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I don't like going shopping for food or anything else for that matter.  I usually do a click and collect from Tesco as I find it's quick and convenient to order on line, then Paul goes to pick it up the next day.  I sometimes go for  a Tesco home delivery but only  if I can get a free slot, and have also had deliveries in the past from Ocado, Morrisons and Sainsbury's.  Wish Aldi did home delivery but they don't.

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Things you don’t see anymore (times 2) A 1945 photo of my aunt, wearing a turban and scrubbing her front door step on Queens Grove, Meadows. She dug her heels in and refused to move when the

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6 hours ago, LizzieM said:

I’ll shop anywhere these days (with the exception of Asda Hyson Green) and get the job done as quickly as possible. 


I seem to recall seeing your car parked in Asda Hyson Green’s car park a while back!

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Gas-tar bubbles 

if your road had cobble bricks then ten to one in summer the tar down each gutter would melt and sometimes it would throw in a bubble or two, then your thumb who of cause had a mind of it' s own then would squash the bubble and what you had then was a thumb covered in gas-tar only lard or butter would fetch it off. Plus a good hiding from your mum.

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The fifty pack of cigarettes players made did they make a Christmas gift box of 50? Iliked the silver paper in them you put a penny or 3d inthe silver paper pressed it and it engraved the face of the coin on the silver paper.

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JPS (John Player Special) in elegant black plastic drums with gold foil lettering. - matched the JPS racing car(s).

 

They were sold here for a time but they seem to have disappeared completely now. I used to give them as small Christmas presents - the cigarettes, that is, not the cars!.

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19 hours ago, philmayfield said:

We use the upmarket one in Bingham. :biggrin:

 

Only you could come up with an upmarket  brown paper bag...       ;)

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I lay in bed this morning sulking and  remembered  grandmas bolster pillows. I'm not sure if 'bolster' is the proper name or a family name for them. They were long enough to go almost the width of the bed and  as a second function could be laid lengthways to act as a separator when sleeping with siblings.

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I remember my grannies bolster pillows - the went the whole width of the bed and seemed to be filled with crumpled wire - impossible to sleep on without a soft pillow on top. I found out years later that what I thought was wire was actually horsehair.

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My grandfather had a bolster on his bed but it was filled with feathers. I remember the striped covering. I believe it was called ticking. A white linen bolster case was placed over the ticking cover and then feather pillows on top of that.

 

Grandad's bed was a gorgeous brass and black enamel affair. Very decorative. My mother was born in that bed and both my grandparents died in it. From 1913 to 1965, it was the only bed they ever had. Wish I still had it.

 

The base was a metal mesh on top of which was a feather or flock filled mattress, also covered in striped ticking. It had to be shaken every day to redistribute the filling. No springs at all.  I remember the brass castings on the finals of the bed. They were images of a radiant sun.

 

You can buy reproduction brass beds today but not of that quality.

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On 1/27/2020 at 9:55 AM, IAN FINN said:

The old oil cans where you tipped the can pressed the bottom to lubricate things like bicycle chains and the pedal crank when they had a lubricator on them.

Still got one, like the little one on the left and it is still used to oil bike chains, gate hinges, mower linkages etc.

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I bet doctors and hospitals are glad they got rid of them. So many injured thumbs because the numpties that tried to use them did not know how to use them properly. You never held the handle like a tennis racquet you held it with your thumb alongside your fingers.

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Allus found on my 1954 Ford popular, it were easier to turn the engine over without ignition on for a couple of turns, then switch on and one good pull on the handle (thumb out of the way) and the old jalopy would fire up.

The kick back if you got it wrong could be excruciating  !!

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When we first married we brought a "Wolseley 40/40?"  for £10.00 it had a real leather seat, and COLUMN Change Gears, the only thing missing was the Bell on the front of the car, as these cars at the time were used by the Police.

We had the car running well, even went all the way down to Guildford Surrey to visit relatives, using the new road called the M1 but after a while it joined the ex police cars in the sky ps (tell No-one) going around the island near city hospital it gave up, so number plates taken off, 4 coins in the fountain sorry red telephone box, scrap man called, and next day like magic our car had gone.

RIP Wolseley 40/40

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