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I expect many of us will have visited Gee Dee Model Shop in our younger years. It is now for sale - let's hope someone buys it and it just doesn't close. http://www.nottinghampost.com/will-it-be-full-steam-ahead-for-nottingham-model-shop/story-30340408-detail/story.html

Advance Notice:- Friday 19th May BBC 4 9.00pm - Roy Orbison One of the Lonely Ones 10.00pm - Roy Orbison & Friends - A Black and White Night 11.00pm - The Everly Brothers: Harmonies from Heaven. I'll post a reminder next Friday as well

Jill have a look at this site with photos of Lenton Street http://www.picturethepast.org.uk/frontend.php

In a map I've got Lenton Street was opposite Selhurst Street on Hyson Green (think it was maybe were the Asda store is now.)

I have a book about Nottinghamshire in which it states "Nottingham experienced a frightening earthquake in AD1110, the first to be recorded in England"

I heard on tv this morning (but heard before as well) - "That being said".

Totally agree with you Chulla, I always think that poems should rhyme. Rhyming takes more thought, creativity and time to write.

Just a reminder the paper £5 note ceases to be legal tender after May 5th so if you've got any hidden under your bed or, in a savings box (especially children's one's) then get them spent or banked by 5th May.

Hi Margie,, No I'm not a rapper by any means. Glad you like it. I wrote it some years ago for a nurse I used to talk to everyday on the bus. Here's another about nurses I wrote.. ANGEL IN DISGUISE Being a nurse you have virtue Thinking of others instead of you You certainly are a Special breed Caring for others every need Without the hint of a grumble Should make others feel humble Working long hours both night and day For little reward in the form of pay I hope everyone will recognise YOU are an angel in disguise

A NURSE'S LIFE Nursing people back to health May not give me untold wealth But I love my job very much 'cos with reality I keep in touch Most patients they do appreciate Their symptoms we try to alleviate But there are some characters - believe me Come on a trip around a ward and you'll see You will always find a Casanova Who thinks every nurse is a pushover So it's satisfying to see him cringe When taking blood with a blunt syringe! Then we have Mr Know-It-All Who's had every op, large and small But the only theatre in which he's been Has

There is a book titled "Battle Of The Flames (Nottinghamshire's fight for survival in WW11) by David Needham, published by Horizon Press. Included in it are details of the bombing, lots of photographs and a list of fatal casualties. I have had the book for a number of years.

People on t.v. (mainly reporters) who can't talk about or describe anything without waving their hands and arms all over

Yes most certainly it was a good hour's t.v.

Radio broadcaster Brian Matthew has died. I'm sure most of the members here will have heard him inn the radio including "Sounds Of The Sixties. R.I.P. Brian http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-39541162

There are lots of I Spy books including ones for grown-ups. I noticed there are several relating to the road and street so you maybe right Fly. https://www.whsmith.co.uk/search/go?af=cat1%3Abooks&w=i+spy

There's an article in the current issue of the Bygones paper about Local Dialect

I think you'll find he was born in 1946 and therefore I don't think he'd been at school past 1964/5

There's a programme on BBC4 tomorrow night (Monday April 3rd) at 9pm called "Roof Racks & Hatchbacks; The Family Car" about family cars from the Morris Minor to the Ford Cortina. I'm sure for many of us it will evoke memories of our younger years.

A very sad loss to the music industry and someone many of us will remember. R.I.P. Chuck

Quack Noise that a duck makes Slang for a doctor

Many years ago "BBC English" was "the thing" but these days the words and phrases heard on the TV are very different.

On Wednesday March 15th at 9pm BBC4 have a programme called "Pedalling Dreams : the Raleigh Story". It is rare archive film telling the story of the company.

A new cave has been found in Nottingham http://www.nottinghampost.com/new-cave-is-discovered-under-nottingham-city-centre/story-30183098-detail/story.html

TIP Empty Money given for services Practical advice End of something such as pencil or mountain Overbalance as in Tip Over

TICK:- Noise made by a clock Mark written if something is right A parasite On credit Fabric stuffed with feathers