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Why do you feel the need to influence others? What is your motivation for so doing? Is it because you think you know better than they? Is it because it feeds your ego if and when you succeed? Is it because you want everyone to think as you do? The world would be a wonderful place if everyone saw life through your eyes? People have their own eyes. Please grant others the courtesy of thinking for themselves. Their thoughts, ideas and beliefs are just as valid as yours, you know.

That's rather a condescending attitude towards others; and also a very politically-biased statement. (And I'm definitely no great supporter of the current Tory Government). Some people - although not me - would say that those 'Tory machinations' are exactly what the country needs at the moment. They fully understand what is being said.

My garden is looking colourful now, a bit earlier than previous years but I'm not complaining Three different Roses in the front garden,(yellow, pink, white) Lupins and Delphiniums behind the greenhouse and a Swedish Hornbeam tree in full flower Rog

I’ve just been trying to clear a very weedy patch that was formerly a mint bed. I thought it would be better to pull the weeds out rather than strim them off. I used my long leverage weed puller. The weed gave way and I flew backwards through the air for what seemed like an eternity. I lay spreadeagled on my back on the grass path for five minutes in the warm sunshine whilst contemplating which bones I might have broken. I eventually managed to haul myself up much to the amusement of the cat that was watching. I came indoors for a cup of tea and a Kit Kat. Now that I’m composed I’m going to ge

Nobody will accept responsibility for their own actions these days and accountability is a thing of the past. Many people in positions of authority are not up to the job but have the knack of diverting attention to their shortcomings by talking a lot of gobbledegook. When they are found to be lacking they should be outed immediately as liars and con artists.

I'll bet he never forgets where he's left it!

Never mind Nonna.......summer will come......thats when i used to grab my girl and run away.....

You need an elephant bike for when you need to ride on trunk roads.

The most stressfull move we made was of course from Notts to Australia as ten pound poms. There is a story to the journey with Qantas, thats for another day. The company that was shipping our furniture went bust and we had to pay again for it to be shipped. Not the best start to life in a new country, it turned up eventually after two years, we survived with a bed, fridge, TV and two large bean bags until we got our stuff.

Jill, I’ve stoked it up with Gourmet catfood. All gone quiet now after a couple of hours of frenzied activity while it was collecting bedding

It makes our village’s ‘Open Gardens’ look a bit tame! Many years ago an old lady, a keen homemade winemaker, organised a ‘tasting’ in her garden. There were no grapes involved in the ‘wines’. I’ve never seen so many people totally legless. Sadly the occasion wasn’t repeated.

Our Wine festival has just finished tonight. Food and wine , what more do you want. There were 22 wine producers from around this area and 22 groups offering different types of food from Tagliatelle to sandwiches. My daughter made Gnocchi with Castelmagno and cream sauce. She went through 14 forms of cheese each weighing about 8 kg . My son didn’t participate and decided just to keep his restaurant open and serve drinks and cocktails. He said he’d gone through almost 11 liters of Gin. There were street musicians playing all 3 days each one different from the others. To start we bought our win

I remember having to go to bed well before it was dark on summer nights in my childhood. I also remember standing on the window sill and seeing the winding wheel of Radford Pit in the distance. I must have been very young then. After tea, usually on Saturdays or Sundays, we'd walk to The Arboretum and, on one occasion, got caught in a terrific thunderstorm. My father was wearing a brand new Harris Tweed jacket which got soaked and was never the same again afterwards. Life was very different in those far off days, which now don't seem so far off.

What a lovely morning...was up bright and early...then after a quick cycle around the local Park......Potted a few Plants...and set them out on the front Garden......although i say it myself they do look really nice......... Made me think about my favourite song from school days........and still enjoy listening to it..........

Look what we’ve got back, it’s nest building in my border.

Although we live in a wine growing province I know little about wine apart from drinking it of which is Barbera.We have at least 6-7 wine producers near us.All are available for tours and tasting. Foreigners come from everywhere for their wine even USA when they visit their summer home in the village. Apparently on Saturday alone 30.000 people were in the top part of the village and as we were voted one of the most beautiful villages in Italy we had a bumper festival.

Bees are buzzing all around my oriental poppies, totally high on nectar.

Sang that lots in school and Morning Has Broken.

I've learned something new today. I also remember 'All things bright....' from school days, and remember seeing that the writer was Mrs C.F. Alexander. But fully spelt out, she was Cecil Frances Alexander. I never knew that Cecil could be used as a female name. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Things_Bright_and_Beautiful

@mary1947, have a try of the tinned taters from Aldi. They're lovely with salad, sautéed in an airfryer or chopped up and add Mayonnaise for a super potato salad.x

My word, Ben. You'll be knocking together a shed next. Then, you'll need a budgie to go in it!

Roll out those hazy crazy lazy days of summer by Nat King Cole.

I remember the song 'so well' and the name of Jerry Keller...........I'd just had my last summer of school.(59).....which was all Music.Dancing.... Cricket..Tennis...and of course girls........reckon it was my best summer ever... Just looked him up on Wiki'' pleased to say... though he's in his 80s he's still performing....and yes, it was a one hit wonder in the UK for him.....

The principle of hub gears being a 3 speed or one of the more multi gear hubs (Rohloff make a 14 speed) is all the same using epicyclic gears. There is no great secret or break through but the machining and engineering required is complex. Also multi gear hubs mean the drive passes through more internal cog wheels which increases drag and reduces efficiency. They are heavier too and the added complexity is expensive. The advantages of a hub gear is there is always perfect chain line, lower maintenance, protected from dust and dirt and less prone to damage. Derailleur gears are or can be cheape

I’ve always been a big fan of Tina, initially when she was with Ike. I bragged for many years that I’d seen them at The Dungeon in the mid 60s but then found out that it was actually Charlie and Inez Foxx I’d seen! We didn’t see her perform live until 2000. This was meant to be her Farewell concert at the soon to be demolished Wembley Stadium. She of course couldn’t give up performing and in 2008 we saw her at the American Airlines Arena in Miami, we just HAD to be there, thinking that she wouldn’t ever perform in the UK again. A brilliant night but the seats weren’t the best as we bo

Police have named the officer that fired the Taser as Senior Constable Kristian White aged 33. He was charged with recklessly causing grevious bodily harm, assault occassioning actual bodily harm and common assault. These charges may now be upgraded following Clare's death. He will appear in court on July 5th. Our thoughts are with Clare's family at this time.

It reminded me of this Monty Python sketch.

Having had two near misses with mobility scooters turning into the road in front of me this week I am beginning to wonder if they are the new urban terrorists. Without warning they both simply made right angled turns to cross the road and not at designated crossing points. About time these people needed to pass an assessment before being allowed out in public. I am sympathetic to their needs but a lot of them are a danger to themselves and everybody else.

Ref. Sturmer Archer gears. Many years ago, in the 70s, when my son Andrew was at Aspley Wood school, I was a school governor along with the Chair, a lady called Iris Archer. She happened to be the granddaughter of the Mr.Archer who invented the gear hub. She told us that Raleigh offered Mr.Archer a halfpenny for each gearbox made or a lump sum. He took the lump sum. Mz Archer said if he took the halfpenny for each, he would have become a millionaire. (Think I've mentioned this afore).

Sorry. For the late reply. Only just spotted this. I’ve ridden thousands of miles on an FW (4 wide) SA hub without a hitch. I changed later to an FM hub (4 medium ratio) and never had any bother with that either. They do need a real tug to move into 1st gear (2,3 and 4 gears are the same as an 3 speed) and the 4 speed trigger can slip out first if it’s not in excellent condition. The hubs themselves are fine. There are reports that the 4 speed hubs can burst apart but I think they were modified. I was a fairly strong cyclist and never had a problem. There is a lot to be said for a 3 speed whic

Although it was promoted as a 'state' funeral, the so-called, family, should have footed the cost themselves. It is not as though they cannot afford it! As an aside to the Windsor mafia, no doubt to boost their popularity, the inner circle of those mysterious courtiers have been using Kate (and family) at every publicity opportunity, presenting one's self as normal is grossly patronisingly and sickening. The difference between Kate and the overburdened working population is obvious. The mandarins will stop at nothing and will use any opportunity to promote and raise the

From an outsiders point of view, it's always possible that the lady was just confused. At 4.00am, I wouldn't have thought there would be many folks around. It's said, 'she had a walking frame but she had a knife' and walking 'slowly' towards the officer. She could have been looking for some butter to put on her slice of imaginary bread. Who knows?, it's all supposition. If she dies, that officer should be charged with Manslaughter. Like I said, it's only an opinion from what I've read about the incident.

The prices certainly seem more sensible and realistic compared with what they previously wanted. The ultimate problem is still that the name of the place doesn't match what people expect to see.

I am not saying anything of the sort. I do not presume to tell you, or anyone else, what to do; firstly because I have no right to do so and secondly because what you and other people do generally doesn't interest me one iota. However, trying to 'inform' people about the darker corners and off the beaten track areas of party politics, etc, is just another form of proselytizing, to me. No different from the Jehovah's Witnesses who stand for hours on street corners offering free bible courses and what they perceive as salvation. They, too want to open people's eyes to what they beli

Phil re medlars. Once you’ve done the juice extraction the volume is reduced as you’re only straining the clear juice really. Don’t be tempted to get any more liquid by pressing more through the sieve as it makes the finished product cloudy. We mackled up a suspended sieve over a big mixing bowl overnight which although looked a bit “Heath Robinson” worked. Just compost the left overs in the sieve. If you have any spare jars made it is always good to give to friends and family as it’s a bit unusual. Great with a ploughmans. On another note, I see that the Tap and Run at Upper

Shrinkflation is, I believe, the term for the malady from which your teacakes are suffering, Plantfit. Who thinks up these banal and annoying terms? Have they nothing better to do? I'll bet they're not as yummy as those Belgian chocolate hot cross buns Tesco were flogging a couple of years ago. Had to keep out of there . Daren't go into Morrison's because I always get accosted by the custard doughnuts. There is only one thing to do, Plantfit. Get em down your neck, pronto.

If a problem occurs you have 2 options either you can do something about it , so no need to worry or you cannot do anything about it so again no need to worry. My friend has recently been diagnosed with Parkinson’s, he became fed up with people giving sympathy to him, now if anyone starts on that he tells them in no uncertain way no I don’t worry about it I have more chance of be killed by being knocked down by a bus and I don’t dwell on that. I think he has a great attitude.

I don't see any point in getting worried. You can find whatever you want to find if you think it's there, and you go looking for it. It depends on your political/social views; something which worries one person is the sensible, obvious solution to someone else.

I wouldn't want to go back (in time) Loppy. I do enjoy visiting such places, though, even if I didn't particularly appreciate being there as a child. I suppose I can reassure myself that I've done that and survived it.

Donovan was 77 years old a couple of weeks ago. His version of Buffy Saine-Marie's Universal Soldier was an anthem of my youth. Bob Dylan was 82 on 10th May too. Like Jill, I still think it was only yesterday we were singing protest songs about civil rights and anti war movements

The American way was a dream 'Loppy''............our way was ''Walking in the summer rain'' holding hands with the girl of the moment......on the way to the pictures Vernon..Adelphi...Highbury or Futurist......trying to look like Billy Fury.....bag of ''Chips and Fish bits'' on the way home.........a goodnight Kiss at the girls front gate.....then Dancing all the way home........would'nt change a thing....

Your right mate. Probably my only friend, if truth be known. Edit..Just asked Mr. Google and now I know. To be honest, I've never heard of Elephant bike afore, hence my reason for asking. Told you I had a sheltered life. And I found out why they got that name !

A good friend of mine who worked in the R&D department at the Raleigh and had close ties to Sturmey Archer "invented" or researched and drew up plans for a new type of hub gear, he presented it to the then MD of Sturmey Archer who refused any thing to do with it saying "why should they re-tool to make something when theirs had been working and selling since day one" unfortunately for Sturmey's Shimano followed up the idea and the rest is history as they say Rog

I have a book by Tony Hadland ‘The Sturmey Archer Story’. It is thoroughly researched and an excellent read. The history is very interesting with some ‘dirty dealings’ along the way. Out of print and I’ve just checked, second hand copies can be had and it’s not cheap.

Still there Barrie but use the bypass now Rog

Years ago I knew a man whose wife needed one but never used it as she never left the house. He went to the pub every lunch time using the scooter, as he admitted that it was the only way he could make it home. Our friendship never lasted long after I expressed my opinions to him on driving it on the pavement ,whilst plastered.

A few of the lady ( can I say that?) residents got together and knitted a load of little beany hats, of 3 different sizes for premature babies, also pods and mittens. Some knitted cot blankets. Got pictures of finished work and the knitting patterns, @katyjay, if you want to do some more.xx

Margie, I still have mum’s wooden darning mushroom too and a lot of her knitting needles. I do blankets for both the RSPCA and the neonatal units in Leicester. Keeps me out of mischief of an evening. I can’t just sit and watch telly, I get fidgety.

@Jill SparrowDon't know about that but asked it to make poem about the contributors to nottstalgia.com and it came up with this in about 5 seconds Nottstalgia Contributors' Tribute. Make a poem about contributors on nottstalgia.com ChatGPT