LizzieM

I could never get the hang of the 'mushroom' tops, but was a dab-hand with the carrot variety. Your recollections of all the marble games reminded me of when we cut out holes in a shoe box and wrote numbers over the holes, aiming the marbles through to see who could get the highest score. Us kids were easily pleased in those days. I only ever had one doll (but did have a little pram for her) and one teddy. My Christmas pillowcase always contained a Rupert annual (well until I was about 8 I suppose!), a chocolate Santa and a selection box. I loved drawing and used to get crayons and colouring b

A friend of ours has a farm where he's converted all his farm buildings into office space, and has a very nice little earner thankyou. He's got 3 massive solar power units in a field which rotate to follow the sun. He powers all the office units and his house with this solar power. It's cost him a fortune to install but he reckons he'll get the money back in a very short time as he installed it before the rate went down. He's also installed a heat pump in the field which gives him piping hot water to his house. We've never even considered solar panels on our house as we have too many big s

Just wish I had the patience to work it out too! Got Photobucket installed but my brain can't get around the next challenge!

Surely you need sun for solar panels to make power?

Or at least get them on the Chinese 'One Child Policy'

The brazen 'Romanian gypsy' I saw the other day with the child's pushchair full of scrap was back around our neighbourhood again today but this time he had his mate with him, they were walking opposite sides of the road, each of them had full pushchairs ....... Makes you wonder where they've picked it all up

Sorry to Moz too ! Hope you had a good night, promise we'll be there to support you next time

Babs, sorry we didn't turn up at The Lion tonight, something cropped up and then it got too late to get out.

You poor little soul Paulus. :-(

No idea Carni. Only knew him when I was a Sons of Adam groupie about 1965!!

Not the band members I mentioned David.

Pixie, that's OK, you know the guy. But it's the ones you don't know and never see that are the menace in our neighbourhoods

On the subject of bins, my neighbour said there were 'Romanian gypsies' rifling through our bins this morning before they were emptied. The other day I followed a bloke (looked like a pikey) wandering around with a child's pushchair full of little bits of metal scrap. His eyes were everywhere and it didn't bother him that I was following him with my dog and watching his every move. After I passed him I turned around and saw him disappear up somebody's driveway. I assumed the owners were in the house because their car was on the drive but did feel guilty afterwards that I didn't report him.

Welcome Grenuk and thanks for posting your memories of the Co-op bombing, really interesting.

Think we'll be there to listen to you Moz. Looking fwd to this weekend, MozMicDawn on Friday and Mr Stewart at the Arena on Saturday.

Haha! He was absolutely intent on enjoying his 3 yrs there and drinking too much but he did come out with flying colours and with liver intact.

When my son was in a student house in Loughborough they had a card meter, think they had to go and top up the card at a local shop. Quite often the lads forgot to do this and ended up with no electricity. My son got up in the middle of the night before an exam to do some 'cramming' and finding the lights didn't work he got a chair and went out and sat under a streetlamp to revise!

Your own fault, never cast a clout til May is out

Carni, if I could work out how to post pics then I would. The last time I tried I really messed up my link to Nottstalgia. I'll give it another go, when I have my brain in gear!

I saw some Humming Birds for the first time recently, no not in Nottingham (!) but in Jamaica. They were on, what a local called, a Jade Vine at Strawberry Hill. I did get a few photos of them but as the birds are so tiny it's very difficult to see them on the pics unless you know what you're looking for.

My great-aunt was even posher ........ she said she was going to check the plumbing

The boy did good! Well done Carl

The last 3 or 4 years we've bought all our bedding plants and shrubs from Shirley's on the A60 near Ravenshead. They have a great selection in several large greenhouses but don't really know how their prices compare to Garden Centres because we've never checked. I've heard that Wilkos and B & Q are reasonable though.

The local frog fanciers were always out in force in the Spring assisting safe passage across the main road to the village pond where we lived in Hertfordshire. One year we decided to empty our rather large pond to deepen it to help protect the fish from herons. We saved all the fish in large containers but there were hundreds of frogs and toads so we piled them into a couple of dustbins and took them up to the village pond. A chap came along and gave us a right old telling off, saying that we were not allowed to move the frogs from their local habitat. Was he correct? Anyway we then drove to t

Ah so that's why they flattened the Market Square .............. so they could park buses on it.