annswabey
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I think Jill might have meant that she should be getting her state pension at 60, as should I - 61 this week, but we have to wait until we're 66. Are you getting involved, though Jill, to do something about it?
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I quite liked the Milly Molly Mandy books as a child, along with the Moomins, Famous Five, Secret Seven and the girls school series, like Mallory Towers. I was an avid reader then and still am
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I didn't feel any snobbery at BGS. Most of the Wollaton lot were fine and I could compete with any of them academically - just didn't have anything to do with the ultra posh ones!
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Enjoyed (if that's the right word for our old area having gone into a sad decline) reading your observations. I know the last time I saw our old house (Melbury Road), I was sad to see how bad it looked. All that hard work my Mum had put into the garden and it had been paved over and was covered in children's toys. I knew the Pelican was still there as my cousin is involved in running their football team! Amazed that Baxter's is still there. Is the chip shop still there? It was Proctors in my day. I live near London now, so don't go to Nottm very often
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Had seen Jonny Ivins link before - thanks. Didn't know about Barbara or Trevor. I knew Paul Eustace married Joanna, but not about his career. Do you remember anyone in the year below you, who would have been my contemporaries?
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Thanks for that. Only remember a few of them - the ones I remember from BGS - Paul Eustace, Jonny Ivins , Alan Bird, Barbara Fisher and Trevor Jones
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I recognise a few of those faces but not sure of names, so I'd be interested to hear who they all are!
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I was more superficial at that age - just went for looks! Wasn't a fan of any of those you mention, apart from Tony Curtis, who was indeed delectable. My other heart throb (an old fashioned phrase, I suppose, but my Mum said it a lot, about hers) was George Harrison
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The puppets are so dated now, when you look back. Scott Tracey was a bit of a hunk, though, although to have a crush on him is slightly odd! Mine, at the time, was at least a human - Illya Kuryakin in Man from U.N.C.L.E, although a bit old for me in 1964
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Loved listening to those - what a great choice. Thanks for posting. I was a big fan of Skippy, the bush kangaroo. Didn't like Daktari, though. Your memories of your Bilborough house being freezing bought back memories too. Always got dressed in a mad rush, to get back downstairs to the gas fire!
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I remember the hymns too, at Junior School (Glenbrook) and still remember the words. A friend of mine,when she became a teacher, sent me some of the same old hymn books we'd used, which she'd found hidden in a cupboard at her school. Still look at them every now and then!
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What sort of info are you looking for? Tracing their families backwards or something else?
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Of course - most men are OK, but sadly, too many who aren't!
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What's a "radical" feminist? I'm a feminist, but funnily enough I don't own any dungarees or boiler suits... Some of you do have some stereotypical views. A friendly touch/hug/pat from a man you know is fine, but often it's more than that, from strangers or work colleagues and older men are just as bad (if not worse) than younger ones. About time it was stamped out, not by a "witch hunt," which I don't believe it is, anyway, but by men FINALLY having to learn that it's not on
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Your words were really lovely Commo. I'm so sorry for your loss
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I didn't go to Portland but a lot of the people on your list were in the year above me at Bilborough Grammar
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In 1901 Sarah (widow) and most of the children are still living at 50 Main St. On the 1911, Sarah and 3 of her adult children are living at 50 Bestwood Colliery. Assume this is the same place as 1891/1901?
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A simple list
Family, close friends, travelling, good restaurants and good wine, time to myself, reading, memories and learning new things
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A much higher number of propositioning and sexual assault is carried out by straight men and boys on women, than by gay men and boys on straight boys and men. If this had happened to me, I hardly think this forum would be the best place to discuss it
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Insulting, definitely yes, but then some of us have moved on or didn't need to move on in the first place
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Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame, all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots
Of tired, outstripped Five-Nines that dropped behind.Gas! Gas! Quick, boys! - An ecstasy of fumbling,
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time;
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling
And flound'ring like a man in fire or lime ...
Dim, through the misty panes and thick green light,
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.In all my dreams, before my helpless sight,
He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.If in some smothering dreams you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin;
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues, -
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.-
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I never had the dream of getting married and having children, (and like you, Jill, I was an avid reader and still am) but it crept up on me in my early 30's. Ours are in their 20's now and both boys are lovely, thoughtful and brilliant company - so glad I had them!
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Let sleeping dogs lie
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I was 10 in 1967 and remember those bells being sold at Goose Fair. Had to have one!
Whatever happened to......?
in Owt' Abaaht Nowt !
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I still work too but doesn't mean that the increase in State Pension age with very late notification was right. NBL - we've had sexism to deal with all of our lives.