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No, sorry, I don’t receive visitors!
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Like I said, I never go anywhere so it’s not a decision I need to make!
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I only have one tie and just two pairs of shoes. I never go anywhere.
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I quite like Col’s ‘horrible’ G Shock but I haven't been an ‘action man’ for many years so it wouldn’t go with my image of decrepitude!
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My posh watch is a pre owned Omega which I bought for £900 about fifteen years ago. It would cost £3200 to replace now but I would never spend that much money on a new watch.
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I think a watch is a personal thing. It’s usually discretely hidden under your cuff and not something you wave around to say ‘I’ve got a gold Rolex’. To my knowledge most of those are cheap copies from the Far East anyway. Thieves are quite happy to hack your wrist off to steal your expensive watch so it’s not worth taking the risk. The British Horological Association at Upton near Southwell is open every Friday and it’s interesting to have a look round their watch and clock museum.
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I feel undressed without a watch. My ‘daily’ is a Citizen Eco -Drive WR200 which is powered by light and picks up a time signal from Germany making it perfectly accurate. It updates the hour twice a year. I’ve had it for around 10 years and will only bin it when it stops. I do have a few others kicking around which I bought on a whim. My ‘posh’ watch for weddings and funerals is an Omega Speedmaster, certified by NASA for spaceflight. It was the first watch to be worn on the Moon (not mine, of course). Being mechanical it does require a service every five or so so years at a cost of around £500 but whilst it keeps running I’ll leave it! Most of the expensive watches are mechanical and they do appreciate in value but do require servicing. Being a one time private pilot I do like pilots’ watches with lots of knobs and dials but you never actually use them in an aeroplane, your main watch being the stopwatch on your clipboard. Most pilot navigation is now done by satnav so your route is laid out before you. I much preferred the old days where navigation was done by stopwatch, map, compass and Mk 1 eyeball.
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As a 'retired person' I have an extra hour in bed every day. Today I had two!
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Looking forward to an extra hour in bed tomorrow!
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The miserable season is upon us made even worse by the prospect of Christmas on the horizon. Roll on Spring!
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Well he’s still flying his drone. He had to rescue it from his neighbour’s garden last week!
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The police now say the kangaroo could have been a deer or a large dog.
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Oh yeah. Was it wearing a jumpsuit?
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Highbury Hospital was/is on Highbury Rd. opposite where Mellish used to be.
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You could have had her over a barrel!
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I saw my first ever electric vehicle using the bus lane on the Colwick Loop Rd. last week. I sailed past it! If the electric vehicles are going to get all of the tax freebies then when is the revenue coming from?
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It would make you look 'holier than thou'! Electric cars are coming but I'm letting others be the guinea pigs until I consider the time is right. I don't want to be the first down our lane with an electric car. Nowadays I'm prepared to follow where others lead! The only chap I know nearby with an electric car is Allan Hardy, an example to us all!
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The Littlewood Songsters and the Voices of Vernons.
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Whilst we’re digging them up - How about Pearl Carr and Teddy Johnson?
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I think she’s oleaginous enough already!
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She looked like she was 102 back in the day. Fancy living next door to Vera Lynn Bekay, does she come round for a sing song?
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Then there was Gracie Fields and Vera Lynn. Very much of the age I suppose but pretty dreadful looking back!
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9 hours ago, Oztalgian said:
Didn't he do a country music slot on Radio Nottingham way back when?
Yes he did have a slot on Radio Nottingham. You can find him online briefly.
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In which case I’ve got both of those albums but nothing to play them on. Maybe I have them on tape. Whilst we’re on this musical note does anyone remember Reg Cooper, the partially sighted folk singer back in the folk club days? We used to see him at Newark and Cropwell Bishop regularly.
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Nottingham pubs you really miss
in General Chat about Nottingham
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When I was a company accountant I used to organise my banking at the Nat West to be around 12 noon so that I could pop Into the men only bar at the Thurland and have a swift half and a slice of pork pie. That was back in the days when you could easily find a parking spot right outside the door.