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I can taste it now Compo as I read your colours; it cost sixpence and I used to savour each piece. It must have been well liked to have been in production 'til that time. It was a real hard choice, deciding on whether to buy - with my spending money - five centres or the chocolate cream. I remember when the five centres came out, I couldn't believe that you could get chocolate with all these different colours in. Thanks for answering my question.

Well if you still look too young mick and you want to get into the pictures cheap, just don't go to bed the night before and then you'll look rough and ready.

At the back of my mind I knew that. 'Fry's Chocolate Cream' and what was the one called that had five colours?

Put it like this Mick: nobody's ever asked me for my bus pass.

Last week it was: 'The Woman In Black' and the week previous: 'The Dependants' with George Clooney.

hi denshaw, just have your bus pass with you - in case they ask. If you do decide to go, take my advice and get there early. Always the latest films.

'Pensioners' Special' tomorrow: 22 / 02 / 2012, 1.30 at the 'Broadway' Cinema, Broad Street, Nottingham. FILM: 'Carnage' Director: Roman Polanski, 2012 Starring: Kate Winslet, Jodie Foster, John C Reilly 'God Of Carnage', Yasmina Reza's award winning play has been adapted for the screen by Polanski. The film deals with the anger and corruptness lying beneath the respectable behaviour of two New York City couples. Summoning up the sinister from under the cover of normalcy is something Polanski excels at: 'Rosemary's Baby'. Cost: £4 (drink and nibbles included) Good Deal Adv

Grandma tossing a pancake and it landing up on the kitchen ceiling; I hope my grandchildren keep that Mad Memory forever in their lives.

Beefsteak, you don't know what you're missing; bragging about making 16 pancakes and 'not one hit the ceiling'!! Last year - when it was my little grand daughter's first appreciation of 'Pancake Day' - I tossed a pancake and it landed up on the kitchen ceiling. You should have heard the hysterical laughter from my grand children; I swear it was better than 'Pancake Day' itself.

Time here must be early 1950's, am I right? I agree with you poohbear about how 'charming' the place could have been made to look but when I walked down this once attractive thoroughfare - circa 1960's - it seemed only one step away from fading into oblivion.

'& it made my tabs laugh'; I wish my tabs would laugh dgbrit. I've been suffering with Labyrinthitis pre-Christmas and it just will not leave me, this infection of the Inner Ear. I've had Vertigo and Dizziness for almost three months now! Send - or wish - me some of your lovely Sunshine to cheer me up. One's health is the most important thing in the world.

Hi there Mr C and Welcome; instead of 'lurking' you should have joined us earlier! Nice to meet you anyway Fellow Radford Woodhousian. My great grandfather and great grandmother: William and Kate Hill lived for years on Leivers Street. I spent many a happy hour on the park - next to the bridge - with my sister and Uncle (4 months older than me); Wonderful memories of the Magnificent Swing Boat. Doesn't the once beautiful bridge look a mess with the graffiti plastered all over? I normally find some artistic value in graffiti but that is a disgusting assault on a piece of our Indus

'What I would give to see those views now'; No you wouldn't Gibbo 04. 1960's, Drury Hill had become very neglected and miserable looking.

You've just reminded me: I need a filling.

I've got a lemon tree in my lounge, only problem is it's in a watercolour on the wall.

mudgie I like to make my own batter but Tesco were selling a 'Yorkshire Pudding Mix' for 7p; and it was excellent. You often wonder if you're doing the right thing buying so cheap but in this case it proved a bargain.

No mudgie, Tesco was well stocked for the great day; the problem with the oranges was that - according to the fruit and veg man - there'd been an unexpected run on them a few days previous. Consequently there were non left for today!

That's the trouble isn't it Beefsteak, when you're making them you always help yourself last!

. . . . . 'better weather', well said dgbrit.

Beefsteak, d'ya know I think 'Pancake Day' is getting more popular than its ever been; judging by all the oranges sold at Tesco's and the place where they display the Pancake Mix looked as though it had been plundered!

I had a mobile phone some years back and it so got on my nerves trying to get used to it that one day it finished up in pieces in front of the kitchen wall! I never regretted my hasty action; lived without one since and managed to survive.

A Complex Book.

Ohhhhhhhhhh, you're making us jealous now aren't you? I'm not jealous, just like to congratulate you, on living in a Sunny land. Never been to California - that's my fault isn't it? NB: Some 'Pancake Day' songs a few spaces up.

Hi Pixie, sounds like you've eaten your fill of both savoury and sweet pancakes; I've not tried savoury ones but I'll think about it for the future. This afternoon I purposefully went to Tesco, Bulwell to buy some oranges for pancakes at teatime and guess what they didn't have a single orange in the place! They had plenty of clementines and satsumas but to me they wouldn't be the same - not traditional. The fruit and veg man couldn't understand why over the last few days women had been going mad for oranges. Anyway I finished up with two containers of 'Innocent' - orange juice with bits.

Piggy and babs, wished I'd known about the Pancake Race (how exciting), I could have got in some practice. Like you I'm off now to the shops for some lovely, juicy oranges.