LizzieM

I admire people who put on a Christmas light display and raise money for charity by doing so. I understand there’s a family in Nuthall who’ve been doing this for years and raised a hell of a lot of money. Good on them, I say. If they can be bothered to set it all up in their front garden, use their own electricity and accept that people from far and wide will come gawping into their patch then good on ‘em. I couldn’t/wouldn’t be bothered doing such a charitable thing but it’s nice that some do.

Did all that Brew. Just getting stuff notarised in the UK isn’t easy, of course in the USA and Caribbean there’s a Notary Public on every street corner, our Accountant in Jamaica is a Notary as well, but here they’re a bit thin on the ground.

The Royal Mail is great when its advertised services work properly. Recently we had a really important document notorized on a Thursday that needed to be in Jamaica pdq. It so happened that a friend was flying to ‘the Jam’ on the next Monday so we sent it ‘Royal Mail Special Delivery Next Day By 1pm’ on that Thursday. It arrived in Cheltenham on the following MONDAY lunchtime, 3 days late. The friend had left home in Cheltenham at 6am for the airport. We then had to arrange for the document to be picked up by FedEx in Cheltenham and brought back to East Midlands Airport (!) to be flow

Really sorry to hear about your poor lad SG and hope he fully recovers quickly, for your sake as well as his. Hope your tests come back clear too !!

Happy Birthday BK.

We used to go in the ‘L-Shaped Room’ around that time too

My friends and I spent many a Saturday afternoon upstairs in ‘Le Causerie’, hugging a bottle of Coke and making it last for hours.

Sorry about that Annswabey, a good slap round the chops would have sorted out any problems!

I’m utterly fed up with hearing about all these ridiculous and mostly historical claims from the sad ‘me too’ brigade of middle-aged/old women who no doubt lapped it up at the time of the ‘offence’. Like Ms Sparrow, I couldn’t even begin to count the times such ‘terrible’ things happened to me but then, as a teen/early twenty-something it was fun, fun, fun every day to be the only girl working with around 50 Design Engineers. I enjoyed my work environment so much that I was there straight from leaving Secretarial College til the day I got married and left Nottingham. Nothing could have co

We took a wander down to the Fair about 4 years ago, it’s only a 15 minute walk for us. Went on the Big Wheel and took in the sights, sounds and smells and it was ok. Fairs don’t hold much attraction for us since taking the kids to Disney a few times 30+ years ago, they know how to do it over there.

Watching the TV coverage from the Cenataph and feeling very emotional and proud. We haven’t lost any immediate family through war but days like today and the individual interviews, especially with seriously injured ex military personnel makes me feel very humble and thankful for the thousands of brave people who have protected us.

Have you got a new keyboard Catfan?

When we moved to Nottingham 17 years ago I took advice from my private Periodontist (gum specialist) in North London for a dentist in Nottingham mainly because my teeth are good but the ‘foundations’ need regular sorting. He suggested Chris Gray, a retired Scottish Rugby International and the one I’ve been using in Wollaton for many years. He’s ‘private’ and when my husband asked me to check if there were vacancies at the practice for him he was offered NHS. Now my lovely gum man is retiring! I really don’t think there’s much difference financially between Private and NHS treatment but havi

If you heard our firework display Catfan you must have very good hearing!

We still miss our little Jack so much, even after over a year, but it’s so much easier to listen to all the fireworks being let off for Halloween, Diwali, Bonfire Night and now on random occasions up until some time in early January 2022. I have a confession though ….. friends were here earlier this evening and I’d found a small box of fireworks that we’d had in a cupboard for many years so we all went into the garden and let them off. Nothing special and rather disappointing but they brought back memories of being kids, before fireworks were ridiculously spectacular and noisy. Wish we’d ha