BeestonMick
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Did anyone ever have ice cream from the Severn Mile House near Papplewick? I believe it's now an eatery? Mr and Mrs Revell were the owners, the ice cream was home made and it was stunning, best ice cream ever. My dad was the local bobby so we got it free most of the time.
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Durban beach with chicken sarnies.
I may have made the sarnies up 'cos I can't really remember but we defo did Durban beach Christmas day - it would be about Christmas 1973.
Talking of eating in South Africa I just took delivery of 2kgs of biltong yesterday and it's very nice - yumm.
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DNF, ASCII, TTL even single letter ones like Q, V, I, J and lower case h.
It's madness!!
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We were one of the lucky ones - we had little or no money and my Dad used to have to borrow a car from a mate of his but once we got to Skeg (after what seemed like days of travelling) the world was our oyster. My aunt and uncle owned a twenty four (I think) roomed boarding house on the front. My aunt was a superb cook (as was my mum) and we always had loads to eat there 'cos Auntie Flo was constantly cooking for the guests. Of course, our accommodation was free but we weren't allowed to go in bowls week.
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Acronyms are the bane of my life, we have a book of acronyms used at work and it's in the region of eleven sides of A4!
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#3147 - PC gone bonkers!
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I remember in the US back in the 70's Chrysler used to advertise that their auto boxes were the best in the world. They had an ad running that said "you can even throw them in to reverse at 70 MPH" without a problem. At the time the blanket speed limit was 55 and I had a Chrysler Cordoba. I took it onto the interstate and tried it at 55 and it worked a treat
It was a Hertz car so it didn't matter to me.
Beardall's was the VW dealer on Loughborough Road
I used to hang around with one of Beardall's boys - we used to get in to serious trouble!
They had a beautiful house in Attenborough.
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I have a bus pass n'all, best thing since sliced bread.
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Yes, indeedy.
When my sister said she was head girl I had one of those mmmm moments. I think she was the middle one of the sisters, a mate of mine Malcolm Davidson went out with the youngest sister who's name I can't remember. My sister still sees Gillian now and again.
How do you know Michael nudge nudge?
Sherwin Jopson was head girl & was several years below me. Not sure of her age. She went to N.Z. after her marriage & still has a home there, although she is caring for her Mum near Leeds currently. -
And, sadly,
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Roller skates
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Trouble is, as far as I know, you have to take a landline for broadband.
Yes but you only need the connection, you don't have to have the phone.
I shud've qualified that, I was on about the phone (the old bakelite thing) not the cable.
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Another name to pop up is Sherwin Jopson, she was a few years below my sister and was head girl.
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This and landlines in general, I don't have a landline in my house now.
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I now can't edit my previous post.
I can edit this one though at 10.31
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Oh dear ...... sorry Mick, I've hijacked your Brincliffe thread!
I noticed!!
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I think if I was going to set up a paid hosted forum, I'd go with the free open sourced Joomla, it has many plug ins.
If you want a free forum I wouldn't go anywhere near a 'paid hosted forum', their installers are atrocious and you can't always get copies of the database if you need it to move etc. The best way, in my opinion, is to get your own hosting, it's cheap these days, and install the free open source phpBB if you want free. I've spent many many hours getting Joomla integrated with different systems and I find it a nightmare.
I need to know if this is the case.
Please check if you can still edit a previous post and how long after?
I'm editing this one at 09.06 so the edit facility is still available during that time, I'll add to it as I remember. The original was 08:46.
Quote issueThe quote thing seems to have been sorted as you said.
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The cursor won't move by clicking or TABbing.
Dunno if I tried the cursor keys, don't think I did, I will next time it happens and report, although, you shouldn't have to resort to the keyboard.
I'm going to install a copy of IPB on my test server and see if I can repeat the issue, it *may* be style related but that should be easy to prove. Does anyone use another style (theme) than the default one? If so do you have the quote problems as above?
#18 - sensible and grown up in my eyes.
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Quoting 30 lines of text and adding a one word reply is not.
I agree 100%.
One of the reasons, as a support person, it is good to use quotes is when someone makes a statement and then edits it some time later. If you quote it in your reply they can't deny they've said it.
As far as the editor goes yes there seems to be a couple of issues with quoting.
- #11 (look at me with hashes) Yes the extra lines.
- Sometimes if you go to edit something in the quote such as remove extra lines you can't get out. The cursor won't move by clicking or TABbing.
Apart from that the editor seems fine, better than the WYSIWYG (not really but similar) editor add on in phpBB which is basically a BBCode driven editor. Personally I prefer typing mine by hand I find it gives me more control.
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Wow, thank you ladies, who needs "who do you think you are"?
Talking of Moggs & Lynette, I was seriously
with both of them, Lynette especially. I was twelve and they're like seventeen, you can imagine. 
ha ha.Wasn't Lynette in to motor bikes and stuff, maybe that's what caught my eye?
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My sister is 69 now, I don't know it that's your era? Her name was Val Allen and her two mates I mention above were Margaret Derry (Moggs) and Lynette Stanfield. There is one who she still sees now called Gillian (I think) from Chilwell but I can't for the life of me remember her surname.
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Me neither. I find this board software quite awkward compared to, say, vBulletin . But this is more colourful.
vB can be pretty colours as well
I worked for phpBB on support until recently and the number of styles/colours available were almost inexhaustible. There was even an auto-colour application you could use to re-colour your style without having to mess with CSS.
I prefer IPB to vB but my favourite without question is phpBB, inventors of the BBCode BTW, for one thing the support there is second to none.
The links refer to quoting the previous post and over quoting which I agree with but I find it hard work when #number is used when you have to scroll back and fore to see what's being spoken about.
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Talking of schools my sister went to Brincliffe Grammar School for Girls. It seemed it was a tad upmarket to me but I can always remember a few of her mates from there, two especially were drop dead stunning gorgeous. They were five years older than me and I really started to like girls after spending time in their company
I remember my sister moaning about having to ride the B8 (I think) over Bullwell Forest every morning on the way to school, she used to say it must be the worst road in the world.
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My old man went to Mellish, presumably in the '30's. He was the only boy from Hucknall in the school at the time. I remember him having a hissy fit when he heard they were letting girls in. Him and one of his mates that went there as well went to the school and played up hell with them but, of course, they couldn't do anything about it and it was too late anyway.
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My first was the Griffins Head Papplewick.