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Work today might of got mesen sacked (be a first) top client abusing young staff member..........told him alter your language or i'll put you out and your party (150 of em) lol'........he eventually apologised ,.......purely bad manners, and i won't have it......sad thing is staff member did'nt even thank me.........but ey ho, Enjoy what i do,but i'll do it the way i want with some old values and if they don't like it i'm off anyway............

Great pic.Katy..............gotta say you looking good......how can you be related to Chulla................lol

Taxi for Red ABC to Radford how much youth?

Get your skates on

Another of my pet hates again yesterday. Restaurants who don’t use plates. Admittedly it was in an uncivilised part of the country, North Lancashire, but I ordered a fresh crab salad as a starter and it came with the crab in its shell and the salad part on a plank of wood. Why in God’s name can’t they use a bloody plate like normal people. I see that a restaurant was fined recently for serving food unhygeinically on planks of wood. Please let’s have plates to eat off. I remember when pubs used to serve chicken in a basket but that soon fell out of favour. Perhaps soup in a basket killed that i

So, what is nostalgia all about? Do we always recall the pleasant things about the past or do some recall the less pleasing aspects of the past too? Me? I love the past but like so many others....I tend to dwell mostly on the better parts of it. I would love to be able to go back in time to my old town (Nottinhgam) for a holiday and take photos and careful notes of everything because at the time we don't imagine that one day it will all be changed. Don't get me wrong though....I also enjoy the present and look forward to the future - I just wish I could re-visit some of the past with curren

KJ is much younger than ode Chulla Ben !

Runs in the family, Ben; runs in the family.

Another lovely pic.........love the suit Loppy........Dapper geezer wer'nt you..........Mrs looks beautiful.........

Bloody hell, I cracked it, my first attempt at putting a photo on here. #1 son being made Captain.

Press the quote thingy.........then just delete from the parts you don't want..................ooer hark at me Mr Computer stupid...............lol

Who would want to eat from a roof covering, especially a Welsh one! He he

Snails are usually smothered in a garlic sauce to disguise the taste but they are chewy. I find frog’s legs to be a bit like chicken and not wholly unpleasant. Basically the French will eat any bloody thing. Look around the supermarkets and you’ll see disgusting things like chicken gizzards. I’ve travelled a lot around Europe and still think Italian food is the best. The most disgusting was the Swedish fish which apparently they bury in the ground for months. When I pushed some of it to the side of my plate my host said “Ah, I see you are saving the best ‘till last”.

Oh how I hate this cold weather, anyway legs well on the mend these days & have booked a few coach holidays for 2018, looking forward to getting about again & visiting new destinations & a few of our favourite one's too !

The problem with the current format of the site is that one does not have the option to refer to a post number, so if you want it to be clear that you are referring to a particular post you have no option other than to "Quote". I always "Snip" qoutes to leave only the relevant part of the quote so that it is plain to see to what I am referring in my post.

Ah Malvern. The home of my favourite car. I’ve been round the Morgan factory a few times, stayed at the Abbey Hotel and flown a kite from the top of the Malvern hills from where, allegedly, you can see Bulwell on a clear day!

Steady on. Some people here will think you’re talking a lot of scallops!

We don't eat out much these days. Restaurant meals are a rip off and the price of wine is just silly. There seems to be a trend now for discarding the humble plate for serving the food. Of the last two meals we've eaten out one was served on a plank of wood and the other on a roofing slate. Going to eat out in Yorkshire soon so I'm expecting the pie and chips to be served in a flat cap!

As well as technological changes our mindsets are being changed as well. I feel that in another couple of generations everyone will be under the total control of, maybe, "the state" or even a company. A lot of the technical advances have made our lives easier and more enjoyable in the main but look at the underlying uses. CCTV is watching us constantly, mobile phones monitored and tracked, your financial details available at the touch of a button. You can be fined and imprisoned for not revealing who lives in your house, shopping patterns recorded via cards of various types. New rules this w

I guess we just need to get her going on the Dalai Llama, aunt Kate, cats and J S Bach and she'll soon be up to speed again.

Saw she was on a few minutes ago.......she'll be back giving it some..........love you Jill...........talk to us............lol.

Right on Ben. Far to much bullying and abuse. If a few more would do what you did it might deter it a bit. You should get a medal not the sack. Different topic. I haven't seen Jill around on here for a day or two. Hope she's ok.

Thanks Ben. She was! In every way. edited to add. I still am a dapper geezer. Once a get the ode whistle and flute on.

There used to be a very profound graffito painted on one of the gas holders (gasometers) outside St Pancras Station in London (from where the Nottingham train departed) saying: NOSTALGIA AIN'T WHAT IT USED TO BE

I can't remember details of the Ford's shop save to say it was where the Pilgrim is now before moving lower down High Street near to Barclays. The little watch repair shop was Cawleys, always reliable for lasting repairs. Another doctor was near the cemetery gates at Butlers Hill , this being Doctor Savage. There was a dentist opposite the old police station by the name of Donovon, allegedly trained at Dewhursts. I think the one at the end of Beardall Street was Rayners.

Invision?

The only way you would see bulwell from the malvern hill's is by Google earth!

Not a lot of meat on ‘em FLY

So the Old Sage of Malvern, who was standing right next to me, pointing out the sights was telling me a lie? Another illusion shattered.

Quite right catfan, alle vous cuppa when i see you, lol,

I don't think most English need to learn or practice speaking French if your only intention is to go there on holiday. Almost all of the natives in the tourist and holiday areas speak English and there is always an English speaker close by. It's only when you venture into the less touristy areas that you need French and even "les paysans" are taught a basic English understanding at school. They may, and do, forget most of it but the seeds of comprehension remain. The structure of French society is very different to England. "Paysan" translates into English as "peasant" but that doe

If I wanted to read french I would have joined a french forum.

I’m sure some of us need to practice our “O” level French.

Years before Madisons ... But its Nottingham

I would like football fans I say fans loosely who travel from far & wide be it by train, plane, car who come & support my club Nottingham Forest locked in room 101, I can't understand why you do it? When I/we sing about "Nottingham being full of fun" that's 7 days a week from the day I was born, not for your day trip. Nottingham for Nottingham people, that's why I live here.

Over use of the quote button there Cat & Jonab I'm adding dogs to that list along with kids,, dog, kids & your vape stick f'off.

The problem with men hanging around in children's playgrounds, whether or not they have a beer and a fag, is that it is assumed by an ever increasingly suspicious public that they are there for nefarious reasons. Better for you? My use of the quote button was purely to direct any readers to the post I was referring to.

The Coach has been gone for a few years; it's now been re-developed into housing. I'm saddened but not really surprised to hear that the Red Lion has closed, it was part of my life for many years. My mother and father both worked there part-time, mum as cleaner and dad as gardener and Saturday night glass collector and pot washer. I too earned a few bob there, both casual as a scholl kid and later as a full time barman after I came out of the Army. I can truthfully say that I've been going in there since 1963, as Mum used to take me with her before I went to school, we only lived across the ro

Bullocks was not only a toy shop but a photography shop. Claude Bullock was the photographer as I remember and his son Derek was more on the toy side. Going back to the shops at the top of High Street, the one next door to the pet shop was Percy Taylors butchers and the next one was Dorothea's ladies outfitters later to become the job centre. Another jeweller in the town was Joseph Cawley who had a shop between Boots and Sissons which is now Greggs. Further up towards the market was Raymond Teed's opticians, Wighay Plumbing, the Co op had a bakery shop, Jacksons off licence and Parrs pork butc

Nay, Jill. You joined Nottstalgia!

Must be bad weather on the way, Colly. I think they are smarter than we give 'em credit for.

Working fine on my laptop. Go figure.!!!