Ayupmeducks

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  1. Don't forget the chats with the neighbour when on the loo!! And the little squares of newspaper we used as toilet paper.. Bloody ink these days comes off on everything, we'd all have black arses if we used todays enviro friendly newspapers
  2. Still lost as to who it is, but he is a Pete Butterworth lookalike
  3. Damned if I can put a name to him, Peter something or other comes to mind. He was in a few Carry on films though and many Beeb shows years back...
  4. Ayupmeducks

    BIP

    Sincerest condolences on your loss Dennis. John
  5. This isn't Brian Draper by any chance, is it??
  6. Thanks for the correction Tony, it was Grove not Drive as I posted. Been a long time! I have searched high and low for John Booth, he seems to have gone into the woodwork. Maybe he migrated to another country? His Brother in Law, Bill (Lou) Blair, who married Johns Sister, lives somewhere on the Cotgrave Estate. An ex Cotgrave fitter contacted me and said he would ask his Dad who lives near Lou, to ask Lou to email me. The feller let me down! I have searched the telephone white pages for both "Lou" Blair and John Booth to no avail..
  7. Ayup Foxy, yep, your talking about all my old teenage mates, drinking buddies. There was also Stu Stenson who lived off London Road too!! John moved to Wilford as Tony posted, his Dad had an wholesale Sunday Newspaper business there and Johnnie worked with him delivering to all the newsagents shops around Wilford, Clifton and West Bridgeford when he wasn't working overtime at Cotgrave pit. I lost contact with Glen and Stu after I married the first time around, kept in touch with Boothy though. He married a girls we all nicknamed "Clarence" after the cross eyed lion! They eventuall went to Z
  8. The Rifleman, Kirkewhite Street East, my old haunts, The Sir Richard Arkwright on Arkwright Street and the TBI at Trent Bridge. There was a pub on the corner of Bosworth Rd and Briar Street Clifton Inn??? Then just up Bosworth Rd was the "Stute" not technically a pub, but still a watering hole for me sometimes working at the pit. Across the road and a little up towards Trent Bridge on Arkwright Street was a Shippo's pub, can't recall it's name, and on the corner of Kirke-White Street and London Road was another pub thats name elludes me.
  9. Sounds like a re format is on the cards Den!! Cures all your problems in one foul swoop, or should that be fowl swoop, Oh well, you gets the piccie. #1 Rule always back your files up after each session. #2 Rule, back up all your files. #3 Rule, back up all yer friggin files before you lose the friggin fings! !rulez!
  10. Only 56 Den??? We have over 20 movie channels! I watch live UK soccer, when I have time, at least two matches live on Saturdays! plus mid week games, plus German league! Then all that learning on the discovery and history channels. Sh!t, I have getting on for 200 channels, maybe more!
  11. Really, nahhhhh, it's all a lie, I don't believe it Fool
  12. Yep, don't look up without your glasses on Mick! :D :D :D :D
  13. I had a "BUD" Big Ugly Dish for many years, most important detail!! The "mast" has to be dead plumb!!!! half a degree out anywhere and you are thousands of miles off target!! DON'T use a spirit level!! They are notoriously inaccurate! Use a plumb bob! I have three "saucers" at the moment, thats the little dishes dedicated to one commercial satellites, I will be upgrading my dishes soon though so as I can watch more birds. I'm on the lookout for another BUD so I can mount an array of LNB's to it for different set ups. I watch 11o, 119 and was watching the Canadian Nimiq1, but after Belvue
  14. BUT!!! What is bloggong Mick??? New form of clog dance???
  15. Problem with the Poms is, they can only raise a good eleven once every generation..
  16. The problem with natural disasters is they happen at the most innapropriate time and place. No matter how well prepared we think we are, they will always get the upper hand on us. New Orleans was only part of the area affected, something like twice the size of the UK. The coast line from the Pan Handle of Florida to west of New Orleans was hit bad. Mississippi took the brunt. Katrina also scored big as far north as Kentucky, so politics had nothing to do with the so called "slow responce". Major infrastructure was down for over thousands of square miles, roads were damaged, bridges down, ele
  17. I've had yer linked for a while mate, hope it didn't hurt Shock Shock Shock Shock
  18. There's a link from F.riends Reunited's main page Caz...try Connections..
  19. Alright Mick!!!! enough of the playing with words and smilies!!! Fri.ends Reuntited Connections, Caz..