TBI

Cuz they had the roof open this time!

No, it's not Boots I'm thinking of. I think it was in the same place where Boots Day & Night was in the fifties. There was then a Boots towards the corner in the eighties, where Lakeland is now.

Yes Dave, W H Smiths were there before Virgin, the store I'm referring to was before W H Smiths.

I remember that Citizens Advice, I think it remained there until well into the eighties, when they opened the bigger one on Low Pavement. Just a few shops up from Eldon Chambers was a small department store in the sixties, the site later became the Virgin Megastore. Had a nice little caff in the basement. Can anyone remember what it was called?

I've been a Lesney collector for the past twenty years or so, mint in box sort of stuff. Been gradually converting to cash to assist retirement fund as values have rocketed!

Yep, that was me!

Got quite a lot of those - great investment!

I've given up on NP, just couldn't find a decent blocker for firefox. That site looks pretty good though!

Didn't think it could be much of a job, with so few blokes!

Love this one...

What's new though? Sounds like a pothole being filled in, that'll last about week.

Advertising gurus work on the principle of making their offerings memorable to the public. So the more outrageous the better, as far as they're concerned. I wonder if it occurs to them they can be so memorably cringe-worthy, that it turns people off their product. The moneysupermarket ads are utter crap. Contrast those to the hilarious specsavers ads, now they're 'epic'.

# It's a matter of choice, Robbie. The surgeon you mention could double his salary by becomong a GP, average salary £102,000 in 2014. My son who is an architect, doesn't earn as much as the surgeons £55,000, despite taking seven years for RIBA qualification, including five years at University and a further four years in practice.. If either of the above were capable of playing top-flight Rugby, they too could make £1m. But they don't have those particular skills and even if they had, they may not choose to take that course. As I've said, it's market forces.

No, It's not the clearest from those links. I think this page better explains the range of activities. http://www.nottinghamcity.gov.uk/lightnight

Well, I don't think too many feel sorry for them, they can always give it up and become 'normal'. lol Dan Carter recently became the world's highest paid Rugby player. But he only just topped a £1m a year, compare that to Ronaldo.

#34 It's a working mans game that's been allowed to get where it is because clubs have become businesses. 'Entrepreneurs' have taken over, and many just as hobbies. But supporters have been accepting of this over decades. Remember if no-one turned up to matches, there'd be no matches, no players earning anything. Back to the days when professional footballers also had a daytime job. But it's never going to happen. You can argue the injustice of it for eternity.

I'm actually in complete agreement with you Robbie, but the absolute fact is that nobody can do a damn thing about it, it's just Economics. We can seethe about it and just get wound up but it won't change anything. So I don't get wound up.

Market forces and Economics at it's most basic level.

Robbie, you seem to be making a point of contention, whilst stating the very reason for it at the same time. Supply and Demand - it's as simple as that! Market forces determine the value of everything, footballers or whatever. That demand is how desirable a person or product is to buyers. The fact that footballers get paid obscene salaries is simply because there are buyers who will pay it. However much anyone resents the situation, it's a fact of life, the most fundemental of economic concepts.

Clever clogs!

Positively scintillating Robbie. I think the Burton Joyce one is still there, the building anyway, on Shaftesbury Avenue.

And if it's a white van, the mobiles wedged between ear and shoulder, can of coke in one hand, sandwich in the other and steering round the corner with their knees.

Nope, actually Spanish Catholics celebrating Holy Week!

Yes wheatstraw, unless there was a great band on at the Boat, Sunday night was Union night.

I noticed the Watsonian sidecars stand at Motorcyclelive last year. Hadn't really changed that much, and did seem a bit pricey.