banjo48 928 Posted August 10, 2014 Report Share Posted August 10, 2014 Ok, booked my ticket, will be back in blighty end of September for 3 weeks, on a quick solo visit, here's my current must do's. A decent pork pie. Some proper sausage rolls. Haddock chips and peas on a tray with lots of salt and vinegar, from a real chip shop that does its own spuds. Chicken and mushroom Pukka pie as above. Bacon and egg roll with mushrooms, Cattle market Sat morning. Sausage and egg roll from the little butcher on Front street Arnold, cooked while you wait, was a pound. Curry night, Witherspoons Mapperley tops. A real ale, maybe the Bread and Bitter again Mapperley tops. Sit down the river near Stoke Bardolph and enjoy a pint and a packet of beef crisps (or cheese an onion) Find some real pork scratchings. A cooked breakfast from The Bank, market square. Some smoked mackerel fillets Tesco's, Morrisons, Asda and Costas coffee. Maybe catch up for lunch and a beer with some of the crew here. Now if my list seems a bit food orientated, I must shamefully agree, it is. These are just some of he things I crave and miss from my old home town of Nottingham. Other ideas gratefully received , I am trying to currently lose 5 kg to make room for all the above ! because good or bad for me, I dont care, a little of what you fancy does you good they say. Just over 3 years since last trip so the cravings are bad as you may gather from above :-) 7 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Trevor S 2,003 Posted August 10, 2014 Report Share Posted August 10, 2014 You are lucky, banjo48. Have a beer for me at Stoke Bardolph. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mary1947 2,090 Posted August 10, 2014 Report Share Posted August 10, 2014 Pork farms sausage, Home ales beer Shipstone beer, Newcastle Brown, Whitbread tanked. Pork farms ice bun's real pork dripping real potted meat Oh! what a list I could go on and on. Just one more babycham. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,215 Posted August 10, 2014 Report Share Posted August 10, 2014 Don't forget the Cherry' Mary, Quote Link to post Share on other sites
denshaw 2,877 Posted August 10, 2014 Report Share Posted August 10, 2014 Looks like a good idea for a meet up late September. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
.... 23 Posted August 10, 2014 Report Share Posted August 10, 2014 Sausage and egg roll from the little butcher on Front street Arnold, cooked while you wait, was a pound. Rowbothams of Arnold must be arguably the oldest business in the town, apart from the pubs. Still there, still a pound. I agree, great! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,109 Posted August 10, 2014 Report Share Posted August 10, 2014 Often have a sos cob there when we are in Arnold. Great. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
banjo48 928 Posted August 10, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 10, 2014 Looks like a good idea for a meet up late September. Would have to be early oct as I dont arrive till 29th sept, then there's the dreaded jetlag to contend with ! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MelissaJKelly 2,124 Posted August 10, 2014 Report Share Posted August 10, 2014 A meet up sounds grand! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,490 Posted August 10, 2014 Report Share Posted August 10, 2014 Looks like a good idea for a meet up late September. There isn't enough time to arrange a meet-up between now and the end of September. It would take much longer than that. 6 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
denshaw 2,877 Posted August 10, 2014 Report Share Posted August 10, 2014 Let us know which dates suit, Banjo. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
piggy and babs 544 Posted August 10, 2014 Report Share Posted August 10, 2014 yes please do we love putting a face to the name 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
banjo48 928 Posted August 11, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 11, 2014 Anywhere between maybe 5th-17th Oct. , as I leave on the 19th from Manchester. I arrive on the 29th Sept. but will need a few days to get through the jetlag ! I'll have my Ipad with me so can still access the forum once I pick up local Sim. Any recommendations for a good pre paid sim for calls and data ? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted August 11, 2014 Report Share Posted August 11, 2014 Look forward to seeing you Banjo48 You will find plenty of Wifi access. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan 14,793 Posted August 11, 2014 Report Share Posted August 11, 2014 Any recommendations for a good pre paid sim for calls and data ? I use this, no problems. http://www.three.co.uk/Store/Pay_As_You_Go_Price_Plans Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Karlton 582 Posted August 11, 2014 Report Share Posted August 11, 2014 have sommat to eat on the plane to get yer taste buds going Banjo. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,091 Posted August 11, 2014 Report Share Posted August 11, 2014 We always make sure we've eaten things like pork pie (first priority) with picalill and pickled onions. Haddock, chips & mushy peas, sausage roll preferably warm and greasy! A fresh cream cake, malt loaf, eccles cake, flavoured crisps, sausages with H.P. sauce, bacon with meat on it, (it's all streaky here). Bitter lemon, cider. The list goes on and on, and coming home we are loaded up with stuff for the kids, mostly chocolate. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
The Pianoman 1,535 Posted August 11, 2014 Report Share Posted August 11, 2014 Pleased I am not interested in emigrating. All this stuff you foreigners can't get 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
colly0410 1,181 Posted August 11, 2014 Report Share Posted August 11, 2014 Mother-in-law says the best fish & chips she's ever tasted was 'red snapper, chips & mushy peas' at a chippy cum cafe on Freemantle harbour front, she still goes on about it after 17 years. The best sausage I've tasted was from a sausage shop in Munster-lager Lower Saxony Germany, I keep looking in Aldi to see if they've got them, I do like there Cumberland sausages though (£1 a pound) I seem to like foreign stuff.. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
denshaw 2,877 Posted August 11, 2014 Report Share Posted August 11, 2014 So it's wether spoons Mapperley top Thursday night for curry club, October. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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