BilboroughShirley

Gone out of business since selfies took over!

Too much American spelling creeping into our fine language Ian. Sulphur is now sulfur! Less letters to type in their version. They have also changed diarrhoea to diarrhea. Again less letters to type. Does this thin it out a bit!

Thoughtless parking. Heading for a car park off a very narrow one way street with double yellow lines both sides I could get no further. Some p*** had parked a car on the yellow lines and left it there, giving no room to get past. I guessed the driver was in a building nearby so my Volvo spoke, loud and clear! After the third time a bloke appeared, got in and drove away. He could not look at me! If he had two brain cells to rub together he would have noticed that 10 yards further along the road was a lay-by where he could still have parked on yellow lines but without blocking the whole road.

Fairy Tale of New York.

Great photo. Thanks. A lovely place to work. Lots of laughs and nice customers.

Welcome to Nottstalgia. The new publication sounds good.

Hi Auris246. In the 1950s and 60s a family called Belshaw lived on Tremayne Road in Bilborough. The daughter was Christine and her older brother Laurence.

The Handmaid's Tale. Margaret Atwood's novels are a good read. Just finished Maddaddam and now reading The Heart Goes Last. Turning The Handmaid's Tale into TV series must have been a challenge due to the complexity of the story line and the grim content. They have toned it down a bit.

Great photo of Victoria Centre and Scan. I remember shopping in there when it opened and seeing the staff I used to work with when we were all at Farmers shop. Lovely memories. Thanks Ian.

He looks lovely! Thanks for the photo. Being a bit threadbare means he has been well loved. A great addition to the household.

So glad to hear that the bear was rescued by you Compo. Your good deed for the day. Just a thought Compo, will you be posting a photo of the bear?

A great day today. Enjoyed teaching chemistry and physics this afternoon, then a bit of retail therapy before going to an excellent concert at Coventry Cathedral. The Coventry Cathedral Chorus joined forces with the Sons of Jubal on their Ignite Tour. The Sons of Jubal are from Georgia, America. They were good. The event was to raise funds for the NSPCC. An excellent evening.

I like to look in second hand book shops to see how much they are selling for. Quite a lot! I still will not part with them. I have some of the early paperback ones too. Nice bit of social history.

Clockwise is a favourite of mine, especially the part with the hymn "He who would valiant be against all disaster!" Very funny and very appropriate. When my friend and I saw this at the cinema we laughed so much our eyes were sore and our ribs ached. We were helpless at the part where the head uses his binoculars to spot smokers from his office. We used to work at a school where the head of year spotted smokers from the staff room window using binoculars.

I still have my Rupert Annuals. I loved them, the rhymes and the illustrations. Other early favourites were the Enid Blyton Adventure books: The Sea of Adventure and The Mountain of Adventure. Also the Secret Seven books. One special book I recall is Davy Crockett. My grandfather read this to me long before I learned to read! Loved it. I still have his book.

A certain well known delivery service had a parcel for us. We were out so the person put a card through the door. It had lots of boxes to fill in to let us know what they had done with the parcel. NONE of them were filled in! No phone number. The on-line tracking for the parcel still says "your parcel is on its way to the courier" and this is 4 days later. My concern for the future is that if they move over to delivery by drones will our parcels end up on the space station?

Before he joined the RAF my dad worked on nights at the Guardian Journal newspaper office. When war broke out they used to have to take turns turning on the hose pipe on the roof to check it in case of bombing/fire. One time when it was his turn my dad sprayed the water over the roof and down into the street. Later that night he heard that some "ladies of the night" had been into the front office complaining that someone had p....... on them from the roof! Dad and his friends had a good laugh!

There was a branch of Lancaster and Thorpe near where we live. A decent optician and nice to see they were based in Nottingham. Bit of nostalgia! They closed and were taken over by Vision Express. My husband thought Vision Express pricey so he took our son's advice and went to Specsavers!

I have come across these two on my travels. A solicitor's called Wright Hassll An estate agent called Swindells

Happy birthday. Have a great day.

Interesting film of the Rock Cemetery catacombs. Thanks for posting this. The previous post about the General Cemetery shows a shocking state. Horrified! My grandmother was buried there.

Today I registered on a website for an account I will use to do with work. All the usual questions and the test to make sure I am not a robot! No problem with that. I do not see why they need to know my age, just that I am over 18. I have sometimes given my year of birth as 1900 and it has been accepted in online registration forms! The gender question is OK so they can address me as Mrs. Fine. The new question that I have never seen before asked what gender I identified as! Political correctness gone mad. I ignored this.

I saw a news item about Kate going shopping this week with a comment about her doing this when she is 8 months pregnant. I wonder if she was out to get a supply of sugary drinks before the tax is put on today?

Yes! Thinking about this, it was probably an overlocking machine that our neighbour used at Drewry and Edwards as she seemed to get quite a lot of injuries. It was enough to put me off!

Thanks Jill. It is good to know that someone else shares my view of electric sewing machines! My paternal grandmother was a seamstress and my maternal grandfather's sister did beautiful dressmaking but I have not inherited this ability. Sewing skills are not in the genes! I wonder how many of those who worked in the clothing factories of that time actually enjoyed sewing. My guess is that many went into it as a source of income and employment.