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I visit this Cemetery often and stop and look at these, they are mostly young boys, we owe them a lot. their graves are kept in an immaculate condition.

LizzieM they were always called the bucket and spade brigade in airline speak in the early days, especially with those Spanish donkeys they used to bring back. Maybe not nowadays but I think airlines are a lot more professional now. Flight crew are not necessarily cocooned although they are locked in, the comms between flight deck and cabin crew (CRM) is so much more improved, particularly after Kegworth. Cabin crew legally are only there for safety, the service is a bonus. Working for an airline for 30+ years makes me really cross with obnoxious passengers, there’s just no need for it.

I can't begin to imagine how my Grandmother felt (or what my Grandfather was going through) when she received this Christmas card from my Grandfather, he sent it from the trenches in Ypres in 1917 A much treasured possession of mine Rog

There are many Polish servicemen's graves in the general cemetery at Hucknall. Young men, lives cut short. Sadly, there is never any shortage of jackboots!

I visited that cemetery last time I was in Newark. I found it a very moving experience, almost 400 graves of men who left their country, then under the German jackboot, to fight for our freedoms alongside service personnel of allied nations and who paid the supreme sacrifice. Lest we Forget.

In Scandinavia, winter starts on cue and lasts all season. By law, winter tyres go on, and all the new drivers get down to the supermarket car parks to practice setting off in second, and practicing gentle slides to work out how much space to give the other drivers. In the UK, we never know when it's going to hit, and we are saddled with the bloody-minded, "cup of tea and a woodbine for breakfast, and let me get to work" brigade who regularly provide the Evening Post with copy about another few hours delay on the M1.

I think that is a rather derogatory comment to make and I must say I know/knew lots of commercial pilots flying short and long haul and have never heard one make such a comment. What does @MRS Bthink? Now the flight crew are cocooned within the flight deck but the cabin crew have to deal with the odd obnoxious passenger.

Welcome to Dave the cat! He's better than any trophy!

Don't know if you'll see these Rog.,if not, I'll post em one at a time. I believe 1/76 scale. https://postimg.cc/gallery/k7vJwwT

Fab jacket Arthur!!

You write Nottinghamese better than Albert Finney ever spoke it.

Tek me down Palais Arthur? Not tonight Duck...thought we'd hev a dance down the 'Boat clubs'' But ya banned from them... Me mates on doors now he'll let me in...

Do you airbrush them Rog., in South Notts colours or stick NCT decals on them?

My first job when I left school was at Luton Airport and the two Court line Tristars we’re AA and AB aka fat Albert and big Bertha. The parking stands were certainly very colourful when they were sat there with their 1-11’s. Only problem was when one of the Tristars went tech they had to substitute with 3x 1-11’s. Happy times spent there for me.

Spot on Kath but just ordinary puff pastry, they are a cross between Eccles cakes and Mince pies, Eccles in shape but mincemeat filling, they end up about 2inch diameter and about 1 inch thick from a 3 1/2 inch cutter Rog

I had a niece who as a toddler ate the Bonio's with their Labrador. To this day she has lovely glossy hair.

I think ‘clarty’ means it almost sticks to the inside of your mouth. Same as mud sticking to your boots

My gut feeling is that the problem is location, halfway along the length of the road. Anything coming up from the channel ports is reaching the limit of safe driver awareness. Similarly coming down from the North. I often used to find myself suffering those "micro bursts" of sleep especially in the dark and cold - the car is warm, and the motorway noise becomes rhythmic. If I was near enough to home, switching the heating off, and opening the window a crack made it col and noisy enough for me to get home. Definitely wouldn't be recommended by the constabulary though, I feel.

There does seem an inordinate amount of traffic delays on the MI due to accidents being reported in the local papers, I don't understand why, they should be very safe roads. Is it too fast and too close that causes the accidents or is it plonkers checking twit face on their mobile and not paying attention to the traffic.

Pickled onions of course.

That is the problem. The Premiership is heavily populated with foreign players, all of whom report to their Countries with a working knowledge of how each and every English player will behave. That said, it always seems to me that, however consistent and talented a team is, you invariably need a bit of luck along the way. Sadly, the luck always seems to go to other teams. Unless the adage about making your own luck applies somewhere.

Don't mind a night at the "Dishlickers" here in OZ. 8 dogs per race, blink and you miss it A night at the "Redhots" (Trotters or Pacers) is also good, bright and colourful The gallops are my favourites I have some shares in a couple that are doing quite well and off to the races again later in the week. The thrill of your horse passing the post first is something else.

Looking at the UK newspapers, two inches of inconvenient snow and the country comes to a grinding halt. What has happened to the UK? Can't people drive to the conditions or have these new cars not got a program to drive in the snow. We used to put winter tread tyres on, is that not the done thing these days?

Had a good day Friday. Ask my friend what kind of present she would like of me for Christmas, she wanted to see the TR panto. so there we were to 70s+ going of to the panto, when we arrived went over to wish Merry Christmas to the manager who is a freind of mine, he asked what seats we were in and gave us a choice to move as we were in between to schools, Well to hear all the children shouting and laughing was a joy, in front of us was a little girl about 3/4 years old and she was singing and dancing it was a plesure to just watch her, What was a change was the saying "He's behind you"" has

In Lincoln last spring, modelled on a 1950's American pickup truck Rog