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or an `Elvis impersonator...
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How do we know he is not a P J Proby impersonator ?
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That's all very well, but as I have stated on a previous topic, we gave the Empire education, language, health care, legal systems, transport systems, the benefits of the Industrial Revolution, military security etc etc. I think the benefits far outweigh the negatives.
NO Speak EnglishA Russian woman married a Canadian gentleman and they lived happily ever after in Toronto.The poor lady was not very proficient in English, but did manage to communicate with herhusband. The real problem arose whenever she had to shop for groceries.One day, she went to the butcher and wanted to buy chicken legs. She didn't know how to put forward her request, so, in desperation, clucked like a chicken and lifted up her skirt to showher thighs. Her butcher got the message and gave her the chicken legs.Next day she needed to get chicken breasts, again she didn't know how to say it, so sheclucked like a chicken and unbuttoned her blouse to show the butcher her breasts.The butcher understood again and gave her some chicken breasts.On the 3rd day, the poor lady needed to buy sausages. Unable to find a way to communicate this, she brought her husband to the store...(Please scroll down.)What were youthinking?Her husband speaks English!-
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Of the almost 200 current member states (and one observer state) of the United Nations, the British have, at some point in history, invaded and established a military presence in 171 of them.
This is what British historian Stuart Laycock learned after his son asked him how many countries Britain had invaded. He dug into the history of almost 200 nations and found only 22 that the Brits hadn’t marched into. He talks about each one in All the Countries We've Ever Invaded: And the Few We Never Got Round To, released in 2012.
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I blame the EU. We never had this problem with people not understanding us when we had an empire.
Provided you spoke in a VERY haughty LOUD and patronising tone.!
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Just went outside to a beautiful `nostalgic day' that reminded me so much of an English summer day.
(Adelaide SATuesday 1:00 pmMostly Cloudy24 C and drizzle ,sky overcast and grey). .but able to breath the soft clean air and listen to the birds singing and doves cooing. It`s at times like this (almost winter) that I really miss Nottingham and England.
HOME THOUGHTS FROM ABROAD
Oh, to be in England
Now that April 's there,
And whoever wakes in England
Sees, some morning, unaware,
That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf
Round the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf,
While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough
In England—now!And after April, when May follows,
And the whitethroat builds, and all the swallows!
Hark, where my blossom'd pear-tree in the hedge
Leans to the field and scatters on the clover
Blossoms and dewdrops—at the bent spray's edge—
That 's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over,
Lest you should think he never could recapture
The first fine careless rapture!
And though the fields look rough with hoary dew,
All will be gay when noontide wakes anew
The buttercups, the little children's dower
—Far brighter than this gaudy melon-flower!
Robert Browning-
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I`m at the back on the left side !
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There is a photo on the Mundella web page of the 6th form in 1918 she may be on it?
www.mundella.org.uk
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Dear Helen, Sorry to hear about your husband ,Paul. Best wishes for a full and speedy recovery.
In Nottingham (if that`s where you are), they have a magnificent CVA service. My best mate had a similar episode which his wife recognised,and had him to the City hospital in no time flat. Result 1 year later,almost full recovery except for a bit of weakness in his right arm.
Best wishes and Regards ,Stan.
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She must have been in my year !
My granny was educated at Mundella, she was born in 1898.
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The school had everything Carni. Brand new state of the art science labs. a biology block.a 6th form block, woodwork rooms,tennis courts, surrounded by huge expanses of playing fields and bounded by the river. Close by the cricket and football clubs (Forest and County). The labs had only recently been built before closure. The Mundella rowers were the equal of many a public school.
Now replaced by a set of ugly little boxes. How many brown envelopes passed at this time is open to question. If Captain Popkess could not resolve Nottingham Council I suppose we will never know. Now I know that grammar school girl Maggie Thatcher signed off on the closure of most grammar schools ,mainly because it had reached a stage formulated by the previous government and was beyond saving.
The interesting thing I noted on a visit to the site a few years back,was that the church next door had been converted to a private school. What an amazing place Mundella could have become if turned into a combination of public and private education.
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Perhaps you should take your boots off in bed?
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Coal Production
Total production of raw black coal in Australia in financial year 2010-11 was 405 million tonnes (Mt.), down from 471 Mt. in 2009-10. This drop was largely as a result of the Queensland floods of January 2011 where production in that State fell by some 30% (see below).
After processing, 326 Mt. of black coal was available for both domestic use and for export in 2010-11. Again, this represented a drop in production of some 14% from the 366 Mt. produced in 2009-10.
New South Wales and Queensland remained the main producing states with around 97% of Australia's saleable output of black coal, and almost all of Australia's black coal exports. (Exports from Western Australia commenced in 2007.)
Australia has $26.5 billion in advanced coal mining projects and associated infrastructure, involving more than 74 million additional tonnes of coal production by 2014. ‘Less advanced’ coal mine and coal infrastructure projects have a potential capital expenditure of $46.6 billion, if all projects were to proceed.
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"At their peak in the early 1960s Notts mines produced more than 14 million tonnes of coal, with collieries spread from Cotgrave to Clipstone."
Just a figure quoted from the NEP article,Brian.
What an amazing figure that we were producing 287 million tons in 1913 .
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Half listening to a news report on Thoresby pit today, and it was mentioned that the production in one day from one open cast mine (not sure where abroad) was more than Thoresby could produce in a year. Not my subject...but that's helluva difference from an economic point of view.
Whitehaven's Maules Creek Project, near the Leard State Forest, will extract 12-14 million tonnes of raw coal a year.
If given the final go ahead from the Federal Government, Whitehaven expects production to start mid-2013, with operations predicted to last around 30 years.
Thoresby Colliery opened in 1925 and at one point was one of 46 mines spread across Notts
At their peak in the early 1960s Notts mines produced more than 14 million tonnes of coal, with collieries spread from Cotgrave to Clipstone.
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Wonder if it is in any way related to the high pitched scream around midnight I hear on the way home from the pub ?
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37C (autumn) yesterday in Adelaide 26 for next 7 days,!
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As a young boy of about 9 or 10 I remember catching the number 12 to Leicester on my own to visit my rellies. the cost was 1/6d return (3 shillings adults) and it started from the extreme left stands (?by the toilets and cafe?)
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Speaking from a personal viewpoint, I thought Anne Williams was an outstanding example of the British `bulldog' attitude of the past. I could not comprehend the strength of this mother`s love taking on the might of the legal system (which in my opinion needs a massive overhaul) and the entire political establishment. How fitting that on Mother`s day (just passed) and the start of the 6th (yes sixth) inquiry,we should remember this `lady'.
Greater love hath no man(or woman)........
Hillsborough inquest will not be adversarial battle, coroner tells juryRollcall of victims read out as Lord Justice Goldring tells jurors not to think about whether original inquest findings were wrongLord Justice Goldring: 'We are not concerned with whether what was decided at the previous hearing was right or wrong.' Photograph: Phil Noble/ReutersThe new inquest into how 96 people died at Sheffield Wednesday's Hillsborough football ground on 15 April 1989 will not become "an adversarial battle", the coroner has told the jury in his opening address.
On the second day of the inquest, which is scheduled to last a year, the jury of seven women and four men were introduced to their duty of determining how each of the 96 people died in the "terrible crush" at the FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest.
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It will soon be 18 April ,what about an Anne Williams day for Nottingham?
Hillsborough campaigner Anne Williams dies aged 62Williams, whose 15-year-old son was crushed to death in the stadium disaster in 1989, succumbs to cancer
Anne Williams at home in Chester. Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the GuardianAnne Williams, who has died at the age of 62, suffered the loss of her beloved 15-year-old son Kevin in the Hillsborough disaster of 1989, then dedicated her life to challenging flawed medical evidence accepted at the inquest, and its verdict of accidental death.
A mother of three from Formby, who worked part time in a newsagents, she tracked down witnesses, obtained medical opinions about Kevin's death from some of England's most eminent doctors and levelled repeated legal attacks at the Hillsborough inquest.
With other families of the 96 people who died at Hillsborough, the worst stadium-related disaster in British history, she was refused a judicial review of the coroner's rulings in 1993, then had three applications to the attorney general turned down. In 2009 an application to the European court of human rights was rejected as out of time.
But finally, on 12 September last year, Williams lived to see the truth about the disaster fully established, with the report of the Hillsborough independent panel, chaired by James Jones, the bishop of Liverpool. It confirmed the facts she had known all along and refused to see denied.
The Sheffield coroner, Dr Stefan Popper, had ruled that all the victims had received irreversible crush injuries and were dead or could not have been revived by 3.15pm on the day of the disaster. The ruling meant that no evidence was heard about the chaotic and failed emergency response by South Yorkshire police and ambulance service to the suffering of so many people.
The panel's report, so many years later, established incontrovertibly that the medical evidence was wrong, that many of the victims were alive after 3.15pm and that, with a decent medical response, up to 58 might have been saved. Asked by the Guardian then if she would be seeking the painful truth about whether Kevin was one of the 58, Williams replied: "I have known for all these years that the inquest evidence was wrong and Kevin could have been saved, so I don't need to ask."
Yet after that 12 September vindication of her 23-year fight, with almost unbelievably cruel timing, Williams was diagnosed with terminal cancer. She always said she would never give up campaigning for justice and had told friends that, once that fight was won, as she always believed it would be, she had "promised herself a bit of a life again."
Williams had two other children, Michael and Sara, and three grandchildren, and knew how much the disaster affected the siblings and wider family. She went to live in a hospice before moving in with her brother, Danny, and his wife Sandra, for whose care she told friends she was very grateful.
She lived long enough to savour the day the inquest was quashed, in a damning judgment of the high court on 19 December, including the ruling that the 3.15pm cut-off was "not sustainable". Stricken by the cancer, pale and frail, Williams was determined to be at the Strand, where she arrived at the court in a wheelchair, accompanied by Danny.
Afterwards, speaking softly from the wheelchair on the street outside, Williams told the Guardian: "This is what I fought for. I was never going to give up."
She always rejected the inquest's 3.15pm evidence "cut-off" because she discovered that Kevin had died in the arms of a special police constable, Debra Martin, at 4pm. Martin had testified that Kevin had a pulse and that, just before he died, breathed a final word: "Mum".
Martin's statement, and that of another witness, off-duty police officer Derek Bruder, were later changed following visits from the West Midlands police, the investigating force into Hillsborough, to suggest there were no signs of life after 3.15pm. Martin has since claimed she was pressured to change her statement, Bruder officially complained that his evidence was not presented properly to the inquest.
Williams sought medical opinions about how Kevin died from some of the country's most senior experts, including Dr Iain West, consultant forensic pathologist at Guy's hospital. West contested the inquest finding that Kevin had died from traumatic asphyxia, arguing that he died from neck injuries and could have been treated and possibly saved. Yet Williams could find no court prepared to accept her appeal or that any of the evidence in that inquest was faulty.
It has finally been accepted, following the panel's report, that the portrayal of the Hillsborough families and campaigners as whingeing scousers was a misrepresentation almost as foul as the stories that South Yorkshire police peddled to shift the blame on to the supporters. Williams and the other families fought with remarkable implacability and unity that police campaign, the flawed inquest and other legal processes that left not one person or organisation accountable for 96 people dying at a football match.
It is now accepted that the families fought this battle, with no glimpse of vindication for so long, only out of love for their relatives. So, at the end of her life, Williams, with other Hillsborough families, was recognised not as part of some Liverpool rabble but as a shining example: an everyday person embodying the extraordinary power and depth of human love.
At Monday's memorial service to mark 24 years since the disaster, the Everton football club chairman, Bill Kenwright, said the two greatest words in the English language were "my mum". He paid tribute to the families' fight, and to the solidarity with which the people of Liverpool supported it, saying: "They picked on the wrong city – and they picked on the wrong mums."
Williams had defied medical advice to attend, and watched quietly from her wheelchair. Three days later, she died. She was proved right by the end of a life's mission, and greatly and widely admired. Like her son Kevin, for whose good name and memory she fought so indomitably, she will be deeply missed.
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Have a look at the calendar ,Trev. Only trouble is ,its partly true !
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10 and a half hours, 10 and a half hours...10 and a half hours....
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Thought you might all rejoice with me on this special day as I found $33,000 lying under a pile of old papers !.
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...and lobster... when I came to Melbourne in late 70`s,lobster was so cheap we had it every night for a fortnight.!
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