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  3. How's your day?

    in Owt' Abaaht Nowt !

    Posted

    A bargain that wasn't. I like Lion bars, preferred the Nux but you can't get them now. I only have about two or three a year so when I saw four for a pound in the basket they went. Put them in the fridge and promptly forgot them. Came across them Monday and though 'great' took one and bit into it. It was solid, like a stick of rock solid and three front teeth shattered, well two crowns and a tooth really.

    Had the dentist estimate today, never realised you could that many zeros on one line before - sheesh implants are expensive.

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  4. Prewar Nottingham numberplate on vacation

    in Pete's Nottingham Transport Forum

    Posted

    Forget my earlier post....

     

    The registration appeared (and still is apparently) on a Ford Coupe 3.9 V8 1948 so the car in the picture must predate that.

    All BMW are shown here so don't think it's a BM..

    http://bimmerin.net/modelshistory.php       

     

    Looking at the grill the nearest I can think of is a Ford model Y but the lower lights look wrong. The Crossley car had a vaguely similar grill, so did Alfas and Fiat but I can't find a good match.

  5. What was your first car?

    in 60's Nottingham

    Posted

    Mk1 Ford Consul convertible. £40 squire can't sat fairer than that can I? genuine white leather upholstery that is, the door? oh that's an easy fix anyone can do it............

    Never did get the door fixed but it was easy to scoop me mam up and lift her over the side with the hood down and how cool was it to step into a car rather than open doors?

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  8. Anyone interested in Tractors

    in General Hobbies and Interest Chat

    Posted

    Here you go Margie, at great expense and risk to life and limb I give you:-

      

    A little maiden climbed an old man's knee,
Begged for a story, "Do, Uncle, please."
Why are you single; Why live alone?
Have you no babies, have you no home?"

"I had a sweetheart, years, years ago:
Where she is now, pet, you soon will know.
List to the story, I'll tell it all.
I believed her faithless, after the Ball." 

After the ball is over
After the break of dawn
After the dancer's leaving
After the stars are gone
Many a heart is aching
If you could read them all
Many the hopes that have vanished
After the ball. 

Bright lights were flashing in the grand ballroom
Softly the music, playing sweet tunes
There came my sweetheart, my love, my own
I wished some water, left her alone

When I returned, dear, there stood a man
Kissing my sweetheart, as lovers can
Down fell the glass, pet, broken that's all
Just as my heart was, after the ball 

After the ball is over
After the break of dawn
After the dancer's leaving
After the stars are gone
Many a heart is aching
If you could read them all
Many the hopes that have vanished
After the ball. 

Long years have passed, child, I've never wed
True to my lost love, though she is dead
She tried to tell me, tried to explain
I would not listen, pleadings were in vain

One day a letter came from that man
He was her brother, the letter ran
That's why I'm lonely, not home at all
I broke her heart, After the ball 

After the ball is over
After the break of dawn
After the dancer's leaving
After the stars are gone
Many a heart is aching
If you could read them all
Many the hopes that have vanished
After the ball.

After the ball is over
After the break of dawn
After the dancer's leaving
After the stars are gone
Many a heart is aching
If you could read them all
Many the hopes that have vanished
After the ball.
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  9. Jacky Pownall Second Hand Shop

    in General Chat about Nottingham

    Posted

    I knew Vic Pownall very well. He told me he owned the Clinton Rooms and the next door property back in the 70's. His family was huge and his half brothers (Micheal?) ran McIntyres scrap in Dunkirk. I'm not sure if it was his father or grandfather that had a barn conversion near Holme Peirrepont. Quite a big place, two story garage and a showmans caravan in the garden that he took great delight in telling me it was  home to a single budgerigar.

  12. Salmon

    in Owt' Abaaht Nowt !

    Posted

    It should be OK they were out of the closed season (Oct - Feb). I never realised just how draconian the fines are for catching them during the breeding season, £50,000 - I don't think it's that much for mugging old ladies..

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  18. New Hobbies Forum

    in General Hobbies and Interest Chat

    Posted

    Good for you LL. I've posted before about the number of musical instruments in the house (five at last count) but I my brain will not allow my left hand to work independently. Having a modicum of talent would also help. I would love to play the piano but unless you want a rousing chorus of chopsticks it 'aint gonna happen

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  20. New Hobbies Forum

    in General Hobbies and Interest Chat

    Posted

    All the hobbies I've ever gone in for have always paled and become boring after awhile

    MTX racing

    Am Radio

    CB radio

    Photography

    Acrylic painting

    Water skiing

    Experimenting with electronics

    Clay shooting

    Scuba diving

    Hot air ballooning

    PPL

    The list goes on..

    I get to the point where I'm fairly competent then lose interest.