philmayfield
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Compared with Morrison's, Newark Waitrose does have fewer grossly obese tattooed customers. Morrison's Netherfield has a wider, better and cheaper selection. Waitrose does have much cheaper fuel though!
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The non food aisles at Lidl Bingham resemble a junk shop!
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We use Waitrose in Newark for convenience as it's our nearest big supermarket but we probably use Morrisons Netherfield more often. Also we use Lidl at Bingham. Quite honestly Waitrose is nothing special. Morrison's has far better fruit, veg and meat and Lidl is excellent value. Waitrose really is nothing to get excited about.
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Those pictures take me back to when I played in a group back in the early 60's. I didn't have a BEL amp though, it was just a basic chassis valve amplifier that I found in a junk shop on Arkwright St. and for which I made a case out of plywood and covered it with a speaker cloth and red vinyl. It looked pretty good! My guitar was a Hofner Congress which I fitted with an electric pickup. I still have it to this day along with a Fender Stratocaster, a Yamaha 12 string, a Spanish style instrument, a five string banjo and a ukulele. One of our gigs was at the Lowdham Grange Borstal where we rather inappropriately played 'Jailhouse Rock'. It did go down a bomb though. Nearly caused a riot! Since I chopped a finger off I don't play anymore!
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Only Justin Walesby!
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I see Corbyn's going to visit the dam this afternoon. Took him some time to make the decision. All we want now is one of the Royals and the Archbishop of Canterbury to offer prayers and Whaley Bridge will be saved from disaster!
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A tap with the wooden handle end would usually free it. I wouldn't advocate actually using the head!
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Google 'Bendix'. An American company which had no connection with the Nottingham Bendix. They didn't even make washing machines but licensed their name out to another company. Some may remember the Bendix pinion in starter motors which used to get stuck and had to be thumped with a hammer!
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Try Brylcream. The flies stick to the plates and make them illegible. I've got unkempt hair but a clean licence!
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The only 'for show' books we've got on the shelves are the complete works of Dickens which I bought on impulse from an antique shop in the wilds of Lincolnshire some years ago. I've not read them because I find Dickens, with his descriptive paragraphs, incredibly tedious. We have many reference books but it's so quick and easy to extract the information you want from the iPad. I think the days of the hard copy book are coming to a close. I threw out our writings on tablets of stone some years ago.
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My late cousin, Brian Burton, used to live at 40 Norton St. Radford when he married in the 50's. He worked for his coal merchant father. Subsequently he bought Harby's Fuels and had an office on Highbury Vale. He sold that to become landlord of the Red Lion at Stow on the Wold.
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My great aunt Ethel Mayfield used to live on Mayfield Grove. It wasn't named after here though!
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Having looked at it again I realise the spillway doesn’t cover the whole face of the dam and to the right it is just an earth embankment. That seems to be holding with no problem.
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Whaley Bridge is a town I know quite well as I often visit Martin Daly's School Garage on Buxton Rd. to view his classic cars. He's obviously closed at the moment! I've just looked at the area on Google Earth and notice that the concrete spillway of the dam appears to be a recent structure and was only about half completed in 2018. Before that it was just the earth bank covered with grass. There's been no information about this but it looks like the earth structure has been able to withstand the water pressure without reinforcement for most of its life. Perhaps water seeping under the concrete has caused the problem.
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G1 PSY and GIP 5Y. Neither seem to come up as legal numberplates.
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I don’t know when you took that shot but the MOT expired in February. I doubt if it would pass one now!
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When I first got mine I asked the plate maker to push the letters and number a bit closer together but he did say ‘you do realise you’ll be a marked man’. I took his advice and kept the normal spacing. Still can’t mistake it though!
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Ben's right. No need for that description.
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I’ve often wondered. When women throw their knickers at a performer do they take them off or do they bring a spare ‘throwing pair’?
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Pleased to hear there’s another one on the forum who shaves. I think we’re starting to be a minority group though.
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The first time I was offered chorizo in a restaurant I thought it was a disease of the throat!
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I’ve not been around that way for some years. I did go to see the Vulcan, no longer flying, about four years ago at Finningley. I also used to go to Jackson’s at the Rocket Site at Misson. They sell ex military vehicles and it was fascinating to see what exotic equipment you could buy. North Lincs is an interesting and desolate part of the country. Cleethorpes and Grimsby are best avoided but there is an interesting fishing museum in Grimsby.
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I suppose the problem in living where you do (although I envy you) is that you just can’t go down the road and get hands on with anything. Although I live in the countryside it’s not that far from civilisation and I’ve got Argos, Currys and all the other sheds within a half hour drive. Certain things you can’t buy on line - you do need to get the ‘feel’ of them.
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Agreed. If the pc is working ok then a new keyboard is the way to go. Perhaps you're using a laptop though. Or is your unkempt beard getting stuck in the keys?
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Wollaton Waitrose
in Bramcote & Wollaton
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Do you have tattoos covering the bulk of your body? Are you grossly obese?Nothing to do with shopping - just puts me off my dinner! People in Waitrose like to give the impression they've just got of their horse! I dislike plebs and posh people equally.