EileenH

Lovely stuff - remember trying to strain the mint sauce to get more actual mint rather than just vinegar.

Can`t be true! I never heard them.

Even for half pints there would be 'men`s glasses' and 'ladies glasses'. Does that still apply in today`s pubs?

I remember a Chris Soar who would have been in the Henry Mellish lower sixth in 1959/60. I think he lived in the Bilborough area.

I was disappointed when Princess Elizabeth and her fiancé came to Nottingham. They`d been going on about this Prince Philip and then they started talking about the Prince Consort and I thought she`d packed Philip in. The return of the F A Cup was probably the greatest highlight for me (up to now!!)

Just re-reading 'American Gods' by Neil Gaiman.

Oh yes, and pegging rugs would keep your knees warm while you were making them.

Just pondering the word, 'ditch' in the word association thingy and it popped into my head a word Mam would use for something really dirty. She`d say it was 'ditched'. Haven`t thought of that for years.

Haven`t heard anybody use it for years but I always understood 'sucky' to mean gormless in Nottinghamese.

I remember the first Saturday of the fortnight holiday going to the Miners` Welfare to join the coaches for the Derbyshire Miners` Holiday Camp at Skeggy. One year there were 9 coaches. We must have nearly filled the place. The kids played on the beach with their friends from school and neighbours had a pint together in the bars as usual. Great stuff!

The 'corner shop' near our yard on Hawthorne Street was Sal Hallam`s - later run by her daughter Mary. I remember when I was little my slightly older cousin taught me a little song and she said I should go and sing it to Mrs Hallam and make her laugh. I gormlessly went and stood in the shop and sang - 'Sally Hallam sells fish Three a`pence a dish. Don`t buy it, don`t buy it. It stinks when you fry it.' My mam and dad got a visit from Sal, who was less than pleased and I got a real telling off along the lines of, 'What do you mean - Franny told you to? Would you stick your hand in the fi

I`d like to say how grateful I am for all this advice. It`s very Nottstalgian isn`t it? I was thinking, "Oh no. I don`t know what to do. Who can I ask?" Then I thought - 'Of course! I know who`ll help me!; And you did!

Thank you so much! I`ll do that. It looked so official - but I wondered that they`d written 'can not' instead of 'cannot'. That didn`t look right. Very grateful!

I`d be grateful for advice from people more knowledgeable than me. There`s an email in my inbox that says, 'You have reached your storage limit. You can not send or receive new messages until you re-validate your mail. To re-validate your mail box Click Restore.' And Restore is a clickable button thingy. My son has advised me not to click on things I don`t recognise. He isn`t here to ask at the moment. What do you think?

Hi Elle, my son lived in Ontario for a while, in Red Lake, a gold mining town. He`s moved to Nova Scotia now but he did like the 'frontier town' atmosphere of Red Lake. His girl friend found it a bit isolated though.

#26 - Gosh! I thought this was my 5th form picture for a second - I was in the fifth in 1960, though. Didn`t we all look so jolly in those days? Lovely to see dear Miss Smedley - an inspirational teacher. Thank you for posting this.

Dog walkers who let their dogs poo in the middle of our front lawn to be discovered only when the mower runs over it and redistributes it!

Kids with a long skipping rope stretched across the road. If you wanted to join in you had to 'take an end' until somebody was out. There were so many skipping games and rhymes to learn - usually from the bigger girls. (Sorry, usually girls). Many of the rhymes involved 'actions'. One that springs to mind is - 'I`m a little girl guide dressed in blue. These are the actions I can do. Salute to the King Bow to the Queen Show my knickers to the boys in green. Dunno who the boys in green were supposed to be. Boy scouts perhaps?

Thanks - MRRRR!

I`m a mole, too. What noise does a mole make? 'Moley grrr'

Mam from Sneinton then moved to her sister`s house in Goodhead Street, the Medders - next door to Dad`s family. They met - and the rest is family history. Both sides are from Nottingham way back to the Great-greats.

Dad didn`t serve in the army. Perhaps he had a friend who did. Just shows you should ask your parents things while they`re still with you.

#1952/#1953 Oh thank you for this. An army expression, eh? Wonder where Dad picked this up from.

To say 'Calm down.' Dad would often say 'Steady the buffs.' I once asked him what this meant and he just laughed. Was it rude or did he just not know?

What a shock. He was one of my favourite actors. I remember the first part I saw him in - 'Truly Madly Deeply'. He also played villains with great malevolence. He will be missed.