woody

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  1. Ever since I kicked Boots into touch everything has worked fine. If others can get it right why can't they?
  2. Sat at the doctors a few weeks back and as there were only two of us in this waiting room I got talking to the other chap. The chat got round to where we lived and when he told me where his house was I realised he had taught me to drive back in the late sixties.
  3. If you think Bulwell will be bad without Wilko Ben have a run up the road to Hucknall. It has virtually nothing but burger shops, charity shops and estate agents. Pedestrianisation was supposed to bring people in, no point as there is nothing to come for.
  4. So it appears that if you are wrongly convicted of a crime you did not commit you are liable to be charged what amounts to boarding costs. I have never heard such rubbish, if anyone should be charged it should be the ones who made the wrong decisions in the first place. After spending seventeen years behind bars unjustly I think the man in question deserves compensation, not a bill.
  5. My prescription is sent from the doctor to the pharmacy on a monthly basis and apart from a bit of balancing up at the start works well. I changed from the health centre pharmacy run by a very well known outlet because I got fed up with the excuses for shortages. It seemed odd that they couldn't get supplies when other pharmacies close by didn't have a problem.
  6. That was Frank, never miss an opportunity to relieve a customer of his money but as you say he was as straight as a die. Quite often when I dropped in on a Friday tea time he would ask me if I would drop something off for him on my way home to a customer who had phoned him. I never needed to go out of my way but Frank didn't expect it done for nothing and there was always something extra in my box. Certainly one of life's characters, the like of which we will not see again.
  7. Excellent memories of old Hucknall. The off licence featured was owned by my cousin who could be a real life Arkwright when it came to selling.
  8. Bit like the water buffalo I saw in Aldi this morning then, she could fill the aisle on her own.
  9. Wonder what syndrome this lunatic will be suffering from?
  10. A lot of these so called stars who are vastly overpaid need to learn the programmes they present are not about them but the features in general. Most of them have very average talent and actually believe the hype the PR crews put out about them, then don't like it when they are exposed as something very different.
  11. Nobody will accept responsibility for their own actions these days and accountability is a thing of the past. Many people in positions of authority are not up to the job but have the knack of diverting attention to their shortcomings by talking a lot of gobbledegook. When they are found to be lacking they should be outed immediately as liars and con artists.
  12. Having had two near misses with mobility scooters turning into the road in front of me this week I am beginning to wonder if they are the new urban terrorists. Without warning they both simply made right angled turns to cross the road and not at designated crossing points. About time these people needed to pass an assessment before being allowed out in public. I am sympathetic to their needs but a lot of them are a danger to themselves and everybody else.
  13. I am with you there. No matter how valid the arguement there is no justification for the current style of protest. When they block emergency vehicles the time has come for swift and very firm action. The current penalties are not severe enough, perhaps if they were trebled and firmly enforced it might get through to them that their behaviour is totally unacceptable. There again it is difficult to educate the uneducateable.
  14. They wouldn't be able to protest so much if the police weren't there to protect them because the general public would sort them out. These people are so thick they cannot see that they are defeating their own argument no matter what it is through their behaviour.
  15. Quite often on BBC the word nuclear is pronounced as nucular. Annoying from people who should know better.
  16. The words mutton and lamb come to mind quite often when I see older or even old people dressing like adolescents. To see women in their seventies done up like teenagers and sporting tattoos is revolting. Where the men are concerned a lot of the styles have originated over the pond and that is where they belong. Society in general seems to have lost self respect and discipline to a point where we are doing a credible impression of the oozlum bird and we all know what that led to.
  17. Supermarkets are fine for getting everything in one place but they cannot match the charisma that the old corner shops had. The unique smell in each one, a face behind the counter that you knew and no grumpy cashiers that couldn't give a monkeys about politeness and service.
  18. Most of the colours I got playing rugby at Mellish were black and blue ,sometimes a bit of red thrown in but that could have been blood I suppose.
  19. Norman Collier was always one of my favourites.
  20. Not very good news for the ozone layer then.
  21. When I was a kid , like most, I got spots. Not being known to do things by halves I virtually got spots on spots so my mother took me to the doctor. Nothing seemed to work so one Friday afternoon she literally dragged me into a shop that I was terrified of, the local herbalist. An old lady looked at me, gave me a packet of what looked like bottle green Smarties and the instruction to take one in a morning and another at night. Her parting words were to go and see her the following week. The following Friday I walked into that shop without a single spot on my face. That old lady would have run