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Surprised we do not have a dedicated WOLLATON HALL tread? It is in NOTTINGHAM after all? I do not want to start a new tread & watch it buried under song association, hows you day & Facebook type posts, I’m sure some might enjoy seeing Wollaton Park @ Christmas? If not I do apologise Excellent photos by Tracy Whitefoot (Tracy is a member here)

It’s true about home grown slavery. Wealthy mill owners paying a pittance in wages to workers, many of them children. People lived in tied houses from where they could easily be evicted and were forced to use tokens to buy their food in company shops. It still goes on in places like Leicester where wealthy factory owners pay their countrymen/women around £3 an hour to work in their sweatshops.

Late last night, when most of our neighbours were in bed, a truck arrived from Sandbanks with my husband’s new toy. It’s cozily sitting in the garage now but no doubt it will be brought out and polished if the grim weather improves. It’s amusing to me to hear that as a teenager/early 20s he had several similar cars that he picked up for very little money and dumped them (one in a Surrey bomb crater apparently) when they broke down. In recent months he’s gone from test-driving a couple of Teslas and an Aston Martin and ended up with an 83 year old classic.

I should imagine every country has its own safety regulations and testing of medications and vaccines. There are drugs used in the USA (for instance) that are not approved in the UK. In Spain (and probably other countries) one can go into any pharmacy and buy antibiotics over the counter without a prescription. Here in the UK one has to have a doctors appointment, sometimes over the phone these days, before a prescription is issued for any prescribed drugs. I will have the vaccine ....... but there are several million people who will be offered one before it’s my turn. If it’s going to

Hiya, Stavs, In your following quotation; "Amazing pictures. We are so lucky to still have it and be able to wander round the grounds and lake for free. We go there regularly, it’s about a half hour walk, and I am always in awe of the hall it’s so beautiful, seems amazing one family owned so much." I immediately thought of all the miners' sweated labour that paid for most it. We are now constantly reminded of the African slave trade. We, in England, had a slave trade of sorts right on our own door step! I would not be surprised of where the Middleton's original wealth c

There was a family on Rocester Walk Clifton who had a black mongrel, about the size of a small Labrador. It was nothing unusual to see it coming down from 'top shops' with a package of sausages all wrapped up from the butchers in its mouth, nobody with it, just the dog happily trotting home

@philmayfield on fire, back on track & back on tread, it’s Nottingham (sorry) & it topical & easy peasy

Looking forward to buying a lovely British caught fish from British waters, up yours EU.

It wasn't the same dog who used to appear on That's Life and growled "Zosages!" was it?

Either that Gem, or give the chippie a ring and ask them to float your order down the beck, (in a Moses basket).

Good idea Gem

Amazing pictures. We are so lucky to still have it and be able to wander round the grounds and lake for free. We go there regularly, it’s about a half hour walk, and I am always in awe of the hall it’s so beautiful, seems amazing one family owned so much. It was really busy through the summer which was good to see and there are still quite a few going there now. We will be walking With Kai there on Christmas Day, weather permitting, with a flask (tea) to sit by the lake before walking round it and then home possibly via the Admiral Rodney if it is open. I have many happy memories of goi

You couldnt get any quieter than around here.

It was also good for sharpening pencils We made our own games.

You could always move to the Yorkshire coast, nice quiet village.

I'm surprised to find it, but there is still a stamp shop there. https://goo.gl/maps/4mouV95EPdCJaVKh8

Hi Lizzie that was my first car a 1938 Morris 8 series2 it was my Christmas gift when i was 9 years old in 1956 i learned to drive it on some waste ground at the back of my fathers garage at Watnall.l could not believe my eyes on Christmas Day would love to have one now certainly a good reliable classic it to arrived overnight in the early hours of Christmas Day.

I am finding it very hard to get into the Christmas, master is all humbug (as normal) he goes a very pale shade of colour when i mention money, eg buying presents. Allso another reason i can not get into the Christmas is ? I have two sons when we arrived at year 2000 i told them that mum was no-longer going to cook Christmas Dinner and i would arrive on one sons door step, one year, and the other one the following year that worked well till the virus came along. Eldest son phoned and said is it our house this year mum? Master and myself both said NO !!we are staying home this y

The science and regulation is good enough. I'll take it when offered.

For those that are undecided about having the jab, please ask yourself this - If I don't have the jab, am I putting others at risk and am I prepared to do nothing to minimise the prevalence of the disease?