FLY2

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  1. Same on Final Score on Saturday afternoons. They're very knowledgable, but it just seems strange.
  2. You're lucky it didn't all end up in your lap Jill. There's currently a product called Toffee Waffles which you place over your cup, and the heat melts it, and then you eat it. I've seen them in Tesco's and Lidls. Yumminess ecstasy.
  3. A quick dunk, and straight in ! I never give them chance to get soggy !
  4. Shortbreads ! Dunkilicious in the extreme !
  5. Just remembered, the cement mixer thingy was called a rumbler. It was rough inside, and just rubbed the surface of the skin off.
  6. That's exactly how things were in dads chippie ! I've spent hours of my childhood helping by putting spuds in the cement mixer looking thing that removed the skins. Speck them manually, by removing the 'eyes', then tipping them into the automatic chipper ! Happy days.
  7. I wasn't asking you to shut up Col, but the request for reasons for leaving is getting monotonous. Over the years, people have willingly given their reasons, and have subsequently been bombarded with pages of quotes etc. Please don't stop posting, as some of your views are very legitimate and relevant.
  8. I'll say it again. I don't see the reason why anyone should feel cajoled into revealing their reasons. Is it that you would then hold them up to ridicule and belittle them ? I sincerely hope not !
  9. Butter Crunch, Malted Milk and half covered chocolate digestives.
  10. Col, this isn't the Spanish Inquisition for Gods sake. Why on earth should we feel the need to explain our reasons. It's been a secret ballot, and that's the end of it.
  11. Well this afternoon, we can sit back and relax in the knowledge that Forest will still be in the playoffs at 5pm this afternoon.
  12. Yes Col, I too am annoyed that the BBC eke out the types you mention. Of course the Beeb assumes that anyone living north of Watford sits on the pavement all day with straw hanging from their ears, and eating Yorkshire Puddings. It's as though they're trying to portray Northerners as uneducated, bumbling oiks !
  13. You've lost me there B. I can't recall any York bound diesels. Unless it was a special working. Although I do remember a couple of Southern Region class 33's on a special around here.
  14. Ben, wasn't there a coal merchant operating from the bottom of Landcroft Crescent in the mid to late 60's ? I often saw at least one lorry parked up there at times.
  15. I'll take a walk to the lakes over the weekend weather permitting.
  16. Brilliant details Col. It was your domain. I just used the area for spotting purposes.
  17. Bestwood Rd, I mean Ben, not Moorbridge Lane. It ran through Bestwood Village as you know.
  18. I've never seen any pictures of 9F's on that stretch from Arnold Rd to Moorbridge. As I say, could be wrong.
  19. Just remembered. The 9F's could be seen further along if they'd branched off north of Bulwell Common station, and then crossed over Hucknall Rd and joined the LV line there, parallel to Moorbridge Lane. They would take the diversionary route to Annesley, thereby keeping the main line free for faster traffic.
  20. Not strictly correct Ben, but pretty close. The Austerities we introduced during the war for the War Department, and we're extremely rugged, powerful and easier to maintain than other freight engines. They came into British Railways stock in 1948. There were 933 of them spread over the country as near as damn it. Colwick had over fifty of them at various times. The blinkered ones were 9F's introduced by British Railways in the mid 50's to replace many old worn out freight types. Again, these were extremely powerful, and despite having small driving wheels were very fast, and even hauled p
  21. From Southglade Rd heading towards Moorbridge, there's currently the Buzz Bingo Hall, several food processing units, and a couple of other businesses. Further along, there's EMC Tiles and a few other business units. Then of course there's Top Valley Tesco. Plus the residential estate where Stuart.C lives. Other than the remaining sections of the old railway embankment, you'd be hard pushed to know the areas history.
  22. Yes, definitely not the chewing gum manufacturers !
  23. 26 locos were scrapped there. 42792, 45535, 61126, 61334, and O2's 63925, 6, 7, 8, 32, 35-9, 41, 45, 56, 62, 64, 72-4, 77, 80, 85 and 87.