NewBasfordlad
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Oh I like all of us am going there anyway just trying to delay it as long as possible
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Like said I agree with your principle but as some one put it to me part of the council tax bill accounts for a certain amount of cleaning up.
Trouble is now days intervene and you could just end up in hospital.....
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I do agree with you both and regularly litter pick out side mine, but I do have some sympathy with the folks who complain about the council not fulfilling their responsibilities. Especially when they spend more of our money advertising about our proud they are of our 'clean' city than actually getting the job done.
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The only concession I have been offered was a ...............................wooden box.................
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^^^^^^^^^Remember Stan very well indeed and not always for the right reasons.
Back in the late 60s I decided to join my future BiLs and take up shotgun shooting with them up in Buxton. At that time I was a total newbie to the game and knew bugger all.
Called in Stan's and explained I was starting rough shooting and was looking to buy my first shotgun, I should have known to beware when the first question he asked was "How much have you got to spend?"
He took me over to the rack and showed me a gun within a fiver of the amount I had quoted, nice looking gun and I duly made the purchase.
Next weekend off to Buxton with the gun and a box of Eley 6s in my pocket, the result was 25 empty cases and bugger all to show for it. After a month of failure I went to a local clay shoot and hit bugger all again then a member there came over and began to put me right, having looked at the gun he told me I had been sold a wildfowling piece with 30" long full choke and full choke barrels, at 20 yards the pattern was only a foot across great for the fens but no damn good at all for rough shooting in Derbyshire.
Fast forward to 1985 when I was a RFD and who should walk into my shop/workshop to see if we could repair a pistol he had taken in. I took great delight in telling him the story and he showed disgust at it until I told him it was him and where he could put the pistol which would have made his eyes water if he had tried.
Gunsmith my backside all his repairs went to Birmingham smiths just a snake oil salesman.
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Only in the ROI Ian only in ROI
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When you consider this was the pattern of rifle favoured in the American civil war and you see the power of it there in front of you it makes you wonder what damage it did to flesh and bone when loaded with a 520 grain soft lead bullet.
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Strange Ian I decided to have a google and the first page of this thread came up and yes it was the rattler.
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Strange Jill my father would use either 'bobbydazzler' or ' she has a well turned ankle' obese were 'boiling hens' reference to tough meat.
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^^^^^^^^^^I have just found the young lady in question of You Tube and I have to say she is a very good looking young woman typical of the era......
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Jonab, now you mention it I remember the random explosions and the bent bar near the end of the lecture, but of course I would have no idea as to how it was achieved.
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Really good lunch time, went down the club with the lady for a couple of jars, sat in the sun, someone turns up with an MP3 player loaded with 60s music and it turned into a party.....
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Back in the late 80s he sent his 'Sorcerers Apprentice' other wise known as assistant to collect 2 pound of black powder from our gun shop in Arnold.
Though he had the right paperwork he knew little about black powder shooting which made me question what he wanted the stuff for. He explained all about the demo's with one coming up that week at the university. He got his 2lb of powder and I got three tickets for the partners and his personal invite.
On arrival we were met at the door and introduced to the Prof then taken to our seats the next two hours was havoc, explosions, fires etc.
One experiment was cotton wool soaked in liquid oxygen and then lit, four students with fire extinguishers tried to put it out but failed.
The high light of the night for me was when he took his original .577 Enfield black powder rifle and loaded it with 70 grains of fine powder and an ordinary candle. At a distance of about 10 feet was his target a 3" thick wooden plank with a house brick behind all contained in 3 sided armoured glass box, big bang, big flash, candle through the plank and house brick destroyed.
And I had forgotten all about that until this post Thanks Jonab
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If its untreated wood Lizzie then that's OK it says timber shavings, hedge clippings etc on the lid. Treated/painted wood is different it can ruin the compost.
Had a good one last year when the bin man left a sticker on the bin because there was a tomato in it and we are not allowed food or kitchen waste. I phoned up the council and told them that as a gardener I would come down and teach their men about composting for a fee of course, then phoned my councillor and told him the same, they came back the next day and emptied my bin.....
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Ian weren't those blankets a grey colour with a horizontal red stripe.
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As a child it was comics and their annuals, by the time I was twelve or so anything to do with outdoor adventure, but my favourite read of all was 1 inch to 1 mile ordnance maps. Sad I know but I just love maps of all types.
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Yes the old coal gas was highly toxic and a popular way to end it all back then.
Soon after natural gas came on stream quite a few folks tried the same thing before they realised it was none toxic, highly explosive, nearly twice as powerful as coal gas but not poisonous.
The only way to do the deed would be to have enough to replace all the oxygen in the surrounding area but by then it has usually gone bang.
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Like you Lizzie my mum worked full time but I was lucky dad was on permanent days at Calvo pit so he was always home before me.
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BANG! BANG!!
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Well at least we agree its DAFT!!!!
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I to like wood pigeon, preferably......................... diced breast in game pie...
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Went in that Forthergills building back in the 70s to do the training when I got conned into doing.... a parachute jump.....
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^^^^^^^^^Wonder if he had heard of 'drive on the left' or perhaps he was aiming for the pedestrian and missed
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Was there every year for 10 years from 1972, if you heard a big bang that was me.....
All Music and no Words.
in Nick Palmer's Nottstalgia General Music Chat.
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Sorry about this Ian but as a Stones addict this is bloody awful.
I remember sitting in a café in Matlock Bath 1965 having breakfast before going caving and hearing this for the first time, hooked on the Stones ever since.
'Now I've told you once and I've told you twice' .................this is bloody awful