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Looking out of my window again, I see it is still chuckin' it daahn wiy, waaait for it.............SNOW! YUK. Been awake nearly all night so I have no enthusiasm to gerrout of mi pit. That was, until I started surfin and Googleing. Can't wait to finish posting my findings now . Thinking about what I can have for my brekky, got all manner of delicousness awaiting me in the kitchen, take a look at what these poor b.....rs were having all those years ago. If I was there in those awful days today my menu would be. Breakfast ...Milk Pottage Dinner....Broth, Beef and Potatoes

Maybe over there it has another meaning now I come to think of it, Margie. Here it simply tends to mean a person who runs around with a gang intent on causing trouble of various kinds. If it has other connotations there and offends you please accept my apologies. I'd remove it but I can't edit it now. If a mod wants to delete it that is ok with me.

Its ok Margie ive reported it Ode' indeed.......lol

Perhaps part of the BB's demise was caused by it having a men-only bar! I used to go in the BB quite a lot when I first moved to Nottingham (from 'Ucknall) I thought the atmosphere there was great - peace and quiet away from the city outside. The men-only bar was on the left toward the back of the ground floor. Despite being men-only, there was always a woman barmaid there serving these fat, lecherous, cigar smoking city "gents". It wasn't nice in there. Much, much better was the cocktail bar on the first floor (up the magnificent staircase). They didn't sell beer by the pint when I

I wait till no ones looking Chulla, then wing it out the bedroom window. Pure class this gel.

We've got just a few flakes of snow at the moment, but we're off to church anyway .... it's the Sunday Club's New Year party..... games, crackers, food and about 10 children - what's not to like!

Loppy. what would happen if you wore it back to front.. as is often the fashion with 'Da Yoof'? TBH, I regard the typical baseball cap as possibly the most useless garment ever devised. -It doesn't protect the back of the head or neck from Sun. -It is rarely waterproof. -It has almost zero insulating qualities -It doesn't cover the ears... or even most of the head. In short, it is a sun visor attached to a skullcap. Almost totally useless. Now this.. is a hat!!

Now that you've lowered the tone again Katy! I've just been reading these latest posts and was amused by Phil's post of about an hour ago, when he talks of having an inside and outside loo and a sitting tenant!

She'll catch her death of cold!

Phil, I was impressed for a minute, thought you were typing on here and having a wee at the same time! I had to finish the sentence to see you were not!

I was just thinking that this thread is degenerating. My apologies!

C’mon, let’s start bragging - we’ve got four - any advance? I must explain that the house was altered substantially to include a granny flat with extra bedrooms over. We moved into the main house and my mother lived in the flat. Since her demise it’s all one dwelling which is much too big for the two of us but I can’t persuade my wife to move. We’ve even got two kitchens! Not bragging - we’re just victims of circumstances. You should see the heating bill!

So true, Phil. So true. We have a friend in Canada who was asked to give a speach at a church social about growing up in the war years in the UK. They had a guy whose job. It was every a.m to go around to the workers houses and bang on the window with a stick to wake them up. He was the knocker up. She said I could not understand the look on these ladies faces when I told them I got knocked up every morning.

“Two countries separated by a common language!” as George Bernard Shaw once said.

Did you mean to write that, Loppy?

We had an inside WC when I was little but I still had a po under my bed. I thought that was normal.... but thinking about it now, it seems strange.

They'd think I was an ode gang banger, Col. .

I think that was “Peggy’s Bar”. Didn’t she used to smoke a pipe, or am I confusing that with something else? The Thurland just up the road also had a men only bar. Personally I couldn’t see any problem with that. No men go to the Women’s Institute meetings at our village hall but I don’t think they can be legally excluded - I wouldn’t dare to ask! There are just times when men and women prefer their own company.

On a technical point, it's interesting to read the engine details of the Rolls Royce above. It's a V12 with four carburettors, putting out 50 bhp. Try explaining that to today's kids.

Really, small world as they say LOL

Jonab you are correct the building is still there and still used for the same purpose , having lived in Hucknall over 50 years I am put into shame by your memories of Hucknall , it is only when you write of some of your memories that I have to rake the depths of my brain to recall them.

We were engaged for a shortwhile..Sue..............lol

There is a photo on FB of the security office in the co-op Ben with a lady called Sandra sat at the window, I bet you new her.