How's your day?

[Stuart.C 505]

3 nights in the hotel and they're now back home, BUT on a SET warning (the 3 levels are Ready, Set, Go).
Some of the bushes surrounding them are scorched so the hot wind must have been blowing in their direction from the fire.
No damage to the house or grandson's Landcruiser parked outside.

They met some of the Firefighters in the hotel resting on day 2 and discovered that their house frontage was a forward base location, the fire was about 2½ miles away.

[IAN FINN 842]

Everyone including firefighters stay safe a house and vehicles can be replaced humans can not stay safe out there.

[Beekay 5,301]

Just looking on All Activity, and the last 10 posts have all been on Anything Political, apart from one odd 'Keep one, Drop one'. No wonder I'm watching football. Are we back in the drought?

[plantfit 7,699]

Another quiet period on nottstalgia,we need some new/younger members to liven the site up, bring in some new topics or resurrect some of the older ones even the ones that go way back to the beginning of the site, I'll have a look at the early ones to see if any are worth bringing forward

 

Rog

 

[Beekay 5,301]

I'm almost 81. Does that mean I'm young enough to post on NS ?

 

[IAN FINN 842]

Only just but i am sure you will post anyway just stay warm have a great day.

[plantfit 7,699]

The young at heart mate, so I think you qualify Barrie

 

Rog

[Beekay 5,301]

I can still chase the ladies Rog. The trouble is, when I catch em, I can't remember why I was chasing em. Or, they have to wait for me to catch up. I miss my time of flirting, when I was a conductor out of Bilborough depot.

[mary1947 2,112]

I received a letter this morning, it was an appointment for a MRi scan.

NOW!!!! not sure if some-one was taking the ?????  

It said the date and time  ----- then the address was

Nems Platform one 

Srtation street 

Nottingham

Nottinghamshire.

 

It also said if you require hospital transport contact MRI booking team 

As we no longer have the car i require transport,  the lady on the phone was very blunt and in a nice way u'mmm told me  that they did not book transport. and some how even though i had not ask for my appointment to be changed I am mow booked in at the city hospital !!!!!!!!

IS IT ME????

[Stuart.C 505]

Mary,
NEMS is a contract GP out of hours service, they occupy (part of ?) an old British railways goods office.

The MRI unit will be a Contract services transportable unit (not mobile) in the car park.

I had a prostate MRI at the City Hospital 2 years ago, that was a contract transportable unit in the Maternity unit car park.

[Cliff Ton 10,580]

7 minutes ago, Stuart.C said:

...... MRI at the City Hospital 2 years ago, that was a contract transportable unit in the Maternity unit car park.

 

I've also been there in that same van............And had a CT scan in a trailer in the car park at QMC.

[Stuart.C 505]

There's going to be a new NHS Diagnostic centre on Lister Gate, in a remaining bit of Broad Marsh (left side before B-M entrance) which will do MRI, CT, X-rays and ultrasound scans.
Opens spring next year.
Maybe that'll replace the temporary ones.

[benjamin1945 16,323]

Just took this off facebook.....thanks t Rosemary Wood........

ref Rog's comments about Nottstalgia needing some new or old input .........think we need more stuff like this......when Nottingham was a better place.........

Made me feel all sentimental.....is it just me ?

[Oztalgian 3,418]

13 minutes ago, benjamin1945 said:

think we need more stuff like this......

Sorry Ben, not often I disagree with anything you post. That was a load of old rubbish, people hamming it up for a cine camera, a camera operator that had not got a clue and a family tormenting a black cat.

[benjamin1945 16,323]

Thats ok OZ..........We all different mate.......when i see old bits of film like that...i see lots of old family and friends....who didnt have much..but were happy with what they did have.......i'm easily moved by the past...............

[Beekay 5,301]

Well, that were 4m 11s of me life I'll never get back !

sorry Oz., it were a black dog, not a cat.

Looked like Broxtowe.

[benjamin1945 16,323]

Like i said to OZ BK.......we are all different................thank goodness........

[plantfit 7,699]

Often wonder if the young people of today will look back in fifty/sixty years time with as much fondness as we do about the 50's/60's, will there be anything worth remembering or is life just flying by at such a rate that many things are completely lost? things were hard or difficult back then and communities much closer than they are today (or appear to be) are things easier to come by today and as such discarded just as easily, lots of questions and comparisons and no doubt a different answers from all the different people on this site

 

Rog

[Cliff Ton 10,580]

When it comes to looking back, the big difference will be that in 50 years time people will have a lot more material to look back at/with.

 

Today there's some material on Youtube etc showing life in the 'old' days, but not a great deal. But by 2075 there will be photos and films showing every minute of every day in every location, because it seems everybody now is recording everything they do...even if nobody is really interested in seeing it.

[Brew 5,510]

There is a quote but can't remember the author.

"The past is a different country; they eat chips differently there"

 

The question we must ask when getting all sentimental about the past is; "would you go back?" An adult  knowing what we know now and a child in the 50s are very different animals.

How long would we be satisfied without todays creature comforts? Small cramped and often damp houses, the famous tin bath and outside toilets.

Womens life in particular I would hazard a guess was more difficult than mens. Larger families often no access to hot water, coal and coal fires, no central heating and domestic appliance were laughable at the side of todays offering.

 

There is a distinct difference between the 50s and the 60s when life improved beyond measure for many.

 

On the other side of the coin those living in the better areas may well look back with a far more favourable view

[benjamin1945 16,323]

5 hours ago, Stuart.C said:

Mary,
NEMS is a contract GP out of hours service, they occupy (part of ?) an old British railways goods office.

The MRI unit will be a Contract services transportable unit (not mobile) in the car park.

I had a prostate MRI at the City Hospital 2 years ago, that was a contract transportable unit in the Maternity unit car park.

Thats the very building where in April 1960 i walked in just before 8AM...and clocked in for work for the very first time..........

[DJ360 6,781]

1 hour ago, Brew said:

There is a quote but can't remember the author.

"The past is a different country; they eat chips differently there"

 

'The past is a foregn country; they do things differently there.'

 

L.P. Hartley. 'The Go Between'

 

I like this: (My emphasis)

 

Quote

 

Abstract

In August 1962, L. P. Hartley recalled his feelings when, at age four-and-a-half in 1900, he moved from Whittlesey in the Cambridgeshire fens to the cathedral city of Petersborough. ‘It was the first time’, he recalled

I was consciously aware of the weather—at least it was the first time the weather made a mark òn my memory. From then on, for many years, I always hoped that the long succession of hot days would be repeated, but unless my memory betrays me it never was, in England at any rate, until 1959. It became for me a kind of Golden Age — almost literally, for I think of it as being the colour of gold. I didn’t want to go back to it but I wanted it to come to me, and I still do.¹

 

 

I feel much the same. I recognise Jim's reservations too. Although we lived in a three bed council house with a coal fire and plenty of fuel for it..a bathroom of sorts, etc., and were always well fed and adequately, if not always fashionably clothed, and although we were brought up in a mostly rural environment away from smog etc..and in that sense were better off than many... I wouldn't want to go back.

Rather, and like Hartley, I'd love to bring back some of those feelings.  A powerful 'sense of place', often lacking when I return home now. The sense of wonder at things, the deep contentment of sitting on a hill, looking out over waving corn, or a 'buzzing' meadow. The warm comfort of lying in bed at night listening to the oddly reassuring sounds of distant steam trains.. or the equal re-assurance of church bells on a Sunday morning. But I'd love to bring those things back here.  There are lots of things I'd leave behind. Life wasn't nearly as idyllic as my descriptions above might imply, but the downsides weren't characterised by living conditions, deep poverty etc.

 

I just wasn't raised in a totally harmonious household..and though never badly treated, I was affected by the negatives of my parents' relationship. No need for details.

[Jill Sparrow 10,424]

12 minutes ago, DJ360 said:

'The past is a foregn country; they do things differently there.'

 

L.P. Hartley. 'The Go Between'

One of my favourite books. Also one of my favourite films.

[DJ360 6,781]

Speaking of the week so far..rather than my day...

 

The Election coverage is endlessly fascinating. I especially like 'The Rest is Politics', featuring Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart.  Two commentators from opposite sides of the Political spectrum, but able to discuss stuff politely and amiably.

A lot like me and Jim....

 

I've also been enjoying the football..probably more than any men's tournament I've seen, although it might have something to do with the dearth of much else of interest on the telly.

 

My Bro and his wife are coming up on Friday, for a couple of days, so.. in addition to the usual "quick..tidy up.. they'll be here soon!", I've forced myself into moving a surplus computer, which had sat mostly on the floor next to the new one for months on end.

I was intending to make sure I'd swapped all useful files over to the new one, but now I'm happy there's nothing crucial and what is there can be pulled off the drive, using a 'caddy' thingy I bought, direct to the new p.c.. It's all now on the landing while I summon energy to shove it in the loft... with every intention of 'someday', removing the hard drive and other bits which 'might come in handy..', before 'skipping' the rest. 

Also an old Hi Fi rack which was stuck in a corner of the Dining Room while I thought about what to do with it and quickly took up residence as yet another repository for random items of junk.. Now in the garage. Somebody from the hi-fi fraternity will want it..

And packed up a redundant but still mint and fully working CD Player I've loved for 31 years. Somebody will buy it, but not for the £700+ it would cost if bought new today.  I'll be lucky to get £70.

 

Still need to find supposedly 'temporary' storage for assorted other junk which should really just go, except....one day it might...

Meanwhile the grass is growing fast and needs cutting..if it ever stops raining..

 

So.. I'd better get on with it all....

 

 

 

 

[Brew 5,510]

44 minutes ago, Jill Sparrow said:

One of my favourite books. Also one of my favourite films.

 

I knew the LP Hartley quote but I was thinking of:

 

” The past is a foreign country; they eat chips differently there”, starting page of by Grace Dent's memoir, “Hungry, a memoir for wanting more”, 2020. She obviously paraphrased Hartley.