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Ian after reading #52 I re-read #10. The whole message is an aggressive, derogatory, inaccurate and confusing rant. What has the number of chip shops and burger places got to do with free speech? Halal meat is not peculiar to Nottingham, there are dozens of halal registered restaurants in Dublin, Limerick and even a steakhouse in dear old Tipperary. What has backbone got to do with tolerance? I think this line is the crux of your whole tirade and I really don't understand the reference to Tobruk. Someone or several people clearly touched a nerve because of your lack of understanding regard

#10 Feeling a bit peeved Ian?

I have 5 tracks of his on my iPod out of my 3000+. Like I said it's all the arty farty controllers in the media. I wouldn't normally choose his music but I wouldn't necessarily switch him off. If a measure of popularity is sales then when Cliff Richard goes look out for at least 24hrs of non-stop media coverage.

Sad when anyone dies so R.I.P. David Bowie. I've had enough now though. 12 hours of major news channels with half a dozen songs on a loop and all the arty farty commentators analysing his contribution to music to make themselves sound interesting.

LizzieM There was definitely a currency restriction of £50 in force in 68 in the days when Freddie Laker made foreign air travel within reach of everyone.

First holiday abroad was in 1982 after an insurance policy matured. We had 2 weeks in Calas de Mallorca at a cost of £600 for my wife, myself and 2 kids, one child half price and the other one free. The package seemed so good I managed to persuade a few other family friends to go and booked the lot for 17 peeps. The location and setting was superb, a nine storey hotel right on the edge of the clifftop, we were allocated rooms on the 9th which were spacious and everything seemed spot on. A wander down the corridor to the lifts we came across the emergency fire escape door with the push bar ke

Chulla I wish you well in the future. I had a quad bypass 19 years ago and the surgeon said it was ok to have a couple of glasses of red the night before the op, a practice I have continued ever since, it's my take on a mediterranean diet. The nurse said do what you feel like doing, but listen to your body and stop if it complains. Worked so far for me. With your attitude I'm sure that you will be fine.

How is it we've had so many storms since it has been decided to name them? Official term anthropomorphising, no wonder the Met Office costs so much. Given that they are not using Q U X Y and Z we are nearly a quarter of the way through the alphabet in just over a month. Eva tomorrow, what's the betting Frank and Gertrude arrive before the new year?

Quote from diatribe #96 DJ360 "As far as I'm concerned, Amateurs think they know it all and Professionals are painfully aware that they don't, and can't, know everything." According to your missives and by your own definition surely that puts you in the amateur category.

Narcolepsy -- God Rest Ye Merry Gentlzzzzzzzzzzzz Sex Addict -- On the First Day of Christmas, My New Love Gave to me, an Untreatable STD

Taking a chance now, barrel scraping. Nymphomaniac -- Dick and Balls Will Do for Holly PMT -- Hisnuts roasting on an Open Fire

Confused --- We Three Queens Disoriented Are Manic --- Deck the Halls and Walls and House and Street and Town and Cars and Buses and Trees Agoraphobia --- While Shepherds Watched I Couldn't See Because I Wouldn't Leave My House

Senile Dementia --- Walking in a Winter Wonderland Miles From From My House in My Slippers and Robe

OCD --- I Saw Three Ships and they weren't in line

Narcissistic --- Hark the Herald Angels Sing About Me.

Schizophrenia --- Do You Hear What I Hear? Amnesia --- I Don't Know if I'll be Home for Christmas Paranoid --- Santa Claus is Coming to Get Me

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Opening of the largest Malthouse in Australia 3 June 1907 William Jones and Son (Maltsters) Shrewsbury England Messrs. Jones Ltd. placed their Queensland malting under the charge of a trusted employee in the person of William George Chilvers sending him specially from the old country for the purpose. Mr. Chilvers comes of a famous malting family; his parent George Chilvers being the leading maltster of Britain and Mr. W.G. Chilvers was practically recognised as one of the few foremost maltsters, there being but three or fou

Oh Boy! Also by Jack Good. Regulars Marty Wilde, Cliff Richard, Billy Fury and Dickie Pride also Cherry Wainer? and someone called Cuddly Dudley? Check it out on You Tube and study the facial expressions. I would have been about 13/14 and have some recollection of playing the music on my brother's Phillips multi change player and using sister's hairbrush as a mike. I listened to a tape recording of my singing, looked in the mirror and realised that I would be wise to choose a different career. Cheyenne

Blondie #32 A Carole Inger lived near me on Lindfield Road, Broxtowe, good looking girl married a lad from my junior school class Geoff Gamble.

Freddie Mills annual with autograph, presented to me after boxing tournament for Grundy School of Boxing Radford. Mills was found dead in his car in 1965, a bullet hole in his head and a shotgun between his legs. Officially recorded suicide although many people think the Krays were involved.

Kath, Pikelets are available all year round now, the ones we have at home are called crumpets same thing slightly different shape. I had an office in Birmingham for about 15 years and they used the term 'you pikelet' meaning an extremely stupid person. Not to me I might add, well at least not within earshot.

DJ360 #97 Ice cream in the 50s/60s was sold by Pearson's. But when Mr Softee/Mr Whippy arrived.. they seem to have disappeared. Mr Whippy/Softee also sold Crumpets.. for some bizarre reason. (Though as a kid. we always called them what sounded like Pikelets, but I've since found should be 'Pieclets'.. except that 'Pieclets' are a Yorkshire thing and not the same as Crumpets.) I think the ice cream company was Pearces, they morphed into Mr. Whippy and as you say the other company they owned was Golden Crumpets operating out of premises just off Lincoln Street Basford, not quite so bi

I can't remember school dinners too well, only the caramel tart sticks in my memory. (Thorntons do a very good one). Player school had a breakfast club? as well but I never tried it. I was at the senior school for about a year and during this time we used to go to the shops on Chingford Road where there was a chip shop and a grocers next door. The grocer used to sell us bread 'batches' cut in half, we would go into the chip shop hollow out the bread into baskets provided by the chippie and fill the case with chips. Glorious! I then moved to People's College and can't remember school dinners

Vincent my favourite bike in my teenage years, no unfortunately not mine I just loved the machinery. When I was 15 my dad bought me a BSA B31 to 'tidy up' before my 16th birthday, obviously this involved testing it. So me and a mate wheeled it from Lindfield Road to Broxtowe woods and after riding up and down the tracks a few times we became fed up and decided to see what was at the bottom end of the woods. There was an exit, so out we went. We had just reached Heanor when 2 cops came out of the police station and immediately flagged us down. Result was £6 fine for no licence, no tax, mate go