Oztalgian

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  1. Just taken our new car in for a service and one of the things they offered was to install Apple or Android car play into the car. I will not have anything to do with Apple based on their early customer model that you had to buy specific Apple cables, chargers or headphones. they lost me as a customer then, similar experience with early Sony products. When we said no the service guys were taken aback and said "but everyone has had it installed". When asked what could I do with it they said run google maps through your phone, why? the car has a perfectly serviceable GPS system. Play radio and mu
  2. What about that famous Russian billiards player...……….. "Inoff the Red"
  3. Jim That song is heartbreaking, it was 21 years ago last week that I lost my mum. It would have been a fitting tribute to her too. I never knew that Ed Sheeran did stuff like that, I shall look at his music in a new light.
  4. MargieH The Britain of the first verse is the one I remember too, the country lanes along the Trent valley, and in north Nottinghamshire, the hills and dales of Derbyshire and the windswept lonely fens of Lincolnshire were all part of my childhood and still evoke memories today. Having spent most of my life down under the rest resonates inside me too.
  5. It certainly does DJ360, I cannot remember when I last listened to a LP from beginning to end. It must have been at the same time I was transferring vinyl to digital too. It is embarrassing to say that I remember the LP it was "The Sound of Music" as the leader of the opposition likes that sort of stuff. Recently spent time transferring from CD to USB as our new car does not have a CD player and at the same time I backed them up to a separate hard drive. I am not a fan of using the phone in the car for music. Having spent the last twenty years of my working life beholden to a pager t
  6. This poem by Dorothea Mackellar just about sums up this country especially verse two The love of field and coppice Of green and shaded lanes, Of ordered woods and gardens Is running in your veins. Strong love of grey-blue distance, Brown streams and soft, dim skies I know, but cannot share it, My love is otherwise. I love a sunburnt country, A land of sweeping plains, Of ragged mountain ranges, Of droughts and flooding rains. I love her far horizons, I love her jewel-sea, Her beauty and her terror The wide brown land for me! The stark white ring-
  7. RR The Trent End looks much different to my last visit to the City Ground in 1975 Three memories that stand out of my attendance in the old East stand opposite the 18 yard line at the Trent End are as follows 6th April 1967 Ian Storey Moore's hat trick against Everton in the 6th round of the FA Cup. I remember Labone clogging Zigger Zagger and I still reckon that Greaves goal in the semi was a mis-hit. Ian Storey Moore is now 75????? 28 October 1967 Record crowd of just shy of 50,000 vs Manchester United 24th August 1968 The fire in the main stand when playing Leeds fro
  8. Keep On Running - Spencer Davis Group Band on the Run Paul McCartney and Wings Runaway - Del Shannon Take the Money and Run - The Steve Miller Band Fox on the Run - Manfred Mann
  9. Songs about food, again my favourite first Fast Food Song - Fast Food Rockers Green Onions - Booker T and the MG"s Bangers and Mash - Peter Sellers and Sophia Loren Banana Boat Song - Harry Belafonte I like Bread and Butter - The Newbeats
  10. RR I was commenting on the fact that you don't see many brewery signs on pubs these days It was Bamber who said
  11. Thanks Bamber, I had never heard that but wonder why I am not surprised that the property developers win out again.
  12. As I said in another thread I took a Google drive around some of my old haunts and it is amazing to see how many pubs and working mens clubs and miners welfares I knew are no longer there. Not many of the pubs I did know have signs showing whose beer they serve, is it because they are now "Free Houses" and not tied to a brewery or that the beer is so bad they are ashamed to advertise it.
  13. DJ 360 here is my effort on guns with my all time favourite first Cows With Guns - Dana Lyons God and Guns - Lynyrd Skynyrd I've Shot Every Gun - Steve Lee Tommy Gun - The Clash The Guns of Navarone - The Skatelites
  14. Thanks CT and Stuart, Back then I probably did not even know that Daybrook had a station so unlikely to have been aware of what I was looking at. Just had a google drive along Mansfield Rd from Red Hill towards Nottingham and apart from the Wagon and Horses, the Ram, St Paul's Church, the Old Spot (now The Coopers Brook), the Home Brewer façade and the L&R Morley building very little else triggers memories. Is it me or does the road pass much closer to the front of the Home Brewery building than it used to do?
  15. RR they look more like croissants than sausages and I won't say what the two fried eggs look like.
  16. It was my grandad that first took me to see the Forest in the fifties and he always stood on the 18 yard line in the East stand nearest the Bridgford/Kop end of the ground. As a kid, so I could see, I was passed down to the front to be right up against what to me then was a rather substantial wall. He and his mates always called it the Kop as I remember it seemed a strange word which I later learned was from the Battle of Spion Kop in the Boer War which was on a hill which became the name for terraces usually behind a goal at UK football grounds. To me the Bridgford end was more used
  17. Would the BeRo factory have been visible from a double decker travelling towards Nottingham on Mansfield Rd? As a little-un in the late fifties I always knew when we were not far from Nottingham when we passed the Home Brewery and Daybrook Laundry but I can't recall ever seeing a BeRo sign or factory.
  18. Songs about work Working Man - David Alexander (Also about mining) Working Class Man - Jimmy Barnes 9 to 5 - Dolly Parton Matthew and Son - Cat Stevens Banana Boat Song - Harry Belafonte
  19. If you are feeling a bit gloomy here are five songs about disasters The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald - Gordon Lightfoot The Pretoria Pit Disaster - The Houghton Weavers The Ballad of Springhill - Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda - Eric Bogle Swiss Air 111 - Caroll Edwards
  20. Yes a good innings. He did a creditable job of playing two roles in the Australian film of Banjo Paterson's classic poem "The Man From Snowy River" If you like poetry check it out,
  21. Often had a pint or two in the Horse and Groom opposite Linby Docks. Did you know they were a target of the Luftwaffe during WWII. The little stream flowing in the channels is a tributary of the River Leen The pub was damaged by vandals throwing paint all over the front of the building last November. Photo StiGGy's vegie plot- wordpress.com
  22. Mary a Wolseley4/44 was a very up market car in its day. An uncle of mine had one and the things I remember most was the smell of the leather and the illuminated badge in the radiator grille.