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Just been watching a minor repair on the road outside our house. Two 7.5 tonne wagons & 5 council operatives to do the job ! Well, one bloke was working & four were watching ! Council Tax rise in April ?

#49 Catfan He looks like he could be quite competitive on a quote, can you get his number? I have got some ridge tiles need re-bedding on my 3 storey property and a couple of fully mature oak trees felling?.

Missed it last year it pissed it down, here's a few from years gone, you'll get the idea, get your camera charged up.

You should've bought it. Handy place to hide a stash of dodgily-acquired railwayana.

Especially the one with the 'dead' cat.

Advertising gurus work on the principle of making their offerings memorable to the public. So the more outrageous the better, as far as they're concerned. I wonder if it occurs to them they can be so memorably cringe-worthy, that it turns people off their product. The moneysupermarket ads are utter crap. Contrast those to the hilarious specsavers ads, now they're 'epic'.

The worst ever must be the latest bizarre offering from Money Supermaket.com. We've endured the black pimp with his whores, the dimwit going up in space, and the retard riding an elephant through New York.. Now, we are subjected to an imbecilic bloke strutting down the street in high heels and minute denim hot pants . Who the hell dreams up this crap. The actor should be ashamed of himself, and anyone insured with this company should cease immediately !!!!!!

Sod's law Tony. Same with me. Sounds decent. I'll have to remember for next year!

How is it that I ALWAYS find out about these events either afterwards, or when it is too late for me to arrange?

Everybody has discovered the Evening Post website is a real pain because of all the adverts, so that each page take several minutes to load. You can run various Ad-block programmes, but there is now a possibly decent alternative. Notts TV (the local station) have got a local news section on their website. I'm not guaranteeing it's perfect, but it can't be worse than the NEP. http://news.nottstv.com

Minor update: If anyone still doubts the return of the clock to the Vic Centre, keep an eye out next week for some hoardings that they are going to erect around the new location. Engineer

England Rugby beat Wales in Cardiff, an exciting game played by real men, not overpaid primadonnas. Swing Low Sweet Chariot .....

Yep, that was me!

Schools given the day off for, 'Empire Day' and if you were lucky enough to get a bowl of tinned fruit to eat, there was always a slice of bread and butter with it and told, 'Eat yer bread and butter'. Does anyone still do this?

Only if you have a conservertory he could work off !

This belongs in the joke thread really, but it's very appropriate for this subject! The Psychiatrist and the Proctologist Best friends graduated from medical school at the same time and decided that, despite two different specialties, they would open a practice together to share office space and personnel. Dr. Smith was the psychiatrist and Dr. Jones was the proctologist. They put up a sign reading: "Dr. Smith and Dr. Jones: Hysterias and Posteriors." The town council was livid and insisted they change it. So, the docs changed it to read: "Schizoids and Hemorrhoids." This wa

Another near me.!

Youth across the road he's do it yourself mad!

Didn't think it could be much of a job, with so few blokes!

As a transport fanatic, I absolutely adore trams. However, I also love Aston Martins. The reason I haven't got one is because I can't afford one. Get the picture? Maybe they'll bring back steam trains in regular service on the main line because someone with influence can make some side cash out of it.

Love this one...

British Caledonian We never forget you have a choice!

it is such a shame to see Michael Parkinson prostituting himself promoting burial insurance for the elderly leveraging his own age. Is he so hard up he needs the free pen.

Bubbles

Carni have a look at the link below which lists events on in Nottingham http://goss.nottinghamcity.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=24550

If only I had known. We would have tried to make it. I know for sure my son and partner would have booked a hotel for the night as well! Never mind as Melissa says, we will put it in the diary for next year.

You're right on the Itunes issue. Today I decided to add a few more photos to my Ipad's albums. What a pain! That Itunes program is a masterpeice of obscurity. I tried to drag the file across to the Ipad and got some obscure message about possible deleting existing albums. Well, anything for a laugh eh? Sure enough it added the new photos and deleted all the others. Aaaaargh! Fortunately I had the other photos backed up on the computer so now told it to install those. It finally did after some frustration. Why can't they make it like any other computer, add or delete a photo with

No, It's not the clearest from those links. I think this page better explains the range of activities. http://www.nottinghamcity.gov.uk/lightnight

You are not alone.

#29 They know the price of everything & the value of nothing.

Yes, it is a reservoir, and you can see it here. http://binged.it/1zDtWDy And read about it here. http://www.arnold-history-group.org/29743487

Things which are repeated

I think you can still buy this product. If you can't I better check the sell by date on the tins in my cupboard

animal cruelty

I'll tell you the only advert I look forward to watching, 'Harvey and the Rabbit', I love it, probably due to my love of dogs. Best thing is, I haven't a clue what it's supposed to be advertising, something to do with advertising agencies I think, who knows, who cares, it's very simple, not in your face and clearly not expensive to make.

My moto: "If at first you don't succeed, give up," let someone else do it..

Adverts have got progressively worse since the explosion of channels on satellite TV. There was a time when television commercials were special and commanded high prices. I'm sure many of us can remember some of the classic adverts from wayback when like Cadburys Smash, Fiat Cars (with the robots), Tango, Campari etc etc. Now it seems to be all about people shouting. Loud 'In Your Face' selling. Get it NOW!! Whizz bang 4 second adverts for films. It's just a massive bombardment of the senses. No wonder people are recording things on the HD box and fast forwarding through the ad-breaks.

The Advert for Windows where the man pushes the windows over and keeps repeating You buy one...You get one free I said You buy one You get one free