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Strange lot our parents were Katy...

Yep, and still growing Ray!

Ahhh, know that all too well, the wife owns her own Realty down here. No, no more California Elaine, love it here too much now. Low land taxes.. err $54 a year hit's the spot! Cheaper cost of living, no planning permits required!!! Boy does that save a bundle when you want to build anything! When we had our well drilled, all we payed was a $50 state fee, that covered the drillers paperwork, the geological stuff! $3000 in California! No happy down here now Elaine!

Never did the part time jobs when at school. my first job was when I left school, I was 15, and went to work for GT Ranby, the electrical contractor in Commerce Square opposite St Mary's Church, off High Pavement. Spent all of a year and a half with them before I got an electrical apprenticeship with the NCB.

I also use ZoneAlarm, a free firewall Mick, that stops loads of crap..

One of these days we are going to have to get together then Eric, I used to brew gallons of beer at a time. I'll recite a funny story about my best bitter one day to you! John

Where you been hiding Elaine?? Not seen Chris in ages, don't even see her on MSN anymore..

I worked at East Leake for a couple of years Limey, 1973 to 75 I believe, I was working down their Marblaegis Mine as a lecko. Remember the club not far inside the works gates??

Think yourself lucky, It were zero in the Windy City first off this morning!

It were cowd in winter t'old lad! I used to do the cross word puzzles on the squares of newspaper the old man cut up and hung from a nail in the wall!

I hear Clifton is nice this time of year Den..

You can have some of our cold weather Katy, it's usually in the low to mid 40's during the day here, but way below that in reality.

Minus 6C at 07-35am, suns coming up. Sacramento this year has had the driest start to the year on record, mind you records only go back just over a hundred years, one tenth of an inch!

I run Firefox as my browser and it stops over 90% of popups.

Are you cleaning your cookies and temp files out daily Mick??

They did add a surcharge to their membership to use the FR board though Mick, I suspect they will see revenue available on the FRC board before long though. The FR board was on old software anyway and becoming troublesome.

No, they have closed it down, it's run a year longer than it should have, but midnight was the cut off point.

It finished at midnight. It's poor companion will take it's place.

Now I have a faster internet service I will be scanning the Clifton Pit overlay maps, they were drawn on surface street maps, hence what we call overlay maps. The Clifton Estate isn't on the overlay maps, so it may be an eyeopener for that part. Although workings did not go as far south west as that, just a little north of Ruddington. Some of the northern workings went up to the University, out to the edge of Beeston and under Hawthorn street in what was the old Meadows, they also went out under the playing fields along the Embankment. They are quite interesting as the dates of the workings

Mine used butter Frank...Mind you, it was always margerine on toast, me Dad said it wasted too much butter....

I know what you mean Den, same here, plus three crowns. Refined sugar is not good for us, just wished our Mothers had known that years ago, then maybe we would now have a full head of healthy teeth and no mercury in our systems.

My parents did when I was a kid, I also taught my kids Bobbo's. No idea where it came from though..

I never did like Caramacs... Yuk...

Global warmings a natural phenomenom the earth goes through. One volcano eruption throws more pollution into the atmosphere than we humans have in the time we have been on earth. BTW, I keep hearing, change to natural gas, it's cleaner... I'm sure from my chemistry lessons many years ago, that when gas is burned, the chemical reaction is to produce heat and carbon dioxide.... So much for clean gas... We have a very active solar event going on at the moment, it's been active for over a year now. The sun is emitting larger than normal radiation, hence the warmer winter we are having. There i

Every year at pit shutdown, two weeks holidays. The ponies were brought to surface and they were turned out in that field Roger. In all the time I was at Clifton, I NEVER!! went into the stables! Yet I passed them everyday on my way inbye. They were next to the number 2 pit bottom.