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The other day we headed for the coast (Anderby Creek) we stopped for a bacon cob at Tattershall it's a small park where you can let your dog out and charge your batteries. (I'm sure most member's know it) any way a family sat there with a picnic, and as the children took the paper off their sandwiches they just threw it on the ground, only 3 yards away was a bin. Grown ups did not say a word. Now normally I would have picked up the paper and would have said "I think you have dropped some thing" but I took one look at the two men who stood there and the size of them put me off saying anythin

Brew it's not a case of sitting on the steps. Tourists have damaged the steps in some way or another. They picnic on them, stub cigarettes out, scratch initials and phrases on them.On the news it shows all the stains of dropped food and drink.( Tv news sometimes shows views of people sitting on the steps and you can't see the steps for people.)Some of the stains won't come out. These steps aren't your common or garden steps ( that would be ridiculous to ban sitting) but it's a well known tourist attraction . They interviewed tourists and locals. Most thought the fine a bit high but many agreed

Human rights isn’t it? People want their ‘rights’ but forget that they have obligations to others.

I walk my dogs up a lane commonly known as Sandy Lane (used to lead to Sandy Hills an old quarry I think). Last time we went up there someone had dumped big lumps of concrete and plastic bags filled with rubble halfway up nearly blocking the path. Then further up there was another load of it dumped on the side (by the look of it builders rubbish). The second lot would have been dumped from a car/lorry possibly as there is vehicular access to the reservoir but the first lot was on a narrow path between two hedges so it must have been carried there. The dumpers obviously aren’t bothered som

In the case of the Spanish Steps the clue is in the name - they are steps. Steps are for people to walk up and down. These are particularly famous steps that tourists are encouraged to visit, with considerable success, so he authorities cannot reasonably expect visitors not to need a place to stop, take a break, admire etc and not provide facilities for people to do so. Looking at pictures there is nothing there. No seating, no shade, no water fountain so of course people are going to sit down, especially the older tourists. They are not sitting because they are the Spanish Steps, they sit bec

Root problem is in the mindset and upbringing of people. The more rules there are the more there are to break and more enforcers required. They often whine that they don't have the resources to enforce them anyway. So it goes on. Growing up I don't remember many petty rules, but for the most part folks cared enough about their neighbors and neighborhood that things went reasonably well. I think it was called common sense. It's been a long time since I've seen much of it.

Jonab. Heard yesterday of a French couple who holidayed in Sardinia and brought home 40 kg of sand. They were caught and now risk a prison sentence. Thats tourists for you, nobody thinks. Next week is a week of festivities here and with a famous concert attracts thousands. We are only a relatively small village ( app 3.500 inhabitants) there are rubbish bins everywhere , the square is cordened off but every where is full of rubbish when it's all over. It's always a very clean area as a young woman daily cleans the square and is proud to wear her orange suit. Bars and restaurants have to

Exactly Brew. I've sat on the steps, because as you say, no seating. However I noticed litter about as folk sat eating their snacks. That is inexcusable.

There was a Derek Bull born in Nottingham in 1939, mother Nellie, I think. A man of that name died on 15 Jan 1973 and was buried in Notts on 5 Feb 1973. He doesn't appear in the Index to deaths, though. I was going to suggest you get the death certificate, which might give you a little info, but you couldn't give the necessary references from the index to enable you to order it. You can apply for the GRO to carry out a search for it, and, if they have it, get a copy. There is a charge. https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/. The Nottingham newspapers aren't online for the period you'

All the time the Spanish Steps are being sat upon, they are not being walked on. Which of the two activities is less wearing on the stones?

Words I really dislike: "Like" when used several times iin a sentence; "Absolutely" when the word yes is more appropriate and "Cool" or "Kewl" when used at any time other than to describe a state of heat.

In Kirkby there are some very large statues depicting a cricket scene,,,,Bill Voce fielding at 'forward mid off'' Don Bradman complete with bat and Harold Larwood in full flow from the bowling end..............real Cricketing place is Kirkby,,,one of my neighbours tells me he used to live next door to Arthur Jepson in Kirkby.............

Jill This should bring back some memories of Sunday lunchtime

On Bestwood estate too Jonab we could hear the Rolls Royce engine testing,, At night we could hear the Steam engines, shunting and clanging,, and even with the windows closed we could smell coal burning,, Jonab,,by way of interest for you,, one of the new roads off the Hucknall by pass is called Harrier way,,

My childhood memories of sounds mainly relates to the roar of jet engines being tested by Rolls Royce at their research and development facility at Hucknall aerodrome. There was no thought or consideration for Hucknall residents - they were just expected to grin and bear it. There was no attempt at silencing these huge engines. They were there naked on a test pad. They could often be seen from the end of the runway spewing out huge flames and noise. It was years later that I found out that these engines were what turned into the Harrier jet (Flying Bedstead then) and the RB211 whic

That could be my memories coll0410. A different colliery village, but the same sounds. Not a Mackemsons bus but a Butlers Brothers Bedford OB bus, The B8 ran through the village but it was only MDT buses that came to the canteen, the odd Lodekka but mostly AEC Regents The first pit hooter of the day often woke me up to do my paper round and a few years later when I started work

I remember when we'd moved to Bestwood Village when I was 14, I'd lay in bed with the window wide open listening to the night sounds of the village. There was a slipping screaching conveyor belt on the pit screens, a compressor coming on & off load, a Mackemsons bus pulling away from the pit baths stop, a Midland General Bristol Lo-Decker B8 bus pulling away from the bowling green at end of Park Road, a coal train chugging & clanking on the railway lines to Hucknall, Linby & Colvo pits, the boozed up boozers coming out the Top Pub (Bestwood Hotel) & Welfare shouting "GOODNIGHT,

So here's me, semi-traditionalist....no smart phone, no fancy gadgets to go wrong in my basic car, second-hand computer the size of a small planet and books for reference. Grow my own veg and soft fruits, brew my own beer and cook from scratch every day and listen to Radio Caroline daily. What a boring old fart I must be!