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The short strip of the old road outside the farm shop was used for parking when I was bike racing in the 60s/70s as it was where the start/finish lines were for 10-mile time trial events (it’s exactly five miles from there to Oxton Island).

The sticker may have disappeared when people started making comments about the name and Prince Andrew.

Bit of a trek for you, but Spring Lane Farm Shop’s meat and bakery isn’t half bad.

I wonder if it was arson or accidental. I remember going there and they had one of those Kamado BBQs outside for display. They retailed at about £750! Next thing, I read that it had disappeared overnight.

Pity he couldn’t find anyone to run an iron over his shirt, though.

Depends on Depends on what you class as a real job. On the Labour benches, you’ll find barristers like Starmer and Thornberry, doctors like Rosena Allin-Khan, nurses and care workers, teachers, military (e.g. Dan Jarvis), and plenty of people who had other “proper” jobs. it’s far too easy to suggest that “they’re all the same” when they’re plainly not.

I suppose the Daily Mail could come under “EU funded press”, considering how many millions their editor skimmed off in subsidies for his grouse moors under the Common Agricultural Policy.

It was. Named after Robert Smith, the banker who became the first Baron Carrington, ancestor of Lord Carrington who served in Margaret Thatcher’s government.

From his post-match comments, Cooper seems to realise that he has to be a bit more radical in his tactics, and a bit more ruthless in player selection. Are the likes of Worrall, Yates and Cook good enough for the Premiership? It may take a few more games for the new players to mesh, and for him to establish tactics that suit, but I’m hopeful that they’ll start to produce results soon.

And then there’s Jake Bugg, capturing the spirit of Clifton. I drink to remember, I smoke to forget Some things to be proud of some stuff to regret Gone down some dark alleys in my own head But something is changing, changing, changing I go back to Clifton to see my old friends The best people I could ever have met We skin up a fat one, hide from the Feds And something is changing, changing, changing So I kiss goodbye to every little ounce of pain Light a cigarette and wish the world away I got out, I got out, out alive and I'm here to stay So I hold two

Our local chippy in Arnold charges about the same. With the cost of cooking oil and electricity, added to the increased price of raw materials - fish, spuds, etc, it’s understandable. Although the quantity we get means that one large haddock and chips is enough for both of us.

Hmm, that’s got me wondering. Was my sister with you? That’s about the time she met her future husband, who just happened to work for the Post Office at the time as an engineer.

I used to work there in the 1970s when it was a BT office and occasionally used to use the car park which is/was under the building and accessed from Norfolk Place.

I met John Nichol at a company event twenty-odd years ago. He was very open about the treatment he and Peters experienced at the hands of Saddam’s thugs - a lot of which was deemed too graphic for the book.

Pedant time. TSCR (Telecom Securicor Cellular Radio) was a joint venture between BT and Securicor, and traded as Cellnet. BT later bought-out Securicor’s share. Even later, Cellnet was rebranded as mmO2 and later just O2 before it was sold to Spanish company Telefonica. It’s now in a joint venture again, this time with Virgin Media. That transportable phone you used would have cost the company something around £1500 at the time, had a battery life of only a few hours and the calls would have cost about 35p/min.

Met a nice young lady while on a training course many years ago who lived in Pratt's Bottom (it’s near Biggin Hill). And I used to work with one or two people who came from Lickey End.

Here we go. First PL game in 23 years. COYR!

Mentioning garden sheds got me thinking. In ours was my dad’s 1948 Raleigh Record Ace and his 1936 Paragon, one brother’s Mercian King of Mercia, a Harry Quinn track bike, and buried at the back until I dug it out, my other brother’s Sheffield Langsett with Campagnolo everything, which he got in 1960. That was the one I cleaned up and got working after ten years of festering and rusting, mainly to get to and from school before I took up racing. I used it every day, leaving it in the school bike shed, or at the back of my mate’s pub. Rode it hundreds of miles training and racing. In all that ti

A brief update. Rang the GP surgery at 8am. Start to finish, the call lasted less than five minutes. Got called back by the GP ten minutes later and by 9:15 I was sat in her consulting room, being tested. She’s prescribed the medication she thinks will help resolve the problem and is confident that the surgery can go ahead as planned. Got to say I love the NHS!

Thanks for the thoughts and advice, all. This is all quite new to me as I’ve never really had anything worse than a cold or Covid in the last 66 years, never even been in a hospital bed, and now have two things to get bothered about on top of the wife’s recent heart problems. I’m just irritated, more than anything else, as I’ve built myself up for the operation and the subsequent recuperation period but now seem to be going backwards when there’s so many things I want to do.

One of those never rains, but pours, days. Went for my pre-op assessment for my prostatectomy, to get rid of the cancer they found a few weeks ago. Everything was going swimmingly until the nurse did an ECG. Turns out I have a previously-undiagnosed atrial fibrillation (irregular heartbeat) and the anaesthetist is unwilling to let me go through with the surgery until this is investigated further, so has referred me back to my GP. Hopefully, I’ll be able to get past Attila the receptionist at some stage and speak to the GP to get a referral to Cardiology for them to deci

I blame the Minister for Education who was in place at the time. Certainly, none of the pupils of either school were happy with the merger. Although it did bring a halt to the legendary snowball fights between the Grammar and the Tech.

@mary1947Your cousin must have been teaching there after 1973, the year I left, as the French teacher was still Eve Prager then. That was the year it became a Comprehensive school, with the merger of the Grammar and the Tech.

A new online offering from the BBC, showing lots of old clips from their archives. Quite a few bits about this area, if you put Nottingham in the search box. https://bbcrewind.co.uk

Alternatively, It is believed that the name is formed from two Celtic words – ʻtrosʼ (over) and ʻhyntʼ (way) producing ʻtroshyntʼ (over-way). Because of the riverʼs tendency to flood and alter its course, this has been interpreted as meaning ʻstrong floodingʼ or more directly ʻthe trespasserʼ. Another possible meaning is ʻa river that is easily fordedʼ. The name ʻTrisantona Fu (Trisantona River) for the Trent first appears in ʻThe Annalsʼ, the work of the Roman historian Tacitus. Researchers at the University of Wales suggest the name is derived from the Romano-British, (aga