Oztalgian

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  1. Things that pee you off...

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    Just brought in a law in South Oz about staying clear of bikes on the highway.

    We now have to stay 1 metre clear of bikes on a road with a speed limit of less than 80 kph and 1.5 metres on a road where the speed limit is more than 80kph. To do so we are now allowed to cross double lines in the middle of the road, nearly got cleaned up by some pratt more worried about staying a metre clear of the bike than looking what is coming the other way.

    Bikes are now allowed to ride on pavements.

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  2. Clocks back tonight

    in Owt' Abaaht Nowt !

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    In Oz some states changed to daylight saving three weeks ago and others did not.

    We now have the ridiculous situation of five time zones eat to west instead of the usual three.

    Queensland does not have daylight saving and is now one hour behind New South Wales even though they are nominally on the same longitude. NSW people often get flight times from Coolangatta airport which is just over the Queensland border wrong at this time of year.

    Here in Adelaide we are half an hour ahead of Queensland which is east of us? Half an hour behind NSW, Victoria and Tasmania which are also east of us. One hour ahead of the Northern Territory which is due north of us and 2 and a half hours ahead of Perth.

    I pity those in the UK who have relatives in OZ trying to work out what time to call or Skype them at this time of year or the people that live in the border areas of states in Oz that do not change to daylight saving.

  3. The English Language

    in Owt' Abaaht Nowt !

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    Loppylugs, Saying that your wife was from Tennessee brought back memories of working in a town in Tennessee and this was where, on my afternoon walk, I used to see two old timers with flannel shirts and bib and brace overalls sitting on a bench whittling sticks. After a few days seeing them doing this I naively asked "what are you making". The reply was "thangs" so I said "what are thangs" whereupon one of them pointed to the pile of wood chips on the ground and said "them thangs".

    Loved the soft slow accent, the countryside thereabouts and the practical approach that the local people had to life.

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  4. Remembrance

    in General Chat about Nottingham

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    "They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old;

    Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.

    At the going down of the sun and in the morning

    We will remember them"

    These words and the sounding of the last post always brings a lump to my throat and a tear to my eyes.

    Both my late mum and dad fought in the second world war and my mums father in the first.

    I am proud to have been named after my mums brother who lost his life at Dunkirk and therefore carry that memory always.

    Let us also not forget all those that died on the "home front" particularly during the second world war.

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  5. The English Language

    in Owt' Abaaht Nowt !

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    Re #83 by Ayupmiducks.

    I agree, regional and local dialects used to be quite different within just a few miles. I remember a criminal case in the West Midlands in the late sixties being solved by the pronunciation of just a few words which allowed the police to pinpoint the area where the perpetrator lived. They found him by doing house to house enquiries in a very specific area.

    It is often said that the north begins at Hucknall as that is where the influence of the northern accent really begins to take effect.

    Does anyone have examples of actors doing really bad interpretations of local or regional accents?

  6. Football Days

    in Sport In General

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    Saw this interesting item on the BBC Sport website. The price of football.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-79ccb1e7-d390-44c1-8857-cfcb0ade2595

    It allows you to put in your favourite team and see the costs of match day or season tickets, team shirts, and even pies or cups of tea.

    Being a Reds fan since being knee high to a grasshopper of course I had to have a look, 22 to 35 quid for a match or 389 to 633 quid for a season ticket!!! How does the average supporter with a couple of kids afford this?

    No mention of my half time cup of Bovril on a cold wet and wintery day standing with mates in the East stand, level with the edge of the penalty box at the Trent End, during the sixties and seventies.

    First saw the Reds when I was 6 or 7 in the mid fifties, my granddad used to take me and again in the East stand but at the Kop end. My earliest memory was of the Ivor Thirst, Shipstones man who's rattle used to blink red then off giving the impression it was going round and round every time Forest scored. It fascinated me.

    There you go MaggieH now you know how old I am.

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  9. Fish and chips

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    Going back to the original post on this thread does anyone know why it was called "wet" fish, or did this mean fresh or not cooked?

    In the 60's I remember the wet fish man in a van coming round our village on Friday's selling fresh Grimsby fish.

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  12. Classic cars

    in General Hobbies and Interest Chat

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    The Chinese and Korean are even copying classic car logos/badges

    A model called Riich from Chery motors of China looks very like the Bentley badge.

    The Hyundai model called the Genesis is similar to the Aston Martin Badge.

    Did anyone catch up with the fact that the classic white van, the Ford Transit was released 50 years ago last week?

  13. G'Day from Oztalgian

    in ++ Oo R Ya'? ++

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    #9 Margie H

    I had just entered my teenage years when you worked at Harlow Wood. If I remember correctly it was the orthopedic hospital and seemed to do a lot of corrective surgery on patients that had contracted polio.

    It must have been a lonely place to "live in" as it was a bit isolated with the only direct buses going to Mansfield or Nottingham (Trent buses, I think)

  18. S.A MONK engineers

    in Nottingham Companies Then and Now

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    There were many precision engineering and toolmaking companies in Sutton in Ashfield. I did my apprenticeship and worked at Preconomy in the late 60's early 70's. I went to West Notts Tech with guys from S.A. Monk and Matthews and Birkhamshaw (Mathbirk) who also manufactured industrial knitting machines. I think that S.A. Monk won the Queens Award to Industry for export in the late 60's and that Mathbirk held many patents for their knitting machine technology.

    Re #3 PevrilPeril if you serviced Preconomy we may have seen each other at some time. Who did you work for?

  19. G'Day from Oztalgian

    in ++ Oo R Ya'? ++

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    Finally decided to join in after bimbling around on this great site, learning so much about the history of our county town, in older times, within living memory and current day and to see if I can contribute to what is a great social history site.

    I came from a pit village in north Notts and never lived in Nottingham itself, but was a regular visitor to see the Reds and enjoy the nightlife. I worked at COD Chilwell for a while.

    Emigrated to Oz 40 years ago and still get back occasionally to see the good and bad of what the city, towns and villages in Nottinghamshire have become.

    Thanks to google street view and the web I can still visit the Queen of the Midlands and the rest of the county when ever I want to.

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