LizzieM

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  5. Being left handed

    in Owt' Abaaht Nowt !

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    I've always been most definitely right-handed except when holding a golf club or cricket bat. Having said that, when I had golf lessons many years ago, the Pro got me playing right-handed in no time so I'm an ambidextrous golfer, as well as being a useless one!

  8. 50 years of Rod

    in Nick Palmer's Nottstalgia General Music Chat.

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    I appreciate that everyone has their own taste in music. As a 60's teenager I was not that bothered about the Merseysound and I don't think I had any LPs other than The Beatles. I really loved Motown and Soul and still do (although now I tend to listen to the orchestral backing as much if not more than the singing.). Like a lot of you I saw Rod at various locations in different bands around Nottingham but never saw him with the Faces ........ only saw Small Faces with Stevie Marriott, God rest his soul. My tastes haven't changed that much in 50 years but I have appreciated a much wider spectrum of music over the years, ranging from Pavarotti (who we saw in the 90's at Wembley Arena) to The Stones (at Twickenham a few years ago). I went off Rod in the 70s and 80s but in the past 10 years have made an effort to see him in concert. He's a fantastic showman and I don't care what others say and think. Every time a new tour is announced I feel that it may be the last so try to get to see the boy. The same applied to Tina Turner, love her too. We went to her Farewell Concert at the old Wembley Stadium in 2000, thinking that would be the last time she performed in England. Then saw her in Miami in 2008, thinking that she wouldn't be performing in UK ever again, only to find that she was doing her stuff in 6" heels a few months later in Sheffield, so got tickets for that too. These artists are getting old, just like we are and when they finally give up that will be it. For me this is hanging onto what I remember and love.

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  9. Your first school

    in Owt' Abaaht Nowt !

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    Ashwell Street Infants, Netherfield ........ September 1954 til March 1958 when we moved to Arnold. Very few memories of early school days apart from when the Queen drove past, the nit nurse visits, having to stand up individually in class to recite the times tables, Janet and John books and running home at 3.30 to catch Watch with Mother on the telly. Oh just remembered, I was Angel Gabriel in the school Nativity, Christmas 1957 at St George's Church.

  14. What a cheek!

    in Owt' Abaaht Nowt !

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    That happened to us a couple of times a few years ago. On one occasion a tenner was stolen. Postage is going up here again, another 2p on First class and 3p on Second class. Unfortunately the postal service in the UK is in a really bad way. We've been waiting for 3 days for an important document to arrive. Apparently posted in High Wycombe and now we hear that there's a problem at HW sorting office, we'll be lucky to get the letter before the end of next week.

  18. Nottingham WW2

    in General Chat about Nottingham

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    I was born in 1949 so well out of it thank goodness but my Mum worked in a Munitions factory somewhere in Nottingham and my Dad was at the ROF serving his apprenticeship until a month before his 21st birthday and then went into the RAF in December 1942. Dad was ill in bed at home on Devonshire Promenade, Lenton, when Nottingham was bombed and said he remembers nothing about it. He had pleurisy apparently. My uncle, Dad's brother, was in the RAF from the start of the war but was discharged because he developed epilepsy. He then worked 'on the land' but had an epileptic fit at Gamston and fell face down into mud and suffocated and died aged 24, poor guy. My parents met in 1946.

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