NewBasfordlad

Season is starting to kick off now, early spuds through, planting seed like there no tomorrow, late start after that bad weather but we'll get there.

I will let you guess......

^^^^^^^And poor old Muffin the Mule would cause havoc with the snowflakes

Compo, have you tried Premier Seeds Direct, you have to build up a bit of an order to avoid postage but I find them great value.

^^^^^^^^^It sure does Margie, with the privileges they are born into (something they can't help) goes responsibility.

Sounds like one of the Harlequin species, they are not native to this country and come with various patterns on their wings

Pub patio at lunch time, sunshine, pint of best, lady wife and friends my idea of heaven

Have to agree Loppy, seems lots of us have the pressure washer out at the moment, talk about being a kid again I write my name with it just to annoy SWMBO and if she dare come out the house well

Considering the bad start to the season the GH strawberries are coming on to.

^^^^^We will see if this works any better

Funny what a couple of days of good weather will do, 40 plants per container <a href='https://postimages.org/' target='_blank'><img src='https://s9.postimg.cc/7bcjfu2qn/peas_18_1.jpg' border='0' alt='peas_18_1'/></a>

^^^^^^Might have known HSE would get involved. Wonder if the person who made that particular ruling had ever seen the tension on the ropes when its done properly... the answer of course would be a resounding NO!!!

We are so easily led astray or I am at least......

At one time the Humber lifeboat crew and families all lived together on the tip of Spurn point with their Severn class permanently afloat. I think the crews still work from there but the families have had to move do to coastal erosion.

I was watching a TV program about Heathrow and they were on about a fuel farm fed by pipeline so your right there. Quite a fascinating subject really what goes on under our feet. I remember back in the 60s when I started to go up into the High Peak I notice a strange looking building in Doveholes on the Buxton to Chapel road. A low lying brick built building at the front that went into a hill side and really out of place in such a small village turns out that was an under ground fuel store. It turns out they also used the salt caverns in Cheshire.

Gerem In Phil they only take 12 weeks, maybe less if the weather stays decent. I have had some in the green house for over a month now but the out door ones will go in tomorrow.

Phil I honestly don't know about the Humber refineries. But the Mainline Oil Pipeline owned by a consortium of ExxonMobile, Chevron , Total and Shell runs from Milford Haven through Birmingham and Kingsbury and into Nottingham Colwick.

Mary 1947, tucking your skirt in your knickers bought back some memories. Back in the late 70s our sergeants mess and their ladies were invited to a formal dinner (full mess kit and long dresses only) in Swindon. On returning to our hotel we found the bar still open for the staff an opportunity not to be missed. Anyway while I was playing 'liar dice' an adult version of snobs the wife got into discussion about doing cartwheels when she was younger and was told "bet you couldn't still do one now." Damn me the first I knew about it was when I saw her, long dress tucked in

My mate worked for Esso, in the old days deliveries into Colwick were made by railway and barge they used a pipe from a jetty on the Trent. This all changed when the underground pipe arrived, they could put an inert liquid plug in first then select what fuel was to be sent to the terminal, that way you could send all grades of petrol and of course diesel down the same pipe. The same pipe also automatically recharged the tanks at the TA drill halls eventually. It always seemed strange to me it took so long to arrive as they were doing this in WW2 for operation PLUTO, whe

Can't work out where those barges were going there's a damn great weir just upstream at Beeston Rylands. I know we used to get large petrol barges coming up to Colwick industrial estate and general goods to British Waterways at the end of Trent lane but never seen any further up than that. Are you sure you have that one right PP as Clifton Bridge was only opened in March 1958 with the west bridge opening in 1972.

The Trent around Clifton was very shallow at all times but especially summer when you can usually walk across. Completely unnavigable even to narrow boats which draw between 2 and 3 feet hence the building of the Beeston canal.

Bens going to hate me........ but you are spot on Den, corner of Thames St and Commercial road still got the big red sign. My lads barbers he is mates with the guy from Kirby who runs it.

Spent many a happy hour up past the table top tree NADVAS range was just on the left up Rickett's lane in the old sand quarry

Don't want to argue Oz but no one sounds as good as Judith she has a wonderful voice

There are extensive tunnel systems all over Nottm, including a rather large one to the right of Mansfield Rd as you run down into town but I know nothing of the ones mentioned here. There was quite an extensive one entered from the cellar of a house on Nottingham Rd Daybrook. If you remember at the Nottingham Rd side of Daybrook brewery there was a row of Victorian terrace houses it was in the last one of these nearest to Arnold. I worked there for EMGAS during the early 60s, went into the cellar to check the meter and saw another door beyond which was a further flight