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As someone who is incapable of walking more than about three steps, I would NEVER be seen on one of those contraptions. Transport for lazy slobs and fat slags.
(As an aside, is Viz magazine still around? That's where the Fat Slags originated)
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When I stayed with my Rempstone granny we often used to pack a picnic and walk to Stanford Hall (grounds only) to eat it. It seemed a very long way to go and, I suppose to a five-year-old, it was. About halfway to the hall, on the left, was a water mill which milled flour although it was all but derelict by then.
There was a theatre in the hall and when I was a bit older we would go to amateur theatrical productions (local theatre groups). It was VERY dark when we came out (no street lighting) so we all had candle lanterns and torches to light the way back to Rempstone (very few cars in those days). Quite spooky, especially when you reached Rempstone church.
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12 hours ago, jonab said:
Off to Monte Carlo for the second time today. Out to dinner at the Hôtel de Paris (supposedly the best hotel on the Riviera).
I'd prefer to dine at home - which I will tomorrow as I've invited the Canadians to dinner chez moi.
Hmmmmm.....
I prefer my food to look like food and not something that should be on show in an art gallery. I also don't like to leave the table feeling as though I haven't eaten anything.
The nutritional equivalent of two Smarties and a jelly baby is NOT a meal.
Glad I wasn't paying.
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Off to Monte Carlo for the second time today. Out to dinner at the Hôtel de Paris (supposedly the best hotel on the Riviera).
I'd prefer to dine at home - which I will tomorrow as I've invited the Canadians to dinner chez moi.
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Chillies grow like weeds here - well, not quite but they are very prolific. We've just pulled my this year's crop and hung them to dry.
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- - - or does she have some compromising pictures?
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Didn't Leonard Swindley run a haberdashery shop in Coronation Street? Miss Nugent worked for him.
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Certainly is. Only hope it's working to full advantage when it comes to the business discussions later in the week. What I'm wanting really is for the Canadians to buy me out completely and, obviously, this has to be at the right price.
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The dogs seemed oddly self-satisfied when they returned from the hairdressers yesterday. Usually, they are in a mood after such 'trauma'.
Off to the airport shortly to greet my Canadian visitors and transport them to Monte Carlo. I suppose I'll be acting as a tour guide for a day or so - none of them has been down here before. Imagine - a tour guide in a wheelchair!
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Thanks for that. I remember the Hibbert and Allsop farms in Rempstone. There was also Derbyshires.
Very interesting. More and more of my memory is being jogged!
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Do you remember the Christian name of the Beeby whose funeral it was?
Michael Beeby was a year or two older than me (I'm now 73) but there were quite a few of them (Jack Beeby had two or three brothers) who all had offspring (I didn't know the other parts of the family except to say hello).
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I very well remember the steam rallies run by the Beebies. Jack and Mary Beeby lived next door to my granny on Wymeswold Road. The had a son, Michael and a second son who "was not talked about". Just a bit further up Wymeswold Road were the engine sheds where I was once set upon by a load of angry geese. A bit further up from there on the opposite side, the Beeby's built a garage/filling station.
I see from GSV that the Beeby's are still active in Rempstone and my grannies house is still there, even though its front door and privy door have been bricked up. The engine sheds have gone - replaced by bungalows for townies.
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My granny lived at Rempstone so I used to travel through Bunny (and Bradmore) on the bus to see her. I remember the chimneys at Bunny but never knew until now that they made bricks there.
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Are you sure that Hair was at the Empire?
I remember seeing it at the Theatre Royal in 1970 with, what claimed to be, the original London cast. It starred Paul Nicholas - also Richard O'Brian (Crystal Maze, Rocky Horror Show) and Floella Benjamin (Blue Peter and now a baroness).
The show had a great influence on my life - completely turning it around into (probably) what I am today. I went to see it several times and each time I was influenced enough to go up on stage to join in at the end of the performance (if you've seen it, you will know what I mean).
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Attach the copper pipe to the central heating and you have a heated towel rail!
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The dogs are off to the beauty parlour later to have their autumn trim, ready for winter.
I have a busy week ahead as I'm being visited by the CEO and senior staff of the company who licence my patents. They are coming over from Canada and insist on staying in Monte Carlo. I tried to point out that it's not anything like what they see in James Bond films but, they insist - at €600 a night. Obviously, have more money than sense, only hope they pass some over to me.
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2 hours ago, FLY2 said:
Before the snowflakes begin bemoaning the fact that these folks are homeless, I'll just remind them that one of the 4 x4 's there costs over £60k. On the poverty line, my ar5e !
1But did they pay for them?
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57 minutes ago, FLY2 said:
'If you don't like it here, then get the hell out'.
I did.
I was living on Sherwood Rise (Forest Fields, Hyson Green area) in the years immediately prior to my leaving Nottingham (a place I still hold very dear in my memory).
I left Nottingham at the end of the 1970's and even then there were definite rumblings of unease in the area well before the too well publicised riots. I was working at Gerard's (New Basford) and my route to work took me through Forest Fields and Hyson Green. I became increasingly cautious about the streets I used to get to and from Wilkinson Street and, towards the end, I felt safe only if I went Gregory Boulevard – Radford Road to get there. All the back and side streets I considered too dangerous, especially if I was working late in the winter. Even Berridge Road (which is quite wide and well populated) I considered no-go.
I’ve recently been doing a virtual tour of the area on GSV and, I have to say I am astonished on how different things are and look now. I genuinely had difficulties recognising many things that I used to consider landmark buildings. The frontages were comparable to North Africa in appearance.
(Even though I said I hold Nottingham very dear in my memory, that's how it will have to remain - in my memory. The very idea of returning would be too upsetting).
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According to https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/baby-names-most-popular-2018-olivia-muhammed-babycentre-a8428276.html Muhammad is top of the list of most popular boys names so far in 2018.
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Redmayne & Todd was a fascinating place selling all sorts of 'sporty' things that were unobtainable elsewhere - including real fireworks - not the penny banger or one-shot roman candle type but big things in large diameter tubes and boxes.
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^^Forensic Science Laboratories and Police HQ^^. Firestation at the rear.
Shakespeare St on the left going towards Victoria Station.
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Is there a new version of the £50 banknote or have they all been discontinued?
I have a few of that style tucked away somewhere. I must look them out.
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Sadly, my attempts at humour failed in the posts here, even though I did add the riders regarding irony and sarcasm - which were completely ignored.
Perhaps I have lived overseas for too long and lost the je ne sais quoi of English, more specifically, Nottingham humour.
There is no point in explaining any further as all that would do would be to deepen the mire of misunderstanding.
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1 hour ago, catfan said:
I suggest jonab, you read the previous umpteen posts regarding TV licenses etc. This "Mr Blunders TV You tube video was broadcast at that time so is relevant to this thread which incidentally was started by mick2me in early February 2006 !!
Obviously, your irony and sarcasm detectors have been disabled.
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