LizzieM
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The Travellers vacated the cricket ground late last evening, en masse and in convoy and with horns blaring, much to the relief and delight of the neighbourhood. Now the willing, fit and able members of our community and cricket team members will set about cleaning up the field and sorting out a cricket pitch for the Asian cricket team that leases it.
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The cricket ground is leased to the Carrington and Cavalier Cricket Club and as such it’s them and not the city council who need to move them on. Lots of local residents (including me) have written to the local councillors. As it’s local elections in a couple of weeks they might try a bit harder to help, it won’t alter my mind about where I put my X though. Our Polling Station is in THAT cricket pavilion, so a good reason to get the travellers moving on. One local resident has found something on a Facebook page that they’ve turned up for a wedding, bet that’ll be a riotous event.
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Someone has posted a photo this morning, from his bedroom window. I can see at least 16 caravans plus trucks and vans/cars on the photo.
It’s totally unacceptable for this to happen anywhere, especially in the midst of a quiet residential area. Of course the do-gooders are out there posting, telling us that these poor travellers have very few places to set up camp. So it’s alright to break into a green space and churn it up then?!!
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Oh dear, the locals round here are really upset tonight, a load of ‘travellers’ have pitched up on the Carrington Cricket Ground, what used to be the Police Training Ground, (and I think @benjamin1945played football there many times).
It seems they broke down the gates when it got dark and have been driving all over the pitch and cricket square. The Police are in attendance but this could take a week or more to resolve. I know many of the residents whose properties back onto the field and feel so sorry for them.It’s shocking that these people, who pay no taxes think they can move onto land belonging to other people. They’re a law unto themselves.
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Got a 3rd in the National but backed the WINNER in the last race.
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Thanks for that Ben! I’ve lost count the number of times I’ve seen Rod performing live. Always have and always will love him!
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So did I ……
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1 hour ago, Mess said:
Probably familiar to a few on here but there's a town in South Yorkshire called Penistone.
I wonder how the locals pronounce it. Penistown perhaps?
It made me laugh out loud when I drove through it back in the 70s.
My niece was landlady of a grotty pub in Penistone a few years ago. We went there ‘just the once’!!
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4 hours ago, plantfit said:
you did well to get a pram in the boot, well half in the boot
It WAS half a pram Rog, just the frame and wheels, the baby was in the carrycot bit, on the back seat. No seat belts in those days either!
I wouldn’t dream of doing that nowadays.Rog
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1 hour ago, plantfit said:
Lizzie, all the early Mini's I worked on had a hinged rear number plate that sat vertical when the boot lid was opened making it still visible, could be the answer to you "getting away with it", just a thought
Rog
That wasn’t the case with my Mini Rog, I also had the pram wheels protruding from the boot, held in by stretchy bungee things. I reckon it was an early 70s model, bought in 1975 as I couldn’t face the thought of being stuck in an Oxfordshire hamlet without my own transport. By the time I got rid it had holes in the floor, bit like a pedal car!
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re Mansfield Woodhouse, Oh thanks. I think some distant cousin of my Mum lived up there, nobody talked about him ……. every family has one o’ them!
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I had an early 70s red mini and before that I had a green mini van loaned to me by a boyfriend when he got a company car. I still had the red mini when I had my first baby and would drive to Nottingham from Oxfordshire with the pram in the boot, drop-down boot lid open and no registration plate showing. Got away with it every time!
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I’ve heard of Bliduth but where’s Woodus?
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I was chatting to a friend this evening who lived until recently in Southwell. I asked if she watched the televised Easter service from Suthull Minster and she replied that yes she watched it and spotted several ‘South-well’ people she knew. The residents do come across as a bit ‘precious’ regarding the pronunciation. Then there’s Renuth for Rainworth, not that I’ve ever been there. Funnily enough, I’m not well travelled in Notts ……. I think I’ve only been to Mansfield about 6 times in my life, and it’s only a few miles up the road!
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5 minutes ago, MargieH said:
Btw, I mentioned your name to Sue P last time I saw her and she said she remembered you! We are seeing her again on the day before the meet up.
@MargieHwill you ask Sue P how her little brother is doing and let me know the next day please?!
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We had a little trip to Wilford Hill Cemetery this afternoon to say ‘Hello’ to my dear old Dad and put some lovely red roses on his grave. It’s 10 years ago today when he passed away at the age of 91, after surviving 25 years on his own following my Mum’s early death from cancer.
He missed becoming a Great Grandad by just a couple of weeks unfortunately.
We may go to the pub tonight and have a drink to him!-
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Does he take ironing in Mrs B? Asking for a friend!
Actually I don’t need to do much ironing these days, not like when I had two sons at school, in white shirts, 6 days a week, and a husband wearing at least 5 clean shirts a week. -
Harry Wheatcroft opened our school Summer Fete in 1965. My Dad’s real garden passion was roses and he bought stocks every year and would often go to Wheatcrofts or Gregory’s, which is now a garden centre on the A52 near Toton, and pinch buds to graft onto the stocks. I seem to recall that Harry lived on a hill overlooking the rose fields and Dad was always worried that he was sitting up there with binoculars and he’d get caught nicking buds. I still have all my Dad’s rose annuals from the 50s and 60s.
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How very sad, evidently he worked incredibly hard to drag County up to a force to be reckoned with, albeit in a low league, taken so young too.
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A lovely man and a huge loss to the entertainment industry and animals too. My sister-in-law knew him well through working together on stage productions, most recently ‘Annie the Musical’ when Paul O’Grady was taking over the part of Miss Hannigan from Craig Revill-Horwood and my sister-in-law had the dog in the show, this was at the start of the UK tour in January. He was still in the show up to last Saturday in Edinburgh. So sad.
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There’s an advert on TV recently of two soppy looking policemen sitting in a police car eating ‘Horibos’ and talking about them in squeaky childlike voices. Apart from the daftness of the advert surely it’s not acceptable to hear those voices when nitrous oxide (laughing gas) is supposedly banned.
Incidentally a couple of years ago I saw a box full of those little canisters dumped in the gutter on Mansfield Road just above Victoria Centre.-
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3 hours ago, DJ360 said:
That's no way to treat Gladioli!
I really don’t like Gladioli, they remind me of my Mum’s final days in Haywood House in 1988, a friend had taken some into her. Just very sad memories every time I see Glads.
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@DJ360he’s spent hundreds on lawn seed and lawn feed and he’s turfed areas in the past. Never mind, it keeps him busy!
In other news, there’s a big oil leak in Poole Harbour, but we’ve seen no ‘emergency’ activity and we haven’t been into Poole where the great unwashed eco-warriors have been demonstrating today.
We did see our place on an BBC News aerial shot of the area though!
In more other news, well this is ‘How’s Your Day’ ……. I nipped to the local Co-op for a few bits this afternoon and saw a black lad (am I allowed to say that?) nicking items. Twice he put things into his tracksuit bottoms pockets and he knew I’d seen him. He then sauntered out the door and ran off. I told the lone assistant at the till and he’d wondered about the lad when he raced away but he couldn’t do anything about it. I paid for my shopping and went by a Tesco convenience store, I popped in and asked the assistant if the ‘black lad’ had just been in, she said yes and she thought he’d stolen things! I was then standing chatting to a friend outside her office next door to Tesco and the lad was wandering back and forth across the road, he saw us watching him so I waited until he’d disappeared before I turned the corner to head home. 10 minutes later she rang to say he’d just barged into her office yelling and swearing and wanting to know why we were watching him. This is why criminals get away with things, it’s not worth making eye-contact, saying anything or calling the Police. Glad he doesn’t know where I live!! -
Col, my husband loves his lawn and is forever seeding areas but where we are the Mapperley Park enormous London Plane trees are a real issue with regards to light on certain areas. (we have 6 around our boundary) Before we came away to Poole last week my husband scarified the entire lawn, initially deciding he’d do just half but then carrying on ….. it’s an electric scarifier so not too strenuous. Next day he raked it all up and then suffered with his back for a few days, mind you he’s had lower back problems for about 40 years. Then the next day lawn feed went down and a few areas were seeded. We’ve had the rain but now need some warm sunshine to make the lawn look like a bowling green again!
At our property in Dorset the ‘Management’ decided we should have a robotic lawnmower. It crawls across the lawn every now and again like Brian The Snail and the lawn is looking really good now.-
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There’s a thread titled ‘Anyone Interested in Tractors’, I think started by Plantfit in March 2019. At that time I posted a few photos, including one of our 1947 Grey Fergie. The restoration of the tractor kept my son and husband quiet for several months!
AND ……. in case you tractor fans missed it, there’s just been “Beyond The Yorkshire Farm” on Channel 5 tonight, a lot of vintage tractors to see.