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Bat out of Hell!! Last Summer we were asleep in bed when I was awoken by a sucking/clicking sound on my pillow, about 2 inches from my ear. I ignored it at first thinking it was my imagination, can't be my wife trying to revive memories of yesteryear I thought? Then suddenly, it stopped and this was followed by a slight flapping sound coming in various directions across the bedroom. I sat up in the dark, noticing my wife had left the bedroom window open. I thought, oh no, a bird must has flown in. So, I shot up, switched the bedside light on, shook my wife and said "get up"! we hav

Posted my pictures on the Old Nottingham Pictures Facebook group and they've proved very popular with people wishing the glory days would return. Did any of you turn out to see the open top bus pass by?

I don’t shop in Primark! Neither will I wear clothes that display the brand’s label prominently on the exterior. I don’t patronise Greggs either. Southwell fish and chip shop is the lowest I will stoop and I usually wait in the car whilst my wife goes in!

That could have an alternative meaning. I hope no-one was looking.

Eating out is a con at so many places. You think it’s cooked on the premises but basically it’s a Brake Brother’s ready meal. I peeked into the kitchen of a fancy pub restaurant in Cornwall a few years ago and saw row upon row of microwave ovens. Some restaurant prices are a complete rip off. We rarely eat out other than for a simple pub lunch.

As many are after a good night out...

Jill - but what about apes and birds? only joking…

A friend came round the other evening and told me he doesn't like Johnson but also thought Starmer was a 'wrong 'un'...because he failed to 'prosecute Saville'. I pointed out this was a lie on the part of Johnson and that in any case, people had been failing to prosecute Saville for decades. At this point my mate said he didn't want to get into politics..which is what he says every time I pull him up on some cock and bull DM type rubbish he has picked up. Thing is he's very gullible..and even more so with audio kit 'tweaks', which he always convinces himself make a 'night and day

No, a card through the door at 8 this morning. How does a meter on my supply work when leak detecting?, Even on the mains it's arguable, water leaks are pretty damn obvious without a meter, unless they are constantly monitored. -------------- Oz, we have four charges: !- standing charge for the meter 2- charge per cubic metre of water 3- charge for collecting the water that falls on the roof 4- charge for sewerage

Our Young started out as the Mysteries and used to have a blue ambulance. I saw them quite a few times in the 60's and were one of my favourite local groups. Check out 'Playedinaband.com' for more info.

It's just gone 9.00pm and I've just got back from our centre Bingo. I won the snowball £10 and following game @ £2.80. Might buy 'er indoors another frying pan or wok, tomorrow.

Bingo reminds me of what we have around Christmes in the church hall. We each have a very worn card and a handfull of dried beans , peas or corn to cover the numbers that are called out. 5 in a line also wins but the winnings isnt money. The locals donate prizes. Butchers donate sausages and salami, wine producers donate wine all local. Peanuts are poured onto tables,for,us to chew on to concentrate and bottles,of local wine flows, a bottle every 3/4 persons. Cards cost very little and theres usually a full capacity.and its a lot of fun.

Been feeling agitated all morning, but many thanks for the good wishes. Nothing showed up on the P.E.T. but they picked a shadow on my liver ( hence the extra exam) But every time I have some sort of scan it shows up and the onc and drs think its the scar from thermoblation I had twice. My results have been seen by a group of specialist drs in oncology and they said although they were stopping all future tests they thought it wise to have an MRI. So now I have to wait another fee weeks or months and they will ring me along with a visit with onc afterwards. Fed up of waiting around really

At Manning, on the last day of term, we used to play it in French! The winner would shout BANGO! or MAISON MAISON! We used to play Battleships, too. HMS whatever the teacher's name was. "I've just torpedoed Mrs Barnes!". Response, "Well, she's a big enough target!". Great fun!

And finally...... This is early 1950s and the circle is Black's Yard, which appears to be part-demolished. The arrow shows where Park Place would have been, but it had already been replaced by an office block. Most of the buildings in the lower part of the picture are still there.

The new broadband is now up and running. Installation didn’t take too long nearly 2 hours rather than the 3 stated. Bit of a blip when it was first switched on to boot up (look at me being technical) and it was taking ages. Engineer switched it off and back on again, still nothing. Made a phone call about it and then realised he hadn’t plugged it into the wall socket! Of course it had a new password so everything had to be reset, don’t know why they can’t let you have the same password to connect with your network. You don’t realise how many “gadgets” you have until you have to do something

Dj its normal at least here to have an ecocardiagram before any operation. I have all my records plus all my discs from TACS, ecographs and PETS. My files are getting bigger. Tomorrow PET results and oncology visit. You'll be fine its just a formality. All the same good luck with it.

Isn't your birthday in March?

Reminds me of my aunt’s episode a several years ago. She needed a new hip and had been on the waiting list for some considerable time. She decided to pay to see a Private Orthopaedic Surgeon who said he would be happy to operate on her dodgy hip but she needed to get a heart problem sorted out first. She didn’t know she had anything wrong with her heart. So she then paid to see a Cardiologist and ended up in the Park Hospital having a pig’s heart valve fitted! Not long after that she had a successful hip replacement. She was fortunate that she could afford all this private treatment.