jonab
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Yates's has certainly changed a lot since my days in Nottingham. The downstairs bar used to be a place for old soaks and rabble, the upstairs gallery for a more classy clientele wanting to be entertained by the Talbot Trio and to watch the fights and disturbances on the ground floor.
What's happened to Yates's White Port? Draught sherry? Draught 'Champagne'? Or is it now a posh wine bar with negative character and charm?
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I used to like Lincoln biscuits as well - green wrappers - suppose it was Lincoln green.
I also liked Barmouth, Morning Coffee, Rich Tea. Hated Marie biscuits - they were a bit like Rich Tea but they didn't dunk successfully. They retained a hard middle and a soggy outer. Morning Coffee were by far the best for dunking.
Most biscuits were too sweet for me and I never liked chocolate biscuits except for Bournville Wafers.
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Spencer, I just noticed that you have revealed your email address in one of your earlier posts. This is a very unwise thing to do as it invites all sort of undesirables to contact you.
It would be advisable to ask admin to remove this detail.
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Fielding's real acting talents were better demonstrated in the legitimate theatre (as I remember her) rather than a one-liner joke from a Carry On film ("Do you mind if I smoke?") funny as it was.
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I used to wonder how they got the coloured fibres into the paper of ration books and tried, in vain, to removed them without destroying the coupon. Why? I have no idea but that sort of thing is what little kids used to do in the absence of an Xbox or some such.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/45409341
I knew her very slightly when she was in rep at the Playhouse and I was a member of the Playhouse Club.
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The problem with sex change people, to my mind, is that they always look like the sex they were born with. Men to women changeovers look like drag queens and women to men resemble diesel dykes. There is almost never a situation wherein a sex-changed person looks 100% "real" and if they do, from all those I have met (only a few BTW!) they are keen to relate their story thus forcing you to acknowledge their "predicament" rather than just carrying on as a normal human being.
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No messiness with my tea. I (we) just swirl the teapot around and pour any excess tea, leaves and all, on to the garden. The plants seem to enjoy it - perhaps the caffeine gives them a buzz.
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22 minutes ago, Compo said:
Curiously, Jonab, I have visited two separate tea plantations and both gave the same advice "Never use tea bags, the tea is little more than leftover dust." I watched the sorting machines grade the tea: leaves for best then next best etc.. eventually you end up with the rubbish. ".....and that," said the man "Is your tea bag tea."
My instincts were right then!!
Leaf tea is still the norm in France and regular tea drinkers (of which there are a lot) regard tea bags as second (or third) rate. Even so, tea is very expensive here and I get mine brought over from England whenever anyone visits me - and then everyone in the neighbourhood seems to want some.
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I always thought that those tea-balls and related items made rubbish tea*. Far, far better to have the leaves free to move and circulate in the teapot and then strain them when the beverage was poured into the cup.
*Even so, it's better than the excrement that comes from tea bags.
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How times change. In the 1960's it was (inter)national news that some bloke was stabbed. Now, it seems commonplace and the news comments when people do not get stabbed.
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I did some short-term contract work at an engineering works in Leicester (near the station). Their drinks machines were a case of "one cockroach or two". This was in the sixties well before the days of Elf & Safety. The management reaction was something like "What do you expect, it's free" - which it was - for half an hour each morning and afternoon. The rest of the time, all the little bugs had a party inside the dispenser.
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As a rider to my previous comments re. teabags, have you ever looked at the contents of one and compared it with loose tea? Dust and what looks like floor sweepings best describes the contents of a teabag - which explains the sludge you often get at the bottom of your cup when drinking bagged tea rather than leaf tea.
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When I was young, a neighbour bought tea bags for the first time. Her husband, not understanding what you did with them, carefully cut the corner from each bag and put the tea into the caddy.
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I remember the building well but I can't recall where it is/was. I've looked on GSV but I'm unable to find it. Another victim of the Watson Fothergill hate campaign?
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Errr.... yes. Perhaps you haven't read that I am unable to walk these days.
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Thanks, Willow. After I posted it, I wondered if anyone would get the joke.
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Interesting thing on the BBC UK website:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-45427232
There is an interesting reference to Barnips in the subsection Coughs, Colds and old-fashioned curatives.
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I've only heard 'gabbing' once since I left Nottingham and that was when I lived in Ashford, Kent. It was in a shop (M&S, I think) and the floor supervisor was admonishing her staff for not attending to their work but standing around gossiping (or gabbing). Her accent wasn't particularly Nottingham but there was a definite East Midlands tone there which stood out amongst the Sarf London and Kent dialect native to that area.
'Gleg' I heard a few times in the south of England usually as in "gizza gleg" meaning "let me have a look" - which, no doubt, is the same as in Nottingham.
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1 hour ago, plantfit said:
Why does most people who are being interviewed on the TV start their answer with the word SO, bloody annoying, and why don't a lot of young people pronounce the letter T in most of their words, ie,twen-y or nine-y instead of twenty and ninety, bloody annoying again, innit
Rog (without the letter T)
I don't watch much TV but I have noticed when channel hopping on satellite that there is a tendency on those very poorly run English shopping channels, as well as the "so" and "t" affliction, the increasing mispronunciation of "thing" either on its own or in combination as in everything, something etc. So the resulting hybrid is think thus everythink, somethink. To make things (thinks) worse, this is frequently compounded by an apparent lack of the ability to pronounce "th" which is uttered as "f" as in fink, everyfink, somefink and so on.
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NO THANK YOU!!!!!
I do appreciate you reminding me of the name of those completely irritating time wasters, though.
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I'm surprised at that, Phil. I can't help thinking that there was something about your friend's attitude that he met with that. Even more surprised that there was no English speaker in the area (maybe for the reason I suggested?)
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Phil, your friend doesn't need to revive his/her conversational French. Just about anywhere you go in Paris (or any large(ish) French city) there will be an English speaker - and quite likely an English person quite close by always ready to help.
Your statement "A language is best taught generally in a conversational manner" is so true. I found that my "O" level French to be just about useless when I moved here. To be trying to have a conversation whilst conjugating verbs in your mind (as is or was the way that French was taught) does absolutely nothing towards learning a language. The only way to learn is to do it in the same way the native speakers learned - by listening and imitating and then, only then, attempting to write what you hear. You do have an advantage with the Romance languages such as French in that you already know how to write.
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Buses in Nottingham
in Pete's Nottingham Transport Forum
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I have made several 'likes' on this thread. Perhaps I should qualify those by saying that my interest in the prime subject of a 'buses' post is very low, it's the background views that hold the interest for me - evoking memories of a lost city. So, thanks everyone who posts here.
Having said that, the 43 and the 44 used to be my regular buses.