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I'm having a pretty mundane day. Up to my neck in Cooking 'Steak Pie' and assorted veg for the family. Also bulk cooked Bolognaise to freeze in portions. Hubbs just gone out for a power walk round the block. I walked into the front room for summat and the door bell rang, now I am a bit of a chicken and don't like answering the door when i'm alone., so I hid behind the door but realised three rings later they weren't going away. I gave in and went to the door. There on the step stood a lady who lives so far up the road I can't call her a close neighbour and we haven't got to know he

This is/was Rip,we he came to live with us after my sister in law died and he adopted us, he followed me all over the place and used to sit across my shoulders in the evening when I settled on the sofa to watch a bit of telly,I really do miss him,especially now I've finished work and spend a fair bit of time on my own Rog

Gus having a warm ! Catnap !

Digging the garden yesterday I found a 1913 penny coin - I can now go out and buy four Black Jacks...Result!

Not PC anymore !

Bedrooms quite like this. Kitchens. Living rooms. Or Washing Machines

One of my shaven-headed minions carries it for me. Wi-Fi reception is not too good, despite the altitude.

Tiger's brother "Sooty" 2003.

Tiger, Winter 2003.

Hey Margie, was there any lettering on the UFO ? Like "Eat At Eptons for your Fish & Chips" ?

I've posted this before but I think PB took care of that,anyway,Bee Orchid, int it just great how nature works,making these flowers look like Bee's to attract other Bee's so that the plant get pollinated and life carries on Rog

Peacock butterfly Common Blue butterfly Hoverfly Rog

Following on from my first post here about car trackers. This morning I had a missed phone call. I first check the number to make sure they weren’t phoning about PPI or problems with my computer or trying to get me to arrange installation of a smart meter. Turned out it was Vodaphone car tracker so I called them back. Was asked for the registration number and mother’s maiden name to make sure they were speaking to the right person. Then this young lady asked if everything was ok with the car (she gave the make of vehicle). I told her that we’d sold that particular car a month ago and the re

SWMBO likes to keep this by her bedside for use after I have been on the bitter and beans

He can always hang it round his neck on a chain, Jill. Find a ring tone of a gong. Folks would just think it was the call to prayer.

We had Max put to sleep a few years ago as he was very ill. Hes buried in our garden and Misty our dog now goes every evening with my husband to say goodnight. No matter how late it is when hes finished work he says " come on Misty lets go and see Max". Up she jumps and gets there before my husband. Faithful.

“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe, or we are not. Both are equally terrifying” Arthur C Clarke

No, She just said I have bought you a present. I remember the first time we met, it was Halloween, about three years ago and the local parents and children come around the houses that are decorated and we all have a laugh and chat. She had just moved to the area and couldn't get over how friendly we were for no reason or gain. We could have seemed odd because it all started for our granddaughter who grew out of it all now 17, but the locals loved our effort so we carried on. I think she felt welcome and has never forgotten our friendliness. It does work out a bit expensive by the time we have

I open the door, it seems to be MY job! However our dog barks like mad when the doorbell rings, in fact he barks even when someone opens the gate. I think I’d feel more stressed by hiding and not going to the door. I remember me and my mum hiding from the rent man when I was a little girl, no money, hard times.

You see Margie - no one will take us seriously!

I'm quite partial to steak pie carni, send your neighbour around here !

Really pleased to read this post Carni,a good person deserves good deeds, and it proved it today Rog

Sorry Ian not an old boiler by any stretch a very attractive lady, and by the way also very feisty what we used to call a 'nut crusher'.

An organised mass “wee-in” in the Old Market Square might attract the Council’s attention. They couldn’t lock everyone up!

You know your getting old when you try and put on your socks and your feet have moved further away from your body. Has Nottstalgia changed it format if so I must be getting old as I did not notice.

Mute Swan, I took this picture while the swan was circling round looking for a headwind to land into for a more controlled landing which he did, very aerodynamic shape, I wonder where the idea came from when Concorde was first conceived? Rog

Bit of a nice one last night, I hosted a poker night and lost....but a couple of very old friends came an ex army buddy and his lady wife. I know the lady has been learning to paint for a number of years what I did not know was that she is into steam locos. I was given a calendar made up of 12 of her paintings all of different steam locos and apparently all in their correct setting and factually correct. Having just lost to her trip aces I mentioned a back scene for my new 'n' gauge layout "not a problem" I was told. So I now have my own private artist ready to work for ...........

Never mind flying saucers just fly that .............................Eptons plate full over here.

That is so true Mary, been there myself a few times with our pets at the end. Mrs C sadly been there a lot more than me, a few times I came home from work to see a hastily scribbled not saying "Pick me up from the Vets" knew straight away it wasn't good news, minor ailments I would take the pet to the Vets after work.

Probably the same for a lot of people of our generation Lizzie Rog

Or in a shipping container on the way to Africa !

I disagree about flying saucers. I, together with my wife and two children, saw one flying low over the Trent Valley some 25 years ago. The strange thing was that we just said “look, there’s a flying saucer” in a matter of fact sort of way. There was no point in getting excited about it as nobody would have believed us anyway as I’m sure you don’t believe me now. It was the “classic” round shape of a flying saucer with portholes around the edge. I’m sure it was an explainable phenomenum. As I say, you’ll think I’m talking rubbish so no more to be said really!

You could offer her a free service NBL for her gas boiler in return !

While we're at it lets remember the Aberfan disaster that took 116 young lives & 28 adult lives in '66.

It hasn't changed recently; that proves you aren't getting old after all.

Good! They want flattening! Barbarians!

Not about transport, but I'm currently reading a book by Joy James 'Yo'd Mek a Parson Swear' It's very well written and full of funny, sad, interesting and nostalgic memories of her life growing up in Nottingham the 1940s & 50s. With an eye for detail the author takes the reader back to those good and not so good old days during and after the second world war. I've just found out that there are other similar books by Joy James so I'm looking forward to reading those too.

You’d be up against it there!

Thank to all for the responses. Given that the tools came from a carpenter's toolchest I would think that the corner setting tool is for frames and the, for chisel it certainly is, must certainly be what Ann's husband says - a deep mortice chisel.

That record takes me back to my old skiffle group days!. I made a tea chest bass and learnt to play the guitar from Bert Weedon's "Play in a Day" book - bit of a misnomer that! I sold my first guitar to a chap from school at Mellish - Allan Bell. He lived just over the border from Bulwell in Hucknall and his dad used to own "The Terminus Garage" where the trolley buses used to turn round. I bought my second instrument from Jack Brentnall's in Theatre Square. It was a Hofner Congress and took most of my savings at around £25. I've still got it! I electrified it and bought a cheap amplifier from

Two weeks ago I dragged myself into the 21st century and bought a mobile phone. I don't really want one but with my medical conditions thought it best to have one handy if summat happens while I am out. Sainsbury's in Arnold had a nice one, reduced from £20 to £15. Went in there today and the price was back up to £20 again. That's a breakfast in Bulwell 'spoons paid for. Haven't had one lately - anyone feel like one?

Welcome David and thanks for the update on Vol 3! Good to hear that you're in better health. Looking forward to the Vol 3 launch next month and like others on this forum I have put in my order already to Booklaw. I'm already a FONSR member and you should have had a reply to the latest newsletter from my Norfolk address. Best regards MB

My husband, a Cabinet Maker, says the long curved tool is a swan necked chisel, used for cleaning out the bottoms of deep mortices, like a mortice lock

Tool no2 is a jig, to hold two bit's of wrought iron at right angles ready for welding. Think gates,railings ect. Tool no1 would appear to be some form of medieval back scratcher or nose picking device.

The latest issue of the Basford Bystander (No.186) has an excellent article about the Seely family who sunk the pits around the Cinder Hill area and were involved in the General Hospital, the Cedars and various of the Halls and Granges. There is a nice picture of Broxtowe Hall. Also in the issue is an interesting old map of the enclosures in Old Basford in 1792. I will give the magazine a deserved plug. It was founded and run by Stan Smith until his death a couple of years ago. Since then his wife Christine has taken up the reigns and is doing a superb job. It is only eight p

Just read some sad post about us have to have our best friends put to sleep. When I was at work I myself lost my dog sadly hit by a car, any way I cried all day long, comment from my boss pull your self together. A few months after this my boss had a four legged friend about a year later she had to have it put to sleep. Sorry she said to me as now I know how you felt. No body no's how you feel till it happens to them.

Christmas kittens !

Sooty 2003.