radfordred 6,284 Posted May 31, 2020 Report Share Posted May 31, 2020 West Bridgford park solid yesterday afternoon with most bars & cafes doing takeouts, street party come rave in Top Valley last night (both areas of Nottingham) was well attended hit the 100 mark Quote Link to post Share on other sites
woody 560 Posted May 31, 2020 Report Share Posted May 31, 2020 Can't help thinking some people need protecting from themselves. Obviously the deaths of some 50,000 people has not registered with them and what the result of not being cautious could be. I agree with you Phil, another lockdown is on the cards and next time it could be even more severe. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Brew 5,481 Posted May 31, 2020 Report Share Posted May 31, 2020 Saw the pictures on the Beeb of the beach where idiots hurt themselves jumping of a cliff. There have must have been couple of thousand people in the crowd watching the helicopter land. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,398 Posted May 31, 2020 Report Share Posted May 31, 2020 Lemmings have more sense. I am convinced the human race is a lost cause. Let them get on with it but the NHS has more important work to do than pick up their broken pieces. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beekay 5,261 Posted May 31, 2020 Report Share Posted May 31, 2020 A bit like the Morons who climb Snowdon etc., wearing only Jean's and teeshirt , then rely on some poor sods bailing them out when they get in trouble. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
letsavagoo 968 Posted May 31, 2020 Report Share Posted May 31, 2020 5 hours ago, Brew said: Saw the pictures on the Beeb of the beach where idiots hurt themselves jumping of a cliff. There have must have been couple of thousand people in the crowd watching the helicopter land. That is at Durdle Door near Lulworth Cove in Dorset. A most beautiful place. I have visited the area every year since 1975 missing only one year. Now we’ve more time and are a bit better off we usually go at least twice a year. I was due to go the start of this month but I had no eye test planned so couldn’t go. If I had the money and no family ties here I’d be off down there like a shot to live. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MargieH 7,617 Posted May 31, 2020 Report Share Posted May 31, 2020 "No eye test planned". Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted June 1, 2020 Report Share Posted June 1, 2020 On 2/1/2020 at 5:32 PM, IAN FINN said: Parking lights on cars the type that clip on the side window saved many bruised knuckles and push starting. Here's one from my little museum of 20th century tat, Ian. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted June 1, 2020 Report Share Posted June 1, 2020 Here's summat as you don't see anymore. A 1lb jar of jam with a golly on the lid. I was digging out a hedge to extend my little orchard when my garden fork came up with it stuck on the prongs. I wonder...1. How long has it been there? (We've been here 26yrs and it's not ours); 2. When did they stop using imperial measures for jam jars? and 3. The hedge is mature so think of the quality of manufacture that has kept it so good for so long underground. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Stuart.C 497 Posted June 1, 2020 Report Share Posted June 1, 2020 Alert, Alert, you can't show Gollies anymore. Unless o fcourse it's for historical interest only. We went half Metric in the early 70's so may have been before then Of course the Jam jar may have had screws or nails stored in it in a shed for 30 years. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,398 Posted June 1, 2020 Report Share Posted June 1, 2020 I remember children at school collecting the paper gollies hidden behind the label. When you had collected enough, you could send for an enamelled golly brooch. They were rather nice. My mum, born in 1926, always said the golly was her favourite toy as a child. One of her friends bought her a golly for her 75th birthday. She loved it! 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beekay 5,261 Posted June 1, 2020 Report Share Posted June 1, 2020 You can still buy them Jill, in some souvenir shops. It was possible to make collection sets. I remember one set consisted of musicians forming a band. There was all different sorts, sports etc. All were very popular. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,398 Posted June 1, 2020 Report Share Posted June 1, 2020 You're right, Beekay. I was never a collector myself but many were. We had Robertson's marmalade and I always gave the golly tokens to a friend who collected them. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted June 2, 2020 Report Share Posted June 2, 2020 Here's an enamel Golly brooch from Robertson's that I have in my little museum of 20th century tat: 6 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
loppylugs 8,429 Posted June 2, 2020 Report Share Posted June 2, 2020 Not politically correct, Compo. I used to have a Golliwog as a kid. Probably get locked up for that now. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beekay 5,261 Posted June 2, 2020 Report Share Posted June 2, 2020 But you can still buy them LL. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
loppylugs 8,429 Posted June 2, 2020 Report Share Posted June 2, 2020 I've gorra big black dog an all. Love him like a brother. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
nonnaB 4,913 Posted June 5, 2020 Report Share Posted June 5, 2020 Wonder how the name Gollywog came to be. Not very nice today is it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
nonnaB 4,913 Posted June 5, 2020 Report Share Posted June 5, 2020 Thinking the other day about Friars Balsam. My mum used to give it to me on sugar if I had a sore throat. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beekay 5,261 Posted June 5, 2020 Report Share Posted June 5, 2020 And another thing.....Whatever happened to ' Nibbits ' ? Used to love em. Long squiggly things with a unique taste all of their own. Nearest thing I've seen to them the deep fried noodles you get with chow mein. Flat hard ribbons that when dropped in hot oil they swell up after a few seconds. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted June 5, 2020 Report Share Posted June 5, 2020 4 hours ago, nonnaB said: Wonder how the name Gollywog came to be. Not very nice today is it. From: http://www.historyofdolls.com/history-of-famous-dolls/history-of-golliwog/ "One theory of the origin of the name “Golliwogg” says that while British soldiers held Egypt in the second half of the 19th century they had Egyptian laborers that worked for them. Workers wore insignia W.O.G.S. on their armbands which meant “Working on Government Service”. British troops spoke of them as “ghouls” - which is an Arabic word for a desert ghost. Egyptian children played with black dolls which they would sometimes give to British soldiers or they would buy dolls from children. That dolls were later called “Ghuliwogs” and later “Golliwogg”. How much truth is in this theory - it is not known." Quote Link to post Share on other sites
philmayfield 6,275 Posted June 5, 2020 Report Share Posted June 5, 2020 I always thought that WOG stood for ‘westernised oriental gentleman’. 1 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Brew 5,481 Posted June 5, 2020 Report Share Posted June 5, 2020 22 minutes ago, Compo said: "One theory of the origin of the name “Golliwogg” says that while British soldiers held Egypt in the second half of the 19th century they had Egyptian laborers that worked for them Or from Wikipedia:- "The golliwog, golliwogg or golly is a fictional character created by Florence Kate Upton that appears in children's books in the late 19th century and usually depicted as a type of rag doll. It was reproduced, both by commercial and hobby toy-makers, as a children's toy called the "golliwog", a portmanteau of golly and polliwog,[1][2][3] and had great popularity in the UK and Australia into the 1970s. The doll is characterised by black skin, eyes rimmed in white, red lips and frizzy hair. Though home-made golliwogs were sometimes female, the golliwog was generally male. For this reason, in the period following World War II, the golliwog was seen, along with the teddy bear, as a suitable soft toy for a young boy. " Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Dark Angel 143 Posted June 6, 2020 Report Share Posted June 6, 2020 Am with Compo on this. Have always referred to them as ghost dolls or sand men. Told many years ago about their origins and probably liked the idea of them being from another dimension. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Dark Angel 143 Posted June 6, 2020 Report Share Posted June 6, 2020 Common Sense. People taking responsibility for their own actions. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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