jonab
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A friend who worked at Thomas Forman told me of an incident where many thousands of calendars were printed with April 31st included.
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I remember the building as PP Payne 1960s - 1970s. Next door (city side of Hucknall Road) was Thomas Forman, carton and calendar printers.
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I noticed on BBC World News yesterday that the PoW visited his ailing dad in hospital. OK! fine but he was followed by a flunkeywearing a tailcoat. What century are these people living in?
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Just realised I gave a "foreign" link for the hair clippers. Here's the UK one
https://uk.remington-europe.com/products/hc4250-quickcut-hair-clipper
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Remington Quick Cut https://fr.remington-europe.com/produits/hc4250-tondeuse-cheveux-quickcut
I'm sure this model is available in the UK. The cutter is much wider than most - hence Quick Cut
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I have made a search as you suggest and, indeed, have found some of the items I remember.
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Isn't there another thread with a title similar to this one? I remember making some contribution to it, in particular Yates's white port and the Talbot Trio (not quartet).
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I had to locate the Newton building in order to orientate myself. It was much easier after that.
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Apparently he spent December in Barbados (The Times, February 1 2021).
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Amazing!!!!!
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I know just how you feel, SG, having lost one of my dogs a year and a half ago.
Things will get better and you have all the happy memories of your two boys to keep you inspired and remember better times.
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I knew so many of those pubs
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Almost certain it's Gerard's chimney. Looks somehat different without the factory buildings at the base but the decorative brickwork persuades me.
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I can never undertand why they seem unable to formulate animal medication that isn't thrown back at you (sometimes with great force) every time it's administered.The veterinary medication market is big enough, surely.
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PIFCO still exists - at least over here. I bought a PIFCO column fan a few years ago from Galeries Lafayette in NIce a few years ago. It was fitted with a UK plug - as so many things are.
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It seems not only Boris Johnson who is cultivating unkempt scruffiness in UK politics. There are several women MPs (Annelise Dodds for example) who pride themselves in having greasy looking, uncombed hair - and then there is that uncouth rug-wearing Michael Fabricant and numerous others. I only see the ones that televised here, I'm sure there are more.
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Fascinating thread, this!
I'm having some difficulty in placing the house from the Google maps as my view was always quite fleeting, travelling as a smallish child on the upper deck of a bus.
Something I do recall is that the house was on the left going towards Loughborough as I had to rush to the other side of the bus to check if the clock on Bunny church was actually working (only very rarely).
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Interesting, this. I now remember the building and its sign very well although it had slipped my recent memory. I often saw the sign when on my way to visit my granny (who lived in Rempstone) from the window of the Nottingham to Loughborough Trent bus. This would have been in the 1950s - early 60s.
I was about to try to contact an ex-colleague (from my days working at HATRA) named Jack Smurfitt. He ran the company library, a real bookworm who, on retirement, took up the post of archivist (or similar) for Bunny, Ruddington, Costock, Hoton etc. Unfortunately he died a few years ago.
So, thanks Lizzie!
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58 minutes ago, katyjay said:
I think we are going to have to rethink these kitty names. How about Sid Vicious and Pandora. LOL.
I called my dogs Gnasher and Growler. Two less appropriate names would be difficult to think of, considering they were Norfolk terriers.
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Blimey!! PP. I really don't know what to say.
It seems a bit trivial to say that before my ops, I could only read the bottom line of the Snellen chart through a pin-hole test lens.
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I had my cataracts done about five years ago. One of the best things ever!! I had, very unwisely, neglected my vision for a while such that I was classifiable as being blind. Anyway, I had two rounds of surgery, both completely painless such that after the first, I was actually looking forward to the second.
Sometimes (and it happened to me) after a few years it can happen that your sight deteriorates due to "posterior capsular opacification". This is very easy to treat with a few blasts from a laser so, it it happens to you, don't worry about it.
My sight now is as good, if not better, than it's ever been.
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I live just up the road at le Bar sur Loup (on the D2210). Note that Roquefort les Pins which you may see on the map is not the Roquefort where the cheese comes from.
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The cheese that nonnaB mentioned is Blu del Moncenisio produced on the French/Italian border. It's quite a rare cheese, only produced in relatively small quantities. I hadn't tasted it when I wrote previously on cheeses but I have now and it's very nice. I doubt it's exported to the UK - it's difficult to buy here - but if it is, it's certainly worth a try.
The French town of Ambert is in the Auvergne close to Val di Susa (in Piedmont where Blu del Moncenisio is made) and that is famed for Fourme d'Ambert. The Auvergne is (obviously) where Bleu d'Auvergne - which I recommended above - is from. Fourme d'Ambert might be said to link Blu del Moncenisio and Bleu d'Auvergne.
Anyway, they are all very good cheeses. I'm not suggesting they are better than Stilton, just different , adding variety to the infinite range of tastes and flavours that we can experience. If you enjoy Stilton, any and all of these continental cheeses are certainly worth trying.
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How's your day?
in Owt' Abaaht Nowt !
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Hello folks, I'm not dead (yet) but I am quite unwell.
On March 5th I had a bit of an accident at home when I lost my balance and fell very awkwardly. I was alone and on the floor, trapped between various items of furniture. I tried to free myself but that only made things worse. I was like this for nearly twelve hours -during which time I became pretty desperate. I was eventually rescued to discover that I was completely paralysed from the waist down. Off to A&E.
After all the preliminaries – and a fall from the trolley, a bed was found for me. Next day I was in intense pain in my left hip, thigh and knee. I reported this to the staff and to cut a few days out of the situation, it was discovered that I have advanced (metastatic) prostate cancer
I was hospitalised until a few days ago. I am at home now, still unable to walk and in quite a lot of pain. I have a hospital bed on the ground floor and have to be assisted to the commode at its side.
Oh well! That's life. Thank goodness for morphine.
I will write more when I feel a bit better.