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My daughter and her boyfriend came around for dinner a few nights back. I had made an apple pie for afters, which I served with a slab of nice crumbly Cheshire cheese. My daughter gave me a very funny look, like she's lost her marbles. I responded by quoting: "Apple pie without cheese is like a kiss without a squeeze". I have quoted that since the year dot, but not sure whether it's from Nottingham or not. Thoughts? Alison

You're just saying that to make us jealous. See if I care says Alison sticking her tongue out, and making "nair air" type noises, in good Nottingham fashion. Alison

When I said "too long" it was very much tongue in cheek. I was back there in '94 for a year, and again in '99 for six months. Each time I fled back to Oz in order to regain my sanity. There are just too many people there, you can't move for them. It's solid wall-to-wall people everywhere. 1 hour due West of where I live are the Blue Mountains. People get lost up there regularly, and they don't find the bodies for months, even with search teams combing the area for weeks on end. No, I like having room to breathe. Alison

When someone asks me that question I normally reply "2". They reply two years, and I say "No" "too long". Alison

Thanks for that Robt P. I just looked it up on Wiki, and the Kingston Trio made it popular in the late fifties early sixties, a bit before the Beach Boys had a go in 1966. We sang it over jugs of scrumpi in Weston Super Mud in '63. Alison

I have no idea who wrote it or who sang it, but I remember the words like yesterday: 'We sailed on the old John B, my grandpappy and me, over the seven seas we did roam.....". "I wanny go home, I wanna go home, I feel so broke up I wanna go home". Sung with substantial melancholy by a new air force intake in 1963. That and the "House of the rising sun", equally mournful. Alison

Bloody 'Ell, you lot got paid !!! When I joined the mob (air force) they told me I got meals, acommodation and the satisfaction of knowing I was helping to keep the free world from communist domination. Oh! and I got some money to buy polish and brasso, just. Alison

Wasn't there a Rock and Roll movie that came out in 1957/58/59 with Bill Haley and the Comets, or was it another group. I remember going to see it at the Odeon on Arkwright Street (???) with my sister. I was tapping my feet to the music when a policeman came down the aisle and told me to stop or I would be thrown out. I think there was some kind of expectation that youngsters would get out of hand during the showing, hence there were police on hand. Alison

I have a photo of me Dad, Uncle and Brother-in-law and me in the Grove Tavern in 1961. The Grove Tavern was on Queens Bridge Road, which ran parallel to Queens Drive, with the Pub between the Waterway Street and Traffic Street junctions. Me Uncle was about to leave for Australia, as a forward scout for the family. Alison

If your back is really crook luv, PM me your snail mail address and I will drop a bottle in the post this arvo. I picked up an extra one yesterday. You should have it by Monday. Alison PS. To all you Nottingham people out there, 'scuse the local dialect. <grin>

Hi Caz, No I don't think that coal tar soap will do anything for your bad back. BUT I can recommend something that may help. If you have a chinese herbalist accessible, then trot along there and buy some "Zheng Gu Shui". It's brillant stuff. Pongs a bit but very effective. Get someone to apply a liberal amount to your back, allow it to dry - a few minutes, then put on a couple of old tee shirts, to stop it staining other clothes and to keep the heat in. Be prepared for miracles. Hugs Alison

Wrights Coal Tar Soap is brilliant stuff in the tropics where anything and everything turns septic if you're not careful. Mozzie and sandfly bites easily become infected. Get coral in a cut on your feet whilst on the beach and it can lead to gangrene and an amputation if not dealt with promptly. Wrights Coal Tar Soap is a very effective way of keeping things in check. Hugs Alison

I bet you did that without a calculator. They can't do that nowadays. Went grocery shopping with my daughter recently. We had bought probably a dozen and half or so items. When we got to the checkout I had the correct money ready in my hand. My daughter looked at me in sheer disbelief when the printout came to the same amount. She thinks I carry a calculator in my handbag. Hugs Alison

Don't remember them, but do remember buying a tanners worth of broken biscuits. You didn't half get a lot. That's when biscuits were distributed to the shops in big tins. Broken bikkies were the ones left over at the bottom of the tin and were much cheaper, but tasted the same. Alison

It's probably gone luv. The last time I got to wander around the Meadows was in '94, and there was very little that I remember still around. I think there was a private development where Mundella used to be. Someone must have made a few quid out of that deal. I remember the library well though, reading my way through all the Worzel Gummidge books in my first year at Mundella. Alison

Hi Caz, I think 1FatBloke was referring to the medicinal quality olive oil, not your average cooking variety. It's probably the same stuff though. But people think they are getting something different. In Oz you can buy it in a chemists in 100ml bottles for some silly price. Alison

This is me a couple of years ago Hugs Alison

I think it is magic the way that people then wouldn't think twice about walking miles just for the enjoyment of it. Nowadays my daughter drives a few hundred yards to the shops. Whereas, although I have a car, I still walk everywhere. Is it a time issue do you think? It's quicker, or less effort. Alison

When my Gran had an upset tum, we were sent to the off-licence to get a glass of Stones Green Ginger Wine. It's funny to think that then one could buy just a glass of something from a shop. Mind you they could also pull draught beer, often filling a jug for my Dad. Hugs Alison

Pull up a chair, I'll put kettle on for a brew. Hugs Alison

I thought I would have seen you in the parade Baz. I looked everywhere but no sign of you. Admitted it's hard to recognise people with all the funny costumes. Caz luv, sexual orientation has nothing to do with gender. Of which there are only two. Alison

Never ventured up that way luv. All my maps just showed a blank space and a sign "Here be dragons". Plus there was very real possibility that you could fall off the end of the world if you went too far in that direction. Hugs Alison

"No, no, no, no, no, no, no, yes" to quote Jim from the Vicar of Dibley. Only tutty people from West Bridgeford would call it the Halfpenny Bridge. Us Medders kids called it the 'apeny bridge. The Suspension Bridge was Spenii and the Memorial Gardens were the memo' gardens. I don't recollect Arkwright Street ever having the suffix "street" either. It was just down Arkwright. Mind you we were a scruffy lot, both visually and linguistically. <giggle> Any of this lot remember the Creche on Brierley Street. It was at the top end of the reckie. Was taken there in the mid to late forties,

Re: previous. That would have been the Nott's Forest Ground not County. Colwick Park must have been on the North side of the river downstream from Trent Bridge. I don't recollect anything on the South side, and if you turned right at the bottom of Queens Drive along the river there was Clifton Pit, then a big municipal tip and then the Power Station. And then the road swung back up towards Lenton. Some distance after the Power Station there were the canal locks where the canal that went under Carrington Street and Wilford Road connected to the Trent. Hugs Alison

Whereabouts is the yacht club and Trent Lane ? In the '50's I walked from the Suspension Bridge to Holme PierrePont, and on other occasions from the Suspension Bridge to Clifton Estate both on the South side of the river. I don't recollect anything special in the way of "theme" parks. At Mundella we used to play hockey on a field passed the Nott's County ground, and under a railway bridge in the direction of Holme PierrePont. Hugs Alison