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Many on here are of an age that can remember the Big Freeze of 1963, I know I can, slogging through 4 and 5 foot drifts to go to school with wellies full of snow and putting your socks on the school radiators to dry. This video is a great reminder of what we did then to keep going compared to the threat of a few snowflakes (weather) and the snowflake generation that due to OHS&W and PC the UK has now become. Nowadays even the threat of a dusting of snow is enough to stop the trains.

Memories from Sunday dinner in the 1960's Knives with bone handles, what happened to them? Bird's custard powder Ugh! custard that had never seen an egg? Being allowed a weak shandy made from Taddy Nut Brown Ale

What about Holes Castle Brewery Newark Image from barclayperkins.blogspot.com.au together with lots of information about Newark's Breweries

A nice pint of Home Brewery Five Star, Mansfield Bitter or a Kimberley mild but never Shippo's The only good thing about Shippo's was the Ivor Thirst guy with the rattle that went round when Forest scored, in the scoreboard at the kop end of the Forest ground in the sixties and early seventies. (Photo by John Turner of Ilkeston)

Forest continuing to head south on the league ladder. Can't mange to beat the bottom club who haven't won at home for 12 matches. We are now only 8 points clear of a relegation spot or on the bright side 16 points from a promotion play off place. Have a look at the match stats the only thing we won was the fouls 10 to 2. The rest was woeful and Aitor said "I'm really proud of the players" For what?

In the 60's and early 70's there were "suicide" lanes intermittently along the A614 from the Red Hill roundabout on past The White Post, The Limes Café up to the Ollerton roundabout and well beyond, there were many serious accidents and even deaths where the roads from the villages met the A614, often at the bottom of dips in the road. Just over 9 years ago 6 people were killed in a horrific head on crash between the Bilsthorpe and Eakring turnoffs in which the coroner concluded that the crash was due to inappropriate overtaking.

Divits Ice Cream on Mansfield Market Place and from the mobile van that came round our village. A picture of the Market Place van is here from Our Mansfield and Area image credit to D Haslam

Jonab, Like this. As many of our friends in OZ are poms and fondly remember Berni Inns we always buy a bottle of Mateus Rose at Christmas time.

Despite all the signings it is not going well for Aitor Karanka Based on the current form anyone see another relegation battle coming up. As I have said before build the club around local and home grown talent and then we might get some pride and passion. For things to go badly for so long and so often methinks there is something fundamentally wrong at the club.

How many had this at The Chateau

Good one Mess and more long forgotten ones.

What sport to the Nottingham Falcons play?!!!

As we are in the same time zone as Korea the winter Olympics are on during daytime TV. I have attempted to watch it on free to air (Channel Seven) and all we seem to get are links from talking heads and what little sport is shown is interrupting the adverts. Two days into it and I'm over it already. In the words of Popeye "I've had all I can standz, I can't standz no more" What is the coverage like in the UK?

Tubby the Tuba - Danny Kaye A Four Legged Friend - Roy Rogers The Teddy Bears Picnic - Various Artists The Ugly Duckling - Danny Kaye The Runaway Train - ? I Know an Old Lady That Swallowed a Fly - Burl Ives Big Rock Candy Mountain - Burl Ives

Just listened to Alabama's 40 hour week song.........BRILLIANT Can't say I've heard it in a beer ad. Coopers Pale Ale and Sparkling Ale are still bottle fermented and one of there biggest selling products is home brewery kits.

Banana flavoured ice cream with a chunk of toffee inside, I'd forgotten all about them.

I liked R L Jones pop best, Sunecta mixed fruit was my favourite, fond memories as a kid of sitting on the grass at the welfare watching the cricket or bowls with a bottle of Mixed Fruit and either a bag of Smiths Crisps with the little blue bag of salt or KP salted peanuts

Here is one for Ian, from a series of "I Feel Like A Toohey's" beer adverts containing quite a few Australian cricket hero's from the 70's Toohey's was originally a well known New South Wales Brewery. Now part of a vast conglomerate owned ultimately by Mitsubishi. Two international conglomerates own all the major breweries in Australia with the exception of Adelaide based family owned Coopers Brewery. If your mate can get hold of some Coopers Sparkling Ale , try it, it is my favourite.

Ian, do you prefer Tim-Tams or Penguin biscuits?

Could equally be an Australian home, weatherboard construction is still quite popular here. Given the large overhang of the eaves it is more likely to be from warmer climes than the UK

Ian, I had to look up Nelson Squares, often eaten them but never knew the name, my mum was Irish and I knew them as Gur Cakes.

Kipling's Bakery on the highway in Port Wakefield heading north out of Adelaide is a compulsory stop, in fact my car turns in there on its own. It's hell of a long way to ship pastries to the old Dart

On Wednesday 6th February it will be 60 years since that terrible accident when 23 people were killed when BEA Flight 609, an Elizabethan type Air-Speed Ambassador failed to get airborne at Munich-Riem airport. Whilst we remember the "Busby Babes" that lost their lives we should also not forget the Manchester United staff, journalists, aircrew and other passengers. Harry Gregg and Bobby Charlton are the only members of the Man. Utd. team involved in the crash that are still with us. I hope that the fans at Sunday's Newcastle vs Man. Utd. pay their respects appropriately

I did not mind the odd pint of Warwicks' bitter brewed by Warwick and Richardson in Newark. Apparently the old brewery has been refurbished and is now up-market apartments.

Your comment about Watneys Red Barrel reminded me of this