BeestonMick

I just bought another PRS, I've got three now but need to offload two of 'em, it looks like a trip to gumtree.

I dunno about Trent Lane but I know we used to substitute "Trent Station" for "temptation" in the Lord's Prayer

No, it's a bleddy quid now!!

I used to spend many (many) hours on the flat roof of my Dad's office with an old tank site for a telescope watching the Vulcans and the flying bedsted etc. especially during the Hucknall air display when I lived in Papplewick. In later years I met the inventor of the flying bedsted and consequent RB211 troubleshooter while down in Wimborne at Flight Refuelling. I first noticed his cars registration which was VTO 1. First off it's a Nottingham registration but it was awarded to him for obvious reasons after the end of the flying bedsted project. I digress: Do you remember: ??

Seems he's quite famous http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/jan/07/five-people-living-margins-modern-britain

I have the finances they just won't let me go and they keep asking me if I'll stay on a bit afterwards, they get the same answer every time "NO, not likely!!". It's actually quite good because I'm doing bugger all while looking busy, my ROF training is kicking in nicely.

Ref: Black Orchid I think so, the city clubs were better in my opinion. The Black Orchid wasn't a dance club it was a boozing cattle market. Most of the clubs I used (even to this day) have been dance clubs hence you tend not to get p¡$$ artists and lechers, the customers are there for the music and dancing. The Beachcomber and Dungeon blew the Black Orchid out of the water. They did exactly the same in Cardiff with a purposely built place called Evolution - It was Cardiff's attempt to compete with the "super clubs" like Cream, Ministry of Sound & Manumission etc, it didn't work, it's

I think my ex-wife would have liked one, she always said I was a spanner and that my attitude needed adjusting!

I've got less than ten months to go to retirement and it's aggravating the bejesus out me 'cos it's not going fast enough!!

You know what? I doubt it will be even near. With all the PC bull these days they won't be able to say the really funny stuff. More Dad's army: "It's no good you try and give me falseys" (Polish officer) "Don't tell him, Pike!”

To be fare, I pretty much like all of life and it's little doo-dahs sent to try us. I look fondly at the past and eagerly to the future.

Horse drawn milk carts. When I was a kid in Papplewick our milky had a horse and cart. The animal knew every stop and even seemed to know when folks were on holiday and didn't need to stop that time. My cousins husband worked on the mobile CO-OP van which came around regularly, I reckon that put paid to the horsey. Are you sure you're not talking about hash?

Widdowsons from Beeston Pierre Balman in Attenborough Paul Smith from Beeston

Yer daft me duck ya foller balloons ya wear your mothers pantaloons. And one my old grandad used to say: "is he as he was or is he woss?" "I'll take my hand off your face!!" As Billy Connolly said: "It's not the bit about taking the hand off it's the bit where it connects first"

Pop, I agree and the Beatles were pop incarnate, but I did like 'em. To me the Beatles were for listening to in the house but the rest of it depended if you were a clubber or not. I was and soul and MoTown were a big part of my life and the lace markets life too.

There was an Allsebrook who owned a newspaper shop in Hucknall opposite the Byron cinema in the 50's. He was a mate of my old man's (I think they went to Henry Mellish together) and I delivered newspapers for him for ages. I used to have to pedal to Hucknall from Papplewick in the morning, pick up the papers then back to Papplewick to deliver them. Then I had to pedal back to Beardall Street school in Hucknall then pick up the evening papers for delivery after school, all for a quid!!

You can tig weld brass (in a fashion) but chasing monkeys with a tig welder over your shoulder would be a tad difficult.

The mushroom heads will be running around to get the harvest before the first frost Quite wet but warm here in Cardiff.

Yep, defo Bramcote, he lived next door but one to Joe baker and we saw him in his garden when we were trying to get Joe's autograph.

The big problem I can see with this is that the English government has added proviso's and people are trying to take advantage of those provisos. The Welsh deal that's been going since 2011 has no provisos as such, all shops have to do it so there's no way for either the shopper or the retailer to extract the urine. Everybody does it and it causes no problems whatever. I have a 'bag of bags' in the boot of my car and I always have a folded 5p carrier in my back pocket just in case if I go out walking, it ain't brain surgery and it ain't difficult. It's a good scheme and it works.

It wasn't Healey, that was a Welshman Aneurin Bevan. I was once in an elevator with Dennis Healey in Stockton-on-Tees and his eyebrows were all consuming, almost scary!

Mmmm, AC30, nice kit! Just to correct my previous post, Fender use the brand name Squier for their Japanese made guitars and the Mexican ones are called Fender with 'made in mexico' on the back of the headstock. Gibson use Epiphone as their 'cheaper' brand and PRS use 'SE' to designate Korean made guitars.

Yep, they're still made in the USA, Mexico and Japan (as Squier) PRS still make them in the US and Korea but, unlike Fender and Gibson, their 'foreign made' guitars are held in as much esteem as the US made ones. I picked this up from Ebay at the weekend for £160 and no postage. I also saw this on Twitter this morning (and there's a lot more) More at http://www.hutchinsonguitars.com/

I don't live in Nottingham any more and haven't for a good few years. I was looking for Cremorne Street and a friend sent me the pic. I have no idea what's there now. All I know is the Medders were demolished and I assumed the ROF was as well. I remember the first time I came back to the UK from South Africa, circa 1975, and my old man took me to a Notts game on boxing day. As he drove past my mouth hung open for at least ten minutes. The Kings Meadow Road I used to drag myself up for nine years was gone - I couldn't believe it.

It's cheaper to buy a new printer when the ink goes . . .