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  1. Please allow me to formally welcome your new shed to Nottstalgia.
  2. I remember when Drs Reid, Murray or Stillman from Boowul Main Street would come out to see us as kids and we had the likes of Chicken Pox or German Measles, or if Mum was worried about something. We often ended up with bottles of stuff. Sometimes red, sometimes green to take by the spoonful. The green stuff was really nice. I have no idea what the flavour was.. but it was delish..
  3. Don't think it's shingles Margie. I've had that and this is very different. More like what Ben is describing. No rash to speak of. We haven't changed detergents. My money is still on the antibiotics..There's quite a bit of chatter on the internet about lasting effects from antibiotics.. especially Clarithromycin. But will just have to wait and see what the Doc says.
  4. Despite trying moisturisers and assorted other creams.. and also taking a mild anti-histamine ( Loratadine) daily... the itch continues. In the worst areas the itches are sudden. almost like electric shocks, or wasp bites, but there's little or nothing much to see. While some areas are worse than others, especially legs and forearms.. if I touch practically any area on my body it will react sensitively and start to itch. same in the shower, even with the pressure and temp down low.. the water hitting the skin is enough to set off a reaction. I made a doc's appt. about a week or so back
  5. My house was only built in the 1970s and what you are all calling a 'boundary box' was in fact a few bricks, which crumbled as they were strategically placed exactly where the wheels of my car went onto the drive. Took me a couple of years to get NWW or whoever to come out and replace the bricks with a proper box. Hope you get sorted Lizzie.
  6. Hi Pauline, Lovely to hear from you. I hope you are well. As you say.. all the families got on pretty well and we had some great times. As you probably know, we lost Pam some years ago after she fought a long and brave battle against COPD and other issues. Phil is still doing very well and still working. He and his wife live in Warren Wood. I remember your Dad as a kind and quiet man. I don't remember your Mum very well, but I recall Harold and Peter. Peter used to try to help me with my Maths.. but I was beyond redemption... It took me a while to recall your older sister's name. Wa
  7. Only just seen this! Pauline B? Yes.. I was the little lad at the other end of the block, or maybe you recall Phil.. my younger brother.. I remember your family well. .. And I've just spent half an hour looking for a card you sent when my Mum passed.. but you didn't give an address, so was never able to thank you. You signed it Pauline T***** Please check your inbox. Best.. Col
  8. Yep.. Me too.. So where did you get the booze Lizzie?
  9. I thought it meant she was drunk... But seriously.. Well done Lizzie!!
  10. With me it depended which of two surgeons you got.... One was called Strack. His method was to remove the cartilage, have the poor victim bed bound for three weeks then they walked out. Can't remember my surgeons name but I was in for a week. Then had a Robert Jones bandage on for about three weeks, then a few weeks of physio. When the Robert Jones bandage was taken off, my knee was completely locked in the straight position. Took a bit of bending..and that hurt!!
  11. Interesting stuff Lizzie. I don't have any roses at present but have been considering getting some again. I think that roses, like conifers.. are due for a comeback...
  12. Had a torn meniscus removed about 30 years ago. I think they're a bit more sophisticated with the surgery than they were then....
  13. My Dad used to like growing roses and he often had Wheatcroft's catalogue. I remember Dad growing 'Peace' and 'Ena Harkness'. Don't remember any of the other names, but it's possible one rambler is still growing in the back garden of our old house. I've never taken to the new breeds of rose and still prefer classic HT blooms. At the moment I'm looking for a medium sized climber with strong yellow flowers of a HT type. It needs to be pretty shade tolerant as it will live in a corner between West and North facing fences.
  14. Sometime around 1968 ish, I went with a couple of mates to a 'barbeque' at Harry Wheatcroft's rose growing place. Can't remember exactly where it was except 'somewhere outside Nottm.' I recall there was a piano smashing contest which was rather unevenly matched because one team had a standard old upright to smash, whilst the other team had an old 'player' piano with all of its machanical gubbins still in place. Harry Wheatcroft on Wikipaedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Wheatcroft
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    The 'privatisation' of TV starting with BSkyB or whatever a couple of decades ago seems to me to have produced an intial burst of extra choice. Longer term it does just seem to have led to endless repeats. I believe it's also partly responsible for the BBC losing its way, especially where political and current affairs reporting is concerned. I have Virgin. Not an expensive package. They offered me a 'Film Package' free for a few months and it seemed OK, but it turns out to be the same couple of dozen films on rotate. My daughter Switched to Now TV and subscribred to
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    Phew,,!! I'm not trying to decipher that lot.. but it is Iambic Pentameter. One of few things I learned at skule. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iambic_pentameter It's one of them fings wot is simple once yer gerrit.
  17. Seems to me it's the starter relay on the compressor, or some of the associated electronics.. but I really can't be bothered faffiing.
  18. Ahhh.. but do these Dragons have beards?
  19. Nope. It's a Samsung probably ten years old. It failed shortly after purchase and was fixed by Samsung. Been fine since but only the fan is running, the compressor isn't. I'm for getting a new one.. 'Er Indoors who hates change, thinks we should try to get it fixed.. which will take until at least Tuesday even if it's an economic proposition... which I doubt.
  20. Answer me this. If the hair which grows naturally on the face of most men is so offensive.. why is the hair on their heads, or even all over their bodies.. not also offensive?
  21. I don't need any more food thanks Phil. We've farmed a load out to neighbours.. but the waste and incovenience is still very annoying.
  22. Yesterday our fridge was looking pretty bare. Mrs Col went out and bought a load of shopping including a fair bit of frozen stuff, whole cooked chicken, lump of lamb, cold meats, pork pies etc. While she was out I decided to have a magnum.. it was thawed. Turns out the fridge freezer has died. Just when we've bought a load of food, the milkman has left 4 days supply of milk and everywhere is closed due to an outbreak of mass religious apathy involving the vast majority of the country having a couple of days off in order to ignore Easter. Brilliant..