philmayfield

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  1. Still like and can get tomato sausages. There’s also an onion marmalade variety which is delicious. I’m in charge of getting tonight’s dinner so sausages in some guise it will be.
  2. I think he got a transfer. I forget his name but I did bump into him when I was flying out to France from Southampton airport. I did have you in mind as a possibility!
  3. That’s strange. We used to see Ken and Gillian in Morrisons at Gamston (posh Morrisons). She led whilst Ken dutifully pushed the trolley. Much like we shop actually!
  4. Yes, I saw that. I started there around ‘55 I think.
  5. Were you at EMA when one of the ATC’s committed an indiscretion with a lady ATC on the flight planning table?
  6. Yes I checked that out as well!
  7. I had to learn it to pass the RT exam Barrie and my wife passed it as well. We were much younger then though!
  8. It’s perfectly legal to listen on the aircraft channel. An air band scanner starts at around £100. Look on Amazon. You need a license to transmit but you’ve got to be in an aircraft or in ATC to do that that. CAP413, the CAA radiotelephony manual is available online and will give you an insight into what is being spoken.
  9. Ken Clark lived in Bulwell. His father had a watch and clock repair shop on Highbury Rd. He won a scholarship to NHS. A friend of mine saw him in a restaurant in Compton Pastures last week. He showed me a sneaky picture he took of him!
  10. My neighbour down the lane is a driver on the Great Central. He’s been doing it for many years. He joined as a fireman and ultimately qualified as a driver. He must be 84 now so I’m not sure if they still let him drive. We both went to Mellish but he’s older than me. At one time he was the lead guitarist in the Fabulous Beatmen but he later became ‘respectable’ and ran a factory.
  11. Next you’ll be telling me you knew Gordon Taylor who was well known in the Rushcliffe YC’s. He introduced me to Ken Clark when he was a fairly new MP.
  12. I too was a Young Conservative. I’ve met John Fawcett way back. We were the Trent Valley group and met in the Bromley Arms tearoom on a Monday evening. I was treasurer and my wife to be was the secretary. It was more social than political back in those days.
  13. I was driving an MG in ‘64 but was not a member of the MGOC. The car was a 1947 TC which I virtually rebuilt and resprayed. I’ve since rebuilt a Morgan 4/4 and built a Caterham 7 from a kit. Long gone now though.
  14. I was flying a light aircraft into East Midlands when CB was popular. The air traffic controller was using CB expressions rather than the disciplined pilot communication for which you had to study and be examined for a licence. I don’t think it caught on though and he was probably suitably admonished!
  15. Budgie? Is that predictive text talk? Actually my 10.20 is outside Lowdham Post Office.
  16. Ten four Rubber Duck!
  17. That’s stirred up a few memories Brenda. I was trying to recall Ponte Vecchio and Puccinis. We’ve patronised them all and once hired the whole of La Bucca on Thurland St. for a Sherwood Flying Club gourmet dinner where you served rabbit - much to the dislike of a couple of members who’d dined regularly on rabbit for much or the war years! I had been appointed ‘entertainment officer’ for my sins.
  18. Surely La Buca was originally on Thurland St. That's where we first discovered you. I travelled to Italy quite often on business and it was good to find 'proper' Italian food back home. We followed you around until you departed.
  19. My O level French is impeccable. Our French master came from the West Country and we all spoke French with a broad Somerset accent. He lived on a smallholding at Hickling Pastures and bred chickens!
  20. That’s it. Our office, Hubbart Durose and Pain was next door but it wasn’t called Angel House then.
  21. I often saw the lift in action and wondered what went on down below. They must have had a powerful fume extraction system to keep the air clean.
  22. I went into a French restaurant and ordered ‘quatre salads nicoise’. The waiter didn’t like my pronunciation and corrected me. I told him ‘we’ve come here for lunch, not a bloody French lesson!’ We walked out!