piggy and babs

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  1. good luck with your assighnment mellisa hope you get a good grade and we have help in your research of the suject.
  2. i know things have changed and how expensive things have got but some hairdressers dond deserve the money they ask for the job having long hair down to my waist i went to my hairdressers i had been goingto for years last year as i was going out to a wedding wanted my hair put in a french plait. my own hairdresser was taken ill and was not there with my normal hairdresser a wash cut and blow dry was 8 pounds at the time now 10 pounds. the other young girl in the shop said she could do it took her all of five mins she did not put a a brush or a comb though it good job i had washed it we
  3. babs is here mick and ive never heard of it either my friend sheila huggins was born at the very last house on lnw terrace and she lived there till she got married early seventies her parents lived there till they demolished the terrases as did my siter kath she moved out just befor they came down in 1976. lived in netherfield till i was 13 moved to carlton in 1963 we lived on ethel grove the first houses to be demolished in netherfield my mum was born there 1915 so she lived there in the same house for over 50 years LNW TERRACE was an l shaped terrace so unless the bottom part was orriginnal
  4. are thats why we kept finding empty shell on the playground mudgi
  5. MOST OF THE TIME YES IM VERY NICE MAKE A GOOD FRIEN BUT HEVENHELP ANYBODY WHO UPSETS ME THEY CERTAINLY GET WHAT FOR AND I DONT FORGIVE EASILYCAN BE VERY STUBURN I I THINK IM IN THE RIGHT BUT I WILL ALWAYS APPOLGIZE IF I REALIZE OR FIND OUT I WAS IN THE WRONG IT WAS REALLY MY FAULT
  6. WELLCOME BILL ITS SURPRIZING HOW FAR PEOPLE CAME TO GO TO SHEDS IN THE SIXTIES I USED TO COME SOMETIES WITH A GROUP OF BIKER MATES FROM CARLTON FIRST TIME IN 1964 I MET MY HUSBAND HE WAS AN OLD LENTON LAD. THERE AND LOTS OF OTHER PEOPLE WE STILL KNOW WE ALSO USED TO GO TO JACKS AND ROBINS CAFES IN BEESTON ROBINS WAS ON QUEENS RD JACKS VILLIAS ST. I WAS ONLY 13/14 AT THE TIME MY HUSBAND WAS 16/17 AT THE TIME AND THE FUNNY THING WAS I NEVER LIKED HIM AT ALL WHEN I EVENTUALLY AGREED TO LET HIM TAKE ME HOME I WAS 17 AND HE WAS TWENTY THE FIRST COUPLE OF YEARS TOGETHER I WAS ALWAYS FALLING OUT WI
  7. DONT WORRY MELLISA I AM ME WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GET AND SOMETIMES IT JUST FLOWS AS THE MEMORIES KEEP FLOODING BACK TO ME THEN AT OTHER TIMES I LOOK AT MY POSTS IN THE MORNING OR A COUPLE OF DAYS LATTER AND IT LOOKS AND SOUNDS GOBBLDEGOOK EVEN TO ME. BUT DO I LET CERTAIN OTHER PEOPLE COMMENTS BOTHER ME A BIG FAT NO I CAN SOON TAKE THEM TO TASK AND DO SOMETIMES BUT AS MY HUBBY USED TO SAY HE USED TO TAKE MY LETTERS TO THE INTELIGENCE DEPT WHEN HE WAS IN THE RAF TO GET THEM DECIPHERED BUT AT LEAST I WROTE TO HIM,. I WHOULD ALWAYS START BY SAY JUST A QUICK SHORT LETTER TO SEE IF YOU STILL ALI
  8. HI MARILEE YOU COULD NOT HAVE CHOSEN A BETTER PLACE THAN NOTTINGHAM FOR MAKING FRIENDS AND OF COUSE ON NOTTSTALGIA SITE TELLUS A BIT MORE ABIT MORE ABOUT YOURSELF YOUR AGE YOUR LIKES AND DISLIKES WHEN YOUR READY AND IM SURE THERE WILL BE PEOPLE ON HERE WHO CAN POINT YOU IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION BABS
  9. YEH IM SURE A LOT OF OUR MEMBERS WILL REMEMBER SUCH IT WAS SO FUNNY HEARING FROM HIM AFTER ALL THESE YEARS HE IS NOW LIVING IN DERBYSHIRE AND STILL PROFORMING AS A SOLO ARTIST NOW HOPE TO GO AND SEE HIM SOON AND DO A BIT MORE CATCHING UP.
  10. WELCOME ALL NEW MEMBERS I HAVE BEEN A MEMBER NOW FOR JUST OVER FOUR YEARS AND HAVE ENJOYED EVERY MOMENTBOTH ON HERE AND AT THE MEET UPS . NOT ONLY HAVE I MADE NEW FRIENDS BUT ITS HELPED TO BUILD UP MY CONNFIDENCE IN RIGHTING MY MEMORIES IN A PUBLIC SITE. I SUFFER FROM DYSLEXIA MAKING WRIGHTING AND SPELLING DIFFICULT FOR ME MOST OF THE LONG TERM MEMBERS KNOW MY PROBLEM AND ARE NOW USED TO MY CRAPPY SPELLINGAND ARE ABLETO UNDERSTAND WHAT I AM SAYING. SOMETIMES EVEN I HAVE DIFFICULTIES UNDERSTANDING WHAT I HAVE RITTEN BUT AT LEAST I TRY. VERBALY ANYBODY WHO HAS MET ME SOON REALIZES IM NOT N
  11. NEVER RESPOND TO ANYTHING LIKE THIS UNLESS I PESONALLY KNOW THE PERSON. BUT KNOW FROM PERSONAL EXPERIENCE OF COLLAGE SURRVEYS HOW HARD IT IS TO GET PEOPLE TO HELP YOU GET THESE DONE. ESSECIALY IF THEY INVOLVE PERSONAL INFO
  12. DONT GIVE UP HOPE ITS SURPRIZING WHAT LITTLE CONVERSATIONS ON HERE CAN LEAD TOO.AND WHEN YOU LEAST EXPECT IT . JUST THIS AFTERNOON I HAD A PHONE CALL FROM SOME ONE HIPPO GIRL AND I BOTH KNEW IN THE 60 IVE SENT HIPPO GIRL AN EMAIL SO IF YOU READ THIS BEFORE YOU READ YOUR EMAILS OPEN YOUR EMAILS HIPPO GIRL. THIS CAME FROM A TREAD AND LINK ON THIS SITE 1960S WERE YOU IN A NOTTINGHAM BAND. I SENT A MESSAGETO THE PERSON WHO RONS THIS LINK ABOUT 6 WEEKS AGO TO ASK IF HE HAD ANY CONTACKT DETAILS FOR THIS PERSON.HE EMAILED ME BACK ASKING FOR MY TELEPHONE NUMBER AND HE WOULD PASS IT ON NOT HAVING HEARD
  13. SOMETIMES WHEN NEW MEMBERS READ OLD THREADS AND READ SOME OF THE GREAT POSTS SOME OF THESE PEOPLE MADE TO THIS SITE THEY MAY WONDER WHY THESE PEOPLE NO LONGER COME ONLINE ONE REASON FOR OUR MEMBERS OBITUARY TREAD SOME OF OUR MEMBERS WE NEVER FIND OUT WHY THEY ARE OFFLINE AND NO LONGER POST BUT MOST OF THEM ARE MISSED BY THE REGULAR AND LONG TERM MEMBERS AND WE CERTAINLY HAVE APPRICIATED THERE IMPUT AND SOME VERY VALUBLE INFO HAS COME FROM THEM. SOMETIME WE SEND OUT PMS AND DONT GET ANSWERS FROM THE MEMBER IT MAY BE SOMETHING SIMPLE LIKE HAVE A BROKEN COMPUTOR FOR A WHILE AND NOT BEING ABLE T
  14. mick contacted him and he did make post after than was in hospital not seen anything since
  15. welcome janwally i just left you a pmin case you not sure being new on here top righthand corner a little red envelope comes up click on it to open pm babs
  16. SINCE BEING IN HOSPITAL 8 WEEKS AGO I HAVE HAD A BAD THROUT THOUGHT IT WAS DUE TO THE OP WENT DOWN TO DRS LAST WEEK MENTIONED MY SORE THROAGHT SHE SAIDI HAD GOT THRUSH BEEN ON A STRONG ANTIBIOUTIC SINCE THEN HAVE TO DROP 1 ML DOWN MY THROUGHT FOUR TIMES A DAY JUST TOOK IT GOT ENOUGH FOR TOMOROW THROUGHT A LOT BETTER BUT STILLA BIT SORE PLENTY OF FLUIDS AND ICECREAM HELPS
  17. NO BATESEY ITS NOW NO 27 REVERSAL OF 72 BUS THAT STARTED TO RUN UP TO BOTTOM END OF CONNO WERE THE OLD COOP WAS AND EVENTUALLY WENT RIGHT TO THE TOP EN CONO THAT STARTED RUNNING UP CAVO ABOUT 1967ISH IT ALSO BEGAN RUNNING INTO BILBOROGH TOO AFTER TROLLEY BUS STOPPED RUNNING THERE WAS STILL A 39 BUS TO THAT ONLY CAME TO THE OLD TERMINOUS THE 27 ONLY GOES AS FAR AS TOWN CENTRE NOW IF YOU WANT TO GO THE REST OF ITS JOURNEY TO BILBOROUGH YOU HAVE TO CHANGE TO 28 BUT LUCKILY KNOW ONE ALL DAY TICKET TAKES YOU ON AS MANY BUSSES AS YOU LIKE IN ONE DAY 3 POUNDS 40 PENCE.
  18. SEVERAL OF OUR FRIENS HAVE GOT THEM FITTED AND ALL ARE HAPPY WITH THE SAVINGS THEY ARE MAKINGONEFRIED HAS ONLY HAD THEM FOR ONE QUARTER BUT HER BILLS HAVE ALREADY SHOWN A SAVING ON THE PREVIOUS YEARS BILL FOR THE SAME TIME. OTHER FRIENDS HAVE HAD THEM FOR ABOUT 6 YEARS NOW AND HAVE ALREADY HAD THE MONEY BACK THEY PAID FOR THEM AND MADE BIG SAVINGS ON THERE FULE BILLS, THEY ARE VERY HAPPY WITH THEM THEYOF COURSE GOT THERES WHEN THE PERDENTAGE YOU GOT BACK WAS OVER 50 PERCENT I BELIVE THIS HAS NOW GONEDOWN TO SOMETHING LIKE ONLY 11 PERCENT..
  19. MISS SALERVANSKI CAME BACK TO CARLTON GIRLS AS HEAD AFTER I HAD LEFT THINK ABOUT 1968ISH BEFORE THAT SHE WAS TEACHING I THINK BLUECOTE SCHOOL ASPLY WERE SHE TOUGHT SUE POLARD AND WAS LATER ON HER THIS IS YOUR LIFE MY SISTER JEAN DID NOT LIKE HER BUT OUR KATH DID
  20. THE LENTON HYSON GREEN PARTNERSHIP COUNCIL HAVE PURCHACED A PROPERTY ON ST PAUKS TERRACE HYSON GREEN AND WORK HAS BEEN DON ON IT TO CHANGE IT INTO A ECO HOUSE AND WILL WHEN OFFICIALY OPENEN IN A COUPLEOF WEEKS BE USED FOR VARIOUS COMMUNITY EVENTS SKILLS EXCHANGE BREAKFAST MORNINGS. AND EVENTS TO ENCOURAGE MORE PEOPLE TO GO ECO SOLAR PANELS LIGHT BULBS GROWING YOUR OWN FOOD IN CONTAINERS ECT LOOKING FORWARD TO GOING TO SEE IT.
  21. WHEN WE WERE GOING TO MOVE TO CLIFTON WE FOUND A HOUSE WE LIKED PUT IN AN OFFERE FOR THE ASKING PRICE GOT A SURVEY DONE SALE WAS PROVISUALY AGREED SUBECT TO SURVEY AND GETTING THE MORGAGE THE SELLERS MUCKED US ABOUT QUITE A LOT AND THINGS DRAGED ON WHEN WE GOT THE SURVEY BACK SSEVERAL WEEKS LATER IT SAID THAT IT NEEDED REWIREING ALL THE WAY THROUGH SOME PARTS IN DANGEROUS CONDITION WE RAMG THE SELLERES TO TELL THEM THIS AND ASKED FOR A REDUCTION OF ONE THOUSAND POUNDS TOWARDS THE COST OF THIS AND A FEW MINOR THINGS THE SURVEY SAID NEEDED DOING. THEY SAID NO NO REDUCTION AT ALL DAVE THEN SAID O
  22. NETHERFIELD THEN CARLTON THEN A LITTLE TIME IN A FLAT ON BRIDGEFORD RD WEST BRIDGEFORDBACK TO PARENTS AT CARLTON TILL MARRAGE THEN LENTON CLIFTON DAYBROOK THEN FOREST FIELDS WE HAVE BEEN HERE 11 YEARS BUT WILL BE MOVING AGAIN SOONER OR LATERAND THAT I HOPE WILL BE OUR LAST
  23. tinned crab was lways a very special ocation such as christmas no wonder at that price a bog of spuds was only five bob for 56 lb lasted us at least a week unless we had a lot of visitors ie mates stopping for tea mum woukd often feed them as well as us even if she only cooked egg chips and beans we always all got fed. a few ofour mates got sent home because she knew there mums would be waiting for them with a meal at home
  24. david w is that you in tonights post in the bit on acmilan fouder