Rob.L

The days of me tinkering with car engines went a while back. I’d be scared stiff of messing with the Diesel engine in my car, apart from basics like changing fluids and filters. A few months ago, I ventured into the dark corner of my garage searching for old bicycle tools and found my old toolbox, which still has my old feeler gauges, plug spanners and a Gunson Sparkrite, together with a couple of old spark plugs from the last petrol car I owned about twenty years ago.

The Chromecast device plugs into an HMDI port on the TV and allows you to send videos, etc, from a PC, tablet, or phone, which supports ‘casting’. https://support.google.com/chromecast/answer/6006232?hl=en-GB

They’d gone a bit upmarket when I saw them at Bingley Hall, Stafford, in October 1975. They were probably a lot louder, too, as it took me a few days to stop my ears from ringing.

Surely, if she swallowed the tooth, you could have retrieved it once it had passed through her digestive system?

In the 60s, we would play on the pond on the old Mapperley Brickyard (behind what is now a KFC, and where Springwood Gardens has since been built). We slid down the clay cliff right to the water’s edge and used any old bits of wood to make rafts. Parents were livid when we’d get home covered in clay. All got stopped when one lad drowned.

Got just the one card for jabs 1 and 2, so wrote on the card the date when I had the booster, and which it was (Pfizer) Its on the app, too.

The wife gave our daughter’s boyfriend most of the pork pie I was planning to eat on Christmas morning. He only ate the meat - leaving the pastry and jelly on his plate. And he ate all the leftover sausage rolls. I know he’s from Kirkby in Ashfield, but really!

Certainly looks like it’s the same person. https://sherwoodrestorations.co.uk/the-company/#our-history A relative of ours works there, and recently bought one of their MG Midgets.

Same colour scheme as my Anglia 105E. Although that had added rust.

Didn’t stop Tony Iommi from making a career of playing with three and a half fingers…

Another good result and now on the edge of the playoffs. Difficult to believe this is mostly the same side that had such an awful record under the previous manager. And to make me feel old, Leeds have named a 15 year old lad called Archie Gray on their substitute list for their match today. He’s the son of Andy Gray and grandson of Frank Gray! Both of whom played for Forest as well as Leeds.

Back of the old Majestic Cinema and, next door, Mumbai Spice Indian takeaway.

Part of the problem is that those who are appointed to these roles won’t necessarily have any expertise in the field. Applies equally as much to MPs who are made ministers as it does to councillors. They're all reliant on the advice of their officials.

I doubt very much that the current portfolio holder for housing would have knowingly allowed this to happen. I used to work with her and have known her for over thirty years. I even helped and encouraged her when she became a magistrate twenty years ago. She’s as straightforward and honest as they come.

Thanks, saves me having to write exactly that, apart from a growing interest in Humanism. (https://humanists.uk/humanism/) As regards diminishing attendance, the last two churches I went to were both packed-out with worshippers. One was the Ukrainian Church at the bottom of Carlton Road, and the other was the Polish church on Sherwood Rise.

Going back to the Windows question, I’m holding back on Win11 on the laptop. It’s not the newest and struggles a bit with Win10. I dug out my 14 year old desktop PC from the loft the other day. Last used 8 years ago, 4gig memory and 160gig hard drive, and has XP on it. It was intended to go to the dump, but I thought I’d try reviving it. Despite its age and lack of use, it’s now purring along nicely using Ubuntu. The XP is still installed on the hard drive, which means I can access all my old pictures, music, etc, but once I can move them all over to Ubuntu, I’ll be deleting Window

Seems that Virgin Media have now got all the TV channels back, but still not fixed the apps (iPlayer, Netflix, Prime, etc).

Surprised Royal Mail are using the RAC if they’re getting that level of service. When I had a mishap with my Sainsburys Mercedes van, they called out Crouch Recovery (as seen on Trucking Hell on TV), who was there within an hour and loaded it on their flatbed. Twenty minutes later, I was back at the store.

I was a regular there in the early 70s. Well, if every Thursday evening when they had a disco counts as regular. Didn’t see that much female flesh on show.

Used that B&D shop a few times when it was open - in the days when you could get tools repaired rather than having to bin them.

Chambers are still going strong. They do lovely pork & black pudding pies. https://aechambers.co.uk

Back in 1986, a work colleague was going on and on about the new Sierra he was buying from Hooleys, and how he had been told by the salesman to run it in gently for the first few thousand miles. He wasn’t too amused when I pointed out a Sierra being hammered up Maid Marian Way in a low gear (we had the window open so could hear it), which just happened to be the same colour and have the same registration as the car he was due to collect later that week.

And then there’s this, from Private Eye. “The company in charge of preparing the “knowledge management system in preparation for the public inquiry” into Test & Trace failings? Deloitte, the very consultants who got hundreds of millions in contracts to, er, run Test & Trace.”

There were allotments on Foxhill up to the 1950s/60s between Chesterfield Street and Garden Avenue, and also between Foxhill/Valley Road and Coningswath/Cavendish Road, where Carlton Forum was later built. Could they have been located there?

Had the Tri-ang trainset of this for Christmas 1965. https://www.brightontoymuseum.co.uk/index/Blue_Pullman_Train_Set_(Tri-ang_RS52)