piggy and babs

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  1. hi seila remember your name but not your facewhem june thorpe got married she cameto live on deabil st were i lived i was about 10at the time when her first son gary was born you may remember he had brittle bone decease and i used to take him out for walks in his pushchair my mates would take his brother and sister out couse they were frieghtened they may hurt him.used to take him to cricket fields a lot.. my friends maralyne and june commery lived on the samest as the chippy know joycie ibbotson too ..kmew a harold mann and chucky bryson who lived down there they used to pal about with my b
  2. yes i think at this time in our lives we all have regrets but no point in dwelling on them because we carnt go back and change the outcome but be positive and learn from them and try not to make the same mistake again.
  3. there is also a facebook site esspecialy for former pupils of cotto all years mick blagden was also there at that time daves mates wer pat clarke paul farrell among others at the time. as david l says lots of pictures in lenton times
  4. my mum always brought us enid blyton clasics for cristmasalways one in our stockings think she enjoyed them as much as we did and she still had most of them hidden away when she died always well read she tought us all to read and rite our names before we went to schoolmum was always an avid reader she could get through a book in a day or two always at carlton libary to pick up books and reading the daily papers, in them day it was the big broad sheets and she always stood up to read them couse she was very small and it was the only way she could read them without creasing or ripping them she
  5. plenty about at themoment perhaps thats why
  6. bubble wrap maybe that is so but we adoppted st george as the patron saint of england how many saints can you name that were english
  7. i will be putting my english flags out my bedroom window again this year if my nieghbors can all put there flags in there windows so can i one of our asian nieghbors at certain times flies his own countrys flag and the england flag esspecially for cricket and football.
  8. hope the weather is nice then i can come into town
  9. bring this post up hope sheila t will also add some of her own memories good or bad
  10. sorry josie missed your post for some reason think it was about the time i was rushed into hostpital so things went a bit mad around then and it all turned out to be a big mistake but just read your post nice to see someone adding there memories to the thread think you would be in the year between my two elder sisters pauleen and jean clements we lived in netherfield at that time but boy you ate right about those horrible toilets and as kat said in a earlier thread in this topic it was not only the local lads from chandos boys but also the firemen who when we were there used to come out on
  11. i will look out for that one next time we drive that way its only since the start of this thread that i have been taking notice of the road names as well as the viewesaround us as we are driving.
  12. thanks mellisahope out thoughts and comments helps you with your assighnment
  13. the good things have made me happy made me laugh and made me cry sometimes the bad things have made me sad made me cry made me mad but both have made me stroger.
  14. down the whiteheart last night a rear place of past and present for me and a lot of people who go there on a thursday night my freind said to me are we right living in the past all the time or should we move on my answer to her was if you feel you living in the past then you shoudnot be i personly belive im living in the present and my memories (notstalgia) of the past both good and bad are what has made me the person i am today(nature or nurture). that is one of the reasons i so like this siteand like many people have said we tent to post the happy things in our life and keepthe not so good
  15. and to me batesy its nice to meet the members in person maybe you can both come to nottingham when we have nottstalgias 10th birthday bash and lets see howmany members old and new we can get together,
  16. me to melisa getting to be a bit of a problem and if daves not about i have to rely on my sons being in to take my schooter out and put it together as i carnt carry it out of the house even the lightest piece is to heavy for me if they not about im housebound till someone comes in
  17. if you comming to nottingham for a few days visit let us know when wecan arrange a meetup in town while your here we do like to meet and put a face to members old and new
  18. good luck bilborough born might be me too in thenear to distant future had ot out today going to refer me for priority houseing on medical grounds she is worried about the acsses in and out of my house four big steps into my door even she was strugling.
  19. went out in the car to a fishery near alveston on sunday with piggy so he could have a look and pick up some info for a fishing trip soon with some friend while he was waling round the ponds checking them out i sat in the car with windows down loads of diferent buterflies fluttering about incloding a couple of oranged tipped. lots of small birds toin the hedge just in front of me great tits grey tits blue tits robins at least two pair sparowsand a green finch all in about half an hour.malards flying about wood pidgeons crows and a king fisher on the other pond only saw one very small malla
  20. the closes call i have ever had was before we were maried going home from the heartone night on the back of piggy bikewe got to manvers st lights on red two cars in front of us when they change to green we all pulled of just as we got almost to the middle of the rd car came round corner from sneinton dale came through two sets of lights on red just missed us by about half an inch still to this day dont know how police car behind him two cars pulled him up and charged him with dangerous driving said he did not know how we had not been hit by him
  21. looking good compo saw my first blue bells while out in the car the other day spring definately here.
  22. vic lived marhill rd mick and les hooton rd joe worth st
  23. some others you may or maynot know about your age les porter vic wooley mick healy joe shaw think they al when to cavo
  24. i also know john married my mate zena she sadly passed away last year shortly after there daughter knew pat too but not very well