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Col, maybe God is letting you know in many different ways tnat you should employ a plumber/bathroom fitter for the job? I am not joking x

@The Engineer Just read the article about the clock - very interesting… When I first saw the clock i was very young and believed it was driven by the water - like a water wheel - but after I’d left Nottingham around 1960, and later visited it, I studied it more closely and decided it must have a motor. well done for maintaining it so well

You must be clever, Col, fitting the flooring round the loo and washbasin …..

I asked the same question 10 days ago, Jill. Does @plantfit know if he’s OK as I think they have actually met face to face !

Brew, I did something similar about 20 years ago when I was still working. I always cut my own hair and this particular time I was using the electric clippers on the lower back part of my head. I had attached a number 6 ,guard’ on the clippers, at least I THOUGHT I’d attached it securely but it came off without warning and dropped on the floor. I obviously stopped straightaway but there was now a small shaved area on the back of my head. I used an eyebrow pencil to colour on to my scalp - I was dark haired then - and luckily I had enough hair on the top and sides to back comb over the bar

I remember all those songs too, but the ones which produced the most vivid memories were the ones pre 1962. I associated each of these early songs with different places and people and I feel so sad that those days are gone forever and many of the lads and lasses I used to go round with will quite possibly no longer be here…..

Phil seems to have disappeared too, or have I missed some posts?

@Oztalgian no offence taken. Hope you’ll have a happy Easter time x

Easter Sunday is the first Sunday following the first full moon after the spring equinox. Probably Christmas Day is a fixed date because it replaced a pagan festival. No one knows exactly on which date Jesus was born or was crucified. The calendar at that time would have been the ancient Hebrew one anyway, not tne calendar we have now. The Feasts and Festivals of Judaism would have been decided on by the moon’s cycle. We do know that Jesus was crucified during the Jewish Passover Festival though. Personally, it doesn’t concern me that the exact dates aren’t known - I’m just gr

@Jill Sparrow sorry but there were no class photos at Arno vale. I’ve previously posted a photo of me from those days but Phil obviously wants to keep his photos private…

I enjoyed reading your account, Col. Climbing hills and surveying the view from the top is always quite a spiritual experience for me. I’ve frequently been moved to tears when I’ve climbed some hills in Derbyshire in the past. I particularly remember this In Castleton one beautiful day when all the family had gone into Treak Cliff Cavern and I climbed higher with the dog. Just sitting on the grass looking over the village was very special…

@philmayfield None of us is the same as we were - in our case 70 years ago. But I can still relate to the little 11 year old ME sometimes. She is still part of who I am now x

He’s definitely real’. We were in the same class at school and were both sweet and innocent little children. I can remember him very clearly …… he must have somehow made an impression on me as I can’t remember all the children in our class

I know there’s at least one other person on NS who went to ArnoVale - but they are quite a bit younger than me. I think I’ll just keep the interior of the school in my mind as I remember it…. i think Phil is making excuses as he doesn’t want to see me, or perhaps he doesn't want me to see him? I don’t mind @philmayfield perhaps it’s better just to remember the sweet little children we once were

I’d love to look inside Arno Vale to see how much has changed. I expect they’ll have the toilets inside tne building now! I did go inside the school briefly in 1976 when our children attended there for 6 weeks (we were staying with my parents as we were ‘between’ houses) it did look brighter than I remember and the headmistress was Miss Lee who used to teach the second infants class. She obviously didn’t remember me - well it was 27 years since I was in her class - but I remembered her as she was very nice and wore a red jumper which I liked!

@benjamin1945 it’s never too late if you really want it to happen! Well, dancing in tne moonlight is certainly possible….. Perhaps someone could arrange an evening meet up when there’s a full moon

@mary1947 I remember those floods. Some friends of my parents had a house in Chapel St Leonard’s and the water came around 3 feet up their walls. We weren’t there at the time but the next time we went to visit them, they showed us the watermark on the internal walls

Thank you Mary x

BK. No I didn’t because I’d already had too much food during the day including a strawberry cream tea at lunchtime!

Thank you everyone for my birthday wishes. Didn’t do anything special during the day but went round to see one of our sons and his family and enjoyed a takeaway together. Perfect!

CT, ‘Yet again’ is very true. Surely another year hasn’t gone by….. There must be a formula somewhere that explains the acceleration of time as we get older. Thanks for your good wishes for the second time today.

Not Nottingham - sorry - but B&M are now occupying the large Wilko site in Ely. Looks good….

@MelissaJKelly pleased you’ve got yourself a new job. Hope it’s one that you’ll enjoy x

So sorry to read the sad news @nonnaB thinking of you and your brothers family x

@troggSorry your wife has been really poorly but pleased she has you to look after her. “In sickness and in health’. i wonder if any of us really thought about what we were saying in our marriage vows