LizzieM
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I've just had a good night out in Lambley and on the way there it was thunderstorms and torrential rain then hailstones as big as marbles .......... Thought it was supposed to be summer now
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We've got a Patterdale! Trouble is he gets so excited and frightens everything off with his barking before he gets to it (usually neighbours cats that are hanging around hoping to catch a bird)
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We had SOMETHING under our house when we lived in the countryside a few years ago. I was the only person at home, sitting quietly writing Christmas cards one evening when I heard pipes under the floor rattling. The next day I noticed that my Dyson vacuum cleaner had been chewed around the yellow plastic around the bottom. The vacuum cleaner was kept in the boiler room. Our farmer neighbour gave me some rat poison in plastic sachets, 5 in total, and said I should put a new sachet down when the first had been eaten. Every morning I checked in the boiler room and the whole packet had been taken away! This went on for 5 days so I went to an agricultural merchant and bought more!!! The sachet I put down on the sixth day was still there months later so I assumed whatever it was was now dead.
We also had a squirrel under the upstairs floor boards on another occasion. My husband had seen a squirrel going through a tiny hole in the eaves so he blocked it up when he knew the creature was not in there. Well it went mad! So he then took the floorboards up in the bedroom and had baby squirrels running up the wall, nightmare! He put the squirrels in a box and took them into the woods at the bottom of the garden but sadly next morning they were dead.
And finally, we had a glis glis electrocute itself. Only found it when the power went off in an outbuilding. It was there clinging by its teeth to a cable! They are a protected species and really quite sweet but they can cause a lot of expensive damage.
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They're probably nesting underneath your shed. BUT how can you LIKE rats?!!!! You've got to get the pest man out as soon as possible Pixie, he'll find somewhere to put poison down so your cat doesn't get to it. We used to keep sheep years ago and we had evidence of rats but never saw them. The council rat-catcher came and did a good job for us.
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Shame you haven't got the liner in yet Compo, plenty of rain forecast in next few days :-(
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Bit of archeology going on there then Compo
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Hi Carni, I've got a few but seem to have only one of the bun pennies. It's really really worn and is dated 1890. Can't imagine that will be worth anything. I used to have a tin full of old coins but we've moved house so many times that they've disappeared.
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We've got plenty of warning Moz. Will try to be there, it's a pub we use occasionally on Fridays anyway.
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You little devil Bubblewrap!
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I absolutely agree with Ayupmeducks. I really think that these women are hoping to jump on the compensation bandwagon. This is so long ago, where is the proof? Times were very different in the 60s and 70s when I was a teenager and working in a predominantly male environment, but it was only harmless fun, not something to be dished up 40 years later in the hope it will ruin some old man's reputation.
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Blimey Stan, are you an orthopaedic surgeon?
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Anyone have a wooden whip and top?
Well I did have one 50 odd yrs ago. Busy clearing my Dad's house out so I might come across it ..... Why, are you looking for one Compo?!!!
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I remember having X-rays in the shoe shop, my Mum always bought Clarks and Startrite shoes and sandals for us and I think we shopped at Craddocks which was where the Clarks shop is now, at the bottom of King Street. This would have been in the 50's and maybe into the 60's. I remember my little brother was frightened of the machine, as he was with the Daleks in Dr Who !!!
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I'll certainly try to join you next time something is arranged, we were on holiday the last time
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Did it all by myself !!
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Well done Babs, your perseverance finally paid off. I got an 8 page form today from HMRC relating to my Dad's tax. He passed away on 6th April, the first day of the new tax year. In bold print it states that this information they require relates to the period 6th April 2013 to 6th April 2013 !!!!!
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Would if I knew how to do it
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Very ingenious Compo, well done. In a few weeks time it'll look pretty good
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Hear hear!
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Oh my goodness, this is making my 'ed ache. Never watched anything on the telly associated with this stuff and I know I never will. Not the slightest interest in UFOs or associated topics, nor the bible. You folk continue to discuss and debate but I'm not interested, sorry.
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Ok, nothing to do with immunisations in 2013, nor in the past 50 or 60 years, but we buried my dear old Dad this week in the same grave as his 7 year old brother who died of Measles in 1937.
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Just spent a couple of hours in Doctors Orders, standing room only, they need to build an extension!
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I got all the 'childhood illnesses' when I started school, including whooping cough, it was what was expected in those days. My kids had various jabs but not the whooping cough one because at that time, in the late 70's, there was a big scare that the whooping cough vaccine could cause brain damage. One of my boys did get whooping cough when he started school. I have two scars on my arm from the TB jab and really quite obvious ones. That I think is because I went swimming every day and the scab fell off in the water, nice huh! It took weeks to heal, haha!
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Get well soon Carni. I am obsessed with Nottstalgia too. There's always so much to read and so much to contribute to. Well done to all concerned.
What did we look like
in 60's Nottingham
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Didn't wear all that gear, I was a Mod! White trousers with home-made red, white and blue circles on the bottom (like RAF symbols) and a navy nylon coat, until I had enough money to buy a navy full length leather coat.