Oztalgian
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On 12/26/2020 at 7:57 PM, benjamin1945 said:
Cricket was even sited in one of my Divorces
Ben,
Was it for this
Ben the cricket tragic would go to all the games of his favourite county club and absolutely nothing would keep him away from a game. One day on the way to a game with one of his mates his mate said "Ben are you all right? You look a bit down in the dumps"
Ben replied "I'm fine thanks but my wife is going to divorce me"
"What grounds?" asks his mate.
"Oh! Headingly, Edgbaston, Lords, The Oval, Trent Bridge, Old Trafford, ........
or this...
Ben was always thinking about cricket. Eventually his exasperated wife said "All you ever think about is cricket. I bet you don't even remember the day we got married"
"Of course I do" said Ben "It was the day Colin Cowdrey scored a hundred not out against Surrey"
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Still watching the Boxing Day test between doing odd jobs around the garden. Given all the technology available to us today could someone tell me why we cannot make batting gloves that can manage to stay tight around the wrists for more than three balls. I know it is probably a nervousness thing but I wish they would stop all the fiddling with the gloves and helmets and get on with the game as the over rate is already so slow. In India's second innings if they get one and Tim Paine calls out "bowled Gazza" every second ball when Nathan Lyon is bowling I'll be putting my foot through the telly.
I am so over the moronic TV commentators babbling for no good reason I usually watch it on mute.
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It's is a fine 30 deg here and just sat down for a coffee to watch the traditional Boxing Day test match from the MCG. It is on commercial free to air TV. The game is only six overs old and already I have ad nauseum. They show the same ad on consecutive breaks and why does almost every advert these days have to have someone singing and dancing in it. They are dong a great job of turning me off their products. Is it the same in the UK?
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Just looked at the latest health advice re Christmas Lunch/Dinner they are telling us to open our windows. Will some one please tell me how does turning my computer on prevent you catching Covid?
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Wishing you all a Covid free Christmas and a vaccination new year
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As a kid I remember seeing my first black footballer. It was Lindy Delapenha playing for Mansfield Town in the late 50's. As a winger or inside forward he had a ferocious shot. Made over a hundred appearances for the Stags
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That sounds like some of the pubs I used to drink in. As you were going in the door someone was coming out via the window.
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11 hours ago, Brew said:
When ballooning I was told some of the wicker baskets were, for a while, made by the Blind Institute as was. Perhaps they also made baskets for the textile trade as sub-contractors too.
The Blind Employment Factory of Waterloo Road London started in 1799 as the School for the Indigent Blind and grew until 1901 when its site was purchased by the Baker Street and Waterloo Railway and it moved to Leatherhead and became the Royal School for the Blind. Many wicker baskets were used in the coal mines and for moving textiles around in the mills.
As katyjay said the was a Morris, Wilkinson and Co of Victoria Works Basford, they were established in 1889 and in 1914 had 230 employees.
Image from Graces Guide
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4 hours ago, carni said:
I really wish that more people were afraid. For their own safety.
carni, Thank you for your heartfelt post, it is one of the few "reports" that I have read that bring home the reality of this terrible virus to those of us that are vulnerable. We will be exercising due caution over Christmas even though we are currently free of Covid here in South Australia but news reports are coming in of it kicking off again in NSW.
Good to hear you are both coming out the otherside and are on the way to recovery, hang in there kiddo.
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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.
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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.
Anyone still interested in cricket ?
in Rob's Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club Forum
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Just watching the Oz Big Bash League and two of the commentators on are terrible even worse than those doing the test cricket.
Brian Lara's comments are interesting, for instance I never knew that he represented Trinidad and Tobago in three sports, Cricket, Football and Table Tennis.
One of his football and cricket under 12 team mates was Dwight Yorke who was a decent opening bat and wicket keeper and we know what happened to him. Lara chose cricket and became one of the true cricketing legends.