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I wish I could find some thick cut bitter Orange marmalade here. Marmalade here is much too sweet. I reckon that even the imported stuff like Roses and Robertsons is made sweet to suit Australian tastes

Bl**dy heck, that's $230 Australian Dollars with gratuity, not likely to be on my list of eateries should I return. Nowt wrong wi a bowl of chips and lashings of brown sauce

A well known fizzy sugary water company in Adelaide has just closed its bottling plant. Those that do the number crunching say that the plant had no room for expansion and the facilities were old and there were expensive logistics problems. What does this mean? All of these beverages 99.9% water some 19 million cases per year will now be shipped by truck from either :- Brisbane 2,000 km away Perth 2,700 km away What about the environment and food miles, no matter, the bean counters say it will save $20 million annually from 2020 and the site on the edge of the Adelaide CBD

Thanks LizzieM, What is a typical tasting menu and what is pricey? I guess the prices will now go up towards those of Heston and Rick Stein. I don't mind paying for a good meal in pleasant surroundings with attentive but not intrusive staff but I am over designer food with tiny morsels on oversize plates or served on stuff left over from a building site

In see that Nottingham's Restaurant Sat Bains has been voted 4th best in the world in Trip Advisors Travellers Choice Awards. Any recent experiences, reviews, pricing or menus from Nottstalgians. Having stayed in a number of places highly recommended by Trip Adviser where the reality was a long way from the reviews I wonder if this is the case here. If it is not and it is real then good luck to them and well done.

It is filmed in the rural areas around Auckland, a sort of cross between The Archers and Midsomer Murders and yes the dialogue is a bit contrived.

Berni Inns Bus Conductors Leg room on planes Train carriages without corridors Coal mines

In Australia it is a bit of a tradition when going to a large hardware store chain to have a sausage in bread with onions and sauce. The are usually cooked by a charity or school groups and the proceeds go to a good cause. Last week the elf and safety jobsworths issued a decree that the onions must be put underneath the sausage to avoid the risk of them falling out and becoming a slip hazard. The picture below is a politically incorrect sausage in bread because the onions are on the top. What is this world coming too?

BEA/BOAC to British Airways Freddie Laker Shipstones, Kimberley, Home, Mansfield, Holes, Warwicks, Stones breweries, all gone

RIP John Bluthal My first memory of John Bluthal was in the comedy Never Mind The Quality Feel The Width along with Joe Lynch and of course the classic Frank Pickle in The Vicar of Dibley. His contributions to theatre, film and television will be written in the industry's minute book. Thanks for the laughs.

Gitty, or Jitty, Twitchell, Gennell or Ginnell Whichever one of these you use will probably define where you come from in Notts Twitchell was originally peculiar to the city of Nottingham, Gitty or Jitty was commonly used in the mining areas of Notts and Gennell or Ginnell was used in the far north of the county and South Yorkshire What do you use?

Some right old tat for sale that Christmas Cliff Ton

The last surviving Beverley Sister, Babs Beverley has died aged 91. One of the first "Girl Groups", now I guess we'll never know how much that doggie in the window was "Bow Wow"

Here is my "Australian" view of the Armistice Day proceedings Yesterday I watched parts of the Remembrance Day services in Australia, Europe and the UK and I have made the following observations. Having fought the Germans in WW1 with horrific loss of life the Australian Prime Minister turned up at the national remembrance service in Canberra in a BMW ……..How ironic! President Trump could not attend a joint US and French service because it was raining ………….poor diddums! Jeremy Corbyn wearing a hooded anorak …… disrespect It makes me an

I hope you keep posting Beekay as like you I have been away for 40 years apart from fleeting visits and it is interesting to read your observations of what you think Nottingham has become over the intervening years. Not all good unfortunately. I get lost digitally as I do a "googledrive" around a city and areas that I knew so well. Fortunately many of the rural villages in Notts have changed very little and are immediately recognisable even after all this time.

My Saturday "job" was an extension of my weekly job, delivering newspapers. Saturday was going around the village collecting the paper money from those that hadn't gone into the shop to pay their bills. It was very lucrative as I never seemed to have the right change! so many people rounded it up to the nearest tanner, good tips for me. Saturday evening was delivering the Football Post and News.

Coombes Farm, remember it well, on Rob Lane at the top of the hill where the A614 splits into Old Rufford Road to Nottingham and the Oxton bypass to Gunthorpe Bridge. Mansfield Maun Motorcycle Club held meetings there in the 60's. Saw such riders as Arthur Lamkin on his BSA and his brother Alan and Jeff Smith

In know you are talking about Bingo markers when you say you prefer dobbers, When I was a kid dobbers was another name for marbles. Gizzagameodobbers

Pease pudding hot, pease pudding cold, Pease pudding in the pot, nine days old; Some like it hot, some like it cold, Some like it in the pot, nine days old.

When I started drinking there was always a "chunky" heavy glass soda syphon on the bar in the pubs. Soda Stream still has a "Sparklets" cylinder but a bl**dy big 'un

When I used to deliver papers in the early sixties the Football Post was pink and the Football News was white. Always good for some tips when calling in the local pubs on the round.

Didn't Freddie Laker do that with his Skytrain and DC10's?

Nutty Fudge Bar by Rowntrees

I have not loaded any apps to my phone. Does that mean I am appathetic?

Interestingly in Adelaide when you are buried in one of the cemeteries operated by the Adelaide Cemetery Authorities you get interment rights for 50 or 99 years depending on what you pay for. These rights can be renewed at any time during the period for a minimum of 5 years. At the end of the period the cemeteries have to make all reasonable steps to contact relatives. After two years without renewal the remains are dug up and put in an ossuary box and reinterred at a greater depth in the same grave plot. The grave is then reused for someone else. Apparently should the rights not be renew