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I'm tryin ard as it is.

So close to the big 1000 posts so had to do this.

My old business partner from Nottm, often spends weekends in Liverpool, met up with him last time in Nottm and he and his wife said they love to go there as there is so much to see and do. I've only ever driven through it once many years ago and that was it. Starting to catalogue a new must see/do "bucket list" for when I visit UK again, trying to get my wife interested in maybe a week on the canals in a canal boat, but as she hates water it's a hard slog ! she hates the long haul flights too !

My gran was always doing some kind of "outwork" mainly separating the lace strips as mentioned #7. I often used to do some on my Sat morning visits. Mum was a seamstress and had two commercial machines in the back bedroom, where she did all of her outwork. In later life when my wife was at home after the birth of our twin girls, she did some telephone cable/plug assemblies, where the little plug was fed onto the crimped cable ends. A total boring and mind destroying slave labour, but it gave her a little extra spending money until she could return to her normal day job, lady across the road

Oh dear Oh dear, hook line and sinker ! I didn't know what date it was, every day is the same to me. Bugger I feel a right idiot now ! I'll go and hide now.

Just got this from our sons FB page from the Secret nottingham FB site. Only a copy and paste I'm afraid but a search for Secret Nottingham and it should be there in full. Real or a windup ? Looks like there bad news coming to Nottingham folks! BBC Radio Nottingham and Nottingham City Council have been looking into a communication from the Italian town of 'Flair Polo'. This was the town which in 1927 presented Nottingham with the Stone Lions which stand in front of the Council House in Old Market Square. The Lions were given by the people of the town to celebrate Nottingham soldiers who he

Short in stature, but a giant of a man ! RIP Ronny, back with your old buddy again.

Watched another Walking through History, last evening, and again thoroughly enjoyed Tony's take on it. It was the rise of the Earl of Monmouth, how he landed from France in the West country at Lyme Regis to build an army and take down the king. Half this stuff I never knew happened, and was a very bloody affair. The actual coastal walk was stunning, and in places I'd holidayed but never really knew. Mind watching Tony with his "beer belly" as he was talking to his "experts" made me wonder how much actual walking he really does in the series !

Up till about 4 years ago I never drank wine, only the very rare glass of sweet proseco type, now I quite enjoy a glass of Shiraz and a Cab Sav occasionally. My normal tipple but not that often was always beer, probably a larger or pale ale, now I actually prefer the wine as it does not blow me up so much. Another sauce I have taken to is Tzatziki greek garlic sauce, made with yogurt, cucumber and garlic. Got into that recently in South Australia where they eat lots of Yiros ( marinated lamb kebabs). Mind the yiros are pretty good too ! Another change for me is spices, I never really liked

Good lord all this talk of wonderful food and my tea was just 2 small home made Cornish pasties my good lady baked for me and froze before she went gallivanting around Asia. Plenty of food in the freezer so I wont starve, but must admit I used to love cooking but the older I get the more of just "too much trouble" it becomes, especially for just myself.

A pair of chicken hawks teaching their young in flight, how to ambush and attack other birds, saw this the other day, quite gruesome really. The parent attacked first but let the unfortunate to escape, slightly injured so the young bird could finish it off. We are currently looking after a 5 acre property with heaps of wildlife and roo's etc.

There's a new thing now where they think worms and some other minor parasites are actually good for the gut, and help with our immunity. One reason why childhood asthma and severe allergies are non existent in 3rd world countries. Mind I always remember my brother getting worms and mum telling me to check out my poo in case I had them too, before she dosed the pair of us with some revolting brew, maybe the pripsen but can't remember now, I still do the occasional quick look and check, if you know what I mean, you never know where the buggers might attack. 3- -D ;-))...

After mentioning Garlic Aeoli on another thread, was wondering if it's just me or old age. As I grew up I hated any sauces, the tomato and brown varieties type of thing, and mayonnaise, well to me was revulsion ! The only sauce I ever had was parsley with a tin of salmon and peas, and that was about it, to my thinking, slavering good food with sauce was a no no as it removed the "taste" of the actual food. I now find I crave more "taste" so have succumbed to be a sauce freak ! BBQ, tomato and even the dreaded brown stuff, maybe after 27 years in oz they've finally converted me. I can now

I thought it was only mad ozzies that had mayo on chips ! yuk. Mind I am becoming a little partial to garlic aeoli as a dip.

#152 Very true, there are some real nasty bugs can breed even in a well looked after pool, especially if the temperature is high. When we had our pool I tested it daily especially in the summer months when the kids were in it most. The worst thing is spar's as there lower water contents and heat allow the bugs to breed very quickly.

The Who at the Britannia club, can't remember the date, but must have been early or mid 60's . #12 Saw Geno Washington and the Ram jam band at Beachcomber while working there, great band. Having a beer with Georgie Fame and the blue flames before his show, too at the Beachcomber. Isle of White pop festival. Getting a lift while hitchhiking in europe in 65, from Antwerp to Munich by a US special forces GI, picking his brand new Mustang up from the docks. He wouldn't let my mate and I pay for a thing on the journey South.

Always enjoy these type of travel series, so last evening was very interesting as it was a 70 odd mile walk over several days starting in Nottm and finishing up in Derbyshire at Kinder scout (I think). Sherwood forest, Chatsworth and places I never knew about ! would love to follow in his footsteps one day. Some interesting stuff re the monarchy and the Magna charter etc. Tony obviously had access that the general public doesn't, to some sites though. All in all an entertaining hour on tv for a change, you guys probably saw it months ago !

I'm a perfectionist, can't stand "bodge ups". Can't stand obnoxious brats (other peoples out of control children). Screaming kids in shops, restaurants etc. see above. No patience as I get older, so get frustrated easily. And in frustration I swear obscenities at annoying things, which gets my wife angry as I never used to swear in front of her ever.

Morton40 Welcome from me, I too left Nottm and blighty 28 years ago and now call Australia home, we have lived in Melbourne, Newcastle but Perth for many years, Ocean Reef, Mindarie, Jindalee to name a few suburbs. Our kids and grand kids still live in Currembine, Tapping and Mindarie, and our eldest son and four more grand kids and great grandson live in the UK still. We currently have been traveling full time in our RV for last 4 1/2 years but are currently back in WA in Mandurah. If my wife has anything to do with it we will be settling down again soon maybe, probably back in WA. Whe

#27 God those photos shook a memory ! I spent severn long weeks in that building shown, around 1964, James Foreman ward, the ward sister was a sister Monk, very prim and proper and efficient. I was in the actual round bit shown near the ground floor of the rear car park and ambulance bay, from memory there was 4-5 beds in that small annexe off the bottom of the ward, we were put there as long timers on traction. I had the unfortunate privilege due to a fractured femur after a motor bike accident.

Never really liked him but, another sad loss of our generation. RIP.

Thanks from me too Carni, just read through it all, some very interesting info.

Growing up near Mapperley plains as kids we were very scared of the local mr plod, we called him officer Dibble of Top Cat fame. He was 6' 6" of mean machine riding his black Raleigh push bike on his beat. I'm mentioned here before that as young lads we used to hang out outside the library on corner of Westdale lane and as we saw him approaching we used to cringe as we knew one of us would be at his mercy one way or another, his favorite was grabbing you buy the ear and asking you in no polite terms what we had been up to. The good thing I suppose is we knew and respected him for what he was

Thanks for that, yes probably LJB what I was looking for was the full name of "Jim" as I know he was into motorcycle racing, I had a personal message with another member here who is into racing and could not for the life of me remember the name. As said previously there was some blown up photos on the rear wall of jim racing on his sidecar outfit.

#32 Smiths on plains road yes, he still did real pork dripping which I sampled when last there, he also used to sell rabbits and pheasants in season, which he hung in the shop.