Oztalgian
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On 12/12/2020 at 5:46 AM, philmayfield said:
This government appears to do things without thinking things through. It’s all very well to appear to be going green but it’s not so easy.
Same problem here Phil, they have a great propensity to go FIRE, AIM, READY!
Our state government has announced it will be taxing users of electric vehicles on a per kilometre driven basis, how else are they going to recoup the taxes we pay each time we fill up our tanks.
Another thing they don't do very well is anything involved in IT.
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15 hours ago, mary1947 said:
Not sure if you are talking about the Workhouse in Southwell or the House of Correction.
Hi Mary, I was talking about the house of correction in Southwell, especially the link provided by HSR which includes archaeological information about test digs in the area
14 hours ago, philmayfield said:The school was formerly the Edward Cludd which became the Minster School.
Thanks Phil, Edward Cludd, that's the name i was trying to think of.
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20 minutes ago, HSR said:
Same thought passed through my mind Oz, only..
regarding the treadmill.. a whipping and 6 month's seems extreme.
I'm sure I have the listing for the days prosecutions, on high pavement, I'll dig it out..
I am sure you would only have to hand out that sentence to a few and the message would soon get around and modify certain behaviours.
It would be interesting if you could find more information.
Used to regularly go to the swimming baths at a school? in Southwell off Nottingham Rd, the name escapes me at the moment, and afterwards a beer or two at the Reindeer or the Grapes.
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Good photo but to me the proportions of Barton buses have somehow never looked quite right, I think it is too many different sized windows
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By law cats in all council areas in South Australia have to be registered and one council is proposing a a "cat curfew" in passing a law for all cats to be confined to their owners property between 9:00pm and 7:00am. The council says it is being brought in to protect wildlife and limit the nuisance behaviour of cats.
Are there any moves to do this in the UK? I think it is a good idea.
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On 12/7/2020 at 3:02 PM, HSR said:
Hope this link works and my recollections are correct.
HSR What a fascinating document and you can't help but feel sorry for the Handford family who lost both their sons on the same day in the same battle. It appears that they have no known graves.
I think this description of houses of correction should be brought back into use to house some of the idiots at large today "one or more fit and convenient house of correction for suppressing and punishing rogues, vagabonds and other idle vagrant and disorderly persons”.
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11 minutes ago, nonnaB said:
I have an American penfriend from Kentucky
Eating KFC on Christmas Day has become a tradition in Japan!
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On 12/9/2020 at 3:40 AM, radfordred said:
Breakdancing confirmed as Olympic sport for the 2024 Paris games, what next? Tiddlywinks, wellington boot throwing, pin the tail on the donkey
Yes all of those and if I were organising the games I would get rid of all the sports rubbish and the games would consist of Snooker, Billiards, Bar Billiards, Darts, Long Alley Skittles, Table Skittles, Aunt Sally, Dominoes, Shove Ha'penny, Marbles, Bowls, both Crown Green and Flat, Cribbage, Backgammon and Three or Nine Men's Morris.
Plenty of venues available and without mortgaging the city or country to put it on.
You can probably guess I am not a fan of the Olympics, summer or winter and never watch it, the costs have become obscene and it is about time we took the trough away from the International Olympic Committee.
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55 minutes ago, LizzieM said:
Chalk Airways has since been stopped from operating ....... I seem to remember hearing there’d been a serious accident
Yes LizzieM
That was in 2005, 20 passengers and crew were killed when Flight 101 crashed off Miami Beach Florida when the wing of the 1947 Grumman Mallard separated from the fuselage due to metal fatigue. Like you many of the passengers were returning from a shopping trip. I remember seeing this on a National Geographic TV documentary.
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1 hour ago, Will2017 said:
The reflex save by Peter Grummitt, from Jimmy Husband,
Yes and Terry Hennessey was there to mop up and clear the ball.
Peter Grummitt was a world class goalkeeper and would have walked into any other international side but at that time England had many top notch goalkeepers. Some names that come to mind are Ron Springett, Gordon Banks, Peter Bonetti. Grummitt played 3 times for England Under 23's
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I think it is about time Forest got rid of their overpaid, under performing foreign imports and started building a team with local and UK talent.
If worst comes to worst I would rather them be relegated playing some some young local talent than the team they have now that is obviously costing a fortune in wages and just cannot seem to score a goal.
5 hours ago, LizzieM said:We were at a ‘do’ last year with ISM and his wife, I’ve never told him I had a photo of him on my school jotter LOL
To this day, winning the world cup aside, Aye,Aye Ian's hat trick against Everton in the FA Cup sixth round was probably my most memorable football moment. The downside of that game of course was when Labone clogged Zigger Zagger and put him out of the semi final against Spurs at Hillsborough. I was right behind the goal when Jimmy Greaves mishit the shot that scored the opening goal he was clearly aiming for the left hand side of Grummitt's goal and it came off the left hand side of his boot and went in near the right post. I know there are many on here who will disagree with my view but you only have to watch the replay.
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Can't argue too much with that one Ben, I must have seen Wally Ardron play when I was about four or five years old but can't actually remember it.
Obviously that is a team drawn over a few era's. The best and most entertaining Forest side I have ever seen is this one. Grummitt, Hindley, Winfield, Hennessey, McKinley, Newton, Lyons, Barnwell, Baker, Wignall and Storey-Moore
I make no apologies to Brian Clough's teams that won the European Cup, great teams as they were, but nowhere near as entertaining as the 1966/67 side.
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A little bit ashamed to say i've never been to Wollaton Hall or the park. We often went to the great houses of the Dukeries and Hardwick, Haddon and Chatsworth in Derbyshire but never Wollaton?
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The short way to get to the Festival Inn when travelling south on the M1 in the sixties.
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DJ There is a thread on here called Down Clumber Street it should answer your question
Down Clumber Street. - Nottingham City Centre - Nottstalgia Nottingham Forums
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Decently thick crusts on sliced bread, bakery or commercial sliced bread, not the wafer thin ones that seem to be the norm these days.
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Sadly things are not getting better for Forest even with their new manager. With a third of the season gone they are still languishing in the relegation zone. I despair that it will get better. According to the pundits, apart from last years teams relegated from the EPL they have the strongest squad on paper. Somebody needs to tell them that the game is not played on paper.
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3 hours ago, nonnaB said:
And now the baby ones
Looks like a village! Great stuff nonnaB and the grandchildren
3 hours ago, nonnaB said:Our village at night
A picture postcard photo, but how dumb am I looking at it and wondering why it is snowing, of course it is winter there.
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18 hours ago, nonnaB said:
my daughter and I are making gingerbread houses.
A snack food company in Adelaide claimed it was the states largest builder as it made hundreds of gingerbread houses at Christmas.
Here is an Aussie Bush Shack complete with kangaroo, koala and cockatoo (photo from SBS)
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2 hours ago, philmayfield said:
They often used to moore up at Fiskerton overnight for a beer in the Bromley Arms.
I often used to fish from the sandy bank that used to be at the end of the flood wall upstream from the Bromley Arms. If the fishing was quiet we used to go for a beer at the pub at lunchtime but always left one person to mind the tackle and the keep nets in case one of John Harker's tanker barges came past as you had to move the baskets way up on the bank and hold all the keep nets and move in and out with the draught to stop them being washed away.
Strange what you remember but the Bromley Arms was a Kimberley Brewery pub and as I did not like their bitter, I drank the mild, the only mild I ever drank.
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6 hours ago, LizzieM said:
Oz, my husband had both eyes done a couple of years ago and doesn’t need reading glasses
We have private health cover too, the best part is no waiting for this sort of stuff just set the date, go in for day surgery, and the job is done.
I will only need glasses for really close work, reading a paper of a computer screen is no problem
7 hours ago, loppylugs said:Not scared of the surgery now, it was nothing.
The surgery is very quick, twighlight anaesthesia so no problems, just itchy eyes for the first evening and no pain
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48 minutes ago, loppylugs said:
Follow up apptmt with regular eye doctor next week to see about the left eye and keep using the drops.
Hang in there Loppy it will be well worth it in the end.
I have had both mine done, a month apart and then like Loppy had to have drops, antibiotic ones to reduce the risk of infection for ten days and anti inflammatory for 4 weeks. Now all good, everything as clear as a bell, driving at night is so much easier now. Just got to save my pennies for some new reading glasses.
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23 hours ago, DJ360 said:
Here's a video wot my brother found on You Tube.
Great video DJ
Some of the locos and rolling stock looked decidedly shabby and in need of a good clean and wash down. What was refreshing was the absence of graffiti on every bridge, wall and building.
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We are out of our ultra strict "circuit breaker" lockdown as of Saturday midnight.
It now appears that one of the two prime origin cases had deliberately told lies to the contact tracing team that ultimately led to the decision to lockdown the entire state. Strangely enough there are no penalties for misleading the contact tracers?
Still awaiting a formal announcement of what we are allowed or not allowed to do as of midnight Saturday.
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How's your day?
in Owt' Abaaht Nowt !
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Get well soon Ben, you are following in famous footsteps, another with a reputation for the ladies, Clark Gable, visited there during WWII.