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I remember that at the Palais. I think the original was by Joe Loss and his Orchestra in the mid sixties.

Right... thought I was getting mixed up with the Gay Gordons but...

Clifton Grove was - and probably still is - a good place to nearly kill yourself or receive serious injury. Most of the Grove is a very steep bank - almost a cliff face - which kids would climb/fall up and down. And at the bottom of that bank there’s the River Trent. The bottom of the cliff almost goes directly into the river, with nothing to break your fall; and in many locations you can’t see where the ground ends and the water begins.

In the 60s, we would play on the pond on the old Mapperley Brickyard (behind what is now a KFC, and where Springwood Gardens has since been built). We slid down the clay cliff right to the water’s edge and used any old bits of wood to make rafts. Parents were livid when we’d get home covered in clay. All got stopped when one lad drowned.

There was a boy at Berridge who, being a bit of a tearaway, used to play chicken on the railway line near Bobbers Mill bridge. I remember him being caned in front of the whole junior school for risking his life in such a dangerous pastime. Some time later, I recall the headmaster telling us in assembly that the boy had continued his risky escapades, undeterred, and been killed by a freight train. I think the lad's name was Terry Hill. He was older than me but I've never forgotten it. That railway line was a magnet for little boys in those days.

Even if it is easy to fake a Lateral Flow, a positive outcome will have consequences for the rest of the household and will need an immediate follow up PCR test. If I was in a household where anyone tested positive with a Lateral flow, whether a child or not, I'd want to see another test done in front of me.

It's easy to fake a lateral flow test. I wonder how many kids will do it to avoid school? The information is readily available.

It's always a worry how accurate home testing is and whether people follow the instructions properly. We did one each before visitors arrived on Boxing Day and both clear, but it is a faff and easy to get wrong. Colly's experience demonstrates just how easy it is to be positive without realising it, kudos for taking affirmative action, sympathies for having to eat something as disgusting as marmalade. Reading the reports of Omicron, I'm wondering if maybe we're over-reacting a little. There are some deaths reported sure, but perhaps they also had underlying problems

Poor you Colly! I keep hearing of so many people with the virus and feel lucky, so far, that I haven’t had it. I woke up on Christmas Day with a full-on cold, but no headache. Sneezing and nose-blowing all day but the next day I was perfectly OK, not even a runny nose, when I was thinking I was adding to the statistics. Done a couple of LFT since and am clean. Makes one wonder how accurate they are though. This new variant isn’t bad (apparently) and is little more than a cold.

Hi nonnaB nice to speak to you again yes your right all the Audrey's salon belonged to Alan and Audrey Simms. They had a daughter whom they allso called Audery staff used to say little Aurd and big Aurd. Racking my brains just can remember some young girl winning a comp, not sure which one? Could have been Goldwell cup or Hairdressing Guild cup, (which Allen ended uo being chairman of Nottm branch) or L'oreal colour Trophy, It could be a test for us to find out? only if we have time. Friday nights out all the staff stylist and juniors used to go to the Sal up staires remember they had half

Thing is Jim, they all end up with a 'gong' eventually. Churchill got a bagful..and his utter balls up of Gallipoli and many other failures, foibles and indiosyncracies seem not to have got in the way of him being 'honoured'. At the other end of the scale there was a bloke in St Helens when I was at the peak of my Career Advising career, who was on every bloody committee going.. Professional committee goer, busybody and self opinionated know nothing. His contributions in every forum I shared with him were frankly embarrassing, including his habit of completing the obligatory car