LizzieM
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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.
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58 minutes ago, Jill Sparrow said:
Friends in the King's Lynn area of Norfolk report seeing them quite regularly.
Muntjacs or Wallabies?
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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.
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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!
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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!!
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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 !!
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Shame it didn’t take a few trees down around Mapperley Park so we could get some sunshine in the garden.
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4 hours ago, philmayfield said:
I know it. Might be worth a trip, its only half an hour. I could eat them in Stapleford Woods.
Make your car stink though eh?
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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 find the Fox in there! Shortly later we had friends come for the weekend, we went out for dinner and on returning home we shut four car doors …..bang, bang, bang, bang and within 5 minutes there was a knock on the door! At midnight! Scary or what?!! I peeked out of the window to see several armed police outside. We let them in because they insisted on searching the house, fortunately they didn’t find the Fox but we then had Police camping out in our garden overnight for a few weeks which was quite comforting!
It was a hot summer, no one dare leave a window open, burglar alarm companies made a killing, everyone we knew slept with a weapon of some sort under the bed (we had a crowbar) and the Police were only stopping people to see if they happened to have a shotgun in the boot, you could have been legless and got away with it!
Anyway, we enjoyed the programme cos we were there, but it even scared me 40 years later, just remembering ……..-
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PM me your late wife’s name @loppylugs, I’ll check with my cousin to see if she remembers her
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7 hours ago, loppylugs said:
What happened to Clarendon college? Late wife did secretarial training there.
My cousin took a secretarial course there too, 1964-5.
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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 of a venue called Football Football in London. He’d sat me next to Kenney Jones as he knew I was a Small Faces fan. I was thrilled!
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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 we went to see old friends from Leighton Buzzard who have a large Equestrian Centre on Dartmoor. They told us they’re moving in June having bought Charlie Watts (Rolling Stones) Stud Farm. Our friend has always been into rock music and is the manager of ‘YES’ and has invited us to the Royal Albert Hall in June to see the band perform. When I got home (to Poole) I had to Google them! I’m not into ‘progressive rock’ but it sounds like a good night out, he’s booking our London hotel too, so it’s worth tolerating!
Anyway, we’re now into Darby and Joan mode and relaxing without houseguests. That lot are all flying back to all points west tomorrow, plus one of our sons is going back to Dar es Salaam tomorrow and the other to Bahamas via Miami. Wears me out thinking about it!
I need @DJ360to get me up to speed on ‘YES’ ……. I’m a 60s Mod, Motown, Atlantic and Stax artists are the ones I know!-
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4 hours ago, Stuart.C said:
Archway Trust, who own / run or whatever, Bluecoat have been given a short lease on the old People's College building on Maid Marian Way for temporary use for their 6th form.
The space that frees up at Bluecoat is being used for start up pupils for the new Free Secondary school being built on the old Clarendon site, should be finished this year.When the new Clarendon (not called that) building is open, start up pupils will move and Bluecoat get their 6th form space back.
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!
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1 hour ago, DJ360 said:
Have I missed something or has Radfordred just stopped posting?
Nothing from Albert for a while.. which is concerning.
Anybody?
I miss them both
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10 hours ago, Oztalgian said:
Is that legal LizzieM?
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
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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-
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1 hour ago, letsavagoo said:
As to your Audi Lizzie, has the car not diagnosed itself. Sounds like daylight robbery to me.
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!
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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 us it would need to be diagnosed again because Poole Audi are not part of the Sytner Group!! -
9 hours ago, denshaw said:
Robert Plant was at the Concert Hall last week, he still reminisces about the Boat club when he was with Led Zeppelin.
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!
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10 hours ago, benjamin1945 said:
AH the memories..............and them stairs..especially.........a magic 100 yards...of being crushed on leaving the match........
My memories of leaving the match are being moved along Trentside without my feet touching the ground. It was frightening at time.
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@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.
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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.
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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 Intensive Secretarial Course, that’s been demolished.
My only employment in Nottingham was at Thorn Bendix on Beech Avenue, New Basford. That building was demolished soon after I left and moved south in 1975.
Then there are the places in town where I spent great times, the coffee bars (Lyons, Kardomahs, 4 Seasons in Griffins, Causerie, L-Shaped Room.
The Old Market Square, such a great area to meet up with friends, with plenty of areas to sit around. The place is now only good for skateboarding, but I’m a bit past that now.
The clubs, all disappeared many years ago.
Sherwood Rooms and Palais, buildings still there ……. for now
My favourite pub, Flying Horse where I met my future husband ….. well the facade’s still there but it’s been turned into a shopping arcade that’s not well used.
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in Owt' Abaaht Nowt !
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I agree with you @Oztalgianabout the new weird ‘sporting’ additions to the Olympic Games and have very little interest in the Games this year.
As a family we’ve always loved watching the track events, cycling and swimming but our interest has waned somewhat over recent years.
I had a wonderful day at the London Olympics with my son and daughter-in-law and when our boys were young we took then to the Edinburgh Commonwealth Games in 1986 and Victoria BC in 1994. Both trips were brilliant and a lot of fun, particularly the Victoria trip when we were staying with family and had tickets for lots of events. The boys were teenagers by then and went off into town with their cousins, often coming back with their trainers and T shirts signed by English athletes who they’d bumped into! As for the television coverage I suppose other countries, like Australia, are not going to concentrate on ‘foreigners’. We did find that in Canada in 1994, it was all about the Canadian athletes and very little about the other countries.