poohbear

There won't be any major reforms to the system which will change anything...It's their private club with expenses,their future pensions,their cottage in the Cotswolds with a nice little knighthood Politicians won't piss on their own fireworks, and we're stuck with a two party load of alternating crap.The sickening thing is that we pay to keep them in the manner to which they're accustomed.

1958 Vauxhall Cresta drove past me today in Sutton...absolutely immaculate,green. Mine was pink and grey and rotted to bits in the sixties.My God Vauxhall bodywork was crap in those days.

Probably the same way Lidl are selling British Apples.

Subtitles full stop...Much of my telly input is in the background while I'm doing something else....makes the programme a waste of time unless I'm glued to the screen.

Great minds!!......Exactly what I was saying to the guys in my local yesterday.....and how come they have 'British Apples?'.....In May?? Oh!....and what are Bacon Mishapes?...Do they mean 'Bits' Chocolates come in mishapes....pigs don't. 'Less than half price'.....not now....thanks to our American friends everything is now.... 'Better than half price'

A complete topic change for a thread on winter birds...

Yes....I used to get pram wheels there for my soap box trollies.

And it must have been getting dark that time of year carni...Must have frightened the crap out of them.

Unbelievable scenes to our minds...Can you imagine the Lion Inn on Clumber Street where a wooden beam crossed over the road.This was on the route of the condemned. Little boys would squabble over a place on this beam to get a good view of the cart. Unbelievable....little boys with their legs swinging lined up like seagulls jeering the procession. They didn't get stress counselling and human rights in those days...death was an entertainment. And these maniacs in the Middle East want us to go back to living in a savage world of public executions and vicious punishments for the slightest infri

Blimey...I'm not alone at the crack of dawn....sky lightening in the distance and she's wide awake already.Some poor pigeon is gonna have a rough breakfast.

For those interested, a very long read of everyday life in the town when life and death were never far apart. This gentleman died drunk sat on a candle in the late 1700s...his claim to fame? the introduction of braces to hold up the trousers of Nottingham gentlemen. Link to the date book .... https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=1dVUAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=nottingham&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjf75iyza_LAhWGbBoKHRWtDksQ6AEIOzAD#v=onepage&q=nottingham&f=false

That distasteful look on his face when talking about his missus or sex was a cracker.... Another character actor gone. It's got to the stage now when you watch a sitcom repeat whether any of 'em are still with us.

All seems well...

How can a Mexican bandit change anything?

My local estate shop buys several pallets of compost each year but this year his sales are well down...nobody is in the garden much or risking planting out with these temperatures. Personally,by now I usually have hanging baskets and troughs planted with hardier plants,but keeping an eye on the forecasts so precautions can be taken if the weather turns nasty. Over the years it's worked for me to give the plants an early start...... This year I just haven't dared take the risk. Sales must be well down at the garden centres. How are others coping?....or are you just waiting till May?

They don't need snow now the chicks are out the eggs....

We're taxed to hell as it is...When Maggie first got in power VAT was 8%....there's plenty of tax screwed out us plebs now including the £18 VAT the bastards charged me to kill my oldest most faithful friend....my dog.....I wouldn't mind if it went to animal charities...but it goes on wars,undeserving foreign aid,royalty and the establishment,and Neil Kinnocks three grand a week pension.

I wonder if the 'We've nobody available team' and the 'We're not interested but here's a crime number' teams will join them?

Stick with the subject you lot....this is a serious thread. Comedians are dying like flies this year or hadn't you noticed?

I bought a yard chain for my young dog...not to chain him up in the yard but to use at the pub or park to give the lad a bit of space to sniff round when my disabilities force me to rest my legs. At the pub on a sunny Friday I chained him to a pub table while I popped in for a pint...I was only a minute and I was on my way back out when I heard him yell out and rushed to him thinking he had tangled himself up. I was horrified to see that the tendons of his his rear leg had slipped into one of the clasps. It was biting into his leg and was impossible to remove...I got badly bitten trying...a c

Guess how many hat pins... Ready made anti mugger device...they'd probably get nicked now for offensive weapons!

Richard Beckinsale or Sue Pollard...someone who made us laugh and brightened our day. Having said that it will probably be the manager of a local tiddleywink or yo yo team.

The old pumping station had to be disused because it was found that the water which it was supplying was contaminated by the General Cemetery.(Yuk!) It was built on the site of an old windmill which stood there until 1832 or thereabouts.

Poor old mobile caterers...some try very hard to run a clean business...H&Safety rules are very strict nowadays. Pal of mine stood Goose Fair with a big trailer, and as usual good old Goose Fair weather,it was a mudbath. Local H&S objected to muddy footprints in the trailer and insisted he drill one inch holes in the floor to allow water to run out after mopping the floor. He drilled the floor as requested and received written conformation that he had followed Nottingham H&S guidelines. A week later at another fair the local H&S told him to fill the holes in..."As they allow