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I could not afford to smoke right now a pack of 25 gaspers is between 13.47 and 16.16 quid down under and forecast to rise in next months budget. They are forecast to rise to over 21 quid by the end of the decade.

I think the descriptions must suffer from translation. Barbera D'Alba - Average ripe cheese, no way, I only eat good quality cheese. Barbaresco - "Stainless wood vats"? what are these? Tasting notes use the word "Harsh" not a word like to hear in connection with wine. Piemonte Barbera- "Bouquet is winey" not surprising after all it is wine. What else do people expect? Many Australian Vineyards produce Barbera. These is the tasting notes of Coriole Vineyards Barbera 2005 sounds much better than the Italian versions. From their website. Wine making notes - Wine making a Coriole is very trad

Through out my working life I was forced to undergo those stupid and utterly useless character assessments and mine always came back saying that I did not suffer fools gladly. So thinking more about it I thought I had made a mistake once but I was wrong.

As a young un I went to the Forest home games with either my dad or granddad and was always "passed to the wall" in the east stand on the 18 yard line at the kop end. Saw Bobby McKinlay many many times and was there at his testimonial against Glasgow Celtic in 1965? My memories of McKinlay were his ability to read the game and look unhurried in almost all that he did. I remember one game when the ball was played forward and was going over Bob's head so he reached up and caught it, immediately placed it on the ground for the free kick and retired to the goal line. It was the only obvious profe

We have the same recall downunder. They were sold here from 1st November 2015 until February 10th 2016 in every state in Australia.

Talking of Areas....... Today in the north of South Oz a sheep/cattle station (farm) was sold for $7.1 million, about 3.5 million quid. Its size is 3,300 square kilometers, about one and a half times the area of Nottinghamshire. Not particularly big by Oz standards as the biggest in the world is South Australia's Anna Creek Station of 24,000 square kilometers, about one and a half times the size of the East Midlands. Each cow has nearly two square kilometers. She's a bl**dy big country is Oz

Benjamin, You were right Forest played Valencia in the Inter Cities Fairs cup in 61/62 and did indeed loose 5-1 at home. It was very disappointing in which I think was their first foray into Europe. They played Eintracht Frankfurt in the first round of the 67/68 at home and won 4-0 but went out to FC Zurich? on the away goals rule in the second round. Somewhere among the memorabilia I have the programs for the 67/68 home games but a move half way round the world and another half way across OZ makes putting my hands on them a little difficult. One day when I am looking for something else the

Hi nnsc and benjamin1945, thanks for your responses. It is really strange how memory works, now I have seen the programme cover I do recall the match but unlike benjamin I have no clear memories of the game. I guess that as it was a "friendly" there was nothing riding on it so it did not really register with me. Bugga, now you've got me trying to think of the team.

Skeg, (Jinglebells) and Mabelthorpe were of course the nearest and most visited but my favourite was Scarborough especially the North End and the naval battle at Peasholm Park.

Whilst all the fuss about the 150th anniversary is going on does anyone remember what, if anything, happened for the 100th anniversary. As an early teenage Reds fan then I cannot remember anything special happening or maybe just not on my radar in those days. Any of you Forest fans have any memories?

Ian #262 Ah, Kendal mint cake one of the tastes of summer camping in the Lake District along with Deb instant mashed potato, Surprise peas and tins of stewing steak. Rations and stoves and utensils all carried on your back along with the two man "Itisa" tent and water from the streams. On one "memorable" hike over Wetherlam in the Coniston Fells to camp near Levers Water one of my mates, new to camping, was given the task of making the mashed potato and did not know that you had to add the Deb to boiling water and used cold water from a spring. The result was something akin to a concrete blo

Carni #245 I like Jasper Carott's Day Trip to Blackpool version better, slightly rude but funny. Many things that most of us have done at many seaside towns. Not Vinyl Vera though.

Won't work nowadays with everyone having a mobile phone but a favourite one at work in my youth was engineers blue on the earpiece of the old black bakelite phones or worse still on the black plastic toilet seats.

Compo #240, Great memories, seeing the patch on one of the tubes reminded me that my dad always took the bike puncture repair kit with him to the beach just in case. The valve stem in the tube could do untold damage if you were not careful. Often used truck inner tubes to go over the small weir on the far side of the island at Hazelford Ferry, a short walk downstream from the Star and Garter? and over to the lock on the island or a swim across the main river to the island. When we could afford it we progressed to the lilo's similar to the one the girl is sitting on. An early version of today'

Thanks Compo, #3429 I've never heard of Pripsen but it did remind me of this. At a church one Sunday, the hell fire and damnation vicar was preaching about the evils of the demon drink and by way of an example showed the congregation two glasses, one containing water and the other containing whisky. He said "Here I have two humble earthworms by which I will demonstrate the harm that the demon drink can do to you" He then put one earthworm into the water and it kept on wriggling. He put the other in the whisky and it shriveled up and died. Whereupon he proclaimed "Well brethren what does this

Some long forgotten treats there Ian. #3422 Beech Nut Chewing gum usually bought from a machine but for the life of me I cannot remember how much. Bee Top Sauce, Mint Cracknels and Caramac Yum Yum. We have something similar to Mint Cracknel downunder called Peppermint Crisp Wasn't Mandora the soft drink brand for Mansfield Brewery? I liked Sunecta brand Mixed Fruit flavor don't know who's brand, if any that was. What was Pripsin?

benjamin1945 #3414 "Spoggies", plenty here along with "blackbods". Don't know how they got here must have emigrated.

Hi Morton40 Welcome to the Forum, I particularly enjoyed your posts about the ROF. Look forward to more. I am a 10 pound Pom as I left Notts in 1975 and now in Adelaide. Soon be enough Nottstalgians here to have a Down-Under meet up

Auf Wiedersehen Pet - Becoming increasingly relevant again as jobs continue to disappear 'Allo 'Allo - Refreshingly funny Goodnight Sweetheart - Interesting storyline - Bugga not on YouTube Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - TV Series not quite as good as the radio series but well worth watching Minder - "The World is your Lobster" I regularly watch many of these and other shows mentioned on my favourite tv channel YouTube

Don't know about the rest of you Nottstalgians but the sounds of my childhood and youth seem to be leaving us very often this year. Coming from a pit village one of my enduring memories of Cliff Michelmore is him being the link man for the Aberfan disaster coverage, how he held himself together through those dreadful scenes was beyond me. RIP Cliff Michelmore

Reading through PeverilPeril's posts brought back many memories of my time as an apprentice toolmaker, along with names of long forgotten machine tools. It must be forty years since I heard the term Jarvo or being sent to the stores for a "long wait" I have recollections of one time on night shift when the owner of the factory called in on his way home from some do and one bloke had the motor out of his Zephyr on the Newall jig borers being rebored, the cylinder head and crankshaft on the Jones and Shipman surface and cylindrical grinders respectively. Just a quiet look was all that was need

Thunderbirds have gone. RIP both Sylvia and Gerry, pioneers in puppetry.

I'll give you a couple of tips Be good to your mum Never bet on the nags, dishlickers or the "redhots"

I remember Gunthorpe. As kids we used to go for a drive down to the river near the Unicorn Hotel, a go on the swingboats, a walk along the bank to see the weir and if anything was going through the lock and then back for a pint for dad, a shandy for mum and Tizer and crisps or us kids. Simple pleasures and happy times.

If your father worked in one of the local pits do you remember the "Pit Trip" where all the kids all went to the seaside for a day trip. The men all contributed a small amount from their wages and on one day a year we all went on the train to the seaside. I know at some pits the trains left from the pit yards to far away places like Skegness, Mabelthorpe, and even as far as Cleethorpes (uggh). We all had vouchers for pop and crisps on the train and many spent the journey with their heads hanging out of the windows on the doors. The day involved a very early start, the journey to the coast,