ValuerJim
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Apart from fish every Friday, dinners were ok at HPGS, and if you timed it right you could get one for free. I used to pride myself on being able to sweet talk the head dinner lady - Mrs Edis? - into giving me seconds of pudding. After dinner, grab any unlocked bike from the bike sheds and down to watch the trains on Arnold Road.
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Dad instilled on me a dislike of mild and stout, which remains to this day. He reckoned that you couldn't see all the odds and ends floating around, and that the doctors all drank bitter. There was a pub somewhere out Nuthall way where the landlord played continuous Jim Reeves records in an upstairs bar. Is it still going?
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Yup, Oz. Collecting the paper money on a Saturday certainly widened my experience of the world. The bored housewife and the sad manboy spring to mind, but the tips at Christmas were good, and the odd fiddle used to boost our earnings. I was once pulled in by the police at 6:30 one morning - I liked an early start. Apparently it was illegal to employ someone under the age of 13 before 7am.
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Used to deliver newspapers around Highbury Vale for Stirlands at Vernon Rd post office and Westons on Tollerton Green. Tuesdays and Thursdays were the best, when Dandy and Beano came out, and as Oz says, Sundays were a pain; take one bag so far, then go back for the second. But when I got my Trent Tourist, with a rear wheel pannier rack, I was sorted. There were some decidedly odd customers.
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Until recently I have regarded BJ as an irritating if mildly amusing sideshow, but he is increasingly coming across as an unprincipled chancer whose ill-considered outbursts are becoming an embarrassment to his colleagues in the Brexit campaign. Imagine the year 2021, if Boris were PM and Trump Mr Pres! What a prospect!
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It was the Daily Herald for my dad, as well, but we were an Evening Post household. We considered ourselves a cut above those of our neighbours who took the Evening News. A bit like BBC and ITV.
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Buy the I almost every day, and the Observer most Sundays. Have wiped my arse on the Mail, but not since my Gran died.
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No Carni. If it's not in the top 50 it's nowhere.
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I've checked out the top 50 faves, Carni, and there's no place for Love Divine, or even Dear Lord and Father of Mankind. I guess its a Euromission jury.
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Yes, I was afraid of that, but you never know Cliff. It's just that one of the boys looks a lot like I did.
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#135. Systema, what school uniform are they wearing?
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Some good nominations here. To me the tune is the important ingredient, as the lyrics are often contrived and banal. When a favourite hymn is sung to an unfamiliar tune can be a real bummer.
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I'm not in any way religious, but I do like a good sing, As a result of having sung in St Aidan's church choir I find myself, 60 years later, able to sing along to any number of hymns, either from the English Hymnal or Ancient and Modern. I even find myself occasionally singing Baptist hymns from my time in the Junos at Queensbury Street. Bring on Love Divine all Loves Excelling or Thine be the Glory! Anybody got any favourites?
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I used to visit my mum on the Highbury Vale estate up to around 2009, and often stayed overnight. Try to find a decent off license! I ended up on bloody Valley Road!
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Really, Ian? In my mind's eye it was at the top of Peveril Street, where it joined Alfreton Road. Oh well....
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Where was Eddys? Somewhere near Skills bus depot?
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The neighborhood bobby.
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I was at a loose end the other week, so when a Mormon knocked on my door I invited him in. 'What shall we talk about', I asked. 'Dunno', he replied, 'I've never got this far before'.
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We still get the milkman, gas man, electricity man (who doubles as the gas man), the fish man, the tea man, the old ladies' lunches man, and the postman, but we live up north.
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I used to buy fishing tackle from a shop on Milton Street, just below Victoria Station. There was also one on Canal Street and another just down from Canning Circus on Ilkeston Road? Can't remember their names. Tom Sharpe rings a bell.
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We had two cats, a small one and a fat one, and had to have two cat flaps fitted.
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Worked two Christmases at Pork Farms factory in St Annes in the 60s, rendering lard, boiling polony, and linking sausages. 12 hour shifts, 6 'til 6, with fantastic pork-oriented breakfasts and lunches.
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Some comparisons are useful, though. 'Sicily is 25% larger than Wales' for example, can be visualised.
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I'm with Fly. I shed a tear when I heard the news - on this forum. Other than in the family, it's only happened twice before as far as I can remember; for Brian Clough and Freddie Mercury. Funny how people are affected, if at all, in different ways. Princess Diana is a case in point.
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School Dinners ? Love em or Hate em !
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56/63, Imp.