OrphanAnnie

Coincidentally it's Yoko's birthday today - in 1973 she was voted the most hated woman in Britain, would it be because she was blamed for John moving to America??

I'd been summoned to school to collect my sick daughter, as I was tucking her in on the settee I had the TV on and the news was coming through. So poor child had to sit through that instead of the cartoons I had promised her!!

Whiter Shade Of Pale - Procul Harum The Living Years - Paul Carrack The Air That I Breathe - Hollies Please Don't Leave Me - Pink My Life - The Beatles

Barriers have recently been up at Stoke Railway station, so if you want to meet someone off a train or wait with them to see them off you can't! There is no access to the platforms unless you have a travel ticket, so no access to the buffet, toilets or waiting rooms. Or if you are running late and want to pay on the train you can't either. The only place to wait is by the ticket office. This led to me think if platform tickets are going to be resurrected? I'm sure there was a machine on Midland Station for getting a platform ticket, think they were about 3d? Do trainspotters still exist -

There was a tripe shop on Radford Road in the 70's, always used to smile at the sign in the window 'Quality Tripe'. I didn't even know what an oxymoron was either.....

When I was about 14 my uncle used to take me every Saturday afternoon to the Playhouse - I think he must have had complimentary tickets. John Neville was there, and Ann Bell. I remember seeing Robert Ryan as Othello (Ann Bell played Desdemona) and was fascinated catching glimpses of his white skin at the top of his legs where the make up hadn't covered them. Everytime he moved his costume slipped, reminded me of my aunt who had a 'tidemark' on her neck where her panstick didn't cover! I also recall a couple of school outings there when I was in the drama club. Is the Playhouse still there

Come to think of it I don't think I did! No wonder it tasted so good....

On my first foray into Aldi I bought various items, pleasantly surprised at the low prices. I estimated I'd sepnt under a tenner - when the total came up at the checkout it was £68! Naturally I queried it, the cashier agreed it seemed a lot for such few items. She read down the receipt, and came to 'electric lawn mower' £59.99. We both looked in the trolley, no lawn mower there. I was so shocked, all I could think of to say was 'I haven't got a garden'. The good news was I hadn't been charged for a head of broccoli, obviously a mix up on the barcodes. To give the girl her due she was m

It's also annoying when you do pick the right items on offer, but the till hasn't been updated! This happened to me in Boots, buying hair colour on 'Buy One get one half price'. The item was £6.50 and the total came up as £11.99. The cashier was adamant this was correct because 'the till says so'. I was being charged £7.99, and she said I had read the price ticket wrong. I decided I didn't want them (huff and puff while she cancelled the sale) and offered to return them to the shelf. Adjusted my glasses and read the ticket again, my product was definately £6.50. I went back to the cashie

I enjoyed a good read through and learned some things so it was not in vain!! Maybe it will get a new lease of life now?

I'm glad you finally got our jigsaws Carni - I'm a 500er too. When my mum was in the General Hospital way back when there was a huge jigsaw set out on a table in the ward and visitors could donate 5p to add a piece. Great money raiser and addictive!

I love Nottingham because whenever I am reminiscing (which seems to be more often as the years fly by) it is places/people there I am thinking about. Such as schooldays, first crush, first love, memories happy and sad. As I've mentioned before when we first came to Nottingham in 1966 we lived in the Meadows, and I find that more and more that house and shop figure in my dreams even though most of the people in the dreams I do not know and there are changes in the surroundings but the shop and living rooms remain the same. Sorry sounds weird!!

OMG indeed I saw him at the theatre as Iago he was mesmerising. Also loved hm in Bouquet and Casanova. RIP Frank x

He was full of Irish charm, I loved listening to him on Radio 2. A loss to entertainment, RIP Sir Terry

Just heard that Eagles singer Glenn Frey has died, RIP a great loss to music and one of the greatest groups ever

I recall hearing that both Michael Parkinson and John Alderton were born in Yorkshire, their mothers being made to spend their final days of confinement there purely so the babies if male would be able to play for Yorkshire. My great grandfather was a cricket bat maker and made them for the great W G Grace. I was brought up on cricket, my father would take a radio on holiday so he could listen to the matches. There also used to be a dial service like the speaking clock, I think it was 16 for the latest score?

We lived in Burton until I was 13, once a month on Sunday we would catch the Bartons bus from Swadlincote to Long Eaton to visit my grandma and assorted aunts and uncles. I think it was the Midland Red service from Burton to Swadlincote? Grandma always dosed us with either a Beechams pill or a tiny piece of Exlax, to keep us regular I should think but I always thought she was a bit mean with the chocolate and once ate the whole block (which was the size of a box of matches). I never did it again!! We always had bread and butter with our tinned fruit for tea, my aunt still does to this day.

So many words change meaning over the years - perhaps I should have written swooning but you all made me laugh!!!!

He was my favourite baddie, I was so shocked to hear of his passing and didn't realise he had been ill. RIP a great loss to acting

So true - I often find that something like a snatch of a song heard transports me back to a particular event and I will be smiling for the rest of the day! An example today listening to Blackberry Way I was a 14 year old schoolgirl hanging around the hall where some alterations were taking place, mooning after a young handsome carpenter..... happy days

Just heard breaking news David Bowie has died. Am shocked, he was a ground breaking musician and I always liked to hear him being interviewed. Great loss x

I didn't know he was a bass player Ian, but whenever I hear 'Grocer Jack' I am instantly transported to Saturday morning listening to Stewpot. RIP

Reading those terrible posts made me shudder too Hippo Girl, and I realise how lucky we were at our school where the worst punishment was detention or lines - and we felt hard done by! I know corporal punishment was a regular practice but that guy sounds barbaric. I remember a teacher at Mundella once throwing a blackboard rubber at one of the lads in class for not paying attention but can't recall anyone being caned. On the same subject but not to do with school, I watched a programme on Cilla Black where she was singing 'Liverpool Lullaby' and noticed the lyrics had changed from 'You'll ge

Didn't they have a table skittle game and a shove ha'penny board on the bar in there or was it another pub further down? I remember calling in one Sunday lunchtime with my brother and vouching for him being old enough to drink and the barman asking if I was his mother cheeky sod.

#37 true Michael, all the superstitions I know came from my mum and the list is endless - I don't know how I've managed to live a normal life! I won't have figures or pictures of birds in the house, won't wear pearls as they bring tears, deffo won't wash on New Year's Day (or else you wash a life away), won't stir tea in the pot, won't cross knives and won't cross on the stairs to name but a few. Yet I know people who flout these everyday and disaster hasn't struck them......