Jill Sparrow

If there's is such a thing as a cakeophile, you're it, Carni!

You should try it RR. Can't beat a good Aussie black red.

Don't worry about drinking on your own Gem. I love to come home after work on a Friday evening to the peace and quiet of my house. A couple of glasses of Aussie red or Chilean, decanted the previous evening. Bach on the CD player, contented moggies and, in winter, a roaring fire. Bliss. All mine, every bit!

So far as I'm concerned, that really will be the most boring thread ever created!

I don't miss much, CT!

It is indeed. I was always mesmerized by his hair!

Life's full of mysteries...such as why does cliff ton keep changing his profile photo to the same one he's had for months? Like our Ben's new avatar! Granville! Fetch your cccccccccloth!

Happy birthday, Carni. It's the one day of the year when you can eat cake without needing an excuse. The other 364...well, who needs an excuse? Have a wonderful day!

If you'd shared mine Mr Mayfield, your life would probably have been much shorter than it has been!

He did indeed, Loppy...and I'll bet he liked dogs too!

“There are only two means of refuge from the miseries of life: Music and Cats!” I never met Albert Schweitzer but I think we'd have got along well!

Tis also The Bard's birthday! Tis a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing! One of my favourite lines from Shakespeare!

Will there be some teenage puddy cats to dig them up again?

He's a handsome lad!

I sometimes wake up to the same thing, SG. Tendons in my lower legs and feet have suffered damage due to the years of ballet training when I was younger. Often I wake in the night with toe curling, literally, spasms and the pain can be awful. A bad one will leave soreness or a dull ache for a couple of days. See how it goes. It will probably fade.

Teenagers are a nightmare, PP!

A couple of moggies from Bradford Found themselves teleported to Radford. "The rodents round here are far worse than the beer! And the cheese isn't fit for a cockroach! " Assonance!

Iambic pentameter?

Preferable to a house full of people!

Very few show Garden Street, especially the Ilkeston Road end where my relatives lived. It's years since I was in that area and I didn't have time to wander that far on my recent Berridge trip but may do so later in the year.

Many memories there!

Some of us are still waiting to hear about the budgie and the garden shed from months ago!

My paternal grandfather, Ted Sparrow, worked at the ROF during WW2. He'd done his fighting in WW1 and rather enjoyed fraternising with the ATS girls at Chilwell, much to his wife's disgust. Precisely what he did there I'm not sure but it was not infrequently that a car would draw up at his house in the middle of the night to take him back to the ROF. He thought that rather grand. It made him feel important. It also woke up my grandmother, the irascible Kate, which was only a good idea if you were tired of living! Kate had worked at Chilwell during WW1 and was playing hookey on the

Such a shame. Exquisite workmanship. Nothing like that will be built again.

Belated happy birthday, Sue. Hope it's been good!