Oztalgian

Only six games left for Forest to get themselves out of the mire and avoid the drop. Here are Nostroztalgians thoughts. These predictions are based on the fact that the City Ground is no longer the fortress that it once was W5, D4, L7 and that their away form is atrocious only having W2, D4, L10 13 April at home vs Wolves who have a good away record. A draw 1 point 21 April away vs Everton whose home record is not that good. A draw 1 point 27 April home vs Manchester City who are well in the title race. A loss 0 points 4 May away vs Sheffield United who may well be rel

Forest - The Reds have not benefitted from Everton having 2 more penalty points being awarded against them by the EPL. Everton are now 2 points ahead of Forest with a game in hand. Forest play Everton away on Sunday 21st April. Will be an interesting fixture that could have a major effect on who gets relegated.

They certainly have it joins the main road through Kirkby the B6020 and at that end is called Urban Road. Hodgkinson Street near where it meets Urban Road is where the Kirkby Leisure Centre is. I worked just down Urban Road before I emigrated.

Could easily have been different if not for that disastrous own goal start they gave Spurs. They certainly had enough chances but as usual did not take them.

There certainly are Mary Wards and Stones from Sheffield. Stones Bitter wasn't a bad drop Holes and Warwick and Richardson from Newark. I liked the odd pint of Holes Bitter in one of the pubs in my village. Somehow I don't think the next generation of drinkers will remember the myriad of craft breweries that are emerging with the same fondness of those mentioned here. Perhaps Castle Rock brewery may be developing that heritage.

Mary, I think you will find they are an American Company founded in 1919 in Sterling, Illinois. You might wonder how I know this, well, I have been to their headquarters as when I was working we supplied some of their plastic injection moulding tools from here in Australia.

Not my parents, but my grandad. I was often sent to the off license in the village with a jug for his Shipstones bitter. Took a big glug once, never again. Had to get his Craven A untipped if he needed some too.

Forest - Only goal difference keeps them out of the "drop zone" after a 3-1 defeat at Spurs. It didn't start well for the Reds after Murillo diverted a cross ball into his own net. Just before that he almost scored goal of the season when well in his own half when he spotted the Spurs 'keeper off his line and attempted to lob him, unfortunately the effort dropped just wide. Chris Wood scored again to equalise for Forest and they went in 1-1 at half time. Spurs lead was restored by Micky van de Ven in the 56th minute with what my wife would call "a Bobby Charlton special" with a screamer from j

I love my cricket. Test matches are the pinnacle of the sport. Kerry Packer started the slow decline of the game with his World Series Cricket in 1977 with the game being given the name "Pajama Cricket" by the traditionalists, which initially split cricket in half in Australia. Today we have the 20/20 big bash which is slowly reducing in popularity and the number of games this season were reduced. I cannot comment on the 100 as I have never seen it. The rise of the IPL has put players wages into the stratosphere in countries where the game is a way of life. I see the Saudi's are trying to get

County - On the winning list again at last. Their first win at Meadow Lane under Maynard. That man Langstaff popped in a penalty during time on in the first half after Luca Ashby Hammond saved a spot kick. County scored twice in the second half with goals from Jones and O'Brien. Harrogate had its' chances but could not convert them to goals. Away at Walsall next Saturday. 15th on the ladder, there is not much interest left for County fans as a mid-table position looks likely after a promising start. Stags - Crawley Town crush wobbly Stags 1-4 at Field Mill knocking them out of an automati

Same here. We keep giving our resources away and stubbornly refuse to insist on adding value to it here in Australia. If you are China you pay AU$3.80 per gigajoule for LNG. until 2027. Australian domestic consumers are paying around AU$10 a gigajoule. There is a risk that the East Coast and Southern Australia gas supplies will not be able to meet domestic demand in winter 2025 due to having to meet export contracts. Can someone tell me under what strange system of economics does this work?

They do say that "If you can remember the sixties you weren't really there!"

Great music Ben. Released by Van McCoy in the summer of the year we emigrated. Used in so many films. This version with Pan's People really gets my motor running. https://youtu.be/V3kE0rvAJhM

If you remember the case where a police officer tasered 95 year old Clare Nolan who fell, hit her head and had a bleed on the brain. Sadly she subsequently died of her injuries. The police officer Kristian White aged 33 has today been charged with manslaughter. He has formally pleaded not guilty and been released on bail until his trial is heard on 11th November, later this year

It is very difficult to find something that is not "Made in China" these days. I don't think our pollie wafflers know what sovereign capability and sovereign capacity mean. Long time since I've heard the word "gubbins", it was one of my dad's favourites alongside "doins"

Stags - Doncaster Rovers did the Stags a massive favour last night by beating Wrexham 1-0 at the Eco Power Stadium, sounds nowhere near as good as Belle Vue as I knew it, last night. That leaves both Stags and Stockport with a game in hand over Wrexham. Barring a major wobble I can't see any other club outside the current top three getting an automatic promotion spot. Stags play 7th placed Crawley Town at home, Stockport and Wrexham both have an easier games this weekend Stockport playing 22nd placed Sutton Utd away, whist Wrexham play 23rd placed Colchester United away. The battle for the pla

For those cats that are not kept at home during the day and indoors overnight then in my view the only good cat is a flat cat. I regularly see the remains of our local native wildlife, not just birds, killed by both domestic and feral animals. There are many cat repellant plants you can put in the garden, we have a number of lavender plants around and never see any cats. Rosemary and Oregano work well too.

Forest - Arsenal did the Reds a big favour last night by beating Luton 2-0 which now puts Forest 3 points clear of Luton on the same number of games. Forest away at Spurs on Sunday where a point is probably the best they can hope for. Luton are at home to 11th placed AFC Bournemouth on Saturday. Come Sunday it is quite possible that they will both again be on the same number of points as the number of games left dwindles.

It's from the radiation they leak warping the space time continuum. Daylight saving plays havoc with the Cold Coast Airport at Coolangatta, The main runway cuts through the border of NSW and Queensland which have an hour time difference in summer. The airport runs on Queensland time but if you have a mobile phone the time can change by an hour when walking through the terminal depending whether your phone is pinging from a NSW or a QLD tower

No wonder the UK is stuffed and we in OZ are well on the way to being the same. When, why and how did it all go so wrong! Is it the growing gulf between the haves and have nots? Is it the rise of legal and illegal immigration? Are the police so chronically undermanned and under resourced that they cannot investigate "minor" and non violent crimes. Is it the justice system that so often hands out sentences that do not fit the crime committed? Is the bail system too lenient?

So who is going to police action against these thieves and how are they supposed to do it? Yet again, it looks like the bad guys are winning or are the police too busy pursuing hate crimes.

When they change the clocks, I wonder how long it takes the good folks at the Museum of Timekeeping in Upton Hall to change all theirs or don't they bother. I cannot abide a clock that shows the wrong time. You cannot believe how long it takes me to get the clock on the microwave and the wall oven, which are adjacent to each other to show the same time. Surely the people who design wall ovens could make the changing of the time on the clock easier. We put our clocks back on Sunday, darker evenings from then until October. Yah, Boo, Hiss.

Today the MD of Drakes supermarkets, a smaller version of Coles and Woolies which has stores in South Australia and Queensland, has announced that high value goods, mainly expensive cuts of meat will be packaged in a container that has a GPS tracker embedded within it. The tracker is removed at the till which means that the customer cannot use the self-check outs. We have just had our police commissioner on radio saying that they cannot guarantee police attendance if a GPS tracker indicates that goods have left the store without payment. Drakes say they are using the same system that is u

Forest - Three people shy of 29,000 fans saw Forest get a convincing and very welcome 3-1 win over Fulham at the City Ground last night that moves them 3 points clear of the relegation zone. Hudson Odoi opened Forest's account in the 9th minute. Chris Wood again got his name on the score sheet in the 19th minute and Morgan Gibbs-White sent Forest in 3-0 at half time with a goal in time on. Fulham came out looking like a different team in the second half and chances were there for both teams to add to their tallies. The woodwork saved both teams in a frenetic second half. Forest away at 5th pla