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Maybe I’m mean but I never give money to beggars but I do tip my hairdresser, taxi drivers, restaurant staff and will buy the bar staff in our local the occasional drink. Those people working in hospitality work hard for low wages. One of our boys worked at Champneys while still at school. He had a nice uniform and joined the team as a waiter. After a couple of weeks he decided to work in the kitchens washing up, because everyone was on £3 an hour, (25 years ago) regardless of their role, and he was fed up with the stuck-up foreign folk in the restaurant being rude and demanding. He did

I’m getting quite used to using my debit card everywhere now but always ensure I’ve got cash in my purse. I had a really stupid experience last week on the journey back from Dorset. We stopped for a loo break and picked up a sandwich, couple of soft drinks and a bottle of milk for a cuppa when we got home. The drinks were something like £1.99 each but 2 for £3.30. I paid with my card then looked at the receipt to find the girl had charged full price for the two drinks. I queried it and had to go through the palaver of handing card back, getting a refund for everything and starting again, a

Yes they lived about half way down, on a corner I seem to remember. I had more family living on Summerwood Lane too.

Do you want me to recommend a dentist RR?

Don’t know how old you are Rog but my cousins Mick and Tony Cleminson were born in 1956 and 1961.

We’ve spent a great afternoon at a cancer charity event at the Laguna this afternoon, organised by a neighbour of ours who has raised in excess of £160,000 in the past 20 years with every penny going to various local charities. We were with many well known Nottingham faces and had a lovely time, spent time chatting to a very well known influential Nottingham businessman who, apart from having the same political views as me, is despairing about the way the City is in such a decline but until the electorate wakes up nothing will ever change. Then when we arrived home there was 15kg of wild

Some of my family lived on Pastures Avenue until they went posh and moved to West Bridgford in the early 60s

Yes often. We’ve seen them perform at The Stables in Wavendon, Milton Keynes, which was their home. A good friend of ours hired The Stables for his 50th Birthday party, 20+ years ago, and we were entertained by The Bootleg Beatles, a brilliant night. It was a great venue but not sure if it’s still open.

Yes Catfan, the Mercure that’s 100 yards along the road is also full of them too. Then there’s the Ebers Hotel (was once the respectable ‘Woodville’) that’s apparently a ‘half-way house’, the police are forever there sorting out the residents. It’s probably very difficult for visitors to Nottingham to find a hotel bed these days.

How wonderful, Nottingham City Council are going to write off £2.68 million! They’ve been in control for 30 years, time for a change, time for a group of dedicated people who know how to run a business efficiently. EDIT: No doubt ‘somebody’ has done alright out of the Castle Fiasco, and it’s not the council tax payers who will of course see a very large increase come next April.

HBD BK

Thanks Rob, as you say, it seems daft but obviously worth doing to save a few bob.

In recent months, every time I drive in and around Nottingham there seems to be a taxi in front of me with a Wolverhampton operator licence. I just thought he was a long way from home but then there were more ……. all different cars so not the same driver and I’m not kidding, it’s every time I go out. Anyone know why Wolverhampton?

@benjamin1945there’ll be some smart geezers walking around Bulwell now then. Well done. I take stuff to Cancer Research regularly and do Gift Aid so they write to me every year and tell me how much they’ve made on my donations, it’s very satisfying to know I’m helping the Charity and their customers. I started donating when my Mum passed away 34 years ago and she’d got some nice clothes, including 3 Aquascutum coats, someone would have got a bargain there.

I tried a pair once, inside a pair of trainers @benjamin1945, and they went to sleep.

Yes it has been RUN by the Trust but who funded the £30 million re-development? The tax-payers.

Another good idea ‘spending spree’ by Nottingham City Council goes bang, along with Robin Hood Energy, the Old Market Square, the tram. The Labour Council haven’t a clue ……and never have had…… while ever they are in control our council tax money will be wasted on expensive hair-brain ideas. We pay the second highest council tax in the country and can’t even get the streets cleaned.

Don’t want to risk this thread turning into ‘places of worship’ but the other day we went to Salisbury Cathedral and the entrance fee was £10 per person, however our ticket is valid for a year and we can go in as often as we want. Inside is the World’s oldest working mechanical clock, made in 1386, @The Engineerwould find that interesting I’m sure. Also on display is one of only 4 copies of the Magna Carta. It’s a magnificent building and interesting city and well worth a visit ……. just don’t go picking up perfume bottles from waste bins.

I’ve just watched Bargain Hunt on iPlayer. The Subbuteo set was bought by a friend of ours who has a very strong interest in football, (he’s Chairman of a Club) but it was my husband who was doing the bidding for him as he didn’t want to be on the telly. To be honest, Charles Hanson is such a brilliant auctioneer, he works the room so well and you’ve got no chance, you end up with so much unwanted stuff and an empty wallet, just by nodding your head! It was a fun day out and interesting how they put these tv programmes together.

Apparently I was on the telly this morning, in the Bargain Hunt audience. At the end of last year we went to a ‘Help for Heroes’ Charity event at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Nottingham and we bought tickets for an auction at Charles Hanson’s auction rooms in Staffordshire and this was held in September. Two episodes of Bargain Hunt were filmed during the day and a Children in Need auction too, so I might be on tv again this evening! I only knew about this because RobL sent me a screenshot ….. thank you Rob!

Yes I did know that, having lived in the Beds, Bucks and Herts corner of the country for 30 years. Woburn and Whipsnade were regular days out when our kids were young. A much bigger ‘pest’ in the area are glis glis, or edible dormouse. Brought into England by Walter Rothschild, a naturalist living in Tring, again just down the road from us. We suffered electrical damage from those little blighters on several occasions.

My mum used to buy meat at a butchers on Carrington Street, I think it was Wheatleys. I remember being in the shop with her as a little girl when Prince Monolulu sauntered in, in full Red Indian dress, including the feathered headgear. I was terrified and clung onto my Mum’s skirt. There were very few black people around in the early 50s, n’er mind dressed like him!

We had lots of Muntjac in our garden in Hertfordshire, living in 5 acres of ancient woodland. We loved seeing them wandering about but unfortunately they ate an entire newly planted rose bed. We found that the only plants they wouldn’t touch were marigolds. We had a pair of wallabies living in the wood too, they were quite a talking point in the local. When we first spotted them I rang Whipsnade Zoo, which was fairly close by, but they insisted they hadn’t lost any.

Yeah but Forest beat Spurs tonight! And Lingard is actually doing something now.

You’re lucky to have eggs @Oztalgian. I noticed the other week that Tesco had not a single egg on the shelves and then I managed to get a box of 10 (why do they come in 10s rather than a dozen) in our local Lidls a few days later. Looked in Sainsburys at the weekend, still couldn’t find eggs, it’s the Avian Flu issue you know! So, today we were still out of eggs but managed to buy half a dozen BLUE shelled eggs, never tried them before and interested to see if they taste the same.