West Bridgfordian

Matt Baker used to be a pretty good gymnast...

Car terminally expired on Sunday, got the local garage to check it out today and it's definitely dead. Rang around to get a hire car for a few days until I get a new car and they're very busy now we've reopened to tourists. Nothing available until Friday. Eldest son has two cars and has just let me know I can use one of them. Rang hire car place to cancel the car for Friday and got the feeling they think I'm doing it on purpose to just annoy them. Not in a good mood now!

Had to ask the other half how long ago we ate in the dining room. She reckons 7 christmases ago when we invited the family round for a boxing day get together. We found out that having 16 people in the dining room just doesn't work! I seem to remember that at least half the visitors joined me in the lounge to eat around the big table in there. Slightly chaotic boxing day after we had drinks. Never again.

Brighton or Blackpool? ;-)

It's too early

Below is a link to a photo of my parents at Mablethorpe - just wondering if anyone can access the link. I seem to have problems trying to make photobucket etc. work... https://www.memorylane.co.uk/item/609e740d007b7c001a284da5?tab=published&colourToggle=false

Mondays was always bubble and squeak from Sundays left overs. Fried egg on top if we had any! Loads of pepper and brown sauce with bread and butter. Still love the taste of it now.

Sun AND snow.

@benjamin1945 Aah, football books. Me dad started taking me down the Lane when I was about 5, still got all the programmes from about 1960 onwards. Also still got the 1966 world cup book with a World Cup Willie doll. Always got the Topical Times football books at Christmas but can only find one that has survived.

'The Cat in the Hat' My mother used to tell people I got it out of the library and just kept renewing it over and over. I honestly don't remember so not sure how old I would have been.

Dogs been walked

Dogs need walking

Could've smiled! ;-)

It's not compulsory

AZ injection today...

£6.00 per week at a little back street TV repair shop in Basford. Five and a half days per week. After 1 year they offered me a pound a week raise. Went to college instead and lived happily ever after.

America is though...

HOWEVER... Mrs WB watches the shows where so called celebrities compete. Cooking, dancing, ice skating, sewing etc. The judges say something nice but then say HOWEVER and then start picking faults. Mrs WB has had enough and has finally learnt how to use SKYQ and records everything so she can fast forward through the judges bit. HOWEVER, she still watches the damn programmes.

A few things BK... The IoM prison was on Victoria Road!!!! Perhaps a reason he couldn't visit you. (Only joking). The tram up Snaefell is a definite highlight for any visitors. My youngest lives in an old cottage in Laxey, I often think I should have bought it, she has glorious sea views from the front of her house. Mount Murray was used as an isolation place for returning residents last year when we had a covid problem. There is a steam railway service from Douglas to Port Erin in the south which is a lot more scenic and nostalgic than the Ramsey tram.

I'm on the same side of the island as the tram Beekay,(Onchan), but in the thirty years I've been here only used it a couple of times. Much prefer driving over the mountain road to Ramsey.

Too right Beekay, have to pack sandwiches and a flask if you need to go to Ramsey from where I am!

Have a virtual drive around some of the big cities... https://driveandlisten.herokuapp.com/

I thought you were going to say Offal times...

That takes me back... Passed my driving test in August 1971 and one of my mates said "let's go to Skeggy, that will be good practice now you can drive". Me dad had just bought me an old Ford Popular as a present for passing the test. Drove over to Skeg, pint in the Ship (I was only 17 and me mate had to go in and get it, I looked very young for my age) and then drove straight back to Nottingham. Happy days.

Tram drivers bonus https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/nottingham-reacts-after-tram-drivers-4823254