LizzieM

So sorry to hear your news @nonnaB, how devastating for your family.

@troggI’m so sorry your wife is still struggling with her health and hope that now she’s home being cared for by you she’ll make a speedy recovery.

Yes CT, I saw that odd post about Palestine (and Bit Coins) yesterday and was hoping you’d log on to get rid quickly.

@IAN FINNthe Horse & Groom Linby has had troubling times recently and was closed for a while in the past few months but I think it’s open again now. I think I’ve mentioned on here before but the pub was in my family for getting on for 100 years until my Uncle Charlie retired around 40 years ago. Before Charlie my Great Uncle (George Jennison) ran the pub and before him his father Isaac had it.

We’ve got a 1937 Morris 8 cluttering up our garage, she’s called Little Mo and it’s like sitting in a biscuit tin when I’m persuaded to go for a ride in her.

Yes, I expected to log on and find lots of tributes to one of the best DJs ever. A true professional with a fantastic ‘radio voice’. I could never understand why the hierarchy at the Beeb kicked him off the afternoon show.

Several years ago we bought some paintings from the gallery in the Arcade. They were delivered to us by one of the ‘art consultants’ who said they took them from the gallery down to the car park (behind that green door) so as not to be carting them through the middle of town.

Courses to study ‘Taylor Swift’ are now being offered in the US. Our neighbour’s daughter left NGHS with excellent A level results and went off to study ‘History of Art’ in London. Last I heard she was working in a pub. Unless a kid is exceptionally arty I would think an art related degree is a waste of 3 years and a lot of money.

Never heard of the Dorchester in Nottingham, was it as posh as the Park Lane Dorchester?!! The Sagaar was TERRIBLE when we last frequented the place, then during Covid we ordered a takeaway which was awful, the food was swimming in oil. It looks closed now, maybe they still do takeaways though. I certainly haven’t seen the man with the dodgy wig in the supermarkets buying a trolly full of iceberg lettuces lately.

World Service is good @philmayfield, ‘though we’ve not been there since before Covid. Not surprised Harts closed down, whenever we dined there the restaurant was quite empty so there wasn’t much atmosphere. We’ll certainly give the Forest venture a try, if it happens.

Definitely Gold Hill, Shaftesbury. We walked down and up it last summer. I took a few pics but have forgotten how to put photos on here

My husband went there last week to play snooker. He used to go there regularly but got out of the habit. We had a snooker room at our previous house which was brilliant for parties and to keep our teenage boys and their friends entertained.

So sad, even though I’ve not set foot in the place for more than 50 years it was part of my growing up and holds good memories. It will be a pity if it’s demolished however it does look very tired and scruffy now.

Fantastic red sky right now.

That Maidstone keeper was brilliant in the cup game against Ipswich at the weekend, I think he would be better than the dodgy/unreliable lot that Forest have on their books.

When my husband had a mini stroke on the last day of July last year it was a worry but he was well cared for by the NHS although only in QMC for one night, however he’s had several brain scans, chest x-Ray, lots of blood tests and regular visits from a Community Nurse (she’s coming again this week to check his homework …… every visit she gives him written tasks and checks that he’s been using a ‘reaction-testing’ app on his phone.) He’s taking 7 pills a day, although he was on 4 or 5 before this episode. HOWEVER, since we returned from Zanzibar in mid November he’s suffered really bad night

I’ve gone through hundreds of postcards in my shoe box (the majority being 110+ years old) and can’t find the one I thought was there. The addresses of my Grandad’s family before he married my Grandmother (who was widowed in WW1) were 12 Loughborough Avenue and then 113 Sneinton Boulevard. It’s been interesting and often very amusing to read the postcards. My Grandad worked all over the country, coming back home often at weekends with his washing. He sent postcards home from wherever he was based, asking his mother to send ‘parcel’ (clean washing) or 10/- to him at such addresses as ‘c/o Bo

I remember the music and I’m sure ‘Listen with Mother’ was on the radio just before 2pm and followed by the shipping forecast which always fascinated me, with those strange names, even at a pre-school age! Only recently a friend posted on Facebook the shipping areas around the UK and I’ve saved that map on my iPad!

Yes, my Mum’s brother lived in Clifton and his two sons are still there, with the name Croft. I’m going to go through my shoebox of postcards now!

I’ve never before seen the postcard you posted CT but it’s quite interesting for me as my Great Grandparents lived on Sneinton Dale and at some stage on Loughborough Avenue, off the Dale. Their surname was Croft. I have a shoebox full of postcards my Grandad sent home to his mother in the early 1900s when he was working all over the country as an electrician on the Boots shopfitting team. I’m pretty sure I have another postcard in that box that was sent from someone called ‘Moult’. Now that would be a coincidence wouldnt it?!

Bad luck Melissa, but like others have commented, there are plenty of opportunities out there, especially with your degree, you’re well qualified …….. you could go into lots of different areas of commerce and/or industry. Don’t be down about it, take a rest and think about what you really want to do.

Nothing wrong with that

Until we moved to Nottingham I would never shop anywhere other than Waitrose. There was one right next to our boys school so I dropped them off and I’d finished my shopping by 9am. There was a ‘rough’ Tesco in the town that I only went into if it was really necessary. Coming up here I didn’t know how I’d cope without Waitrose but I certainly wasn’t prepared to drive to the nearest one in Newark. I soon got used to Sainsburys in Arnold but now I use Tesco at Top Valley as well, depending on which way the car decides to go. The shorter trip the better as far as food shopping is concerned so

OMG @IAN FINN, it’s +6C here in Nottingham and that’s cold in my book!! My weather app tells me we’ll get just below freezing during the night next week.

Love the butterfly, the copper kettle is in great condition and a lot better than one we’ve had in the shed for yonks.