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I also well remember the snooker hall(s) on Goldsmith St. Was there one on Forman St as well?
Never went in them, used the tables at the Technical College instead.
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I am unable to see that this has anything at all to do with Nottstalgia.
It should be reported and deleted forthwith!
(I hope your irony and sarcasm detectors are in full working order and if you think I post too much, send me a PM and I will cease).
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Which was another thing - so-called 'crafters' used these toilet rolls to make paper flowers to sell at jumble sales.
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It was a great relief to supermarkets when the de rigueur colour for bathroom porcelain reverted to white in the early '80's and they didn't need to dedicate half of their total shelf space to different colours of toilet rolls.
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I remember the statue well but I never knew that it was of Byron until I left Hucknall. Daft, really considering he's buried only a few yards away (even if he is without a heart).
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It's his safety record that would be of most concern to me (as well as his age). He had been disciplined several times for crashing his vehicle and been reported by passengers as being unsafe and incompetent - missing stops, overshooting stops and more. What more could his employer have needed to stop this activity?
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It's not so much as retirement age but the ability to do the job. His record shows that he was, to most normal observers, incompetent and had a number of crashes and warnings about his (in)ability to drive a bus. He should have been stopped many years prior to this unhappy occurrence.
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That story has even made the news down here.
It really is beyond belief - and even worse than what you have portrayed, denshaw:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-coventry-warwickshire-45561937
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Just as nonna says, the vendange (same as vendemmia) is starting in full here. There will be huge influxes of itinerant workers flooding the place - quite a lot of posh, thick English school leavers in their 'gap' year who think they will have a dead easy time and be continuously intoxicated. It ain't like that, folks!! As advice to anyone who's thinking of being a vendangeur/euse, it's damned hard work and very long hours!
Despite what Google would have you think, most if not all, grapes are picked by hand here.
On the subject of tomato plants, when I was young there was a sewage works down Wigwam Lane, Hucknall where, every year, there would be tomatoes growing on the filter beds. The workers would carefully lift the plants (with a good amount of adherent 'soil') and replant them in a small plot at the side of the works. The resulting tomatoes were free for anyone to take - and they were VERY good to eat.
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Isn't that what's called 'Rustic Charm'?
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Whilst on the subject of less than appetising foods are chitterlings still available in the UK? I remember the Coop butcher on WatnalRoad, Hucknall used to cook their own on Tuesdays and put them, steaming, in the window. The smell was absolutely revolting, redolent of a dirty farmyard.
Similar things (pigs and/or sheep intestines) are available down here and thought of as a great treat. Here, these disgusting things are stuffed into another piece of intestine and made into sausages called andouille or andouillette. I appreciate that real sausage skins are made from intestines but these are highly processed - the things described here are complete gut tubes that have merely been washed (from the smell of them, though, I'm doubtful about the washing).
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The French have mainly abandoned the two finger sign in favour of the rampant single middle finger.
Addendum: The ultimate in rude hand gestures is to hold up the hand with the tips of the thumb and middle finger touching. An up and down motion almost equates to a challenge to fight a duel (not quite, but I'm sure you see my meaning).
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Tripe (stewed woolly jumpers) was always sold pre-cooked - hence tripe dressers who did this chore for you. It took hours of boiling to transform it into anything like an edible state and even that, in my opinion, was never enough.
Whether it was cooked further was up to you e.g for tripe & onions.
Tripe is popular in France - consult Wiki for Tripes à la mode de Caen (don't do this is you are of a delicate disposition) and a dish local to me is Tripes à la provençale which is not quite are nauseating in its description but equally as horrible in its taste and flavour. To my mind, tripe dishes are best served with bread & butter and without the tripe.
I'm normally quite adventurous in my eating (you have to be, living where I do) but I draw the line at tripe after my one attempt at eating my grannies version of tripe & onions. The tripe itself was completely tasteless and had a texture of wet knitting.
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Why does an air freshener emit light, any light, either before, during or after releasing its scent?
A severe case of over-innovation here, I think.
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Wonderful 'poetry'!!!!!!!
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When I was over last Christmas, I thought the name had already been changed.
It's not particularly "ethnic" (are we allowed to say that?) where I was (southern England) but there were very few references to the word and many places were using the term "winter holiday".
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9 hours ago, FLY2 said:
Hey, the snowflakes would have me publicly branded, tarred and feathered in the Market Sq if they could.
Would that be black tar?
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One of the most depressing places I have ever visited - the area surrounding Blaenau Ffestiniog. It's grey and grey and more grey. Every time I've been there the colour of the sky has matched the slate spoil heaps - grey and it's very often foggy as well. If you ever find yourself there, get on the train and escape as fast as you can. The town itself is not too bad, it's the surrounding area. Make sure you're well topped up with Prozac before you go.
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Re SNAFU and FOOBAR (that should read FUBAR). I thought they were British army acronyms. As a kid, I remember a cousin (big-wig in the army) using them liberally and me getting a clip round the ear when I asked what they meant. There were others but they weren't so popular and I've forgotten them.
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I remember when I was still in Nottingham that there was a huge furore about the being black ice on the roads. That could have been one of the earliest instances of this gross stupidity.
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10 hours ago, Deepdene Boy said:
Jonab, when were you living in Sherwood Rise. My Dad, Clive Johnson, grew up and lived in Regent Street until 1963.
I lived in Sherwood Rise (1 Second Avenue - corner of Second Avenue/Sherwood Rise) from about 1972 to when I left Nottingham at the end of 1978
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^^^^ I agree with that, excellent. ^^^^
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I left Nottingham '78 - '79 time so must have been pre that date. I remember trolley buses with those numbers and also that modern style as depicted in that picture.
When I lived on Sherwood Rise, I most often used the (motor) buses from Slab Square to Clarendon College (ish). I can't remember the numbers of those - there were so many.
Travel in my Hucknall days was by Trent 84 from Huntingdon Street to Sutton in Ashfield or Trent 60 and 61 series from Mount Street to Hucknall (60's) and Mansfield/Kirkby (61's). There were various suffixes added to the 60 - 61 depending on their exact route and destination.
In my early days of travelling, I used the train from Hucknall LMS station to Nottingham Midland
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Be careful using blowlamps in the proximity of containers which may have paraffin (or worse, petrol) residues.
A famous Moustache?
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