PeverilPeril

Excellent post TBI. A lot of 'spin' occurred on here about a year ago for some reason

Just too wet and heavy drizzle all day. There is a wonderful crop of apples this year in spite of several trees missing completely. I've been trying to collect and clear the windfalls so that mowing can be done around the orchards but just getting soaked. There were a lot of hazel nuts a month ago, but not ripe enough to gather. None left now, but catkins forming already! Strange seasonal things happening. Got a large colony of hornets in the hanger and they are still very active. Like compo we have a lot of strange looking fungi but not enough field mushrooms to bother with, so leave them to

Good summary there Col. I liked the music but at 29 with two kids I was out of that scene. The 50's were my time - a decade when even more changes were taking place. As daft as it sounds we were too poor to have hippies in the 50's. In the 60's, youth and their parents started to have disposable cash, which gave them choice. 50's youth had to work for a living. Dropping out was not an option because society and parents did not have the wherewithal to carry, what was then seen as baggage. Think I may have been a hippy had I been born 15 years later .

Just read a novel 'Dark Matter' by Blake Crouch. The central character is a scientist and there are billions of him with slight differences. In the writers world of infinities, locations and time lines are constant. Convenient for a novel. Mrs PP bought the book in Stafford for me to read on the plane to Chicago. I started to read the book a week later in Saugatuck on the other side of Lake Michigan. Unbeknown to Mrs PP the story was based in Chicago and we had just left places that were described in the book. Bad things happened in derelict industrial sites that we had seen when m

Set off to go fishing. Just down the road and realised that I had forgotten my 'close to' glasses that enable me to tie flies onto the line. So back hometo collect. Set off again and the batteries in the hearing implant device failed....back home to replace. Set off for a third time ....bugger! forgot to fit the denture plate. I could not possibly arrive at the fishing lodge and greet the delightful lady receptionist with a' 'gappy' smile ..so back home again.... I'm thinking...good job I don't have to wear a truss or bag or take any medication, otherwise I would have to start out the day bef

Bugger! - my back 'went' yesterday while kneeling down and twisting to adjust a bolt on the underside of the saw bench. It's been many years since that last happened. Fortunately the cidre barrel was nearby so sat down and had a pint. 2 1/2 pints later I was able to hobble about. Nature's cure On the rowing machine this morning and felt just a bit of twinging Tightened belt up and extra notch and OK for the day now. ....my first post on this thread

That picture of Birkin Avenue looks a bit odd to me? Birkin Ave is a continuation of Peveril St., where I lived. I walked or cycled daily down Birkin Ave to Berridge Rd school 1948/1952. Also went to Palin St Baptists and youth club until 1958. Maybe the corner shops changed - don't remember the Gallery. Memory a bit faded though

Thanks for posting the pics again CT. #3 is so familiar to me. Cross the junction, walk up by the stone wall and turn into Chestnut Grove for the Children's Hospital (as it used to be). I went there a lot as a kid.

'if' is such a tiny word.................

Aspleh as a baby, Speechely St as a toddler, then Peveril St for 15 years before moving to Carlton. Married and bought house in Loughborough, then on the Keyworth and now near Stafford, part time in France. Same lovely wife since Carlton.

As mentioned on various posts I don't like scrapping appliances when they are past repairing, I strip them down to see how they are made and save any useful bits. You win some nice fixings and springs and things for future projects. Washing machines are very productive. I have been using the drum for a patio fire place and bbq. Use one of the concrete stabilising weights as a base and place the drum spindle into one of the holes. The drum will rotate and can be turned to suit wind direction to give an even burn. Last week it became a filter for draining the pond, but I had to cut the spindle o

We missed out on Sunday. There was a car boot sale in a nearby village here in rural Brittany. My mate went and told me that there was a record collection for sale on one stall and all the LP's were going for ten Euros apiece. He didn't buy any! and stuff like Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon with good covers was on offer.

I love the aroma of a good quality cigar. I enjoy the sense of 'occasion' when cigar smoke is about. Used to enjoy a decent cigar. Villiger were my usual smoke.Often tempted to try one again but one may lead to two.........

Saw a man smoking a Sherlock pipe on Sunday and realised that I had not seen a pipe smoker for years.

I would welcome anyone into our country, or my family, that have a strong work ethic and a respect for our UK values.

Missing darkazana

OOps! Did he miss the e on the end? What colour is the Skeggy rock? I ask this because I designed a fishing fly that my pals called Blackpool Rock and would like to design one using Skeggy colours or features..

Can anyone remember if Skeggy and Mablethorp had their own brands of rock?

Thanks for that Loppy. Just watched it. Being deaf I missed the voice overs but got most of the rest by lip reading. There did not seem to be a serious comment about the real cost of energy usage and the long term battery recycling. It showed cheap green energy being produced - geothermal in Iceland, solar farms in California and wind farms in windy places. Not really what we have here in abundance in Europe. It looks like Nissan are the winners by offering a modest, every day car. .

I am not a cookery person but I like making cidre. I also have a fair stock of farm Calvados, Three years ago we had a glut of peaches and I filled 3 x 2lt kilner jars with halved peaches and topped the jars up with Calvados (70%). We ate the peaches with ice cream for pudding after one years and again after 2 years. Really warmed the gills! Got one jar left, The juice was bottled and made a nice drink but about half the alcohol had been absorbed by the peaches. I did the same with plums. All halved and stoned. I ill try it with pears this year. So, I have plenty of cidre - any recipes ou

Already covered that point Compo. Must be part of the reason but my old Toyota pickup with a blunt screen did not get splattered (and I drove it hard). When the first 'jellymold' Sierra came out it was regarded as very aerodynamic, but mine used to get heavily splattered. Number plates used to become almost unreadable. Plates are the same size and flat but they don't get splattered like they used to.

Londoners think that everywhere is like London, so we all have to follow their policies. They are thinking 'electric' because it answers 'their' problem. In fact all that the electric car will do is move pollution to somewhere else. Selfish city dwellers! Production of the batteries causes toxins and uses minerals that are rarer than oil or coal. I am all for reducing any sort of pollution but this mania for electric cars is a con. The Gov't conned us into buying diesel, now we are being conned again about electric. The main problem with cars, whether diesel or petrol, is that they

Maybe insecticides on farmland is the problem. Plenty of insects wherever there is water. I always keep my mouth shut when cycling over Blithefield Reservoir causeway. Also, the air pollution on roads has increased - not the place that anything with a choice wants to be.

Probably been mentioned before - car windscreens don't get splattered with insects like they used to. I thought it may be to do with modern cars being more aerodynamic but my old truck screens were quite blunt and the trucks still kept up with motorway traffic. Where have all the insects gone?

Reaching maturity? Not there yet. Probably in reverse so may never get there. Got back on my bike at 55 but had gone completely deaf. Cochlear implant sorted the hearing and also won the veterans BAR at cycling. When I was 60 I thought I could do anything - superb age. Family, sport and job all OK. 70 was pretty good too, After busting my hip just changed competitive sport from cycling to rowing and family doing great. 70- Eye operations made it possible to see better than I have seen all my life! Late 70's? Well just had mates around for cidre thisafto. Very interesting company - scouser