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Like Phil I don’t read a great deal of fiction with my current main interest being WW1 but I am currently having a rest from that and working my way through D H Lawrence ‘The Rainbow’. I’m finding it hard going but it is, in my opinion, his best work. I wish I could write like him.

Blue sky thinking.

I played Rugby at school. I was always rubbish at football but was much better at rugby so enjoyed playing. I was even in the school team and never got any serious injury. The worst thing that I still wince at when I think about was charging down a kick I caught the wet ball full in the face which hurt. A lot. Having said that I enjoyed rugby we had the opportunity to opt for rowing from the 3rd year so went off to Trent bridge all Friday afternooons. It seemed to shorten school to only four and a half days which suited me fine. My goodness it could be cold on the river in winter but I rather

It was princess Anne not ‘and’. Spellcheck kicked in and I didn’t notice.

I don’t like these ‘audit’ videos that are on youtube. They all follow a similar theme. Start filming outside a police station, factory or with a drone and wait for the reaction and start spouting ‘there’s no law against it’ etc. waste of time.

I had a friend in the police. He was present on one occasion when Princess and landed in the helicopter. It was a little bumpy and her highness stormed out the craft and shouted up to the pilot. She probably spoke 20 words, 19 of which were very rude.

My father in law used to say that one of his neighbours who was very bald but had a rather splendid bouffant comb over “he has 3 shredded wheat every day. 2 on his plate and one on his head”.

Way back in the early 1970’s I worked as a trainee TV service engineer. The company I worked for had a number of contracts for various sales outlets to repair TV’s and general electrical items, radiograms, hifi etc, that in those days were often bought on hire purchase. I think Rumblows (spelt?) was one company we did a lot of house visits for. You would find that there wasn’t a great deal of skill needed in repairing many tv’s as certain models would have common faults. I did hundreds of home visits most of which are lost in my memory but I well recall one. I went to a house on the Bulwell Ha

Totally agree CT. There were a lot of older cars around in the post war years but that does look like a date in the corner. When was Aspley built.

This came up on Fb today. Aspley Lane 1950’s

Here it is pp. Black and white only though.

You will be disappointed as regards the castle. It is closed for the foreseeable future as the company running it went bust. As for the workhouse it appears to be currently closed and reopening towards the end of February, the 19th I think. Look on their web page for details. I don’t know where the museum with hearses is. There is the industrial museum on Wollaton park but that is only sometimes open at weekends as far as I know. The framework knitters museum at Ruddington is worth visiting I’m told although I’ve never been. There is the Civil War museum at Newark. I have been there and I t wa

I can confirm that there was not one of the auction type sales today in Newark either on the Tolney Lane corner or just over the bridge on the car park where the Castle barge floating pub is. I don’t think it restarted filling covid.

I was referring to the auction type sale on the car park corner of Tolney Lane not the market place.

Do they still have that market? As far as I know it stopped during covid and hasn’t restarted.

If you read my post then You will see Tom Karen was not the main designer of the Chopper nor was Alan Oakley. Karen did some detail work on it but was far from ‘the designer’. It is odd that when it proved to be a commercial success some who didn’t deserve it laid claim to it.

Exactly what I’ve just had Phil. Lovely……so far.

My mum had an uncle who kept a newsagents on High Street. She would visit him when she was young so 1935-45.

Not going to disagree with you here Col but it’s worth noting that the NHS are in the top 10 of the worlds largest employers and very very inefficient. You could double the current budget and it still be under funded. I read only yesterday that there are 800 staff in the NHS exclusively working on equality, diversity and inclusion and one health authority spent £219,000 supporting the rollout of the NHS rainbow badge scheme  and an undisclosed amount of money spent giving staff African drumming lessons. Perhaps the NHS should look at their internal spending and waste. This is not I hast

I bought something from cancer research the other day. They asked at the till if I’d like to add a pound to the price. I told them that while their CEO gets paid £240,000 pa I wouldn’t thank you. They seemed a bit miffed.

You don’t shop at the right place PP. I ordered a new washer a few weeks ago. I did try to order it on line at Curry’s but the ‘choose a delivery date’ part kept me going around in circles. It transpired although it let me place an order, the washer wasn’t in stock. In frustration I ordered from John Lewis. I did pay £20 for the old one to be removed and they loaded it on the van and took it away.

I’d never even consider tipping bar staff. Why would I. I don’t tip the shop when I buy milk or a new jacket. Waiters rather different and I usually let my barber keep the change where I only go 4 times a year or thereabouts so it’s no big deal. If a restaurant automatically add the service charge I always delete it. That seems to be getting more common. If I do tip then it’s cash in the hand that’s served me and I won’t automatically tip for the sake of it but I will tip where I’ve had good service.

I’m not much of a drinker nowadays but do enjoy a pint now and then. My regular pub is card only. From the business holders point of view there are many advantages. Not having to handle, count, store, transport and bank cash. Also it’s much more difficult for bar staff to short change or steal from the employer. I recently went into a bar in Southwell to watch the football. I paid cash and noticed I was a pound short. When I questioned it the barman instantly gave me a pound. Didn’t check. No doubt in my mind he knew. Oddly I was short changed in a different Southwell pub last year. The m

This is very disappointing news. Since my post dated 12th August I’ve been there probably a dozen times. My grandson asked me to take him only Saturday just gone and we spent several hours there. His request, he loves it there. I don’t know how well this closure was know but I heard staff selling tickets on the premise that ‘you can come back any time for a year’. Pretty disgusted to be honest.

My father attended High Pavement. It was then at the Stanley Road site of course, in the same buildings that I later went to as Forest Fields GS. I remember him being with me at the school one time for some reason and he was looking up. He was reminiscing and told me he was on the exact spot he was many years ago when they were all allowed out class to watch the wonder of the age, the R101 airship fly over. I have one of those framed very long panoramic photos of the whole school taken in the yard with my father on it. By coincidence one of my aunts is also on the photo. She was completely un