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  1. Enjoying my last few weeks as a lady of leisure before I start my new job at the end of the month!
    6 points
  2. Talking of Alberts, I wonder how our dear Albert Smith is doing, such a lovely man (and his wife Barbara) still enjoying his tea dances and wine club and an authority on the railways. He used to get into town for the meet-ups but the last time he attended was at the Lime Kiln before Covid. If you’re reading this Albert, we miss you.
    6 points
  3. I have long admired young trogg for his devotion to washing, ironing and all things domestic. Today in homage to my hero I emptied the dishwasher and put it all away. It's the first time doing so since the kitchen refurbishment was completed and apparently I stowed everything in the wrong place, even the cutlery. Far from earning brownie points I'm in the doghouse as "even and idiot couldn't get it wrong". Not sure if I should demote trogg for setting a bad example or promote him to superstar
    6 points
  4. That's impressive. Nice to see Nottstalgia can still achieve results on this kind of topic. ....and it's nothing to do with politics.
    6 points
  5. One of my favourites Benj, i still love Billies songs.I have been a bit rough these past few months, medication problems, sorry I haven't joined in so much, but I am getting there.Thanks for asking Miduck.x
    6 points
  6. Have you noticed how many people today seem to want a confrontation especially over Parking.........? Yesterday i went to my local supermarket ..which is always very busy and difficult to Park......often see people arguing over Parking....... Well yesterday i thought it was my turn.to be 'got at''.......the only space i found had a large 4x4 parked at least a foot into the space i decided on....Managed to squeeze in but left myself no room to open my door....or the 4x4 owners........ Without looking for a confrontation i decided to wait until the 4x4 owners return....when i woul
    5 points
  7. A painting done by a friend of mine, 12" x 12" Rog
    5 points
  8. Very quiet in Bulwell today......only seven market stalls.....but there was a few pluses to compensate..... A ''Busker'' playing 'Guitar' and singing....... A mature lady sitting on a bench eating a bag of ''Chips'' which she put down on my request for a Dance......which we both enjoyed....she asked'' if i came here often'' ?.......... Then a couple of nice ''Bump into's'' from old school friends....and thats always nice......
    5 points
  9. The wife is out of Hospital now after nearly 2 weeks ,she is very weak and in bed or asleep on the settee , I have told her I will bring the ironing to her in her bed. But I am still doing it and all the other housework. I will admit it women are better organising and doing the housework, Thankyou all for your concern. PS her problem was something to do with blood veins and her colon.
    5 points
  10. I am seeing quite a lot about about our local MP in the papers name Lee Anderson. there should be in my opinion, where, some-one stands as a labour candidate and gets to be in the House of commons as an MP Then changes to another party what is Joe public to think. I have just voted for ????? he was very good as a ??? but now he has changed to a different Party Should he not stand again for the other party as he was voted when he stood for one party because he changed from that party to another the party I did not vote for. Why can Lee Anderson
    4 points
  11. Nice to see that plenty of frogs have turned up in the pond. They started arriving on Monday. I was worried that some may not make the return to their ancestral home due to new fencing and gravel boards being installed on two sides of the garden. Looks like they found the little access points that I made Looks like Spring is truly here with the magnolia in bloom and the hens laying every day
    4 points
  12. As an alternative to politics..... a great, original video (before the term had been invented).
    4 points
  13. Whoever attempts to govern this once greater country and from whatever political spectrum they represent, I seriously doubt this country will ever achieve what has been lost. Indecisiveness, incompetence, corruption and weakness are just a few traits that have drawn the country down into the mire of bankruptcy and poverty we are becoming used to today. The wokeists, the fanatical mutants and the ever-present handwringing snivelling ‘do gooders’ have been allowed to thrive and spawn so we have lost control of our nationality, pride, moral conduct and the tenacity to stand up and con
    4 points
  14. Hello! I wrote on here 2 years ago as you can see and checked back regularly but didn’t get anywhere. Sue found me on Facebook and made contact this week after finding this thread by looking up other family members online :) Dorothy would have been my biological grandma. My mum and sue share her as a biological mother; my mum was adopted in the sixties. My mum and I have never met anybody biologically related to us so this is very exciting and I’m looking forward to meeting my real life auntie :) By total coincidence my mum and I did dna tests last w
    4 points
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  16. The poor bumble bee I was talking about was on my path in cold weather, it was struggling to move because he had no or very little energy after emerging from it's hole in the ground where it had probably spent most of the winter, I just couldn't leave it there to die and had to do something and that is what I did, I don't think the human race is in any danger of dying out because I potentially wasted 0.8 gram of honey on a potentially dying bumble bee but at least I potentially gave the poor bee 15-38 days of life Rog
    4 points
  17. I found a bumble bee on my garden path when I came home from a bike ride on Monday, poor thing hardly moving so I went in the house and put a drop of honey on a tea spoon, went to where the bee was and carefully picked him/her up, offered the tea spoon with honey to the bee and wow, from the front of its head/mouth came a black tube like thing and from that out came it's tongue and it started to "drink" some honey, anyway after a few minutes it stopped drinking and after a few more minutes it stretched it's wings and started to flap them, a couple more minutes and it took off buzzing away like
    4 points
  18. Very sad. I’m sure I saw recently that he was touring this year. Whenever I hear ‘Make Me Smile’ I’m reminded of a funeral of one of our employees, aged only 52 (20 years ago) who was so well known and liked, certainly in our industry. There was a massive funeral in Sedgefield Parish Church, followed by a cremation. His wife was on the wacky baccy outside the Crematorium and had to be gently encouraged to follow the coffin into the building, followed by all the other mourners. She went dancing in, waving her arms about and singing to the sound of Steve Harley’s ‘Make Me Smile’ that was b
    3 points
  19. I have had a sleeping bag and gas cooker in my shed for years, I find it a great hiding place when chores need to be done. In fact I find it very relaxing in there, I cannot wait till summer so I can spend more time in there , I did consider putting a window in there but some one would be able to see into it and find me, I feel safe in there as I lock it from the inside.
    3 points
  20. The Nottingham Post has just published an article about "8 Nottinghamshire pubs serving exceptionally good food They were :- Dovecote Inn, Laxton The Blacksmiths, Retford The Lambley, Lambley Black Bull, Blidworth Martins Arms, Colston Bassett Tap and Run, Upper Broughton The Reindeer, Hoveringham Unicorns Head, Langar Has anyone eaten at any of these and if so what was your experience? We await philmayfield's review of the Reindeer with interest. I only have experience of two of these pubs from 40+ years ago. The Black Bull at Blidworth w
    3 points
  21. Always liked the Mamas and Papas; and this is a great example of why they were good.
    3 points
  22. I had a phone call yesterday from Sonia Kataria (BBC online content) to chat about my involvement with the clock and she's posted this article: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-68512528 Separately, I had a phone call from BBC Radio Nottingham and recorded something that will go out in their weekend bulletins (I didn't think to ask what time to listen)
    3 points
  23. Hunt made a surprisingly good speech with some good points, some obscure reasoning, some humour (even Starmer laughed), some barbs against Raynor taking advantage of Thatchers right to buy, and a decent smoke screen. It was fairly complex and may yet prove to be a poison chalice for Labour. His aspirations and predictions for what the budget will achieve are a wish list and highly unlikely to come to fruition; but we can say that about every budget. He may also be paying it forward to give the Tories in opposition ammunition when Labour have to cancel or rescind all or part of
    3 points
  24. Doom and gloom have descended upon our usually happy little home. Why you might ask? The new AFL(Aussie Rules) season kicks off tonight. From now until September the media will be saturated with AFL coverage often leading all the news bulletins and newspaper headlines. I don't give a rat's rectum if Joe Bloggs has a corked thigh, Billy Goat has done a hammy or Errol Flint has strained his groin in some extra curricular activities. After American Football it is the stupidest game on the planet. If you miss the main goals, 6 points, you still get a point for missing but not by too far. The
    3 points
  25. Must have first heard of ''Duane''.......when i was but a mere Lad of 15 ish....on the 'Juke box' in the 'Penguin'' cafe in Bulwell........very popular with the ''Bikers and Teds'' putting their 3penny bits in the Box'''.....
    3 points
  26. One of our cats has just eaten half of one of my breakfast croissants! He nicked it out of the bag on the worktop. Lidl croissants are my favourite as well.
    3 points
  27. Notts TV on demand. I don't know how long it will be available. Segment on Emett Clock starts at around 38 minutes in. https://nottstv.com/programme/notts-today-friday-1st-march/
    3 points
  28. It's been said before, many times, that pure Notts content would have seen the site run out steam long ago. What are the Notts topic? Music - no Yu tube clips - no word games- no Buses, trucks planes and automobiles, etc. etc. ................. no no no What irks you about politics is the fact you hold your own views and when challenged, or you disagree with the post you, don't like it,(as with some others). Occasionally you can't resist and make some quite relevant posts, but if the topic is such an anathema, why? The people of Notts h
    3 points
  29. A few days ago, a friend of mine noticed two birds fighting in the gutter near to his house. As he got closer, he realised that one of them was a sparrowhawk, attacking a smaller bird. He watched as the victim managed to evade its attacker and flew up into the air, only for the sparrowhawk to pursue it and drag it down again. My friend approached the two birds and made a loud noise to scare off the sparrowhawk. When it had flown away, he crouched down to look at the 'prey'. At first glance, he thought it was a blackbird. It was lying with its wings outstretched, clearly terrified, a few feathe
    3 points
  30. https://www.chad.co.uk/news/people/meet-the-man-taking-care-of-victoria-centres-emett-clock-for-over-ten-years-4539915
    3 points
  31. On leaving school in 1960 and thru my Teens....Bobby was one of my favourites........Reckon i had most of his records.......those early 60s there would be a Party nearly every week with my old 'School-mates''....and the songs of Bobby Vee were always in evidence..... He sadly passed away from Alzheimers disease at 73.......
    3 points
  32. Greenwood was also a Bilateral School, I went there in the G Grammar form it also had a T Technical form. I left at the end of the 4th form, my own choice, as in the June of the 4th year my mother was panicking over purchasing my uniform etc for the next year. 5 of us at home , 5 already left and only I parent, so no one cannot convince me that the financial position of parents does not have an effect on the childrens education. If I had gone to Padstow just think what I could have learnt from Ben.
    3 points
  33. At one time you had to be Church of England to go to Bluecoat. I don’t know if that’s still the case. I’m very much against religious indoctrination in education. Our village school is C of E. Our son went there for a year but my wife, a former schoolteacher, was not happy with the standard of education and we moved him to a prep school where he ultimately passed the entrance exam for Nottingham Boys’ High. Our daughter followed him into the prep and ultimately the Girls’ High School. Our son has a PhD and our daughter an MA. I had to pay to give them the quality education I received for free
    3 points
  34. This discussion is really interesting. I passed the 11+ and went to Grammar School, although I was never in the A stream and left after ‘O’ Levels for the only reason that I wanted money in my pocket and didn’t fancy 2 more years of school and maybe 3 years of University. In fact at C-Le-W GS all the kids who went on to Uni appeared to study Medicine or went to Teacher Training College, neither appealed to me. Moving on about 15 years and our eldest son went to the local primary school in Bedfordshire. He was doing ok but he was a shy little lad. The school sent a letter home announcing t
    3 points
  35. I'm unsure how gender neutral pronouns are suppose to be used, when refering to he/she i's in the third person and not addressed directly to the person. Speaking directly to someone I use the pronoun "you", it's simple unambiguous and not open to interpretation. They/them is not only pretentious it's stupid and I refuse to play the silly game.
    3 points
  36. Good news.......the potholes on Mapperley Top are being fixed - the usual dozen or so 'hi-viz' onlookers seem to have been air brushed out!!
    3 points
  37. It certainly was Ian...........
    3 points
  38. I tried the search to find somewhere to post this, but I gave up so I thought well this has Victoria in the heading , so if it needs moving please move it thanks. In the Evening Post are 12 photos of Victoria Station in the link below. Nottingham's Victoria Station in 12 fascinating and nostalgic photos - Nottinghamshire Live (nottinghampost.com)
    3 points
  39. My memory was jogged yesterday when reading through my old school reports from when I was 9 till 15 (1947 - 53). It's surprising how much was forgotten and how much had become slightly skewed with time. But there it was, the evidence in front of me. Proper ink, on faded paper, bearing the signatures of form masters and headmaster. No excuses! These documents were, in some way, a record of my growing up. Something was glaringly obvious during these formative years but was not recognised at the time. They were also evidence of how times and teaching practices have changed.
    3 points
  40. Their joint leader, at one point, was Catmando... A cat. Cats make excellent politicians. They're egocentric, totally selfish and concerned only about what they can get out of any given situation. The only difference is, cats are quite honest about their motivations and intentions, making no attempt whatsoever to hide them. If only we could say the same of humans...
    3 points
  41. Using the name given by CT have found an article that answers my own query. The building despite its ornate tower and many upper floors just seems to have been small shops ! From an article in the E.P. dated 18th Sept 1928 , it details the reason for demolition of the old corner shops and from the text, the photograph may have been dated to between 1926 and 1928 as the upper floor of the Three Crowns had been removed at the earlier date because it was structurally unsafe. "A STREET IMPROVEMENT. £15,000 CORNER SCHEME IN NOTTINGHAM. SIX SHOPS AND PUBLIC-H
    3 points
  42. For those of you that read my ramblings about being near to deaths door when I was in ICU for 12 days late last year. I have something to add. My wife inadvertently let slip that early in my stay I had to be resuscitated as I had "died". I have news for you all there is nothing on the other side, no blinding white lights, no choirs of angels, unless I was bound for the other place, no awareness of living then dying, just nothing. Also there was no awareness of being alive again. What did I learn from the experience? Life is precious but oh so short, enjoy what time you have as I will
    3 points
  43. When I die I want to go like my grandfather. Peacefully in my sleep. Not screaming like the passengers in his car.
    2 points
  44. We’ve just driven past the riverside at Fiskerton and the two hardy souls who were fishing from under their umbrellas at 11 this morning are still there. Both with two rods apiece. The river’s in full flow and rising once again.
    2 points
  45. Thats what I aim for every morning, I achieved it again today. Well I think I did but the way I feel I am not too sure.
    2 points
  46. Oz, I enjoyed watching the first half of Forest v Man U in the cup last night. Both sides moved the ball around quickly and skillfully and it was good to watch. Forest's intensity fell away in the second half but Man U failed to capitalise. One Forest fan wrote that United were there for the taking and I can see what he meant but just as extra time was looming Forest unusually lost their concentration and Casemiro nipped in with a late winner. I'm not convinced Forest would have won if it had gone to extra time because they were starting to look disjointed and leggy. S
    2 points
  47. Loved Frankie and the four seasons......60s Locarno and 'De Palais'' in Town always enjoyed their sound for a Dance......emigrated south ish in the 70s but always found them waiting...especially in Norwich and Northants..even Peterborough (that only had one night club ...great times... 80s 90s still there back in Nottingham.......
    2 points
  48. Your good deed for the day plantfit good job.
    2 points
  49. The link to Facebook at the bottom of DAVIDW's post doesn't work (at least not for me) but this is the photo in question. Upper Parliament Street is going across the photo, and Market St is just visible going down on the far left. The most up-do-date Directory I have access to is 1915 and that lists the top of Market Street as..... 31: R Barnett & Co - Hard Confectioners also 31: William Frederick Cox - Solicitor 33 & 35: Frank B Barnett - Outfitter (related to R Barnett at 31 ?)
    2 points
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