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Fortunately Curly Wurlys aren't recognised as an official romantic gift yet, so I paid the normal price!!!

I can empathise with that. I was a youth worker for 12 years or so and I also introduced "playground" games into the club. These were 14-18 year olds enjoying something they had missed out on in their primary years. And it was great nostalgia for us workers too. I think its really sad that nowadays so many skills are being lost to computer games particularly the social ones!

Snow over here too

On the selling something vein "Oh no that is worth much more, let me give you the true value!!"

I was better with the mushroom (Winderbreakers?) but had both types

I used to love my whip and top, I suppose in this nanny state they are far too dangerous nowadays!!!

I think it was a rumour about Brian May

Bet they didn't moor in "Linby Docks" though!!

On the subject of wild and wonderful places to drink in the seventies there was the Bier Keller entertainment provided by Karl and The Eidlebergers, drinking Steins of lager and eating huge German sausages on a Sunday night. Thursdays we went to the Tryst at the Strathdon on Derby road where Werner was spinning the discs to always include Freebird and You'll Never Walk Alone

Definitely remember Frodos....I was introduced to Pernod there.

So having mentioned superstitions surrounding magpies,on the signs of spring topic, thought I'd see how superstitious us lot are. Do you Salute Mr Magpie, Touch wood, avoid walking under ladders, throw spilt salt over your shoulder? Know where your pet superstitions originate?

It depends how superstitious you are I suppose. Magpies are surrounded in superstition.

Well I think the more unscrupulous gamekeepers kill them!! They keep one as a calling bird to encourage others into the trap.

At least its not a sparrow hawk dropping in for a snack from the visitors to the bird table! Only way we could discourage it was to move the table to move sheltered spot.

Birds seen collecting nesting material

Snowdrops out but unfortunately crocuses not gonna make it...thanks little hungry mice!!!!

First books I remember being hooked on were anything by Enid Blyton, think I probably read them all and still have copies of "Look Out Secret Seven" "The Adventures Of Pip" "The Magic Faraway Tree" and "Five On A Treasure Island". Read quite a few of the Childrens classics- Black Beauty, The Old Curiosity Shop, Tale of Two Cities, What Katie Did series, the Heidi books and also all the Lone Pine Club Adventures by Malcom Saville, gradually progressed onto Agatha Christie, Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy then onwards and upwards. Read anything now. classics, biographies or good old quick read "Chick

Read anything and everything. Read all the Game of Thrones series so far, had me hooked, though don't know if I want to watch any more of the series on TV, not into seeing the gore, my imagination is enough!!! Currently reading Lorna Doone, don't know why I haven't read it before, I've read most of the classics. But then again spent 4 years working in Sissons Paperbacks on Milton Street for my Saturday job in the 70's!

Didn't the Greenshield place make way for the Tales of Robin Hood? Or was it a bit further down the road?

Used to be The Friar Tuck Cafe when I used to get a bus to Watnall in the 70's. Have fond memories of Mount St, as the bus drivers would wait for me if my train was late getting in from Leicester.

I was school cook until a couple of years ago. It is called butterscotch tart, made using butterscotch essence. Still made in schools and still loved by the children, along with cornflake tart.

When I worked for NCC a few years ago as cook supervisor in a primary school if your school was closed and you couldn't get to another to work, you were still paid. If you just couldn't get in but everyone else could it was up to their discretion whether you got paid or not. I assume it the same for teachers.

Another major factor in it is that they have to consider the safety aspect, in this day of "sue for the slightest thing" if someone slips over then they are liable for H&S, same reason why children are not allowed to throw snowballs in school.....Nanny state, no one has common sense anymore!! I wonder how us owd'uns survived thus far!!!!

Only been there a couple of times many years ago, but it always stuck in my memory

Palm trees in Scotland too at Plockton!!