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Hi everyone. I'm Julie, just came across this site and thought it would be interesting to join you all. I was born here and have lived here all my life. Lived in Radford, St Anns, and Aspley which is where I am now. Me thinks I'll be spending a lot of time looking at all your posts and probably won't get much house work done today.... Lol

My eldest son is married to a Dutch girl and they have a 3 year old daughter . Mum has always spoken in Dutch to her at home and Dad always English. They are in the process of moving to Holland at the moment and it is amazing that the little one can now speak both languages fluently and can easily switch from one to the other depending on who she is speaking to .

I learned French at school, and got a French penfriend when I was 12, we still write/email each other and I visited her a couple of times in my teens and then again in my early 20's, all of which has helped preserve the smattering of French which I still retain. I find it improves with practice though, particularly if we have French campers arriving on site. In the 80's I spent 14 months in Holland and had some language lessons, the problem I had over there was as soon as I tried to speak to the locals when shopping or in a restaurant, they would laugh and then speak to me in near perfect Eng

One of the oddest things to hear is people conversing in Switzerland. I sat in a bar in Zurich once and overheard a group of 3 friends switching between German, French and English almost mid-sentence. It was as if they were all one language and I still have no idea why one would say something in German, the reply coming in French then the first person saying something else in English.

PuttingI my thoughts on immigration aside,i do admire the foreigners that come here and learn English,i went to a sec.mod.school and didnt learn any foreign languages.,and over the years have tried to learn one or two without much success,but i found as long as you have a stab the host people give you respect for trying. Use of key words will mostly get you by,we should"nt be smug when foreigners make the effort,it cant be easy for em.i would love to be bi-lingual and most 2nd generation Asians are. Being on holiday in a different land is way differerent to li

Forest's squad at the start of the season was very strong. I've heard that Davies' training regime was ridiculously touch and probably responsible for most of the injuries which took a lot of the players out. Having said that, the second team should have been strong enough to play better than they did against Derby, which was basically just, disgraceful. Davies' attitude towards the fans after the match on Saturday was shocking, and he seems like a different man from the one before. Fingers crossed Forest move forward from this and land a place in the play offs!

'Walking round our local town I saw various prices £8.10 upwards then I came across a small shop in an arcade with the sign "Haircuts all day, £4.99" When I paid, seeing the fiver in my hand, he had a penny ready to give me change. I waved that away giving him £7.' Hey there, mick2me.....you robbed a bank or something? A 2 quid tip for a 5 quid job............

No but this one will !!!!!!!!!

Thanks everyone for your warm welcomes. I lived in Schooner Street from being a baby until I was 9. It's since been knocked down, sad to say

I was a season ticket holder for twenty eight years, but have only been once since Paul Hart was sacked. I actually think Billy talked himself out of a job and into a big pay off.

Can anyone explain why a manager is sacked because the team a`int winning then go out and appoint someone who has been sacked on numerous occasions from other clubs for exactly the same reason?

Welcome to Nottstalgia Melissa,this is a site with a lot of folks in their 'Autumn of youth'

A very happy birthday to Ms Jackson and Dennis. Thank you all,I will try my best to enjoy the day:) I wish all the members, the best of health,wealth and happiness.

A BIG Thank You all for your lovely birthday wishes, Christine xx

Funnily enough, the best barber I've come across for me is Iranian. In fact, his father was a hostage at the Iranian Embassy during the siege and subsequent SAS operation.

And that applies to some English people

Brought up on Broadholme Street in New Lenton. House is now demolished but we still go back and wander round and look at the little dark corners where we stood snogging all those years ago.

There is a site that covers some of the history of the Nottingham hospitals, there is some good old photos as well. http://www.nottingha...o.uk/index.html

There is an article in the post today regarding a lot of old maps being released on a website. Worth a look. http://www.nottinghampost.com/Online-maps-showing-Nottinghamshire-changed-ages/story-20845643-detail/story.html

Nice post, MelissaJKelly. If Forest can just stay up there until the injured players are all back then I think a full strength side would get promotion.

When I started this thread my initial post was: 'I've just heard that Billy Davies is to return to the City Ground. Light the fuse and stay well back..lol' Billy Davies has been given around eight million pounds for players, which is a huge amount for the Championship, but it was looking like he would't even get into the play-offs. Every pundit was saying that Forest had one of the strongest squads but when they started getting a few injuries the players that were coming in were found not to be good enough. Or were they good enough but just lacked any motivation from Davies. Davies was very

Congratulations Catfan on your 1.000th post

I was impressed with the service.

Re #18 - the letter from Ted Lune's mother : "...I'm writing this letter slowly son, 'cos I know you can't read very fast..."

Haha, catfan. "You can't beat a bit of Bully". Another thing that used to amuse me was when a chap, who lived on the 8th floor in a block of flats, would win a set of garden furniture.

Michael, that phrase was "Classic" ! I always used to think, what would two contestants do with a speedboat ? chop it in half !

"Let's see what you could have won" .....Bullseye.

Hi Julieeeeee, looks like you've been given a right big Royal Welcome - here's mine to add to................

So it's a small world innit ?!?! His name rang a bell, although I'm not sure if he will know or remember me. (And obviously my real name isn't Cliff or Ton) Shawn grew up in Clifton. So did I. The back garden of the house where he lived backed onto the back garden of the house where I lived. My mum knew Shawn's mum (Marion). When I was young - less than 9 or 10 - there were times I was in Shawn's house when he was a baby, because I was with my mum who was visiting Shawn's mum. So he obviously wouldn't have really known me when he was about 2 and I was about 9. And as we all

Does he have 3 sisters, and his mother's name was Marion?

Sorry this thread gone off at a tangent,being a gent i blame MELISSA

BILLY GONE OK,but please not WARNOCK !

Thank you Catfan! Hey there Commo! Thanks a lot! Nice to meet all of you lovely folks!

Melissa, where was Shawn Kelly born? (general area, without giving away any private information)

Av a gud un all ! Welcome Mellissa !

Ahh I see! Must be nice to go and reminisce. Sure I'll be doing the same in a good few years

Hi Melissa, welcome to 'Nottstalgia' - lovely to see your pretty face...........

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Wat'yonabaaht!

It's a pity some of the people in this country won't learn to speak English correctly.

A good friend of my wife was born in Kenya & cane to England in 1974 with her parents. English is her third language & speaks it better than a lot of English people her accent is certainly Lesta. My stepsons boy friend is Danish & his English is as good as if not better than mine he also speaks German. ME only English with a bit of an accent(Nottingham?)

Me neither !

Don't do facebook...

Railways are very dangerous places to work if you are in movements. This was brought home in 1992 when we lost a good friend just doing his job. Gary was a young fellow with a lovely wife and a little lad. He was good to work with. A good shunter. He pulled his weight and usually worked very safely. We were sad to see him go when he transferred to the Railway Research department across the main line near London Road, Derby. It was a good job for him. Two of them working together 8am til 4pm, preparing special research trains to go places all over the system. Occasionally there

Just seen on the news that The Royal Bank of Scotland are to pay £576M pounds in bonuses after making billions in losses. Even though 80% is owned by the tax payer. What a deceitful, cheating bunch of incompetent barstewards.

yeah! i left cotto back in 1972 ages 15 i think, never been back since then , may just go to the reunion to have a last look before it goes for good, are you going?.

thanks for that kevin. no mick lenton born and bred only had one sister ruth who id about 10 years older than him cottismore was both a boys and a girls school on the same site on radford bulivard devied as i understand by a large wall and the girls left school earlier than the boys school.

Here's a few photos I did the other day... http://www.flickr.com/photos/david_nimrod/

Looking up Garden St to Denman St on the picture I remember the shops but only one springs to mind "The Home & Colonial" the local co-op where mam did her shoping(Because of the Divi) was on Alfreton Rd, I remember the walk up Boden St to get there and of course I have never forgotten her divi number

HI I WENT TO COTTESMORE TOO I LEFT IN 72 WENT TO WORK AT RALLEIGH , JUST OVER THE ROAD . I WAS IN MR SCOTTS CLASS , HE WAS MY FORM TEACHER , WE HAD LOTS OF FUN WITH MR SCOTT TELLING US OF ALL HIS EXPLOITS OF CLIMBING MOUNTAINS ,BETTER THAN A GEOGRAPHY LESSON, I DO RECALL MR HEATHCOTE TOO AS HEADMASTER, ALSO MR HINDLEY HE USED TO TAKE US FOR RUGBY ......BUT DIDNT LIKE HIM AT ALL, LIKED HIS WHISKEY IN THE CUPARD BEHIND HIS DESK . I WAS IN 1B1 CLASS . DONT RECALL MUCH MORE ONLY FRIENDS THERE AND THE PARK OPPOSIT THE SCHOOL. DO RECALL WENT TO SEE OLIVER / TO SIR WITH LOVE AT THE SAVOY WHILST AT SC