Jill Sparrow 8,460 Posted June 10, 2018 Report Share Posted June 10, 2018 Yes, Catfan. I think you're right. Often went that way, so it would fit. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
nonnaB 4,111 Posted June 10, 2018 Report Share Posted June 10, 2018 Thank goodness my dentist is my BIL. hes the only dentist that I frequented that can fill and drill a tooth without an anasthetic ( spelling) Hes so good , goes for refresher and updates all the time. He also has the most uptodate equipment. He now specialises in cosmetic dentistry. A few years ago at a his wedding , a neice tripped on the long tablecloth at her table and smashed her two front teeth. He went to the rescue straightaway and by evening he had given her two front teeth crowns. Yes dentists are also very expensive here too but tell me what isnt. After various discussions the comment is... "Well We are in Italy" says it all 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mercurydancer 1,083 Posted June 10, 2018 Report Share Posted June 10, 2018 Catfan Russian driving is both spectacular and dangerous. I have seen nothing like it anywhere. In Moscow the traffic can grind to a standstill on some directions and the drivers just drive on the road into oncoming traffic on the opposite lane. Traffic lights are a suggestion to most Russian drivers. I can recall driving in southern Russia in a blizzard. I could not see more than about 10 meters. Overtaking me was a saloon going about three times the speed I was driving at, with a bus full of kids behind, the bus driver honking the horn for the driver to pull over and let him past. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MargieH 6,592 Posted June 10, 2018 Report Share Posted June 10, 2018 MD. that sounds really scary! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bamber 124 Posted June 10, 2018 Author Report Share Posted June 10, 2018 On 6/5/2018 at 2:20 PM, loppylugs said: It just reminded me. Johnny Preston had a jazz band. He called it Johnny Preston's Upper Set. . I don't know where they played but maybe some of you heard them. Johnny Preston ... a man with a very colourful lifestyle. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
loppylugs 8,155 Posted June 10, 2018 Report Share Posted June 10, 2018 I didn't know that, Bamber. Tell us more. He's probably long gone now. I know he was a good few years older than me back in the sixties. He seemed like good dentist. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bamber 124 Posted June 10, 2018 Author Report Share Posted June 10, 2018 Well let's say he was a bit of a swinger Quote Link to post Share on other sites
loppylugs 8,155 Posted June 11, 2018 Report Share Posted June 11, 2018 Bamber. I know there was some kind of ruckus. It even made it to the Evening Post back in the day. I lost track of him after that because I moved to the other side of town and then emigrated. So I don't know how it all worked out. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
radfordred 5,338 Posted August 20, 2020 Report Share Posted August 20, 2020 Just curious any know what the paper copy now costs? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
denshaw 2,630 Posted August 20, 2020 Report Share Posted August 20, 2020 85p Quote Link to post Share on other sites
philmayfield 4,253 Posted August 20, 2020 Report Share Posted August 20, 2020 That is a rip-off for such a pathetic news sheet. As a subscriber I get The Times for £1.20 a day which includes the online version. Online’s ok but I do like a proper newspaper on the breakfast table. After use we cut it into squares and string it for toilet paper. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 8,460 Posted August 20, 2020 Report Share Posted August 20, 2020 I'm pleased to learn you are recycling paper. With such a quality publication, I trust the print doesn't come off on your backside! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
philmayfield 4,253 Posted August 20, 2020 Report Share Posted August 20, 2020 Actually I do have a flexible inspection camera where I could, if so desired, look at my rear for traces of printing ink. It might be worth putting it to the test. I could always use a copy of ‘The Sun’. I’m told that it shines out of my backside. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bamber 124 Posted September 1, 2020 Author Report Share Posted September 1, 2020 It is official, the Evening (sic) Post is dead. The owners, Reach PLC, have announced that the Post, the Derby Telegraph and the Lincolnshire Echo are to share an editor - Natalie Fahy. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mary1947 1,457 Posted September 1, 2020 Report Share Posted September 1, 2020 The Evening Post belonged to us all, how many of you put birth, picture of your wedding or something in the rest in piece collom, and don't forget when you went looking for the job Tuesday night there was at lest 4 pages to gp though, Thursday's night was houses and Friday cars. RIP NOTTINGHAM EVENING POST sorry can't find a paper to put the obituary in. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bamber 124 Posted November 10, 2020 Author Report Share Posted November 10, 2020 The Post hasn't been printed in Nottingham for donkey's. First it moved to Derby and nowadays they print overnight in Birmingham - yesterday's news tomorrow. Well, Reach (owners of the paper) have announced the closure of the Birmingham printworks and the Post will be coming from either Oldham, Middlesbrough or Watford - yesterday's news the day after tomorrow. With circulation now so low it cannot be too long before the Post goes weekly or vanishes altogether. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 8,923 Posted November 10, 2020 Report Share Posted November 10, 2020 It's surprising to discover that it still exists (at the moment) and that it still sells a few copies every day. I'd be interested to know who buys it now....I guess the average age of readers is somewhere in the 80s. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
philmayfield 4,253 Posted November 10, 2020 Report Share Posted November 10, 2020 Their online news synopsis is dreadful and never up to date. It has been a third rate newspaper appealing to the lowest common denominator for many years. Our local weekly newspaper, the Newark Advertiser, is now owned by a national group and has gone downhill regarding local news in a similar way. We still take it, hoping my name will appear, but I guess that will be in the obituaries! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 4,535 Posted November 10, 2020 Report Share Posted November 10, 2020 I go on line to westbridgfordwire.com for Nottingham news. Much easier to navigate than the Post. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bamber 124 Posted November 10, 2020 Author Report Share Posted November 10, 2020 From today's Bread and Lard Bugle West Bridgford Wire. West Bridgford drugs dealing and ASB – Operation Alaska nominals dealing drugs and committing ASB on West Bridgford Beats including Edwalton, Compton Acres and Trent Bridge – Owned by West Bridgford Neighbourhoods, Rushcliffe Reacher and Response teams. Obviously an extract from a Notts Police press release, but you would have thought that the force's press office would have taken the time to translate it out of police-jargon into something approaching standard English. 10-4. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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