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A fortnight I can take.. but TWO WEEKS!!!???

Dunno about cars, but I do recall that many, if not all of the Fire appliances stationed in Shakespeare Street had assorted Nottm reg letters, followed by 999.

Well on Monday, after a week of this nonsense, I thought it was easing. I stopped coughing up green stuff and just coughed up white froth.. but this morning, after another night of coughing.. it back to the green stuff. I make that 10 days now.. which seems a bit long for a cold. Give it another couple of days and if no improvement I'll get mesen checked aht.. Bleddifedupwiyit...

Good question!

I have a simlar game where I try to get from my bed to the kitchen in the morning without being assigned a task, moaned at or just given the inscrutable sigh/tut/pointed silence.. from Mrs Col. I rarely succeed.

Welcome! Sorry to hear of your loss but I hope you soon settle in to your new life in your old town. I lived my first couple of years in Bilborough ( 1949 to about 1951/2) on Glaisdale Drive in what was then a prefab, but rebuilt many years ago. I've also decided that if I'm ever left 'alone' up here in Merseyside, I'll move back to Nottm to be with my family.

Went down with a cold starting last Monday. Quite probably more than a coincidence that I was at No.1. Daughter's house the previous day with my lovely Grandkids. So, it's been a full on Snotfest ever since, with my face and upper chest producing prodigious amounts of 'the green stuff'. Each morning I wake up full of it. Then it seems to ease a bit durng the day before a resumption of coughing throughout the evening. No sign of it abating yet and I'm waiting to see if it decides to morph into acute sinusitis.. as these things so often do in my case. Fortunately, last time I went to the D

I never saw him.. but Reg Guest was certainly a Nottm legend. R.I.P.

I knew a Mick Roth in Boowul around 1965 or 6. He was a tallish blond haired lad. He rode an Ariel Arrow.

Interesting. I had to check that and found that B. reticulatus is an alternative name for what is known here as B. aestavalis. Don't recall finding it but it is described as 'edible and excellent' .. which puts it on a par with B. edulis. Two others which get a special mention in my books are: B.aereus and B. badius ( The Bay Bolete) I've not found aereus, but occasionally find badius.. usually a solitary specimen. It is superb and usually maggot free.

My late Father in Law was a music hall 'artiste'. Self taught as a young man in Everton.. Liverpool. He worked on the Moss Empires circuit from the 1930s until the 1960s when 'Variety' pretty much died. Even then he did occasional work in 'Olde Tyme Music Hall' shows put on by 'impresarios' such as Don Ellis , who organised 'Old Tyme' shows well into the 1970s.. maybe later.. Don would do the same sort of 'interlocution' that Andrew Sachs did at the Leeds Variety Theatre.... his favourite being to introduce the next act 'At enoooooormous expense..'. Father in Law also did some TV work...

Blewitts are very nice, but you really do need to make sure they are well cooked. I got that wrong some years ago and spent an interesting evening sweating and 'clearing' them from my system. As for 'porcini' Maybe Nonna has a view on this. Years ago, I read somewhere in one of my Fungi books, that 'porcini' ( little pigs.. or piglets) was a generic term covering a number of edible Boletus and possibly even Leccineum and Suillus species. I've not been able to find that quote again. Maybe they were wrong or maybe I read it wrong, but most people these days only seem to use 'porc

Remember the 'Betterware' bloke with his suitcase? Used to give away those little flying Saucer shaped plastic things for pressing foil milk bottle tops. Saved you from those 'Thumb in the cream.. cream on the ceiling' moments. I was also the official keeper of the one we had in Henry Whipple Juniors when I held the lofty rank of Milk Monitor. The Betterware bloke also gave away little 'sample' tins of shoe polish and all sorts of basically useless plastic freebies which were so effective I don't recall what most of them were. My mum was persuaded to pur

This is a film I recall seeing a few times as a 'B' movie in the cinema. It concerns an attempt to rob a train of cash. It's a pretty poor movie to be honest. but quite good fun... so when it came up in the listings for the 'Talking Pictures' channel .. I recorded it. I've just watched it and noticed that the train pulls out being hauled by what looks a bit like a 'Scot' or similar engine.. though not seen too clearly. A little later the same train is being hauled by a fully streamlined 'Coronation' class and yet later by a rather indistinct thing which might be a B1.. Later still another

I've tried Chicken of the Woods Rog. Looks very different to the 'Hen of the Woods' pictured above. Chicken of the Woods also grows differently, coming directly out of trees, usually oak and eventually forming large 'brackets'. It generally appears midsummer onwards so is earlier than most others. It starts as a bright yellow 'blob' which looks a bit like stuffing pushing out of a mattress. At this stage it is edible but I find it a bit 'sharp' and astringent. As it grows bigger it tends to form bracket shapes which have a fibrous texture quite like chicken It's OK, but I much prefer Ce

Thing is though Lizzie that many of the best edibles don't look much like the white mushrooms you get in Tesco. And some of those that look superficially like the ones you get in Tesco are deadly. I can't repeat often enough that you really do need to know exactly what you've got before eating anything.

I've had a specimen of Grifolia Frondosa from a small but old Beech wood close to J 23 of the M6 at Haydock. Not as massive as the one pictured above though... and although it's edible.. I didn't fancy it due to the large numbers of dogs which get walk right past where I found it. There's a fungus called Sparrassis Crispa.. known as the Cauliflower Fungus, which also grows at the base of trees. I've only found it in Somerset.. but it too can get massive. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparassis

Very little mention on news media, but Geoff Emerick, who was the recording engineer working alongside Gearge Martin on much of the Beatles stuff, died ( Weds I think) aged 72.

Yep. I'm up and about now. Was out in Liverpool with my mate Picko from Boowul yesterday. Straight into the Cavern where both Tony and Jimmy Coburn of the Cavern Club Beatles were present and very pleased to see us. They seem to like the fact that we are stil 'rocking' at 70 ish and Tony always says "I can't believe you two were actually about when the Beatles started..." Not sure that's a compliment or what? Tony doing his usual set of McCartney songs and in really good voice and Jimmy just along for a couple of pints. Jimmy has a new solo album out soon. 'Waterloo Road'

I don't have a shed. Just a very crammed and untidy garage. I am thinking of getting a shed. Rather like this chap: Col

At a pinch Rog.. you could use Aluminium washers. As I recall the annealing process for that is to smear with natural soap and heat up until it blackens then allow the metal to cool and clean the soap/carbon off.

Just back from a Cardiology Appt. As I expected the Cardiologist has basically discharged me back into the care of my GP, with a general instruction to 'keep taking the tablets'. This of course is mostly a good thing.. though it's a pity there wasn't any point in by-passing the blocked artery I have. Otherwise a pretty boring day. Just taking it slow. Tomorrow I must crack on with the DIY. My little girl is somewhere over Baffin Bay between Greenland and Canada on her way to LA for a work trip. She was moaning for England when she boarded her flight as it's 'only' an A33

Paul, I know you are being missed in Boowul Wethies. I was in there a week last Monday before 9:00 a.m. and a few of the early 'Coffee Club' crew seemed to know you. They wished you well.

Haven't seen Pianoman for some time..

Are you blushing yet Kev?