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Just under the bridge on the right is Florence Rd. I had an aunt who lived down there. Just a little snippet from my memory box. Every sun/mon dad would take us to see her . We were on a mission. Her pet name was 'Auntie Drippin' and as they didn't eat any fats, she would save all the drippin' from her sunday roast for her favourite brother 'My dad'. Sorry to say, having six kids, he didn't get much of a look in! On the very cold Boxing Day in 1966, my intended husband/ best man and friends all who had travelled from W-ton for our 11am wedding at Gedling Church, went to change into

I don't want to high jack the thread again but just thought the NHS deserve all the praise they can get. Less than 24hrs ago I was at Cannock Hospital, undergoing an unsuccessful procedure. Discussions with the surgeon concluded with another appointment for General anaesthetic . Would you believe it, the post has just come and delivered a letter for pre op assessment appointment on Thurs 25th Oct. Ops usually follow quite quickly from pre assesment. Hows that for speed. Fantastic.

I hope your knuckle doesn't give you to much grief Margi. I quite often get a V shaped nick when I'm doing my hairdressing duties and they can sting sharply. No chance of doing my own. I have tried, but looking in the mirror and trying to cut hair is not easy. I end up with a very asymmetric look. Interesting, but unintentional! I do have a little trim myself but mainly the fringe area. That does for me.

I always cut Hubbys hair about every five weeks so no charge, around that time ,seeing as I have a simple style , I just book in for a dry trim.£10.00. On Wednesday I thought I would spoil myself and go for,shampoo, cut and blow dry. £28.00. Not a lot by todays standards, but a shock to this Dinosaur. Being the owner of dry hair I can get away with about four days between washes, so today it gets a wash. The shampoo and blow dry on Wednesday has cost me the extra £18.00 for four days. Back to my dry trims for a tenner for me, I think. Living on a budget these days.

I Got Three.

I'll have it Lizzie.

I have just been catching up on all of your posts. Wonderfully uplifting. I can't imagine there is another site on the internet with such supportive members, you really do me good, and make me laugh when I least feel like it. I wanted to quote parts of so many posts from you all but I don't know where to start so a big thank you all so much. I wish I could say my hospital visit went well, but no such luck. An attempt was made, using local anaesthetic, it was not happening so I have to go back for General anaesthetic, which has its own risks because of my heart problems. A big BUT....I still ha

You always make me laugh Jill. Best Tonic.

MmmMmm, that 'Elephants Foot' sounds good. Something to look forward to.

Nonna, Jonab and those Nottstalgians on here who are not well, sadly there are a few, I send you my best wishes for your future health, as I know you would wish me the same. My day began at one minute past midnight, as I have not slept! You see this yellow coloured Wimp is at hospital later this morning for....well I will not go into detail, but I know what is coming. Hence my sleepless night. I just want to say that our fabulous and overstretched NHS is looking after me with such speed, and deserve our praise. I only hope I can show my thanks to them by overcoming my fears and behaving l

Good Morning Commo and all you other early risers.

Both of my Children now 50ish, have a love of Nottm, passed on to them from me. It comes from their visits home to see my family when they were younger. Sadly most have passed away now so we don't travel home as much these days. We live 25mins train ride from Bham but I can't take to the place at all, another city that has lost some fabulous architecture. Our son and his partner really love Nottm and have a couple of city breaks there a year, not long back from one. They stay at the IBIS on Fletcher gate and come rain or shine have at least two visits to Wollaton Hall

Same for me Lizzie. No problem.

I've just done a bit of sleuthing and have discovered that the banner and light background colour is the format when I first get on NS, as soon as I sign in it goes back to the usual colour minus the banner again. No problem, only an observation. It gives me summat to do.Just call me Mrs Sherlock Holmes.

I had the banner and colour change early this morning. The background colour was a lot lighter, but I had to switch off for a few hours and now it's back to the usual format? Just remembered, it was about 6.30am this morning when I had the changes. Mick2Me was on line, so perhaps he was having a twiddle with the format.

Sounds good to me. Hope all go well for you Melissa.

Very sorry to read this Mandy. I am another one of many who enjoyed dancing to his music in the 1960s He has a special place in our memories. Our condolences to his family.

HUH. I was wrong then. I'm tellin' mi mam, that Kath's a cheat and i'm not playin' any more!

First of all I thought there was some sort of rescue going on, as about a quarter of the way down the dark opening there appears to be a small head with a helmet on and a small hand, but then I noticed two big dark eyes and a nose?on the left top of the picture, looking straight at me. Is it a baby animal or bird. Perhaps an owl or sommat??? wanting to come in?

Thanks Jonab, We do need a reliable SatNav for when we have to find a specific destination and homeward journey, but would never use one for our countryside expeditions, you're right, it would spoil it for us. We never get lost for long, we know we are somewhere in England most of the time! In fact we are just taking Daughter and G-Daughter on one of those trips as soon as we have finished drinking tea and messing about on computers.

Aaayup Miducks. As you know we are often out in the countryside enjoying the scenery and completely getting lost (well sort of) deliberately. We always manage to get back home though, eventually. All part of the fun. Hubbs would like to replace our oldish SatNav for his birthday next week, and he only wants one to cover 'The British Isles' as we will only ever be visiting these isles, neither of us has any interest in going further afield. I wondered if any of you NS have a good or bad opinion on what is on offer in the shops and bearing in mind we can't spend a fortune, as we need to keep th

The bought sauce keeps for a while in the fridge, I'm not sure how the home made one keeps Miduck, so try half the ingredients for a smaller amount of sauce until you know whether you like it or not. We chop our Gerkins and Capers quite small.

Here is the recipe Plantfit. I have every faith in you making a supreme Tartare sauce with your cooking talent.. I'll give you a quick tip though. I buy mine from Morrisons for about £1.00 a jar. Ready made. https://www.bbc.com/food/tartare_sauce

Vinegar, but Tartare (Tartar) sauce is favourite.

Haha, One for going up and one for coming down.