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How upsetting for the owners @nonnaBnot just the fact of intrusion of their personal space but to go around totally wrecking the place. I can’t imagine how distraught they will be feeling now, it’s awful.

Muntjacs or Wallabies?

We had lots of muntjac in our wood down south, I believe they were introduced into the country many many years ago by Lord Rothschild who had lived nearby. They’re very shy and timid normally but occasionally one would venture out onto the lawn to be chased back into the wood by our Rhodesian Ridgeback ……. I witnessed the dog being chased out by the deer too! But seeing the resident wallaby hopping across the lawn will always be our favourite memory of living in the countryside.

When we lived in Hertfordshire a peacock turned up in the garden and wandered around for a day or so with our Guinea Fowl, then disappeared as quickly as he arrived. On another occasion the Guinea Fowl were carrying on like guard dogs when a chimney sweep came to the house. He came in and said “Do you know you’ve got peacocks in your garden?” To me they’re totally different, he must have been a townie!

On the itemised bill the Lens was £396, Chrome Trim (that cannot be removed without breaking it) was £147, 3 hours Labour £240, total £783.50 + VAT, Total £940.20. Never mind, it’s only money!!

We got the rear light bulb problem on our Audi S8 finally sorted yesterday at AMB near the Range roundabout by Meadow Lane. Despite Poole Audi and Nottingham Sytner Audi not being able to locate the necessary parts required. A slight crack on the lens caused damp to get inside. The bill was just short of £1000 !!

Shame it didn’t take a few trees down around Mapperley Park so we could get some sunshine in the garden.

Make your car stink though eh?

Did anyone see ‘Intruder: He’s Watching You from Within’ on Channel 5 on Monday night, 8th April? It was about a sadistic predator nicknamed ‘The Fox’ who caused absolute terror in the Beds, Bucks and Herts area, particularly around Leighton Buzzard where we were living at the time, in 1984. We were really first alerted to how serious the situation was when we woke one morning to hear a police helicopter circling over our house. My husband decided to take the dog a walk on the fields out the back of our garden and found dozens of police surrounding a wood, only 200m from us. They didn’t

PM me your late wife’s name @loppylugs, I’ll check with my cousin to see if she remembers her

My cousin took a secretarial course there too, 1964-5.

Well thanks for enthusing about YES Col ! But unless something really exciting is happening in our lives on June 4th we’d better go. I’ve only been in the Royal Albert Hall once before so that, in itself, is a reason to go. Might buy some earplugs and grow our hair over our ears. Our friend is such a wonderful interesting character, involved in music, football and cricket, having ‘looked after’ many well known sports personalities. We had a Christmas drinks party at our old house in Hertfordshire and Martin turned up with Mike Gatting. On another occasion we went with him to the opening o

Not so much ‘How’s Your Day’ but how’s our week or so gone! Last week we spent two nights in a beautiful country house hotel in Dorking attending the wedding of our niece who lives in Washington. A second marriage for both her and the Groom, 6 kids between them! Family travelled from all over the UK, USA and beyond and it was a fantastic family gathering. Then we drove to Poole with brother-in-law and wife from Victoria, BC, along with their daughters, one from Toronto and one from Costa Rica. Then off to Devon for 2 nights to catch up with an old school friend of my husband, whilst there w

Several of the 11 year old children in our Mapperley Park neighbourhood are expecting to start at the new school being built on the Clarendon College site this September. The builders need to get a move on!

I miss them both

I think it was ok back then, in the 1990s, nobody told us otherwise and no one would have known as our neighbours were quite a distance away

Many years ago we were overrun with Magpies that ganged up on our ‘pet’ Guinea fowl, stealing any eggs that had been laid around the garden. We borrowed a Larson Trap from a farmer friend and got the local population of Magpies down

Yes Lets the warning came up on the display, Poole Audi were great, nothing too much trouble, except the workshop was full and we were heading back to Nottingham next day. These ‘expensive’ car showrooms are a total rip off, especially Sytners!

A couple of weeks ago a warning light showed on our Audi dashboard, indicating a bulb failure. We looked and the rear bulb was still lit but fading a bit. We were in Dorset so went into Poole Audi but it was a Saturday and the workshop were busy with new Registration cars too. We didn’t book the car in as we thought we’d get it done in Nottingham. Today we rang Audi Nottingham to book the car in for this little job. We were told that they will need to ‘diagnose’ the issue for £160. We said it’s been diagnosed already. The service dept receptionist asked where was it looked at and told

My niece lives on the Pacific coast of Costa Rica and takes her dogs to the beach every day. One day her dog ran over to a lone man up the beach and jumped up him. She got hold of the dog and apologised and then realised it was Robert Plant!

My memories of leaving the match are being moved along Trentside without my feet touching the ground. It was frightening at time.

@benjamin1945I thought that was Paper Lace’s Chris Morris, I knew him as a young lad in the 60s as I caught my school bus outside his house on Coppice Road Arnold. He was a few years younger than me.

My Dad was at Cottesmore in the 1930s too. Surprisingly all the houses he lived in before he married my Mum are still there, all around Lenton. Rolleston Drive, Toston Drive and Devonshire Promenade, from the 1920s through to the late 1940s

Going back to my birth 70+ years ago I find it so sad that buildings and venues that shaped my life are no longer around. The first house I lived in in Netherfield was demolished to make way for the Colwick Loop Road. My first school, Ashwell Street Infants in Netherfield, has been demolished. My second school, Kingswell Juniors in Arnold, has been demolished My Senior school, Carlton-Le-Willows Grammar, is still standing but hardly recognisable from my time there in the 1960s I then spent a year at Arnold & Carlton College of FE (Digby College) on an Intensiv

I’ve just signed the petition too and didn’t realise it was happening. I always accepted that those WOMEN born a year after me received a higher State Pension because they didn’t get it until some time after their 60th birthday, which is far enough. To be honest I’m pleased to have been getting my State Pension into my bank account for the past 14 years, it’s a handy amount but I couldn’t live on it and we’re lucky to have other income.