PeverilPeril

Even Lord Lucan could not replicate a Nottingham Accent. It has confounded many a top actors.

Payday was on a Thursday at the ROF. Started straight after Christmas 53 just turned 15. wages 27/6- which I gave to Mam. She gave me five bob back which was great to start with. After 6 months I got 32/- a week and Mam started giving me ten bob. As a proper apprentice at 16 my wages were about £2.10 shillings and I started giving Mam houskeeping of 30/- which it stayed at for a few years and I became rich with pound notes in my pocket every Thursday. Didn't start going on the town until late teens, preferring the youth club and spending my money on bikes and tailored suits. First tailored sui

The water that flows through our village reaches Nottingham the day after.

That's it Enigma - Ravenshaw. I remember that we used to snigger when one of the masters kept calling our dorm Brackenshaw instead of Brackenhurst. The swimming pool reminds me of a very chilly afternoon when our dorm had a swimming session. We all stood around shivering and didn't want to go in. One of the masters came along and poured a kettle of hot water in and said "get in there - you have no excuse now!"

Thanks for those memory awakening pictures Enigma. I'm trying to remember the dormitory names. Brackenhurst, Hartsmere and Chetwynd are ones I stayed in. There was one, possibly two more?

Second row from top Mr Pearce in glasses. He was headmaster when I was there. He was also my form master at Berridge before that. A really nice man and great, well respected teacher. Note - not a single fat kid or teacher in those pics!

Compo #100 those temps were what the forcasters said on telly. Great pics - is that Loch Watten?

A hole in the road without a digging machine next to it!

Eyup Gary. I lived on Speechly St as a toddler C1940. Speechy St is now long gone and the new Berridge Infants school is now where it was. I moved further up Hyson Green to Peveril St., in 1942. Attended Berridge Sec Mod1949/53. So a bit before your time.

Driven Defenders and surprised how comfortable they were. Had 2 Disco's from new and were both very reliable, however my old Toyota Hilux was better off road. For all of it's computerised, all terrain settings, the Disco mk3 was no match for my 1993 Toyota when things got really serious..

Some foreign plants have caused havoc with gardens and riverbanks. Worst culprits are Japanese Knotweed and Himalayan Balsam. They spread vigorously due to having no predators or competition.

Just wondering how Compo is dealing with the daft temperature changes up there -12 last week, then +12 this week

I can never remember our number plates, but I still remember my first 'new' car plate AOF 90B, an Austin 1100.

All this talk about cr.. reminded me that I must get some manure on the veggie patches soon. Hope to take the trailer down to the beach next month for a load of seaweed.

Dock leaves have served me well a few times

Ah! Carni - I wondered what the newspapers sellers were on about shouting "PO n' Noooos"

We stayed in Cardiff for a couple of days last year, Shown around by our granddaughter who was at Uni there. Very impressed. We kept saying "if only Nottingham had kept it's history and character like this...."

Perfumes, toiletries, cosmetics and some confectionery and medicines are priced totally out of proportion to the cost of the product. It would be conservative to say that the actual product often costs less than 10% of it's point of sale price. My job took me into a lot of plastic packaging companies where machinery, tooling and robots cost hundreds of thousands of pounds. Fancy containers, perfume sprays etc., cost a bomb to produce - then they are just chucked away after a single use. Amazingly these huge costs are dwarfed by the marketing, advertising and distribution with layers of mark up

Wallpapering in houses of rural Brittany can be quite amusing. To save all the cutting involved, the Breton decorator starts the wallpaper roll at one skirting board and continues up and across the ceiling, then down the opposite wall. We have seen heavily flowered patterns and even jungle scenes where everything is upside down on one wall. They even wallpaper doors and cupboards! Our friends had Black Watch Tartan doors and cupboards when they moved in. We had wallpaper with a stone wall pattern covering a lovely stone wall.

As an alternative to drone taxis; a 500' tower with a lift could be built in Slab Square. Zip wires could radiate out to all parts of Greater Nottinghan. Benjamin could man the Bullwell reception and pick off the shoplifters are they zipped in.

Wonder when air taxis will be dropping us off in Slab Square? Remotely controlled drones that can carry passengers. Painted in black and white like the old cabs of course.

Thinking of freezing points 0 deg C = 32 deg F. The 32 made me think about this Tuesdays resting heart rate which was 32! OK, after decades of training I have an athletes heart rate which is usually in the low 40's when rested but 32 was a bit worrying. No symptoms of heart probs so carrying on as normal.

Decades ago i read a SF book about a space exploration that went wrong when the computer failed. They eventually got home by making several abacus boards and working as a team, they were able to compute and plot a successful course. So maybe the centuries old abacus was the first computer?.

Yep - we all had Bert Weedon's book. Learnt a few chords but changed to G banjo. Was that a Hoffner guitar?

I forgot to mention the soft water tank that is under the driveway, just outside the kitchen window. This is a solid stone chamber 3' x 6' x 5' high with brick vaulted roof. This was used to collect rainwater for washing because the well water was so hard.