The Pianoman

I don't particularly like the handlebars that point backwards. I am not sure about how upright I want to be. Whilst I don't want to be on a racing bike neither do I just want to be poodling around.

Halfords and Decathlon. I usually play one against the other.

Yes thanks that is what I shall do. I want to have the riser bars in my hands before I spend money on them. Just don't get the right impression looking at a picture online.

These Just Eat and Deliveroo type riders seem to prefer these to get in every pedestrians way.

I assume you mean Mansfield Road, Eastwood? I haven't tried it up there. Can get up Mill Road OK. I can also get up the old road from Moorgreen past Greasley Church to Watnall Corner OK on it too and that is quite a steep hill.

Here's the stem I fitted. It is the same length as the original non-adjustable one.

The handlebars are as high as they will go and I have fitted an adjustable stem as well. The latter did improve things. The bikes frame is aluminium with steel forks, hence the colour difference. Here's a couple of pictures

As a matter of interest, is it possible to replace rigid front forks with suspension forks? Just had a look on Decathlon and they all seem to be replacements for there own bikes. My bike has steel rigid curved forks. I seem to be getting a bit of arthritis in my wrists and I know about it after a while of riding.

I am on a desktop. My browser is Opera. Edit. just had a look at it with Firefox and it is exactly the same.

There are no three dots at the top of my screen and the picture of Robin and the Castle is just the centre band. The top half of the top row of words are missing and the bottom half of the bottom row of words are missing. Its been like that ages. A better idea, it looks like this:

Just a letterbox at my surgery. Tick the boxes before posting of course. Collect from pharmacy after they have sent me a text when ready to collect.

Anglican vicars/rectors must retire at 70. or earlier

John Herbert the jeweller had to move out for the renovations and decided to wind up the business as a result. They were in business on Trinity Square for donkeys years and moved to Wheeler Gate in recent years. Another one gone.

I don't blame her

I thought we were talking about MUSICAL instruments here?

There's a thing. At the same time period (probably 1957-60) my parents had an Austin 8. Had it at Woodborough Road, then it moved us to Ford Street, and then it moved us to Eastwood. Dad sold it after we had been in Eastwood a few months because he thought the area was too posh for an owd 1939 Austin 8 only to realise afterwards that there was only about us and one or two others that had a car. We were just poor folk from St Anns!

It is Cinder Hill, as is the church next door

It is now Iceland. I think the only pub left now between the end of Radford Road/Gregory Boulevard to Cinder Hill roundabout is the Whitemoor. Newcastle Arms 'may' be coming back to life.

Now I have had time to think about this, I used to tune a piano for someone on Flowery Leys Lane. This was a good few years ago now. To turn my car around I would drive to the bottom of the lane and into the 'L' shape that can be seen on the map CliffTon provided. The school was then smack in front of you in the 'toe' of the L shape. I am probably going back to 1990 or earlier. Am I right?

So who is going to play the piano to accompany me while I eat?

One of Cecil J Sharps collection dished up for piano by Percy Grainger, played by me. Sorry, camera was out in the wind.

I'm equally surprised. I thought the last one was Episode 1, Series 1. I don't think I have ever seen any earlier ones.

I recognise that as Fritchley/top of Bullbridge. Did you ride up from the A6 at Ambergate?

The 'off sales' in The Beacon on Aspley Lane was always referred to by my grandmother as "the bob 'ole". We are going back to 60's and early 70's.

Thanks for that. I have been into General Cemetery on a number of occasions to find his grave but have not been able to. All I know is that it is at the top end. You have solved a mystery. With regard to him (no relation to me) having been in a Bantam battalion, he must have been happy to have found his wife, (later my grandmother) as she was only 4' 11".