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Rebel!! You'll be choosing your own font size and colour next....

A message to everyone.... Life is fragile... don’t waste time and energy on things that are relatively unimportant. (But now, there is the problem of deciding on what is unimportant! We’ll each have our own thoughts on this)

If you want to be a real rebel you should eat after eight mints before eight o'clock.

I have always tried to rebel and I always will. The problem is that the only way I can rebel nowadays is by wearing odd socks.

You can't take it with you.

I'm a proper rebel me, I cheat the bus comanies. I buy return tickets......... an only go one way!

Is there any good news at all? I've just got back from Lewes Victoria, where I went for a Echocardiogram. The very nice young lady found I have got a heart after all. Just about to tuck in to a salad lunch , so that's my day sorted! Enjoy your day everybody.

The bottom line is......we should all just sit back and be grateful we're still able to post messages here The time to get worried is when you can't do it.

49 YEARS AGO TODAY.................i was working for ABGibsons of Daybrook..........at about 5pm i got back to their office in Moxley West Midlands........where a note was on my desk,,,saying..............''Wife had 3 children in Ward one of Nottingham City Hospital''' Not quite accurate but close,,,he was very premature and weighed in at 2lb 2oz,,,today he lives in Newcastle OZ and weighs considerably more,,, Also on this day in 2003 i suffered a Heart Attack whilst hiking in the hills of Staffordshire,,,lucky for me they found me and took me

Enjoy every day the best way you can. Fill each waking moment. Then at the end of the day if you meet your maker, you can say "Well, had a bloody good day today !" Enjoy every day as if it were your last. One day it will be.

Live as if you will die tomorrow but learn as if you will live forever - Mahatma Ghandhi Live Long and Prosper - Ishmael Spock of Star Trek Last but not least DJ360's tag line "The time has come, the Walrus said, to talk of many things" - Lewis Carroll

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

As the Buddhists say, only three things matter: How gently you lived. How much you loved. How gracefully you let go of those things which were not meant for you. In addition: take care what you give out as it will come back to you!

To continue the unpleasantness of this week. I have recently been in contact (out of the blue) with a couple of former High Pavement pupils of my vintage. This prompted me to look back over emails. I found one from an old classmate who I'd last seen when we both attended the 'Last Rites' of the High Pavement site on Bestwood Estate.. before it was demolished. Bob and I hadn't seen each other since 1965.. but we enjoyed walking the corridors of the old school.. standing out on the playing fields on a balmy evening and taking a last look at that tremendous view back over towards

I’ve been chatting to Col on Fb Messenger and he says it’s probably OK to tell you he’s improving as his heart rate has now stabilised - it had been varying between 20 and 100 beats/ minute. He’s awaiting the results of the blood test to see if he had had a heart attack. He is by himself as no -one else is allowed in .... COVID precautions I presume. Don’t know whether he’ll be kept in overnight to be monitored.

Lizzie has mentioned it on Facebook but not yet on here.

I were a rebel once. I broke down in me car near Bottesford. The AA charge £100 to tow me back to Bulwell, but I made him earn his money ! I kept me handbrake on all the way.

I don't think such things as takeaway pizzas in boxes even existed in those days, young Trogg. They certainly didn't have such things on the menu in the Pytagoras Tea Room, as run by Al Gebra and his violin case-toting cronies. "Ya messa wi da cucumber sandwiches...we blowa ya head off!" Most of what Al Gebra said was a complete mystery to me...and still is but I preferred his Mafiaesque tones to the nerve shattering, Ian Paisley impersonations of Barmy Colleen. Perhaps she'd have liked a pizza in a box. I thought she was more deserving of a custard pie i

Does it have to be eaten in the Manning Tea Room.

Yes, I missed it too. Truly sorry to hear that Lizzie.

Lizzie - Sorry to hear that you have lost Jack. Lovely little terrier. He will leave fond memories.

I’m even BOLDER than you BK!

Am I not supposed to then Margie? It's because I just like the style, that's all, no other reason.

It will remember you forever now Col. Just you beware when doing your gardening.

On another tack... The above is a pic of the very common 'Garden Cross Spider'. (Araneus Diadematus) I remember as a kid I'd often come across these while out blackberrying in the fields. I didn't get too close to them.. which turns out to have been wise because I've since learned they can bite if you mess with them. I recall one day seeing a huge Bumble Bee caught in a web and battling with a Garden Cross Spider. It was fascinating to watch in a macabre sort of way, but my friends called me away so I don't know who won. Fast forward to now. There a

Are you a glass half empty or a glass half full person? All that matters is that the glass is refillable.

... but the grim reaper will still find you!

If you make a big enough pile you can hide behind it!

What a note of good cheer to brighten our morning.

Always detested cats..used have deliveries, potatoes, eggs, etc...pissed over by a tom cat two doors up in the 1980's..nice greeting after a day out working! Flipside, Friend had two Siamese, never went outside.. briefly dated a women with two long haired, again never outside, comes down to the owners.

Ah yer just a big ol softy really aint ya!..

I'd fit the bloody thing with some lead in its ear... We are artificially sustaining a population of Cats which which would not survive without our assistance, yet which are happy to 'go native' when it suits them. Worst of both worlds.

Not wishing to be morbid but I have got Canine Care Card for Kai. It means if anything happens to me (although I don’t plan on going anywhere) Dogs Trust will have him and he will either be rehomed or live out his life with them. I had to nominate a relative who will contact them, after asking their permission obviously. They were a bit put out, not at being asked, but said they would have him anyway but circumstances do change and I now know he would be looked after either way. On a happier note he has bounced back after his dental work. He has worked out how to eat his lamb spaghetti,

You are missing the point entirely RR. I've stated already that he had the option of planting stuff to hide the wall from his view.. right from day one. But.. he preferred to make an issue of it instead. Then he cheekily (and without my knowledge) screwed little trellises to the wall. I knew he was using the trellises. but not that he was screwing them to my wall. After doing that.. and then planting cotoneaster all along the trellis.. which he has to come around to my side and regularly cut... he finally decided to grow shrubs..so that now he can't see the bloody trellis or the lo