DJBrenton

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  1. My favourite Haggard story is the one where he told Johnny Cash how much he’d enjoyed the show at San Quentin prison. “I didn’t think you played on that one, Merle”, Cash answered, a little confused. Haggard’s reply was “I didn’t – I was in the crowd”. Anyone who could out-outlaw Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson can only be described as a legend.
  2. You're lucky your wife would have to bite through it. My ex could have argued her way through chain that thin.
  3. What a proud episode in British history they were.
  4. The story was buried to a certain degree at the time. Not the Forester's finest hour. A pivotal moment in Irish history.
  5. THE UK has been reminded that the clocks go forward or possibly back, this Saturday or maybe the Saturday after. The biannual ritual, which corrects time for the benefit of the ever-grateful farming community, will give everyone an extra hour in bed, or possibly an hour less. A spokesman for Greenwich Royal Observatory said: “Frankly we’re sketchy on the specifics. “You think we’re a bunch of people who look like Kraftwerk, sitting in a clock-covered spaceship that is calibrated to the last nano-second. “Actually it’s a rented room above Greenwich Wetherspoons and we drink heavily through
  6. Welbeck hall has a large car park that's generally empty. Not that I condone parking on private property of course.
  7. Back in 2002 I did a night djing in Kuala Lumpur. In a pedestrian area there was a pond with massive koi carp. Had it been in Nottingham, it would have Bern Fairy Liquided or the dish would have disappearred.
  8. A rendered reconstruction of Drury Hill
  9. That would be Bar Esquina in Alea casino. £4 for 2/3 of a pint of Mahou. It's my regular nightcap venue when I finish late.
  10. Not the same footage but of the opening night. http://www.macearchive.org/archive.html?Title=6669 The missing piece seems to be this one http://bufvc.ac.uk/shakespeare/index.php/title/av66314
  11. Funnily enough, I just noticed the map you posted on the Old Milton's Head thread. I notice Angel Alley doesn't go all the way through at that time.
  12. Near the bottom of this article, the guy who bought the house that used to be the Old Milton's Head discovered previously unknown caves underneath.
  13. I seem to remember years ago being told he claimed some sort of allergy that stopped him wearing shirts. Nonsense of course.
  14. And, if memory serves me, the various News Houses were exactly that. they were the places where a newspaper would be read out for the public when it arrived form London.
  15. The Salutation and the Royal Children? Now, of course, there are loads next door to each other as certain areas are wall to wall pubs/bars.
  16. #13, unless so signed, cyclists have the same rights as pedestrians in pedestrian zones. Using the term 'pedestrian' as opposed to 'motor vehicle free' does lead to people getting upset at cyclists when they're actually within their rights, although should cycle carefully, obviously. #15, many cycle paths aren't fit for purpose, and can even be dangerous. Funnily enough, pedestrians have no regard for cyclists on cycle paths either. I often have to ask people to let me past their dog on a long lead, or to let me past them walking 4 abreast on both the pedestrian and cycle paths. You even get
  17. I was asked once at a job interview what my main fault was. 'I'm too honest' I said 'I don't think being too honest is a fault' said the interviewer 'I couldn't give a toss what you think' I replied.
  18. Actually concrete posts can be as cheap it seems. A fencing guy I met buys 8ft concretes for £8.50 from somewhere in Ilkeston.
  19. I've shot a few weir in kayaks but, for obvious reasons, never in a canoe.
  20. I went in for a meal last summer. I'd canoed up the canal and was then going back down the Trent.
  21. The Old Angel, whilst only closing for a refurb is apparently losing the gig room upstairs which is being turned into flats. I suspect the 'refurb' will see a totally different type of bar emerge. The last really alternative city centre pub gone.
  22. I once convinced someone that the German for duckling was ein lickababbaduckducken
  23. Just as funny the other way round. Imagine finding you'd doused your chips in whisky.
  24. I think that's called punctuation.