AfferGorritt

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  1. Saw Dylan at the Arena a few years ago. Warned the missus that it wouldn’t be “Mr Tambourine Man” and “Like a Rolling Stone” and that we might be leaving in the interval. Thoroughly enjoyed it! Good stage set as well. All honey light and an old time saloon feel.
  2. As we’ve gone a bit off topic, mentioning other coins (never!), I though I’d post this. It’s a silver groat of Mary Tudor, “Bloody Mary”. Although you can’t see him it’s actually a Philip and Mary groat as you can see his name on the back. Dates from 1554 to 1556 ish.
  3. Brilliant, Ben! What memories! Saw some Camp in Sainsburys the other day, and I saved the fat off the pork joint the other week and had toast and dripping for breakfast for days!
  4. Just a bit further up the road is the bus stop where we used to display our Guy Fawkes and beg for coppers from the alighting passengers. I’m sure the bus stop was outside a newsagents then, and the shop is still a newsagents. We’d then spend our money on penny bangers from another newsagent, Johnny Wells’s, which, I think, was on the opposite corner to Marsden’s. Remember Marsdens with fondness. Queueing up with grandma, breathing in the smells. Proper shop with proper assistants.
  5. Remember shopping with my grandma in that Marsden’s, Ben.
  6. Hang in there, Ben. What d’unt kill yer, meks yer strong! Bound to get “bad” days, but all things must pass. Best wishes.
  7. Bleddy ‘ell, BK! Yo watch yersen and get better soon!
  8. When I was about 5 the young lady next door (much more wordly-wise and mature at 6) invited me to a picnic on her front lawn. Her mum made us boiled egg sandwiches with Heinz salad cream and I thought they were the best thing I’d ever tasted. I fell in love immediately - with the sandwiches. Still love them to this day.
  9. Peter Green the largely unsung hero of British blues and brilliant guitarist has died peacefully in his sleep. Co-founder of the “real” Fleetwood Mac.
  10. Yes it’s well known for it. Dates back to WWII and the Italian PoW camp on Colwick Woods.
  11. Great novels, Siddha. Read them all - some twice!
  12. My daughter’s house in Mapperley still has it’s very clean and functional outside toilet. It’s great when we go for barbecues. Saves you traipsing upstairs and you can still join in the conversation!
  13. What happened there! Must have been that triple malt! You’ve certainly earned yours, DA. Very informative, thank you. It’s interesting that Henry VII’s own source (his herald? - must check) has Lovel escaping the battle and fording the Trent, which was very shallow at that time in history, and that time of the year. Lambert Simnel was a really poor excuse of a Pretender and Henry subsequently actually employed him in the kitchens, eventually promoting him to falconer I believe (I really must check my facts!). Not so the later Pretender, Perkin Warbeck who Henry obviously feared and later
  14. Me too, DA. We must live fairly close to each other. If you can find the time (and willpower) to re-write your post, I, for one, would be really interested to read it.
  15. And I you, BK! We’d have to hold our pints in our left hands though. Sure I could manage!
  16. Apropos statues, the pulling down thereof, and the offence some people like to take (as mentioned in the joke thread) I would like to propose that every building associated with Thomas Forman, the printer, be razed to the ground and every plaque that has been erected in his honour be wrenched from the walls and thrown into the Trent. My grandmother was a dark-skinned lady. Her actual origins were never spoken of in her grandchildren’s presence and it was only when granddad let something slip that we realised that her parents had had difficulty making a living due to the “colour-bar
  17. Me too, DA. We must live fairly close to each other. If you can find the time (and willpower) to re-write your post, I, for one, would be really interested to read it.
  18. Sorry to inadvertently bugger up your post DA!
  19. There is compelling evidence that Francis Lovel survived the battle, but died of his wounds shortly after and is buried in All Hallows Church, Gedling. http://www.allhallowsgedling.co.uk/francis-lovel.html This is only a taster of the research carried out by Ted White, one of the Friends of All Hallows. Me and the missus attended one of Ted’s talks in Lambley Church back when the world was normal, and it proved to be extremely interesting. If Lovel is indeed buried in All Hallows then his burial slab is to the right of the altar as you face it. A member of the Richard III Society ac
  20. Should have written that in acrylic BK! Or should that be Cyrillic! ;-)
  21. Oh! My owls are definitely Danish! Thought it was funny. I couldn’t AFFORD to get drunk in Denmark!