow and purple. The symbols used are hares and eggs, representing fertility.
  3. I’ve just found a really interesting website - nawcat.nottinghamshire.gov.uk where you can put in a house address (number or name on road) and search for information on history of properties. Very interesting if you want to search where you lived.
  4. @Oztalgian no offence taken. Hope you’ll have a happy Easter time x
  5. Never got to see Larry play live in a Forest shirt as he joined the reds after I emigrated. Saw him many times as a Liverpool player vs Forest He also managed the Magpies for a year too. 75 was far too young, RIP Larry, condolences to family and friends.
  6. Thanks for the explanation MargieH. Please don't take this the wrong way as I would never deride anyone's faith or beliefs, that is a personal choice. The fact that we somehow don't know when he was born or died or have any proof that he ever existed just adds to the whole fairy tale. I will declare the fact that I am a confirmed athiest.
  7. Sad news. And after he'd finished as a professional footballer, for several years he ran the Stage Door pub (now called The Stage) on Upper Parliament Street. https://maps.app.goo.gl/PPtLThq44eJCRRRM9
  8. I have ran across this in my life time of car repairs what happens is somtimes when you unscew the old filter the "O" ring comes off the filter and sticks to the engine block so when you put the new filter on you now have two "O"s you have to remember to avoid this is to wipe the oil filter base clean then you would see if an "O" is stuck to the filter base.
  9. My son had his car serviced last week and wondered why he had quite a large oil leak afterwards. As it was a Sunday he called into Kwik Fit who said they didn’t have time to look at it but assumed the garage had fitted the wrong type of oil filter. He called the AA and they discovered this. The garage hadn’t taken this off the old oil filter before they fitted the new one!
  10. I was saddened to learn today that Larry (Laurence) Llyod has passed away today age only 74. I knew Larry reasonably well in the mid 80’s to the 90’s. Very pleasant generous fellow and a great footballer. Excellent company to be with and a pivotal member of Brian Clough’s Nottingham Forest team during their glory days. Rest in Peace Larrry.
  11. Apart from the oxymoron I quite agree...
  12. Is a warning of a problem that has no specific warning light of it's own like seat belts, brakes etc. It's not critical but does need attention...
  13. I can always tell when it’s pigeon laying egg time. My little cat brings me eggs, sometimes completely whole so she knows where the nests are. Makes a change from mice I guess.
  14. My Fiat 500 developed an intermittent warning light for some time when I started it up. A triangle with an exclamation mark in it. Sturgess Fiat in Leicester wanted £160.00 just to run a diagnostics check. I found that if I turned the car off and back on again it disappeared. The local garage couldn’t determine why it was happening either. Their only suggestion was that because I was doing low mileage there was something that wasn’t getting up to temp. Being totally non mechanical, I can’t remember what it was. I’ve actually not had it for about 6 months now and my driving habits haven’t chang
  15. Easter Sunday is the first Sunday following the first full moon after the spring equinox. Probably Christmas Day is a fixed date because it replaced a pagan festival. No one knows exactly on which date Jesus was born or was crucified. The calendar at that time would have been the ancient Hebrew one anyway, not tne calendar we have now. The Feasts and Festivals of Judaism would have been decided on by the moon’s cycle. We do know that Jesus was crucified during the Jewish Passover Festival though. Personally, it doesn’t concern me that the exact dates aren’t known - I’m just gr
  16. But is it? To my mind 20% seems a fairly normal profit margin. I can't really see why they're trying to make out it's some sort of outrageous profiteering. They are after all a business like any other. The GMB and that mysterious invisible group 'campaigners' wants more regulation, I say it's too much regulations that's caused the problem. Since child minding became regulated and forced into a politically correct regime of quasi schools for babies, many have simply given up. The visits from the education department, the demand for record keeping, a curriculum plus
  17. I saw Clive Lynch a few times in the pubs and clubs, he used to have a cafe in Beeston.
  18. I see a lot of these running lights turn off when the indicator light comes on, only the side that the indicator light shows so that could ease the problem, have the germans cured the indicator light problem on their cars now? you know where the indicators only come on two feet from the junction they are going to turn into instead of the recommended fifty meters, just asking Rog
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