Willow wilson

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  1. And you can add 'Just a Minute' to that. It was interesting word play, a bit stodgy at first, although from the 80s onwards it got much better. I still listen to recordings on YT. After 45 years it crossed over to TV and was then very entertaining with some more excellent contestants.
  2. 'Wallumboola base calling flying doctor'. It was on radio before television.
  3. Yes but for what use they are you might as well..............................etc.
  4. There was a wine bar named Forman's on Forman street in the 80s. Still there if maps are to be believed now called Foreman's.
  5. I've just had my 2nd Pfizer vaccination at QMC. It was brought forward a week. Plenty of people going through the system. Seems ok here.
  6. Yeah, but this is 'ard Manco!
  7. Ube, I hired the dinghy along with the cruisers when the family and friends went together on the broads regularly 30 odd years ago.
  8. Here's one of the incidentals in The Alamo. It was good to be young then...
  9. I'd give you a wave BK, but I daren't let go of me tiller.
  10. I wouldn't describe this as heaven but I found it the most fully relaxing and satisfying activity: sailing a simple Broads balanced lugsail dinghy in early evening when the power boats are moored up for the night and there's quiet apart from the lapping of water on the clinker hull. Tacking up wind to the end of the broad, turn around and gently run before the wind, rehearsing a few gybes on the way till the other end of the broad and repeat. Since it's evening, the light and the wind are changing all the time. Staying out as long as possible before the wind drops totally forc
  11. On the left hand side of the PTP Nequests pic there is a shop door entrance next the brick column. On the original pic there is no shop entrance on the left next the brick column
  12. No Benjamin. So I can't say (and didn't say) it was the Bestwood Teds.
  13. It happened. I was in the Vernon at the time minding me own business, watching said film when a row of 5 or 6 seats arced across the auditorium in front of the screen accompanied by a lot of shouting and laughter. We then settled down to watch the rest of the film when the cops barged in, marched to the front and working front to back cleared the whole auditorium, guiIty and innocent. I never got a refund.
  14. I'm listening to the new Boom Radio (DAB and online ) sounds good to me. It's got a sense of the old pirate radio days, only it's legal and a good mix of music.
  15. There were 2 rocking beam engines in those engine houses, the beams were at the top just under the roof. Each one had a flywheel about 25feet diameter, half of which were recessed in a big slot in the floor. The engines were built in the 1850s and installed when the station opened in 1857. They were still pumping water in 1957 when I had a school visit there. One of the engines was dismantled and erected at Wollaton hall museum.
  16. And I can't change my password. So security could be compromised
  17. That's ok as a temporary measure BK but I get no notifications or PM facilities.
  18. All three themes show no avatar. V4 does look like Pianoman's but without the navigation text headers or avatar.
  19. I'm same as Stavertongirl. Got no avatar etc on the top, I've turned the brightness up full. Android 10 on phone and on my tablet so I'm not going to log on me tablet. Both devices show no avatar. Cleared browser settings on both devices, restarted devices without success. Maybe it's an Android compatibility prob.
  20. How do you log off?? Seems like I'm logged on forever.
  21. So let's raise a glass to our Ben, A stalwart of nottstalgia's men. He's been put to the test And we wish him the best And pray that he'll soon be 'iz sen.
  22. It was a Co-op when I knew it in the 50s/60s or there abouts.