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Yes Beekay that's the one. Spent many happy hours behind that bar, & in front of it as well. Macko's bus driver would come in for swift half before returning to Bulwell...

Would be mid 1980's I think. I remember Picko, Steve Austin & Pulse Disco, great lads... I used to work behind the bar at Bestwood Hotel (Top Pub) in the late 70's/early 80's, Jeff & Debra ran it when I was there, they moved to manage Standard Of England & I went with them. Mam & My Wife Sue also did their stint behind Top Pub bar. I lived in one of those terraced houses across the road...

They have electric bikes, cars, buses, vans, trains & trams, but I've never heard of an electric tractor. I'm thinking they'd be impractical with them chugging up & down fields pulling farm gubbins all day, if they run out of juice & conk out in the middle of a muddy field you can't just take a can of diesel/petrol/paraffin & away you go again. Maybe they could tow a generator behind them to charge their batteries up, yeah that's a good idea init. Oh. Wait...

I like the Boston Pops orchestra as they instrumentalise (is that a new word?) many pop songs.. I remember doing a slow dance at Bestwood Welfare Sunday night disco with a pretty girl to Move Closer by Phylis Nelson, & when the line "move closer, move your body much closer" came on she did, & that turned out a very pleasant night if you know what I mean...

The song with nonsense lyrics but brilliant tune & beat I like is Justified & Ancient by the KLF & Tammy Wynette. "All bound for moo-moo land" & "he drives an Ice cream van." No idea what they mean but a fun song IMO...

Cant say I ever really listen to the lyrics of a song, it's more the melody/tune I like, I very often prefer the instrumental version. There used to be some groups (Baron Knights were one IIRC) that made up funny lyrics to pop songs: one that made me laugh was a take on 'Tossing & Turning' by the Ivy League, it went "What's that funny smell something is burning." Us Trent Bridge school kids turned it into "What's that funny smell someone has farted." Most of the last 10 years stuff leaves me cold, though I like some of George Ezra's songs; Paradise being one, we do a line dance to that, I

I have no kids either, been out with a couple of girls who had kids but they'd drive me loopy after a while. Got a mental cat called Pix who drives me loopy though, lol...

A while ago a neighours kid was throwing his ball near the window: his Mam said "don't do that, you might break the window,!" He carried on, then she said "right that's it!" & I thought "ooh, now he's going to get a biffing!" But she started counting = 1,2,3, etc & that was it. If my Mam had said "don't do that!" & I did, a biffing would have followed straight away...

On an Australian soap my Wife watches there is a totally obnoxious horrible kid who does the most despicable things with & smug look on his clock, he said "I know they cant do anything about it!" & Erensborough High school is at a loss what to do with him. It frustrates me to watch it as I know in my day he'd have received a very sore backside. I know it's fiction but things like this must happen in real life...

I was asleep & woke up with something in my mouth, in my half sleep l Crunched down on whatever it was & swallowed it, I realised it was probably a spider & ran into the bathroom coughing & heaving but couldn't bring it up. Took me ages to get back to sleep.. Saw loads of lizards when I was in Florida a few months ago, they'd eat the black ants but they didn't go near the red ants though, think they were fire ants I'd read about...

My first car (Triumph Herald) was GAY 585B, I never noticed the plate when I bought it but my mates did, they extracted the urine big time. Other spellers I've had are AVO, JOB, ORA, OCH & my present one UGZ. Keep saying I'll treat myself to a no year Northern Irish plate, seen IIG + four numbers quite cheap on a plate site...

Was dreaming last night I'd been caught playing nick (truant) & was about to be caned: I woke up & slowly remembered I am a fully grown up adult (wife disagrees with me claiming to be grown up though) & no one will ever cane me again. It seemed so real, can't remember which teacher was going to dish out the beats though, hope it wasn't Marciniak as it would have really hurt if he did it, lol...

Forgot about sterilised milk people used to have when I was a kid in the 1960's, I'm presuming UHT has taken over from it as I haven't seen any for decades. Mam hated it but Dad & myself didn't mind it. IIRC it didn't go sour so quick as fresh without refrigeration. Remember the floating white cream on fresh milk before we had a fridge...

I couldn't care less what sort of milk I use in my tea, it can be full cream, semi skimmed, skimmed; fresh, UHT, condensed, evaporated or powder'd. My wife likes fresh in coffee but doesn't mind UHT on her corn flakes, I usually use UHT as it has a long life, my mate Gordon thinks I should be shot for using anything else but fresh full cream. What do others prefer?

I remember yabbering to a vintage tractor owner at a traction engine rally, he demonstrated a cold start: He started & then warmed it up on petrol, then switched over to paraffin where it ran perfectly, the exhaust was a bit smelly though, was like the old paraffin heater we had when I was a kid. Paraffin was then cheaper than petrol, not sure if it still is though...

Aldi are selling proper cold water gell laundry detergent, seems OK & it's pretty cheap too, been using it for past couple of weeks...

Bought some trousers half price: Got them home & they only had one leg..... I'll get me coat on the way out....

If something is not totally impossible then it can & will happen somewhere sometime in the universe no matter how improbable it is. It's pretty improbable that I'd win an argument with my wife but one day it will happen, probably sometime in the next 42 trillion years...

A sound I dreaded from my childhood down the Meadows was when someone shouted "I'VE TOLD YOUR MAM WHAT YOU'VE DONE!" As I knew Mam would be waiting for me to administer a biffing. I'd sneak in the house hoping not to be noticed but I always was & got my just deserts...

52 years today since the pirate radio stations went off air. They said there were no wavelengths on medium wave for them, yet a few years later in the early 70's the BBC local stations fired up, then the local ILR stations fired up all on medium wave.... The medium wave band is almost empty nowadays, mind you it's full of mains born interference from CFL's/routers/digital TV's & whatnot last time I checked...

Peel bananas before you weigh & buy them at the supermarket, also saves on rubbish at home so you'll use less bin bags...

Schrodingers equations take some working out, lol.... I'm wondering if a black hole is of such infinite smallness that some other sort of physics beyond quantum physics takes over? How we'd ever be able to prove this I have zero idea. I'm trying to get my head round the concept of 'infinite smallness,' you'd think there's a limit to how small something can be, but then when you think about it in a common sense sort of way you can always go a bit smaller.... I sometimes look at my cat Pix & wonder if he thinks about quantum physics & black holes, I wonder???

I lay in bed thinking last night.... If a black hole can have a quantum superposition, & that superposition means said black hole can be in two places at once, then I speculate that the mass of the each BH would be halved as the mass would be shared out between them. If the mass of each BH is less than the BH forming mass then would the two superposition'd BH's then no longer be BH's? I'm wondering if this phenomena could explain gamma ray bursts or fast radio bursts as they could be superposition pair black holes going "POP." If however the mass isn't halved, or extreme gravitational fiel

I remember when we'd moved to Bestwood Village when I was 14, I'd lay in bed with the window wide open listening to the night sounds of the village. There was a slipping screaching conveyor belt on the pit screens, a compressor coming on & off load, a Mackemsons bus pulling away from the pit baths stop, a Midland General Bristol Lo-Decker B8 bus pulling away from the bowling green at end of Park Road, a coal train chugging & clanking on the railway lines to Hucknall, Linby & Colvo pits, the boozed up boozers coming out the Top Pub (Bestwood Hotel) & Welfare shouting "GOODNIGHT,

Read somewhere that flywheel powered buses where very efficient & the answer: You'd run up a flywheel at the terminus, the flywheel would then generate the electricity to power the wheels for the buses journey. If you got stuck in traffic & the flywheel ran down then you'd - er - uhm - well - wait for a special truck with a flywheel winder-up-gubbins-thingy powered by petrol or diesel..... Ahh-ah, I know, you could have a petrol or diesel engine in the bus to power the flywheel then if it runs down there's no problem. There I've sorted the problem out for the council...