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Very expensive and the scent has gone after the first rain shower, guy down the road tried it, he's now put electric wires on top of his fence like the farmers use to keep animals in the fields Rog

I used to use a child’s super soaker water gun to discourage a neighbour’s dog that kept coming up the drive.

Get yerself a very large, hungry savage dog Rog. Edit. I read somewhere that if you could get a dollop of lion faeces and spread that around, it would solve the problem.

I know it was, hence the clapping and shouting all night comment, they are a pain in the ar$e though Rog

It was something of a jest PF

It’s strange because we’ve got two cats and the people whose gardens that back onto our orchard have six cats amongst them and we never have any cat problems. I have a large ginger cat purring on my knee as I type (with difficulty!)

And then they come back and crap on the garden again unless you want to wait outside all day and night clapping and shouting, I'm afraid it's gone beyond that Brew, Rog

According to the RSPCA site you could "shoo them away by shouting or clapping"... simples!

Read the report fully and it turns out that the vote for an overarching authority of governance and a single mayor did NOT gain a majority.. The vote was 43% for - 45% against, something they chose to ignore. The hierarchy will be: East Midlands Combined County Authority - 1 The city councils - 2 The county councils - 2 The district/borough councils - 15 The town councils - 351 The parish councils... ?? There will soon be more chiefs than indians. It was mentioned as Stuart says on Pages 110 and 125. My

At a previous house we had a cat flap in the utility room door, inherited from a previous occupant. There was a horrible Ginger Tom that used to come in and stink the place out when we first moved there so something had to be done. We tried unsuccessfully locking it and one night the Tom cat got in and obviously couldn’t get out. He was running up the walls knocking down washing powder etc from high shelves, he went berserk and next morning when we went in that room we thought he was going to attack us! However, he didn’t come back into the house again!

Tried everything Phil, neighbour across the road spent over two hundred quid having proper spikes fitted along her wooden fence, a week later one of the things was sat on the fence, You can't say we haven't tried Rog

This is what I posted on this Political thread in February this year, Page 125, when the subject came up,, I was aware of talk of proposals for the East Midlands amalgamation and now assume that I must have thought that others, not the residents would be making the decision. I must have been asleep between November 2022 and Jan 2023 as I don't remember any mention or any contact by anyone or by letter of any link to the consultation website, which I've just found. Obviously the Have your say section has now been disabled / removed. https://www.eastmidlandsdevolution.co

Very easy to confuse a minor with a miner!

I faintly remember catching a Makemson single decker from Hucknall Market Place to Bestwood Colliery and back with my grandfather. He was on holiday and went to pick up his pay packet. It was a half-cab single decker. The conductor was quite perplexed that a minor was travelling on the bus and was not sure what fare to charge.

Thank you Stuart.C it must be me as i did not know any thing the consultation. How many people live in Derby / Derbyshire / Nottingham / Nottingham / according to the figure quoted bout 5,000 Don't get me wrong Stuart but I do find it hard to belive that I never heard anything about it.

Have you tried the water jet cat scarers Rog? Available from Amazon.

I have three options left to me for the cat problem that is plaguing our close, 1 Catapult and .38 cal ball bearings 2 air rifle 3 four pronged bayonet (garden fork) Why should I have to go around my garden every morning to clear away cat crap and being a bird lover why should I have to witness these creatures killing birds and raiding nests with young I have tried every thing I can think of to stop the problem from electronic scarers through to netting on my garden and nothing seems to stop them so as far as I can see the final solution is the only way, I'm sorry if

Mary, yes there was a consultation to see if the Notts / Derbys residents wanted to join forces and have single East Midlands Mayor. A public consultation on East Midlands devolution, carried out between November 2022 and January 2023, showed strong support for the plans among local residents, businesses and community groups. There were 4,869 responses to the consultation overall, from members of the public and people answering on behalf of an organisation. The number of responses was higher than similar consultations on devolution in other areas.

I admit that we’re not cat lovers and we have a bigger garden than all our neighbours, most of whom seem to have two cats each. Every time I look out of the window there’s one of them sneaking around (and pooing) however we wouldn’t ever harm a cat or any animal for that matter.

If you're on Facebook there's a lot of old Makemson's photos here.... https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.317068805159160&type=3

I used to drive one like that for MAKEMSON, when I worked part time for them. I did a colliery run from top of St.Albans road, via Bestwood road to Calverton colliery. I've also worked as a conductor on their Bulwell market to Bestwood village, on Saturdays and Sundays. I'm fairly sure that was a lowdecker with the long bench seats and gangway down the starboard side.( the one in Oz's link).

Sorry, I was just copying Notty Ash’s wording.

Did they serve milk stout on the Hucknall run? Surely you mean Makemsons There is a great slideshow here with some shots of a Marsden store for our Ben The Omnibus Society | Makemson, Bulwell, Nottingham (zenfolio.com) There is also some good stuff on the Bulwell photos Facebook site including a red and cream Makemsons single decker in a montage of a number of their coaches.

That brings back memories. Mackesons were used for the school trips at Mellish and Pascoe’s, the electrical people in Bulwell, used to supply the public address system on school sports days.

Our ex-Prime Minister, Scott Morrison has admitted that he took medication for severe anxiety whilst he was in office. He explained "how his faith had intersected with his time as leader" (what does that mean) and that the toll of the job had worn on him and that his waves of anxiety had become acute. As arguably the worst Prime Minister Australia has ever had. I can assure him that he caused endless anxiety to countless millions of Australians who lost their faith in him and his Liberal (Conservative) government with their endless rorts and waste of public money. The deliberate poli