['favourite Motown tracks of the day']

Not Motown but great.. Millie.. If loving you is wrong, I don't wanna be right.

Iandawson,great track,this is also good by rod Stewart

[Annoying phone calls]

I think the phone calls I am getting are from other countries,they sound as if they are in a call centre. You can hear background noises,and they always have a foreign accent.

[Polishing Shoes ! Is it a Dying Art ?]

I must admit I don't clean mine too often,when I was at school we were shown how to clean them properly.My dad used to have his shoes cleaned by people you used to see doing shoe cleaning with their own little stands,mostly seaside places.

[Annoying phone calls]

Has anyone else had this phone call?3times this past fortnight I've had the same one,it goes like this...

Caller....hello mrs .......,you live at.........your postcode is.....you had mortgage many years back......you are aged between 20-74....

Me,yes...yes...yes....yes until the last one when I lied and said no,they then put the phone down on me.Whats behind this call I wonder.How do they know my details?

[What were you doing Millenium Night and with who ?]

I was working the nightshift in a care home,just two of us on duty nobody else wanted to do it,we did get double time though.

[The English Language]

Waht deos tihs maen?

Aoccdrnig to a rscheeachr at an elingsh uinervtisy,it deosnt mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are.Tihs is bcuseae we do not

Raed ervey lteter by istlef but the wrod as a wlohe.

[Things that pee you off...]

What pees me off is

(this is very common on woodborough rd)

As a bus pulls into a stop,you have no chance to overtake it as its always too close to bollards,but you only have to wait about 1minute.Then some idiot behind you overtakes on the wrong side of the road! Hooting as they go,are they all on something?

[Favourite Rock Tracks]

A few more favourites of mine

51st anniversary.....JImi Hendrix

Homework.........Fleetwood mac

Run run run.........Jojo gunn

Hey joe.....JImi Hendrix

The boys are back in town......thin lizzy

[Disappearing Petrol Stations]

Was apprenticed to a small family run garage at the bottom of Sneinton road (Claringburn and Codd) in the late 60's early 70's that used to have the boom type petrol/diesel pipes that swung over the footpath to reach the road side, upstairs to the garage apart from the office was a spares room that had all sorts of rare and wonderful bits in it such as old sized tyres (1910 dated), wooden motor car wheels, old fashioned carriage/car lamps with wicks and some very old ledger books full of info dating back to the early 1900's when the place sold and repaired motor cycles and cycles, wish I had kept some of that stuff

Rog

Plant fit 107874,Ok,I know we are supposed to be talking notts,but they have one of those petrol filling stations where the pipes swing over the footpath at wainfleet,on the way to Skegness ,first time I've seen one,I reckon it was still in use about 3years ago,

[Favourite Rock Tracks]

Sunshine of your love........Cream

Bend over Beethoven......Wizzard

Oh well........Fleetwood Mac

[TV help needed]

Can anybody help? I'm with Virgin B/Band TV etc.When I turn the TV on it can take a minute or more before the picture will appear. It reminds me of the old black and white days when you had to wait for valves to warm up.

It's not a new set...a few years old now. Will it be the set or could it be the Virgin box?

Poohbear,mine is just the same,I just think its the way things are now.

[ideas for inventions practical or daft]

Instead of trailing wires on electric items,why not have the socket on the item ,and have pull out cables with a plug on that you pull out from the wall ,and just plug in to the appliance,when finished it just winds back into the wall,sort of in reverse to what we have now,if you get what I mean?

[Map request, please! Radford]

My late grandparents used to live at prospect place.Not sure if it could have been in the house that is now for sale,all I know is they lived in 'rooms',that's what they called it years ago,not apartments as they do now.They later moved to a 'new' house one of which were being built on farnborogh road clifton.

[#1 Film when you were born]

crankypig. If you are still looking for a copy of The Third Man on Ebay, be sure not to buy one from somewhere in America. Apart from the fact that it will not play on UK DVDs, the film is different in places and it is shorter in length by eleven minutes. Thought I'd tell you.

Chulla,I have won one for ...wait for it...50p It's on VHS but I still have a video player so if I want I can make a copy onto a DVD,done this loads of times and it works fine.I never buy from America,got done years ago ,very dear postage on some headphones,never again.Cant wait for film to arrive.

[The Gay Cafe Burton Road Carlton]

Clifton?

[Out Of School]

I worked in a clothing factory ,it used to close down last week in July ,first week in August ,you had your holidays then same as everyone else who worked there.

[I can't stand.....]

The labels are worth more than the cheaply made garments that they are on

[I can't stand.....]

My granny used to say 'a farts a message from the brain,to say that sh#t is on the next train'

[What was your Co-op Divi number?]

Also remember mam collected green shield stamps,I think you could choose a gift from a booklet?we had loads of the books full of the stamps.

[What was your Co-op Divi number?]

But what did the shopper gain ? Gifts? Money ?

[What was your Co-op Divi number?]

My mam drilled it into me. 89339

[The Gay Cafe Burton Road Carlton]

I used to go to this youth club with my friend,we were about 14 at the time,I think they had a jukebox? I can remember a lady who used to be 'on the door' to check who was going in.She used to talk to us girls about behaving ourselves and not to 'get up to mischief' with boys.I remember 2 older lads who used to hang about outside,showing off because they had a car.my friend and I were at Carlton girls school at the time.

[The Cat Fancier's Tea Shop coming soon !]

Anyone been to this cafe yet? I read that you had to book!

[So, who DID have a house with an outside toilet.]

When I lived with me parents on Carlton hill we had a row of 4 toilets for our houses,they were a good way from the house,if it was dark it was very scarey going to the loo ,no lights,sometimes there would be a drunken bloke lying in the passage (he was from next door)you nearly fell over him sometimes.Later on we all had toilets put in our back gardens ,but still no lights,my dad put a parrafin heater in ours cos it was always freezing up.We had to have a peepot at night,it was too scary to go outside.

['favourite Motown tracks of the day']

Seven rooms of gloom

Ain't too proud to beg

I was made to love her / hold me

One heartbeat

heat wave

Reflections

Itchin in my heart