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First thing I always do is to turn off the auto stop/start. It can be very irritating if you're crawling along in a traffic queue. It's stopped functioning in my wife's car which is great but as it's still under warranty I suppose I'd better report it at the next service. The trouble is it's not a DIY fix and requires the dealership's diagnostic kit to reprogram.
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1 hour ago, FLY2 said:
Phil M. Been tootling around one of your favourite areas this morning. East of the A614 / A6097. (The posh side) Back lanes around Farnsfield, Edingley, Halam, etc. Beautiful scenery and some cracking properties. Beats Basford hands down !
What? You didn’t come to Bleasby! I worked in Basford for 25 years. Loved every minute of it!
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I knew Liverpool well back in the swinging 60's. My girlfriend had given up nursing and had embarked on a teacher training course at Kirkby Fields college in Liverpool. She occupied flats in various areas including Penny Lane, Anfield, Catherine St., and Huyton. I regularly went to the famous Philharmonic pub which was noted for the most magnificent gents' toilets in the land! The Liverpool people had a strong sense of humour and I presume it's still the same today. One of my memorable experiences was visiting the Anglican Cathedral which was still undergoing construction back then. It was an awe inspiring piece of architecture. In contrast, the new Catholic Cathedral, which had just been completed, had an air of glitter and tackiness about it. We've only been back to the area once since the 60's. Perhaps we ought to revisit and view the changes. It's always been an ambition of mine to take the boat cruise along the Mersey and Manchester Ship Canal from Birkenhead to Salford docks.
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My wife suggests 'Pie Thorn' hill. The fruit of thorn bushes from which you can make pies! Is there a prize for the winner?
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Your guess is as good as mine. Google may be your friend on this one!
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7 hours ago, Oztalgian said:
Which school did you teach at in Rennuth?
My wife taught at Python Hill Junior.
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12 minutes ago, Jill Sparrow said:
A friend and former colleague of mine did her teacher training in the same place. It was rough indeed!
Did part of my teaching practice in Whitby at a time when the old fishing community was still alive and kicking. The grandmas were extremely fearsome! The lengths they went to to protect their grandsons had to be seen to be believed. The granddaughters, on the other hand, were regarded as worthless.
Teaching miner's children in Rainworth was a doddle after being in Liverpool!
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57 minutes ago, benjamin1945 said:
I like Liverpool as a whole,,however in Kirby or Kirkby it was a little different,,
I've been threatened (par for the course as a SD) in just about every city in the country,,but in Kirkby i was threatened while just doing interviews,,
My wife did her teacher training back in the 60's at Kirkby Fields College in Liverpool. I think the college used to be a military base as it was surrounded by a high wire fence and walls. It needed to be! Kirkby itself was a real s***t hole of a council estate back then!
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Kirby Liverpool is the place where the residents use their window frames for firewood! Yes I have been there.
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Not lost his marbles though!
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I once knew a bloke in Glasgow, a Polish Jew, who came over during the war. He adopted the Scottish way of life to the full, wore a kilt to the office and called himself Henry Gordon. Being both Scottish and Jewish he was the most tight arsed bloke I'd ever met.
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I remember talking to a Jewish acquaintance some years ago just before Christmas. 'I don't suppose you celebrate Christmas do you?' 'Well no not really', he said, 'But we do have a tree and presents and turkey - just for the children you understand!'
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Likewise Alf Garnett. I did like him though!
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Does anyone remember this guy? He used to write a lot of letters to the newspapers and was a regular contributor to the Dennis McCarthy ‘Afternoon Special’ with his banal comments. I thought he was long gone but he’s cropped up again today in the Newark Advertiser with a poem. I quote ..........
Mrs May packed her things,
Boris was waiting in the wings,
Desperate to wear the Tory crown,
With Latin jokes wearing a frown.
Is it all illusional?
Will someone write ‘Brexit the Musical?’
So he’s not dead! Do we have the next Poet Laureate?
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In reply to Staverton Girl, we had a Scottish client in Perth where the company secretary used to go through the mail in the morning and steam off the unfranked stamps with a kettle on his desk.
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On the basis that 'the old ones are always the best ones' ............ There was a rabbi and a catholic priest travelling in the same compartment on a train. They got into conversation and the priest said to the rabbi 'Have you ever eaten pork?' The rabbi replied that he was rather partial to a bacon sandwich on occasions. The rabbi asked the priest 'Have you ever been with a woman?' 'Well yes', he replied, 'there have been a few times when I have given in to that temptation'. 'It's a lot better than a bacon sandwich isn't it?' said the rabbi.
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The only problem I came across was once when my accountancy firm were preparing the accounts of the Nottingham Hebrew Congregation on Shakespeare St. way back in the 60's. Our comp.op. girl had been shopping at lunchtime and came back with a Pork Farm's carrier bag. It was spotted and she was asked to leave it outside on the step for the afternoon!
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At the risk of being called an ‘anti semite’ can someone please explain what it’s all about? Are the Jews a special case? Can’t I like or dislike anyone I choose? I’m totally confused. I don’t like eggs, I don’t like Swedish cooking, I’m not all that fond of the French and there’s some people down our lane I wouldn’t share the same room with. What a strange world this is!
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You’re forgiven. Welcome back!
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Meat and two veg man me - but you bloody southerners with yer fancy tastes!
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That's the Italian restaurant round the corner isn't it?
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Surprise you whilst in fraglante delicto!
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I’m doing my bit to save the world. I’ve just ordered an electric bicycle!
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I have a leaning towards 'War and Peace' and 'On the origin of the Species' sometime. I have read 'Moby Dick' but didn't realise there was an unexpurgated edition. It sounds a bit like a venereal disease doesn't it?
Stop-Start on cars
in Pete's Nottingham Transport Forum
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I realise low battery voltages can cause this problem but the battery readings have always been over 12.5 volts at rest. Being out in the sticks all her journeys are of at least 10 miles. I think on her particular model there isn’t a second lithium iron battery and the boost for the restart comes from a capacitor. Certainly on my last car, also a Jag but a different model, it did have two batteries, a large main one and a much smaller lithium iron one. They were connected through a ‘gateway module’ which twice required a reprogram. I do try to buy British but I have reverted to the Germans once again.