Rob.L

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  1. Personally, I found the supermarket Dickson & Morris pork pies disappointing - lacking in flavour and lots of gristle, and totally different from the ones from their shop. Pork Farms also appear to have not bothered with seasoning. Having forgotten to order one of their own from Chambers in Arnold, the best I found was Sainsbury’s own brand. But they then seemed to change supplier or recipe mid-month and the replacement was cheap and nasty.
  2. Like PP, I only tuned into the matches a couple of minutes before, but watched the final all the way through - even the presentation afterwards. After Mbappe’s unnecessary smirking when Kane missed a penalty, it was good to see his smile wiped from his face by Messi and the rest of the Argentinian team.even after his hat-trick. And I bet that Macron wished he was anywhere but on the podium when he was forced to shake hands with the winners. Poor bugger looked so miserable.
  3. @BeekayThat will probably be the preference next time! She’s just this minute landed there - only nine hours late!
  4. True. But it’s not the same as a proper continental market. Then there’s the frites and beer… Daft thing is that she could have driven, or taken the train, and got there quicker.
  5. Not so much how my day has been, but how our daughter’s day has been. Her plan was a weekend seeing the Christmas markets in Brussels. She left home at 6:15 this morning and was booked onto a flight due to leave Manchester at 11:10. The plane was delayed so didn’t leave the terminal until 11:55, and taxied out to the runway behind an Airbus going to Hong Kong. Only, the Airbus broke down on the taxiway, leaving her plane stuck behind it. Nothing moved until 18:00, when the Airbus got towed away and the Brussels plane had to go back to the terminal to refuel. It’s now 19
  6. As a lad, me and my mates used to write down registration numbers as cars drove past. One regular was an E-Type which always made us snigger - BRA36B
  7. And that’s also why some retired firefighters have 999 as part of their car registrations (like my brother). Also, didn’t NCT buses used to have the number from the registration as the bus number?
  8. Wasn’t just Sikorski. Władysław Raczkiewicz, August Zaleski and Stanisław Ostrowski, three prime ministers of the government in exile were also buried at Newark. Their remains were repatriated to Poland only a few weeks ago.
  9. My (then) father in law had an HC with the 1759 engine. One day, he foolishly let me borrow it. Got it up to an indicated 80 on the back road between Harby and Colton Bassett. All was fine until I got to a corner and found that the big heavy lump of cast iron under the bonnet wasn’t too happy about going round the bend. Luckily the verge was quite wide! Behaved myself after that.
  10. 2-door HC Viva? They appear to be quite rare these days, so may be worth restoring if not too badly infected with rust worm. Now, if it was a Firenza…
  11. One of the teachers at Carlton le Willows had one in the late 60s. He always made sure it was locked and visible from his classroom window to keep us little scrotes well away from it. Mind you, there still seem to be a lot of Mk1s around which have been given a Lotus paint job and badges, but not the Lotus mods and running gear, to enhance their value.
  12. Yes. I use either my phone or my watch. Hardly ever get my card out of my wallet these days, and the £20 in notes has been in there for months.
  13. Having spent the best part of forty years driving up and down virtually every motorway in GB (exceptions are M77 and M876 in Scotland), the only journey I can honestly say was enjoyable from start to finish was actually in France, travelling back from Caen to Calais on the autoroutes. Good road surfaces, well signed, drivers sticking not only to speed limits, but to lane discipline as well, lovely clean services (aires) with good food. Made the journey pleasant. And then came the M20 - Road works, tailgaters, congestion.
  14. Don’t mention Audi drivers. Especially ones that don’t indicate. Someone on here will get annoyed.
  15. As I recall… “Eveninks and morninks, I drink Warnincks”
  16. During the first lockdown, I ordered a mixed case of beers from a local brewery. Included was a “Cherry Stout”, which they describe as “Natural dark cherry fruit flavour added to our rich smokey stout, packed full of roasted malt flavour with added sweet fruity dark cherry creamy flavour.” I tried it once and it was horrible. Not what I want beer/stout to taste like.
  17. Two good results today. Consultant confirms my PSA level has dropped dramatically, so he's as confident as he can be that I’m now free of prostate cancer. Then, I get a call from Virgin to offer me a deal, after I’d dropped most of what I had been paying for up to last month. Net result is that I get my broadband speed doubled, Sky Sports, Sky Movies, free calls anytime, and they’re even throwing Netflix in. All that for less than half of what I was paying before, although it will cost me an extra 1p a month over the basic package I had moved to.
  18. The laws around licensing private hire vehicles were changed by the government in 2015 to allow local authorities to compete with each other. Wolverhampton charges a lot less than other LAs and now issues far more licenses than the city has PH drivers, while sending its inspectors all round the country to check up on those who are licensed by them. Daft, isn’t it! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-44849364
  19. Only partly. Most of the £29.4m came from the National Heritage Lottery Fund (£13.9m), D2N2 (£7m), as well as money from Arts Council England, plus fundraising by the Nottingham Castle Trust.
  20. The Castle was being run by a Charitable Trust, not the City Council. The Trust determined admission prices, and it’s the Trust that has gone into liquidation. The council still own the Castle and it appears that they will take over control. https://www.nottinghamcastle.org.uk/about-the-trust/
  21. If it’s right that they’re charging £12.50 for a bottle of gnats urine, I doubt there will be anyone who can afford to be a lager lout.
  22. Surprised Aldi got away with that.
  23. And with Forest having now reached 13 points, the record held by D*rby County for the lowest points in a season remains intact. Unless Wolves somehow manage to lose every one of their remaining 23 games.
  24. At the 2019 General Election, out of 47,587,254 people voting, there was only 1 conviction of voter fraud (+0 cautions). That represents 0.0000021014% of votes. Source - https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/who-we-are-and-what-we-do/our-views-and-research/our-research/electoral-fraud-data/2019-electoral-fraud-data