LizzieM 9,507 Posted October 15, 2016 Report Share Posted October 15, 2016 # 3756. It's a different life down on Mansfield Road Carni .........yobs, slobs, nutters ....... most are visiting from Bulwell ! 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
carni 10,094 Posted October 15, 2016 Report Share Posted October 15, 2016 Eey Lizzie, We do see life. You know what they say "Variety is the spice of life" Certainly plenty about last Wednesday Miduck. No seriously, apart from the altercation in the pub car park; all was quiet. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Chulla 4,946 Posted October 16, 2016 Report Share Posted October 16, 2016 carni, was there any 'life' crawling up the walls of your hotel room? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted October 16, 2016 Report Share Posted October 16, 2016 On 18/08/2016 at 10:05 AM, Jill Sparrow said: Perhaps, now, we can have gallons back again, along with pounds, ounces, feet, inches, rods, perches, firkins, gills, pecks and tuppenyworths! Let's be different...and eccentric! Not easy work out with a calculator though Quote Link to post Share on other sites
NewBasfordlad 3,599 Posted October 17, 2016 Report Share Posted October 17, 2016 ^^^^^^^^True but back then we had a superior calculator called a brain..................... Where as today they have it simple and still need a calculator 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted October 17, 2016 Report Share Posted October 17, 2016 We had some Ravenhead Siesta glasses...truly 70's..are they still made? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted October 17, 2016 Report Share Posted October 17, 2016 #3761 And you had to know your 12,14,& 16 times tables + others too, Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted October 18, 2016 Report Share Posted October 18, 2016 Talking of the fight reminds me of an item in the Sheriff's court page of the local paper the other week. Here in Wick life is roughly fifty years behind the big cities. During the court session a case was being heard of a woman who was knocked down whilst getting into her car. Her car was illegally parked on the High Street at the time and a van driver caught her as he squeezed past. The Sheriff asked the policeman in court to take a walk outside and count the number of cars that were parked illegally at that moment. It seems the road was full of cars parked on the yellow lines, there being no traffic wardens in Caithness. The Sheriff concluded that if the woman would park illegally, causing larger vehicles to struggle to get past, then she could expect to be knocked down if she insisted on opening her car door as they did so. I can't see that happening in Nottingham these days 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted October 18, 2016 Report Share Posted October 18, 2016 Decent interest rates for savers. The Bank of England has promised to make pensioners pay for the forthcoming price rises by holding interest rates down. Thus pensioners who have no other means of offsetting the price rises will suffer the most. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
broxtowelad 175 Posted October 18, 2016 Report Share Posted October 18, 2016 Hairy string. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan 14,793 Posted October 18, 2016 Report Share Posted October 18, 2016 2 hours ago, Compo said: The Sheriff concluded that if the woman would park illegally, causing larger vehicles to struggle to get past, then she could expect to be knocked down if she insisted on opening her car door as they did so. I can't see that happening in Nottingham these days I wish it did Compo ! That Sheriff is the kind of common sense judge I like to read about. I wish there were more like him. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
loppylugs 8,427 Posted October 18, 2016 Report Share Posted October 18, 2016 3766. Compo. Isn't that just typical? You sweat all your life, live within your means. Pay your bills. If you've got a bit left over you save it rather than just spending it on junk. You get rewarded by the bank, which uses that money, by robbing you of what little interest you would have got. I have no time for the banks. Over here the taxpayers bailed them out when they got in a mess through their greed and this is how they repay! 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted October 18, 2016 Report Share Posted October 18, 2016 Colman's German Mustard. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Tim in the North East 200 Posted October 19, 2016 Report Share Posted October 19, 2016 Compo Re #3755 - I had forgotten the 1980s blue square sealed packets of salt - a poor imitation of the original! The machinery for dispensing the original blue twists of salt was none to accurate - it was often possible to get three or four in one packet, which to my eight year old former self seemed a real bonus. I was easily pleased. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Tompa 285 Posted October 19, 2016 Report Share Posted October 19, 2016 Playground / Park keeper / warden in full uniform. Got thrown out a couple of times for rocking the Witches Hat Quote Link to post Share on other sites
crankypig 457 Posted October 19, 2016 Report Share Posted October 19, 2016 Window cleaners using ladders,they all seem to use those long reach things attached to hoses. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Shaz58 21 Posted October 19, 2016 Report Share Posted October 19, 2016 Despite all the HSE regs. My brother, who has cleaned Windows for 40+ years, mainly on Alfreton Road and around Hyson Green/ Radford area (and used to clean the ice rink Windows before it was remodelled!) used ladders, chamois and squegies plus fairy liquid (only the best in his bucket) he has only properly retired this year ! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Oztalgian 3,270 Posted October 19, 2016 Report Share Posted October 19, 2016 Tim #3711 You must have got mine as invariably the packet I got had none at all. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,457 Posted October 19, 2016 Report Share Posted October 19, 2016 When did you last see one of these ? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted October 19, 2016 Report Share Posted October 19, 2016 Crikey!..what year,'59 seem to remember ice cream vans outside the Arbo gates with the same cab. Whats the building in the background?.. Trent/manvers st.bus sheds? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
sue B 48 1,226 Posted October 20, 2016 Report Share Posted October 20, 2016 #3776 When I was about ten and they went DING A LING Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted October 20, 2016 Report Share Posted October 20, 2016 And the brakes always squeaked. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan 14,793 Posted October 20, 2016 Report Share Posted October 20, 2016 NCT had one of those in '74 when I joined & was used to ferry trainee drivers from PSD to Bulwell Depot to pick up the driving school buses parked there. So, the background picture could well be PSD. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted October 20, 2016 Report Share Posted October 20, 2016 Who recognises the pictured group?: Clue: A glam rock band: Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,108 Posted October 20, 2016 Report Share Posted October 20, 2016 Sweet ? 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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