Hey Arnold

Isn't everywhere @benjamin1945Obviously gone downhill since Farrand's & Marsden's shut up shop. From the picture it looks like they could do with a good manager......what're you up to nowadays?

In a 'British' pub called Boobies (Don't ask me!) in Toyota City Japan we used to drink Irish car bombs. A pint of Guiness with a measure of Bailey's in, then drop a shot of Jameson's into it. Boom!

As someone who has paid tax all my life from the age of 16 I would far rather those monies were spent on the funeral of The Queen, who served the country tirelessly from her accesssion to the throne, than being sent abroad to countries who have nuclear weapons, space programmes etc whilst spending little or nothing on the welfare of their own citizens and who also despise the UK. I would also guess that the money we spend on so called refugees who arrive on our shores, and are given housing & benefits from the deep pockets of the taxpayer, without having contributed to the economy of the

Recently took several large boxes of books to a couple of charity shops but kept hold of a copy each of the Guiness Book of British Hit Singles and Halliwell's Film Guide. Lord only knows why (and @RadFordee 'cause it was her idea) as everything's on the Internet now

Also hats off to Susanna Reid and Tilda Swinton who also queued, without fuss, to quietly pay their respects

Caveat emptor.........Your unelected King has very few powers as a constitutional monarch and is therefore less likely to have an impact on your everyday life. However an elected president, as it would appear the ever disgruntled of the country want, can have a significant impact. I give you Donald Trump

Reckon Gordon Gecko must have been to Slaters......

@benjamin1945 I'd never heard of Slaters until your post despite probably having walked past them dozens of times. They obviously still stick to the principles of courtesy & service, unlike many shops where a surly, disinterested teenager, wearing jogging bottoms hanging round his backside, tears himself away from his phone to 'serve' you, calling you mate/dude/buddy. Got to admit the last time I wore braces was with No.2's

The current L85 rifle used by the British Army cannot be used left handed. As it is of a design called bullpup the stock is very short which places the ejection port next to the cheek, albeit on the right hand side. If it was used left handed spent cartridges would be ejected into the left cheek, whereas on the right they eject away from the face

Phillip's cause of death was recorded as old age, Princess Margaret's was stroke and King George VI was coronary thrombosis. I don't believe that there is any convention that prevents the cause of death from being in the public domain, just the family's desire for privacy

@BeekayFunnily enough it was only yesterday that I said to RF that I wondered how your grass was... Test cricket next

1977 The Queen's Siver Jubilee, myself and a couple of mates dragged ourselves down to Mansfield Road, opposite The White Hart in Arnold, to watch The Queen drive past on her way to Nottingham. Aged 15 we only went down there because we hadn't got anything better to do and naively we expected her cavalcade to drive by slowly.......not!

Quite like The Legend of Xanadu myself with the mariachi band sound

Almost 30 years ago I had an apprentice and one day were discussing what we wanted to be, as kids, when we grew up. I said that I wanted to be an astronaut, to which he looked doubtful and asked why. I then explained that watching the Apollo moon shots and man landing on the moon. To this he replied "did we....when? and looked absolutely astounded. 1969 said I to which he said he wasn't born until 1975.......talk about feeling old!! I felt like I was from a different world

Lots of people say six... Dave, Dee....etc

Used to be a reasonable trivia question, How many members in Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Titch?

I believe that the congregation were at St. Paul's to pay their respects to The Queen and were simply invited to attend if they wished to, hence the casual dress of the majority there. That was what was said on the TV earlier

Would not the politics thread be more appropriate for the comments made debating control of the BBC rather than an obituary?

Had the coverage on yesterday until we'd seen everything for the third time then watched Shetland that we'd recorded. Put the news on this morning, as normal, and am now stripping wallpaper with TV off

Hideous

Probably not a building in Arnold that didn't have a crack somewhere thanks to Gedling Pit!

It will be strange for many of us, only ever knowing The Queen in our lifetimes, to now have a King. She was the embodiment of duty & service and typical of the wartime generation, the like of which I don't believe we will ever see again, and without whom the world would be a very different place.

@philmayfieldahh, I didn't start going until the mid to late sixties by which time they must have been altered. On the right hand side of the pool was a couple of tiers of benches for spectators and on the left was the attendants cubicle flanked by the access to/egress from the changing rooms, both male and female, complete with cold footbaths and showers

One of the strangest things I've ever eaten, like tasteless cold wet cardboard.

Sorry @philmayfieldare you talking about the baths just behind the library? To the best of my memory there were cubicles and a communal changing room but the cubicles didn't run alongside the pool?