katyjay

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  1. Hope I'm the first to say Happy Birthday old fella. Wow, you are much older than I thought, 99 eh? Have a Harvest Pale to celebrate.
  2. When my 2 front permanent teeth came through they were huge. Mam said they looked like gravestones.
  3. OK, so let me get this straight, you asked a question, but you didn't want an answer. Hmmm, so I wracked me brains for nowt?
  4. Just found this thread. Many moons ago, hubby wanted a zoom lens for his Canon, and dropped hints for ages. I on the other hand knew that he'd hardly ever use it, so got him a sandwich toaster instead. I never heard the end of it, and he still brings it up in conversation with others! [he did eventually get one, and I was right, he hardly ever used it]
  5. Well, did we ever get the answer to the rhetorical question? Or was it the Alan a Dale one?
  6. I don't think this saying is particularly a Nottm one, but I don't expect you hear it nowadays. When ever my mum heard of someone that had had a boy followed by a girl [or visa versa] she'd say, now she's got a 'pigeon pair'. Did anyone else hear of this?
  7. LOL beefy. Not quite naked, thanks to the book. and thank goodness it wasn't a paperback, eh?
  8. Yes, Val, I remember the name Julie Warrington, but didnt' know about the boyfriend, must have been after I left. Do you see any of the girls from Crane or ever bumped into them in town, or anything? I left Nottm in 1977, so missed seeing old schoolfriends get older [not like me who's never got any older, ha ha]
  9. Just thought of something else Val, we used to play the boardgame SCOOP at your house. I had never seen that game until then, it was something to do with a newspaper. Didn't you have an older brother, I seem to remember him around the house.
  10. Hi Val Like you, I have 2 boys age 35 and almost 29 and a girl 33. She has a boy age 11, no other grandkids on the horizon, both boys are single [not that that stops anyone nowadays] I have grand dogs though!!! Sue Marshall lived opposite at #43, youngest of 5 and Sandra Lyons at #56, was the youngest of 7. I keep in touch with Sue with Christmas letters. That's how I hear news of Jenny. We are retired too, although hubby dabbles in commercial real estate. Had our motel 15 yrs, which is a lifetime of hours worked!
  11. You did better than us, we managed a weekend in London, LOL. Mind you, we had just bought a bungalow in Langar, which we thought was lucky of us, so had to mind the pennies. Yes, I was in the Evening Post many moons ago, us and another couple here in town, also with a motel and also lived in Nottm at one time. The Red Lion was one of my mum's watering holes, sad to see if go.
  12. Valerie Price was in my class the last term of school. We both left Xmas 61. This Val lived across the road from the Senior Girl's entrance. There was a bus stop for the number 1 bus, and behind that was a cul-de-sac you walked up, she lived in there if I remember rightly. Don't know about any siblings though.
  13. Val, I was away for 3 weeks over Christmas and New Year, or else I'd have seen all the above postings and figured out who you were sooner! I married Sept 21 at Cinderhill, how about you?
  14. Sorry Val, had to skidaddle, I'm back again now. Yes, Tony Fletcher was one of the lads killed, he was 19. as was the other lad who lived on Eltham Drive. Tony Cousins was more my eldest brother's age. What are you doing with yourself nowadays, do you work? Have kids or grandkids?
  15. OMG it's you Val. I used to play with you at the Cocked Hat, hide and seek, when it was closed. Down in the cellars, up in the bar behind the curtains. We were in the juniors then. I can still hear your dad shout to your boxer dog, 'Get doon Sugar', with his thick Scottish accent. [your dad, not the dog LOL] He played football for Leicester City didn't he? Can't believe the pub has gone now and I think I heard it was already built on again? I have a picture of you the summer you left school, Val King, you, me and Miss Bilton and Miss Smedley, on a hike in Derbyshire with the hiking club at Cra
  16. Crikey, so many people to reply to! Frank, that's the place, the Cooper's Arms. My brother goes there, but hasn't mentioned the landlords leaving. If it's going down hill, I'm sure to hear about it! Val, you must be talking about Jenny Joynes? We grew up together, only 3 months between us and went through school together. She went to work at Boots office and me at Raleigh. I went to her wedding but then lost touch with her, but do hear bits and pieces about her and her girls, through a mutual friend. What was your last name at school? I knew a Val King, Val Frame and a Val Price. Fancy you g
  17. You are right again Steve. Alan drank at the Hall Park Tavern for years, but frequents another one nearby now [can't remember its name, an old pub] Dawn was his wife, she moved to Malta a couple of years ago to live. Alan comes to visit me out here whenever he can, he'd live here if he could. He is a landscape gardener nowadays, weather permitting. I owe him an email, I'll tell him I have chatted with you, he'll be surprised.
  18. I am a member of this organisation and what a shock when I went on there just now. I went to William Crane Secondary Modern on Minver Crescent, Aspley, and left in Dec 61. I always put '62 as most of my class mates left then so I'd be with them. I have disappeared from there, in fact 1962 is now lumped together with lots of other years, and only a few names for each one. As if that's not bad enough, some illiterate imbecile is doing the website. Secondary is spelled secondry and Crescent is spelled cresant. As the saying goes, you just can't get good help! I have just written a scathing email
  19. Rob, sorry I didn't reply about the book. I'm saving it till we go on a long vacation in April, when we'll take books that we can both read, to cut down on the luggage weight. I have 2 novels of John Harvey's to take also, so we'll be having a Harvey-fest!
  20. You are spot on Steve, dad was Ron, a signwriter before he retired, mum was Betty, or Bet. Lived there from their marriage in 1938. Alan lives in Bulwell, he turned 52 last November. He's divorced, 2 married kids and a slew of grandkids, all at Bulwell, the same as him. Perhaps you won't remember our eldest brother Dave, he married in '66, he's at Rise Park. He's 16 yrs older than Alan, 7 older than me. What year were you born? Kath
  21. Rob, I know what you mean about the Circus. My youngest brother called it the Bronx many years ago, most likely worse now. Thank goodness nobody can take our memories away from us, and we can look back and picture it with neat gardens and hedges, no concrete front yards to put your car on. All the doors and windows were alike, and kids playing outside without traffic. Oh and something very unusual nowadays, all the dads coming home from work at teatime!
  22. Oh my goodness Steve, I lived at #42 Amesbury Circus. I was there from Dec 46-Sept 68. My parents still lived there till their deaths. My dad in '87 my mum in '98. My youngest brother lived the other side of you at #38, after his marriage in '79, for several years. Small world. Kath [birch, that was]
  23. Ay up lynnie, I lived on Bells Lane Estate, within spitting distance of Broxtowe. Went to William Crane in Aspley, but many moons ago, in fact so long ago, it was still segregated in the juniors and seniors.
  24. 'course I do Rob, but I still haven't got a clue what you are on about, rhetorical or not! Must be something in the news right now?