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LizzieM do try the Beauvale I mentioned above. It's on the lines of Stilton but characteristically different. If you like French blue cheese, have you tried Bleu D'Auvergne? I prefer that to St Agur.

philmayfield, interesting what you say about bread going mouldy very easily in the Vale of Belvoir. The mould cultures for Roquefort cheese (and several other French blue cheeses) are maintained and propagated on stale bread - although more scientific, hygienic methods are increasingly being used.

Yates's used to sell white port by the jug. There was also a special type supposedly only sold on the original Yates' birthday. I have never been able to drink port (of any shade) since drinking that stuff. I still enjoy a good Stilton though but it's VERY expensive down here. Have you tried Beauvale from Cropwell Bishop? I was given a half cheese last year by one of my English visitors. Very nice indeed!!!!!

Do this week's developments signal the beginning of the end of the malfunctioning regime supposedly in charge of the UK? I don't quite know how BoJo's rule is seen from his home ground but here it is considered, both by the French and by exPats, akin to a Feydeau farce - where everything that can go wrong does go wrong. OK, the current French system is little, if any, better but it doesn't have the bungling, blustering comedic element of total incompetence as is being demonstrated and now coming to a head in the UK.

That bright orange stuff glows a powerful fluorescent green/yellow in UV light. Be careful near any discos.

Brenda, that clip genuinely made me cry. It is particularly poignant to me as my villa used to belong to a prima ballerina. I bought it at a knockdown price from her estate and the sale included many of her personal belongings - most of which I donated to museums and ballet schools but I did keep a few items, including her piano and her costume and circlet from one of her Swan Lake performances. I feel a little bit guilty sometimes as the current market price for the piano alone is more than the total amount I paid for the villa - althought it was pretty much derelict w

Do all the aides and advisors at No 10 look like wierdos? I found this as well: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-49165504

On the US theme, I found this quite amusing from Anthony Zurcher - especially the clip from Ros Atkins https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-us-2020-54909817

The contributions from his deluded supporters are intended to provide sufficient funds for his upcoming divorce.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=yYnXBRo9TVA&feature=share

Strange. This thread doesn't seem to have incurred the wrath of RR (so far).

Don't know about that, after my time in Nottingham. Brian May did run a pub for a time with his wife, Anita Dobson (Ange from Eastenders) in Chiddingfold, Surrey when I lived there some 35+ years ago

Roger Moore used to live in the grounds around Newstead Abbey when he was married to Dorothy Squires. Their raucous relationship was well known to their neighbours, one of whom was Geoff Wakefield of Wakefield's Chemists.

Am I right in remembering a maggot "factory" in Colwick. When I lived on Sneinton Hermitage we could catch the smell when the wind was in the right direction

I sometimes watch BBC World News via satellite and noticed very recently that they are now employing AMERICAN female newreaders. I don't mean English newsreaders in the USA but the ones reading the general news bulletins. I detest the whining twang of the general female American voice and I think that having it thrust at me like that is just not on. Aren't there any English newsreaders waiting on the sidelines to take over if/when there is a shortage? Another objection I have is the reporting of personal and private information regarding the various present

I remember Johnny Morris as the presenter of Animal Magic in the 60s.

I always enjoy these pictures of earlier Nottingham. They get the brain working and bring back loads of memories (good and bad!)

The thing with Banksy is that he is too real a reflection on life. His visions of the British parliament are irreproachable. Here is one example: https://www.sothebys.com/en/articles/banksy-devolved-parliament-comes-to-london

I always thought this thing was a total white elephant. Whenever I passed by it was being repaired. There seemed to be more Araldite than original clock. It may have improved - when I was around Nottingham the clock was at the front of Viccy Centre near to Boots and the Parliament St entrance.

Just opened it and can see it. I am using a proxy server. "A film of market day in an old Nottinghamshire town. The roads are full of traffic, of country people bringing their cattle, poultry, fruit and vegetables. Farmers show each other samples of grain; they crowd the cattle market. A market town is the centre of the life of the surrounding countryside."

My dad had TB and was incarcerated in Newstead Hospital for about six months during which time I was reluctantly taken to the chest clinic, Forest Dene, on Gregory Boulevard for investigation as to whether I had the disease and to have the BCG if I was clear. What a creepy place Forest Dene was. I imagined it as Frankensteins Castle but full of mad scientists in white coats inflicting untold terrors on anyone brave enough to pass through its doors. I had to go there multiple times for X-rays, Mantoux tests (several as they couldn't decide on the results they were getting) and event

A GP's comments on the Orange One's behaviour on the balcony https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08th0f9

The Orange One was showing definite breathing difficulties as he was speaking outside his palace last night.

Very similar situation as nonna. Huge amounts of rain and wind and floods down towards the coastline. Le BsL ,where I live, is quite elevated (300+ metres) so if we were flooded there's not much hope for people nearer sea level.

WOW!!! What memories!!