katyjay

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  1. We recently took a river cruise, ending in Amsterdam.  We then bussed to Bruges and Paris. Hubby Googled British food shops, thinking we might find food to take home with us. The only shop he could find on our itinerary, was M & S in Paris. Great, and it was very close to our hotel. We walked to find it, (in a mall) and went inside. It was a French suoermarket. We have never been more disappointed in our lives! Visions of picalilli, Branston etc, gone. We are still scratching our head why M & S are there, selling nothing but French food.

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  2. Beekay, my mother-in-law would admit she was the biggest coward when it came to anything medical. She was told she needed cataracts removed. She actually went private as the thought of thinking about the procedure for 6 months was too much. She had them done and said afterwards, piece of cake! 

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  3. 19 hours ago, Oztalgian said:

    katyjay, with a record temperature of 118 deg F and 19 days with the temperature above 110 we hope you haven't melted.

    119 was actually the highest temp this week, but, we are in Europe and missing the heat!

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  4. We fly at least a couple of times a year. For years we printed our boarding passes at the airport on checking in. We'd sit at the gate and watch folks flash their phone over the machine to board. We kept saying, we really must join the 21st century and download the Delta app. We did a couple of years ago, our boarding pass goes into the phone 24hrs ahead of the flight. We feel quite 'with it' nowadays using our phone. It is the only app we do use. Mustn't rush these things!

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  5. 23 hours ago, Marrowman said:

     

    Another relative used to live in one of the prefabs nearby on Cinderhill Road. He was dead upset when they finally demolished them. He had a lovely cosy house with a beautifully kept garden. He said it was the best place he ever lived. 

    Looking on street view, I think the prefabs are still there. All prefabs were modernized in Nottingham many years ago. They bricked the outsides and put C.H etc inside.  They definitely did the prefabs in Bulwell across from the old lido.

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  6. 4 hours ago, notty ash said:

    Holden Square was opposite the Headstocks, just off the main road

     

    https://i.postimg.cc/Tw0jxBjt/Holden-Square.jpg

     

     

    I am not familiar with The Headstocks, but think it's nr Bagnall Rd/ Cinderhill Rd?  Holden Square was on the corner of Nuthall Rd and Cinderhill Rd. On the right of the photo above are the grounds  of Basford Hall. I climbed over that wall many a time, as did all the local kids, to get sticklebacks etc out of Fowlers Pond. Those huge trees in the photo are now on Bells Lane Island.

  7. Yesterday marked 32 year anniversary of the hottest day in Phoenix ever. 122f. My friend was flying back from the UK that day. Apparently the manual for flying only covers the event of 120 degrees, for landing. So her plane diverted to Tucson, which is a tad cooler, sat on the runway until PHX dropped to 120. I guess the pilots weren't taking any chances. By contrast this year, it's been a much cooler than average June, for which we are thankful!

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  8. Is anyone else like me, likes to see a number roll over? Recently I noticed my 'likes' were almost at 5000. I was hoping to see it roll over to 5000, then missed it! Next time I looked it was 5001. Darn it. Same in the car, I like to see the odometer roll over to a new thousand. Mine rolled over to 59,000 and I caught it! Little things amuse little minds

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  9. Late 1974 while listening to Dennis McCarthy, he mentioned a listener had advertised for an American penfriend in a magazine. She got so many replies she didn't know what to do with them. She offered to pair up anyone in Nottingham with a penfriend. I wrote in and was paired up with a young mum (as was I) in Pennsylvania. We still write to each other, over 48 years later. 

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