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We need a new Larwood and Voce. Shout down the shaft of one of the local mines and up will pop a new England fast bowler. Oops no pits, no wonder we're short of bowlers.

The heading of the thread got me to thinking of these stores in Mansfield. I can remember either a Farrands or Marsdens just off the corner of the market place at the top end of Church Street almost opposite the Police box. Others that have been mentioned on another site are opposite Broomhill School, Wood Street and Moor Street and I think on Sutton Road There was also a Marsdens at Wood'us I wonder if our Ben graced them with his presence

Lets see if they can get Smith out today

Jill This should bring back some memories of Sunday lunchtime

England playing their usual "Collapso Cricket" again

That could be my memories coll0410. A different colliery village, but the same sounds. Not a Mackemsons bus but a Butlers Brothers Bedford OB bus, The B8 ran through the village but it was only MDT buses that came to the canteen, the odd Lodekka but mostly AEC Regents The first pit hooter of the day often woke me up to do my paper round and a few years later when I started work

What about the infinite improbability drive The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy's entry on the drive also states that it was invented "following research into finite improbability, which was often used to break the ice at parties by making all the molecules in the hostess' undergarments leap one foot simultaneously to the left, in accordance with the theory of indeterminacy". It further explains that many respectable physicists wouldn't stand for that sort of thing, "partly because it was a debasement of science, but mostly because they didn't get invited to those sort of parties."

Beekay did that flask have a tartan print on the outside? I had a similar one with a wide mouth that you could put really chunky soup or chipolata sausages and beans in. Great on a cold winters day when fishing. Did you subscribe to milk in the flask or one who insisted that the milk be added separately, in our case from a Camp coffee bottle.

We do that when we want crumbs for coating a Schnitzel

I'm on my favourite rant again, packaging. This time it is about cereal or any other boxes that have the stupid "to close insert tab opposite here" closures. When I try to close a newly opened box of cereals immediately after use the contents settle, the box swells in the middle and there is no way you can get the tab to stay under or in the little slot or as often happens the little slot rips and then becomes no use at all. As I get older I find my tolerance to all kinds of stupidity decreases.

A creditable draw away at Leeds, a team that many believe are dead certs for promotion. Just hope that the Reds are up there with them at the end of the season

A terrible start to non-league life. I know it's early days but at the wrong end of the table, on the upside it can only get better - we hope.

There appears to be a bit of an outcry about gambling, Rooney and the sponsorship of the sheep.

Not the best of starts for any of the Notts clubs. Lizzie M being there did not help the Reds. The Stags drew 2-2 at Newport and County lost their first ever game in the National League and had two players sent off.

I use it to keep my page tidy after I have read what I want to read. But just noticed that it had cleared to old posts after logging out and then back in again?

The "Mark Site Read" function is not working. If you click on it you are asked if you want to mark the site as read and if you click OK you get a black box at the bottom of the screen that says "loading" and it then returns you to where you were without deleting the posts.

Might have got a fivefer but from 8 for 122 to all out for 284 they found it amazingly difficult to get two assumed batting bunnies out before Smith took them to the cleaners. What were the coaches and captain telling the bowlers? We shall see if, yet again, they have snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. Where was the killer instinct to blast out the two bunnies?

Apparently the average human stomach holds around a litre or a quart of liquid. Some of the drinkers I knew must have processed it quickly because they had an amazing capacity for beer. Any of you blokes heard the expression "breaking the seal". You can drink for quite a long time until you really need to go to the loo and after that first time you then have to go on a regular basis.

Drink as much as you feel you need to but please use a refillable bottle. Buying bottled water in a blow moulded single use plastic bottle is not good for the environment and stupidly expensive too.

England doing well in the first session, 2 of the sandpaper trio out, just need to get Smith before he gets really settled in. The TV coverage is sub-par, what is the obsession with ultra close ups, just pull back so we can see the fielding positions not some stupid graphic in the corner. What is with those ridiculously large numbers on the players backs, what use are they? They have their names on the shirts I'd like to be able to listen on the radio but our ABC (BBC equivalent) have decided only to broadcast via an app on your digital devices, what plonkers, whose mobile phon

When I got my first car a quid would buy you 3 gallons of petrol and you got green stamps. It is now one pound thirty a litre Remember there are 4.54 litres to a gallon, another rip off when the UK went "metric"

It has not started well for the Forest on the home front, losing 2-1 to Mansfield at Field Mill. Yes I can hear the cries of "but it was only a friendly" maybe, but if you cant beat a team that is in the bottom tier of league football then I wonder what the new season holds? At home to WBA on Saturday and the week after away at Leeds

Great photos Compo, I look at the one of the burn it and can hear the water babbling along.

You can see a picture of the SkeggVegas Wild Mouse on this link. Just hover your mouse pointer over the link and click http://cdm15847.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15847coll3/id/5701/rec/1

So do I Deepdene, but after that performance against Ireland?