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When I was at school and into my late teens, I was always known as 'Chas', even though my name is Barrie. It got to the point that the landlord of the White Horse, Faraday road, when I walked in would always say! "The usual Charles"? ( He'd only heard people call me Chas).

It's fascinating the way names come in and out of fashion over the years. I can't get over is the fact that the top name for boys this year is Noah. That would've been beyond a joke when I was at school.

Call me what you like, so long as it's not late for dinner...

Forest- Chris Wood finished his season with 14 goals and a brace against Burnley in the 2nd and 14th minute. Burnley pulled one back in the 72nd minute but the result was never in doubt. The match report gives coverage to Nuno saying that during the season "We didn't have chance to build the bond" No, no Nuno the team just has to play better. If there is a clear out make it a big one encompassing all levels in the club. A quick summary of the "Local Clubs" Forest - escaped relegation again finishing in 17th position County - Finished 14th in the lower half of Division 2 St

At one time there was a brand of shoe polish in Australia called Nigger.

I’ve no idea @nonnaB, I have never known Carol and only got to know John Whitt about 25 years ago, although he was at one time engaged to my college friend Jill Gardner who tragically died on Gunthorpe Bridge when her recently serviced car lost a wheel and crashed, killing both Jill and her mother. I think that was in the 1980s.. (I don’t know the exact details as I was living down south at the time and I’m only going on my memory of my Mum phoning to tell me) I do know that Carol was an air hostess before marrying Anthony Bamford.

I’ve got a cousin called James who was always ‘Jimmy’ as a child. I still think of him as Jimmy but he hates it and insists he’s called Jim.

Whenever I visited my mum I loved to go into Nottm centre but now I have to make do with local shops. The other day I went to a smallish retail park looking for clothes . I chose what I wanted and proceeded the the cash till handed over my bancomat. Sorry refused. Ok I realised id given wrong pin. Try again refused again with correct pin. Impossible…!!! Tried with another 3 cards all with the same result. This time I felt a fool but also confused ( had I given wrong pin to each card. ) Then the assistant told me that over € 70 needed a PIN number. Which is what I did. I was so annoyed I just t

Sorry looking back I’d written before about names.

Lizzie James has fortunately remained the same but his friends in Radcliffe called him different. Surname Cannistraro it sounded like it Calamari and it was too long so they shortened it to Squid.

A bit like our fig tree €1.99 from Lidl and hasn’t stopped producing fruits . Last year our neighbour pruned it and said it probably wouldn’t give much fruit . Haha This year I pruned it and cut out more than I should and said the same thing . More leaves than fruit. It is now overloaded with big figs , medium figs and baby figs with grandchildren figs just sprouting through. I do thin them out but it never seems to deter it.

My mum had a dog called Nigger when she was little.

Lizzie the Carol you mentioned being the sister of ? Whitt did they live in Wollaton. If so she used to go to the riding school I went to and seem to remember that she was a friend of my bosses daughter from the same stables.

Looks like one of your paintings Beekay very nice.

Absolutely no idea M. When we bought many years ago, it was just a scraggy, runt of the litter that only cost me about 0.75p. It were more like a little twig, but we chose to buy it and give it a chance. It has rewarded us ever since. I cut it right back at the end of each year and we think we've lost it, but it surprises each year.

i read with interest about your visit to Hiroshima japan. quite a few years ago we went to Poland to the see the Auschwitz German concentration camps,l the train tower you see in film's I stood looking out from the tower and pictured trains coming in full of humans, we went into the huts where people used to sleep it was also a very cold day. The people in the camps used to wear just rags they must have been so cold. They did have stoves in the huts but nothing to burn on them. We were invited to go inside the gas oven's sorry I did give that a miss. There were some school children who wer

Well done BK is this Clematis the one that is named Nelly-Moser?

Yes Lizzie good fight,,,,,,,im waiting to hear from my son who used to Spar with Fury...when they both lived next to each other in Caravans up in Yorkshire somewhere...........He's been working alongside them in Saudi..... He also frequents Rwanda..and could be back there soon.....politics permitting...lol...... I'll ask him if he knows Scott Farrell.......he probably does....

What a fight it was @benjamin1945! How did Fury stayed on his feet towards the end?! I’m not a big boxing fan but glad we stayed up to watch it. Our son is in Kigali, Rwanda working at the moment and he bought a Firestick for his hotel room tv to watch it. All was good, until the stream closed down on Round 12, he rang us to see who won!! Incidentally, I wonder if your son knows Scott Farrell, CEO and Founder of Global Boxing Stars. Our kid knows him from living in Africa and there’s a Nottingham connection as he grew up in Hucknall.

Wrong thread but....these Clematis blooms are massive. Like dinner plates. Pity theres only 9 blooms, but that's the extent of my gardening...

Hardly new.. I've been using it for years..and here since at least a year back.

Rear gunner - known as ‘Tail End Charlie’. A life expectancy of 40 flying hours. I’ve been in a Lanc and remember the confined space and climbing over the main spar to get rearward.

Before the Red Arrows were based at Scampton Lincs my brother had returned from an RAF station abroad and was based at Scampton (we had many a good Saturday night in the mess) but did you know that every night the camp was on RED ALERT and all the planes were pointed one way. One day when they used to have the Lans onshow near the gate, my brother ask if we woud like to go inside the plane. Well once inslde the Lancs it was so small in they there was just no room to move, and as for the chap who was in the glass bubble with his machine gun, well there was just no hope.

A reminder of what he looks like in his natural habitat, some time last year.

I'm now half the woman I was there, I'm delighted to say! I was gaining weight without any logical reason and looking very bloated. Thyroid problems, as yet unsuspected and undetected.