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  1. I had many, but will kick off with getting a new colouring book, or drawing book, and a new box of wax crayons. The latter all had pointed ends before they were rubbed flat with crayoning. Oh the joy of not knowing where to start in the book, so spoiled for choice was I.
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  2. https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/local-news/gallery/take-look-woodborough-road-city-3217668
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  3. Finally got my car back this evening. New ECU..or so I'm told. It's running very sweetly indeed. So after over a month I'll be able to get about again. Yesterday I did my second set of weights. It's already working. Tomorrow I'll be able to go for a swim.
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  4. So glad all is OK. The news reports sounded very scary.
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  5. I never minded wearing NCT green, even when they changed the summer coats to beige and green. Truth be told, my uniform was the nearest I had to suit.
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  6. Re: exercise. It's nor a new thing for me. I was a regular swimmer, walker and weight trainer for years, but knee problems have messed with that. On top, the cardio lot were advising caution..especially re: swimming. But I've had the all clear for swimming and weights, subject to common sense, decent technique etc. I'm walking better since getting one knee fixed, but the other is getting worse and limits me to about 5000 steps max on a good day. According to one leaflet I've been given 'everybody' should walk 10000 steps per day. Blimey!!
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  7. Hope it won't be rusty, like the model. Or is that intentional.
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  8. Typical of photos from the early days of Clifton; all gardens were surrounded by privet hedge from day 1, but it took a few years for them to grow.
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  9. One for Willow Wilson, Just Jane at East Kirkby, they also got the DH Mosquito doing taxi runs now Rog
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  10. I’ve seen Just Jane at East Kirkby many times. You can get up close and view the progress. On air days you can pay to go into the cockpit and have a taxi trip. I once flew in loose formation with the RAF Lancaster, Spitfire and Hurricane when they took off from Coningsby. Sadly it was before the days of ‘phone cameras so I have no pictures, just a note in my logbook. I was in radio contact with their ATC so I didn’t break any rules! I've just checked my flying logbook. It was August 1977. I was only 34 then! Long time ago.
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  11. David, change to a Party Five and then up the ante to a Party Seven and really develop some muscles.
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  12. @DJ360 well done , keep up the excersise, it'll do you the world of good , the only weight training I get in retirement is lifting my can of Heineken to me lips !!!!
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  13. I was watching a documentary just now about a couple of restorers who dismantled a 1940s piper cub artillery spotter aircraft and rebuilt it from the ground up to airworthy status. Somewhere in Lincolnshire. It was flown to the mass gathering of Piper cub spotters in France to commemorate Dday. During their 'getting-parts-tested' travels they visited the Linc Lanc in its home field where said Lanc was taxiing around on the grass sans ailerons. I think it will be airworthy one day. (P.S. A bit tenuous I know but the meanderings of some threads are a bit like Tennyson's poem
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  14. I can confirm that there was not one of the auction type sales today in Newark either on the Tolney Lane corner or just over the bridge on the car park where the Castle barge floating pub is. I don’t think it restarted filling covid.
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  15. Being desperate to open a new box of breakfast cereal to get at the free gift inside, before the contents had been eaten.
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  16. Norton Disney quarry in winter and in spring where I was part of the management team, Both pictures taken from roughly the same vantage point Rog
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  17. Making it through the day without getting hit with a cane, shoe, coal shovel or any other object my mother could get her hands on Rog
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  18. Maybe a 'shoot and Miss' there Centaur... As a child, I took alot of ridicule for having a large nose, it never bothered me. Years later, when exploring my family tree I realised that it was a family trate, 400 years my ancestors lived in roughly 7 square miles of East Bridgeford.. Much later I found Romans pillaged the Midlands, hence the feature. In my teenage years at college, girls sniggered at me, and also mocked my size 14 feet. Even when I disrobed, on the the night of the loss of my virginity, I was still accused of having a massive conk.
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  19. The BBC Nottingham web page $%#@*&#.... When you click on it it opens up and you can see the content, two seconds later the screen goes black and then it opens again showing content, two seconds later the screen goes blank again and a blue pop-up appears asking me if I want to subscribe. No I f***ing don't, how many times to I have to tell you. Get some intelligence behind your pathetic website and stop peeing me off. I am close to junking this site from my favourites list as the content is almost next to useless. I can't remember the last time I looked at the BBC web page as it too
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  20. That gear leaver always got stolen, bet I’ve still got a few @ me Mams, me mate put a nut & bolt through his, misjudged the kerb, I often wonder if he ever fathered kids?
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  21. Is that where the saying came from, he threw a spanner in the works? [sorry]
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  22. O.K. another one to bring a tear to my eye , and a lump to my throat!! I suppose my simple pleasure would be the once in a blue moon that my dad wasn't up the allotment on a Saturday and took me fishing!! A walk down to Netherfield and Colwick station, on the train to Radcliffe on Trent then the long, long walk down Shelford Lane to a track that took us down to the river near the weir. A days fishing and wild life watching (Plus the occasional bonus of finding some "Blue Buttons" in the woods on the way home. These would be cooked up and had for our tea with some toast , laverly !!!! As
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  23. I loved those Shoot football tables too. Amongst other things I used to collect Typhoo International Football Stars which you needed to cut out from the back of the packet. It was a slow laborious matter collecting them and a matter of some concern if the packet of tea for that week featured a player that you already had in your collection! http://cards.littleoak.com.au/196768_typhoo_international_football_stars/196768_typhoo.htm
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  24. Oh yes, I had one of the half crown classics from Woollies every year until I ended up with a shelf full. Treasure Island, Little Women, What Katy Did, Heidi. Great! And the Annuals! The comics writ large. And I remeber the first time I was taken to the Library. Was it down Kirkwhite Street somewhere? I couldn`t believe that they`d let me borrow any of their lovely books. Heaven.
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  25. Used to love the annual free gift from SHOOT football magazine "Shoot League Ladders" This consisted of a thin card sheet on which were printed blank league tables for each division of The Football League, with a slit in the card alongside each position on the tables. Also given away were T-shaped "tabs" for each club in the league (printed in the appropriate team colours) which could be fitted into the slits to indicate where each team currently stood in the league table. As the season progressed and teams moved up and down the table, their tabs could be moved to new slits accordingly. Spent
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  26. Getting a new book for birthday or Christmas, usually a 'classic' and the anticipation of reading it. Also the annuals at Christmas, loved 'em. They'd last me till the next year's came out, re-reading them over and over.
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  27. Doing things we weren't supposed to, like climbing up the brick yard at Mapperley, or scumping up the allotments at Hungerhill Gardens.
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  28. Going to the shop for the new comic - Beano or Film Fun! Brilliant!
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