tony1

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  1. The way they are popping up, it seems one can walk out of Poundland straight into Poundland.

    I noticed today that 454gm salad cream bottles were in the shop on Clumber street, but in the shop next to the Range, at Colwick, the bottles were only 232gm

    Both £1 of course.

    There are very good deals in these shops, but you have to have your wits about you as some items are deceptive and can be very expensive.

  2. Everytime I cross the pond, I reckon Britain gets more and more American, food and word wise.

    But isn't the latest generation turning cockney? I hear the younger generations, all over the country, dropping their consonants like Eastenders. It's what TV soaps do.

  3. Cliff ton That photo of York immediately made me think "Nottingham could have had something like this in the shape of Drury Hill".

    I have been saying that since the day it was destroyed. That and all the other historic features of that area. I believe there was a time when Long Stairs was the only way into the 'then' town. All the caves ... the many industries .... arghh!

    It's pointless. They have never cared and never will. It's all about money and greed.

    The irony is that Nottingham could have had the most prolific and profitable tourist industry outside London.

    Even the architect of Broad Marsh was eventually to proclaimed that "if he had known" he would never have done it.

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  4. I remember first accidentally stumbling into this one day during the school holidays. We got in through some broken wooden fencing on Mansfield Road. roughly opposite the Carrington Lido. I have a permanent image of race where a really fat policeman, purple in the face , came in last (of course.) It was funny, but I did feel sorry for him. It was probably around 1957 - 59. I saw acouple of more times, but then I thought it stopped. Funny how these little things can stay with you for life.

    Nive to know so many of us remember it.

  5. #95 Cliff Ton,

    "Follow this thread" is not really a solution.

    To be fair you would have to do that to every thing you ever posted to see what was new.

    You might as well resign yourself to reading all and every post for everything.

    Someone responded to a post i made earlier this week. However, I did not know the 'query' was for me, because it was not the next post and the writer did not mention my name. Consequently, I thought it was for someone else, until I received a PM. (Which is not usual procedure.)

  6. To add a bit of humour to this unfortunate situation:

    I have just been speaking to a service technician regarding a problem where my car's cruise control has not worked since a new clutch was fitted.

    His educated response was " We always tell people not to use the cruise control to avoid getting probems"

    Any of you who had ever had to return a pair of faulty shoes, will recall the indignant

    "we can't do anything about that. You have been wearing them"

    Oh dear boy, I could weep !

    Such fun !