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Mick I always used Growmore till this year. This year I tried Organic Extra its a highly concentrated form of dried farmyard manure with added seaweed and trace elements. So far the results have been very good. With great crops of peas and brassica's. Colin

At the moment I think it's call Oscar's Lounge. Don't know what it was before this. Colin

I hope I don't break forum rules by doing this. But if you are really interested try www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/grapevine/forums there is loads of info Mods if this post does break any rules then please delete thanks. Colin

Start small and hang on to what you've got and build on it next year. Don't throw away used compost, riddle it to get rid of old roots etc and then liven it up next year with a base fertilizer. If your going to grow in containers you will have to feed through the season anyway as the compost will be dead after about 8 weeks. So it makes good sense to reuse old compost. Colin

I grow everything in containers of one sort or another. Everything from radish to runner beans. I have 10 poly dustbins for maincrop and second early spuds, first earlies are grown in Morrison Flower buckets 8 for 99p as are runner beans and toms.just remember to put drainage holes in the bottom. Peas are grown in an homemade wooden box, Onions in various containers including cut down plastic water tanks like you find in your loft. Could go on for hours but I just like growing and eating my own fruit and veg and my back is either concrete or water (pond). Colin

As I heard it Mick there is also a trackside device that flags up to the driver when they come to a speed limit zone if the train is travelling over said speed limit.

According to the news they were running 5 minutes late, makes you wonder if someone was trying to make up lost time.

January 1962 East Midlands Gas Board, Woodborough Road, apprentice gas fitter. Signed my indentures Sept 62, thereafter 2 nights and 1 day a week at college for 5 years. Got my papers and went to live in Buxton Derbys to climb rock and cave. Had a myriad of jobs up there from plumbing to lorry driving and quarry worker. Nothing lasted long as it got in the way of my sports. Colin

Thanks Ashley, Mr Lunn it was. Now its practice manager, 2 if not 3 receptionist etc. Yep remember the stable yard well now you have reminded me. Colin

That brings back some memories. Born in 1946 I have been a patient at Bailey St surgery ever since. First doc was old man Keavney followed back Dr Rowan a lady doctor and then young Paddy Keavney. Can't remember the name of the man in the brown work smock who keep all the paper records. Fell of the Whitemoor Park monkey climber breaking a tooth 1956. Colin

Re the Winchester Street photo. The young lady with the shopping is my sons partner with his tea. Fortunately he lives further up the hill so escaped any flood damage.

Mick its Charles, William and then the new born baby.

RELIGIOUS EXTREMIST LEADER. Absolute faith in god and god guides his actions. Many pubs shut. All theatres closed. Most sports banned, you will be whipped if caught playing football on the holy day. Work banned on the holy day, women doing unnecessary work to be publically humiliated. One day a month compulsory fast, no food what so ever. Women to dress soberly, colourful dresses banned, makeup banned. Christmas banned. Children of other religions enslaved and sent abroad to die working. Genocide of other religions. Law enforced by the leaders private army. Does this sound famil

The experts reckon that if we gathered in all the wealth and then distributed it evenly amongst everyone that in just a few short years things would be back to how them are now. Why? Because most of the moaning buggers are just plain bloody idle.

Pooh as far as I am concerned you are welcome to have your opinions. They may not be factually correct and there is surely some green eyed envy in there. But they are your opinions and you are welcome to air them.

The Queen actually owns two private house's Balmoral Castle and Sandringham House they are not publically funded. All the other residence's including Buckingham Palace (built by the Duke of Buckingham in 1705) are under the control of the Crown Estate an independent body answerable to the government of the day. This property portfolio is effectively leased to the Crown estate by the monarch on their ascension to the throne. Should say Charles decide not to renew the contract he will lose his civil list payments but would gain control of the Crown Estate portfolio valued at some 7 billion pou

Keep going you two your the best comedy double act since Morecombe & Wise.

What stamp collection the only one I know like most other treasure's aligned with royalty already belong to the state. They are the Queens in name only, just like the royal art collection she has no control over them what so ever. Like I said before big sweeping statements bugger all facts.

Nothing like a good sweeping statement with no actual facts to back it up. To say the royal family is only for people of a certain age and churchgoers to boot shows a complete lack of mental capacity . If they are so irrelevant why are all the worlds media camped in London right now. Answer because the media knows beyond a doubt that most of the world are interested. Colin

Now why would they want to name after myself? Colin

Well I must be under Bill's movvers right now. We have just had a major thunderstorm and its persisting it down.

The first British Concorde built now resides at the Fleet Air Arm museum at Yeovilton. Its a non flyer but along with everything else there makes it a great port of call for aircraft buffs. Colin

My uncle lived at 4 Needham Road and I can well remember going through the hedge at the bottom of his garden straight onto ploughed fields. One of his sons Ken lived at the prefabs corner of Rolleston Dr and Coppice Rd. Colin

The worms crawl in and the worms crawl out, they crawl in thin and crawl out stout, oh how happy we shall be.

I don't recall this as a concrete bridge, I am fairly sure it was always red brick construction. I like the idea of 'clippies' naming the bridge as there certainly was a bus stop on site. Colin