hippo girl

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  1. Just been to Costo Derby.....amazing.....never been in a place like that before, led such a sheltered life
  2. The one I taught at sue was further down the Wells road. ...the one at the top was Walter Halls
  3. I use to teach in that school, so sad .....was a massive part of the community
  4. Marnie Fogg 's book gets a mention there.....a Notts girl who became a fashion lecturer and writer .....
  5. That's sooo lovely, brought tears to my eyes Benjamin.......
  6. Was it Trina from Beeston Benjamin ? She was always going on about some guy who bought her a fox fur coat and asked for it back when he dumped her
  7. What will happen to Lenton , Radford, Gregory and Clifton boulevards ......will they become streets ?
  8. Your home is your castle whatever the strata is called .......BTW is coronation street on tonight or do I have to download U2 " where the streets have no name " ?
  9. I hope they are on the same level Melissa, unless you live on a hill, an edge or a bank !!!LOL
  10. Interesting point Engineer, My first home was a back to back Victorian terrace in a road, I then lived in avenues, drives , closes , lanes and courts ......... I presume the word street comes from the Latin strata ( paved road ) .....and we don't have many roman roads left now, certainly not round here !!!!!! Think of some of the best streets in London ......Oxford, Regents, Bond and Fenchurch
  11. The old hippo club, Bridlesmith gate...... Now coco tang
  12. What's wrong with Nottstalgian banter alongside the serious stuff ? ......have we run out of things to say ?
  13. I don't always agree with Jeremy Corbyn but admire his passion and diversity.....shabby chic is definitely Ok by me
  14. I pay mega bucks to look scruffy !!!!!!! LOL
  15. My thoughts are with her family.....a strong inspirational woman who had a belief and did something positive with her life ....
  16. The royal family !!!!! .....only joking
  17. When I'm abroad and people ask where I'm from I say " Venus "
  18. BHGS were Alvric,Godric, Levric, Ulvric WTF was that all about.....? Being a naughty girl at school , I was never going to be head girl but the house system allowed the pupils to vote for their house captain.....much to the disgust of the teaching staff, hippo girl was house captain for Levric !!!!!!
  19. Always here to oblige !!!!!
  20. For me it was Stevie Winwood, still looking good at 67..........not forgetting the guys in Tristram Shandy !!!!!!LOL
  21. It was a case of all over the world, as tears go by ?
  22. For me it was Steves, Pauls, Daves, Alans, Roys, Richards and Petes until I changed my musical influences and it then became Genos, Leroys and Levi's !!!!!!!