of those in the photo only two, both are now grade 2 listed:Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
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of those in the photo only two, both are now grade 2 listed:Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
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you'd think council would do them up a bit. they have trees growing out of them
How much of that is left? We still have most of the old houses and shops, but almost all the factory buildings are gone.Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
vast majority really. all the fields around it and much more out of shot is all built on too. a big sports centre, 9 hole golf course up near my old house.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
Is that a council estate at the top? Looks like a typical post war layout plus some bungalows for the old folk, although there's a bit more variation in the building design than you sometimes see in the larger, cheaper estates, indicating a bit of civic pride.Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
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Where I used to live as a child in Bristol.
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Our house was five doors down (past the conifer), but I believe all the houses have now been converted into flats.
Love that type of house, so much character. But I imagine they could make 4 flats per house, so you know parking's going to be a real arse.Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry
I bet they were toasty warm in winter.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
Feeling sorry for myself right now.
Just got back from the hospital where a decent-sized portion of my nose has been removed, and the skin replaced by a patch harvested from under my ear - not nearly as much fun as it sounds. Five injections of local into my neck, and another seven into my nose, with half of the stuff going down my throat, numbing it so I couldn't swallow.
I didn't think an eye could water so much, and by the time they'd finished my eyes were almost glued shut by half-dried tears.
Still, I got two free brews and a biscuit, and a day off work. Speaking of which, I don't know how I'm gonna keep these dressings clean and attached for a week, doing what I do.
I know that compared to the proper surgery some folk on here endure my "ordeal" is a piece of piss, but I never said I was tough...and to add insult to injury, when I look in the mirror it looks like bugger all :(
Sounds nasty. Surgery is no fun.
Nasty, Steve, hope you’re soon on the mend. Take some comfort that you are now part of the elite club who’s posts run into five figures, though. :)
Oh yeah, I hadn't even noticed! Don't know how I've managed to say so much without actually saying anything, but then Eastenders have been doing that for years :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Alex_UK
Anyway, cheers guys. Plenty of sunblock on me snout from now on...
take the week off is my advice.. no point in being brave as you'll not get any brownies.. look after yourself, rest and play muzak,Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
yes do that, hope you feel better soon, sure you will.Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
Thanks fellers, for your advice - sounds good, but can't do that just now, I'd be letting folk down. BUT... it is all going to change, as I'm sick of having the disadvantages of self-employed (no sick or holiday pay) without the advantages (working to my own schedule at my own pace). It's like I have a boss all over again. Unless I can completely fill my week I barely make minimum wage, and filling my week means no crap weather, no injury or sickness, no non-delivery of product, and definitely no holidays :(Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
The price of the 8-yarder skip on my drive (which I pay for) and materials costs (which I also provide) have all gone up 30% or more this last year, while fitters' rates are virtually unchanged. I foresee a fitters revolt in the coming weeks, and I won't mind being at the front of it, because life's too short to be fretting about shit like this.
Sorry for boring you with this, I'm just a bit fed up right now.
i know what you mean steve. i was self employed in trade myself and it can end up being pointless when a few things go agin you, and you just get to paying out more than you take in, even doing 14 hr shifts.. as for skips; yes i was shocked to see current prices. i need one but its too much money.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
8 yarder I use went up last Jan from £210 to £240, and went up again last month to £265. And they take it away after 3 weeks, full or not. My advice would be to pile it up in the garden for a rubbish removal firm to take away. Prob less than £100 that way.
Maybe we should start a business renting skips? Got to be some space in the market if the prices are so high.
I mean once you've bought your skips and paid back for them after that it's all profit. And a skip must last years before you have to replace it.
They don't you know. They get damaged by all sorts of things. My mate had a successful skip company and moaned about the cost of repairs and replacements.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
:eek: How did that happen?Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
Anyway look after yourself - play some good tunes and drink a few beers.
Bloody hell Steve, sorry to hear about your operation (and your frustrations with work and skips).
Hope all goes well.
Basal Cell Carcinoma. Probably the most common type of skin cancer. Not normally dangerous, but never goes away. Just keeps growing. It will have come from working outside all year with bugger all attention to UV protection.Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry
Thanks for asking Barry, and for the excellent advice :) Just got myself a new vinyl copy of Vanessa Fernandez "When the Levee Breaks", which may help.
Thanks Guy. Bloody dressing fell off in the night, and what's underneath ain't pretty. I'll have to cobble something together with spare swab they gave me and some germolene before I leave the house.Quote:
Originally Posted by guy
I'm sure you'll be even more handsome when it's all healed up Steve, lock up your daughters everyone.
Seriously, sorry to hear of the need for surgery, look after yerself mate.
Was the acquisition of Vanessa Fernandez "When the Levee Breaks" due to NEBO 11?
russia starts its invasion i see... oil and gas prices go haywire again...
Despicable :steam:Quote:
Originally Posted by walpurgis
This may end up being a ramble so apologies in advance... I lost my Mum before Christmas (when I say “lost”, I don’t mean she slipped down the back of the sofa, she passed away) but one of the positives is that me and my (younger) sister who had drifted apart are back in touch. We were reminiscing about our childhood, and one of the things we remembered was when I was about 11 or 12 my mum and dad (who were rather bohemian) used to run a craft stall on Saturdays in the cloisters at St Andrews Hall in Norwich. We used to get bored...
So money was tight, but the nearby “Cinema City” used to show old films for next to nothing, so I’d drag her there to see “Jason and the Argonauts”, “Great Expectations” and other classics.
Another very cheap waste of time not far away was the Bridewell Museum, and I remembered three things from last going there about 40 years ago. A huge model plane from the First World War (I suspect it was built by Boulton and Paul, a Norwich engineering firm pressed into aircraft manufacturing) a large collection of old shoes (Norwich being at the pinnacle of shoe manufacture for centuries) and a huge case of stuffed canaries. (As in taxidermy of little yellow birds.)
Well, my kids, now roughly the same age as we would have been at the time decided after this dinner table conversation that they would like to go. So today, it being half-term, we trundled up the A140 and spent a couple of hours wandering around what is now called The Museum of Norwich at The Bridewell and it was thoroughly enjoyable, for them too!
I was curious if the items I remembered would still be there, and was very pleased to find the model WW1 aircraft first, although a bit like Wagon Wheels, it was half the size I remembered it being in about 1980... plenty of shoes on display, too. And finally, a handful of stuffed canaries in the Norwich City FC display at the end of the tour (and yes, the irony of the Canaries being stuffed isn’t lost...)
Finally to the point(?) of my post... When I used to take my sister 40 years ago, admission for a child was 5p. Today, a child ticket was £6.20... According to an inflation calculator, the equivalent price today should be 23p - so it’s time to stop moaning about the price of gas, petrol and electricity and seriously question the robbing bastards in the museum services! I’m starting a petition and writing a very strongly worded letter... :lol:
Everything is going up in price - often disproportionately.
Once upon a time we could afford to eat a turnip once a week, now we have to make it last a month. ;)
How's it going?Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
Cheers Alan, but you're too kind - I think you actually mean "lock up your Grannies":wheniwasaboy: You're probably right about the handsome bit though, the more of my face they remove, the better looking I'll be :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Firebottle
"When the Levee Breaks" was already on my radar since you played us some at Tipton Manor, but the prices are a bit :eek: Then I got the chance of a new copy at a great discount, thanks to a fellow forum member who'd ended up with a spare copy. A quality album it is.
Bit knackered due to not getting a good night's sleep - nose not a problem in bed, as it's had 63 years of my farts so it's a tough old thing. But the patch behind my ear, where they took some skin for a graft, doesn't like resting on the pillow.Quote:
Originally Posted by guy
Working is pretty much normal, except that whenever I bend down to tie my laces or something, my nose throbs in tune with my pulse. Which is a bit shit. Also the right nostril is so swollen I can't get my little finger up there. I'll have to start blowing my nose, like a posh person...
Otherwise all good! Customers are providing sympathy biscuits with my brew, which is nice :)
Kids are so expensive these days, I couldn't afford one. Time was you could kick them out of the house in the morning, and off they'd go to the woods to try out their latest home-made weapons. These days you have to take them somewhere, somewhere that costs.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alex_UK
Having said that, £6.20 for a child ticket is just wrong. It would be acceptable if you were able to leave the kids there for the day while you go off drinking beer, but I bet you're supposed to stay with them, and pay even more for the privilege.
The Harris museum in Preston was always free, and probably still is. But then they won't have a box of dead canaries, and maintaining them won't be cheep [groan].
Sorry to hear about your mum Alex, but good that you and your sister have re-connected. Same thing happened with me and my brother after my mum's passing. That was 20 years ago and we are still in regular touch with each other.
im not looking forward to the reunion with my bro..:rolleyes:
so, russia has full on invaded ukraine... all very silly this and it will spread. a madman.
Putin knows exactly what he is doing.Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
Nobody will do anything about his imperialistic stunts, all you'll get is a load of hot air and empty rhetoric from Boris and the rest including US.
He could hold the whole of western Europe to ransom, including us, under threat of nuclear attack and nobody would resist. The yanks would do nothing useful, they might make things worse though.
Moldova and Lithuania must be feeling very uneasy, Poland too.
At least we've got the correct pronouns to lob at the Ruskies.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/0...Fp-yIIbpUsh39k
When did Kiev become 'Kyiv'? I must have missed that. Really been confusing me reading these articles, I'm thinking who is this Kyiv bloke they keep mentioning?
But it's still 'Moscow' and not Mockba. Someone explain to me again how that works?
white russians are the ones who fought against the Red Army in the Russian Civil War .. ie ukrainians, lithuanians etc. maybe this is the basis of the woke talk;)
as for kyiv, i think thats ukranian
Well it's since Rumania became Romania.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
I used to know a bloke whose father was Ukrainian, he was in the Waffen SS during the war. 'Rounding up' partisans.Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
Kyiv might be Ukranian but we're British so it's 'Kiev' like it's always been. We're don't say 'I'm off for a long weekend in Roma' do we?
Like Churchill said re Istanbul/Constatinople, ''I do not consider that names that have been familiar for generations in England should be altered to study the whims of foreigners living in those parts.”
or AP Herbert: ''Every Englishman is born with the inalienable right to pronounce foreign words any way he pleases”
yeah but im scottish:ner:Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
The Ukrainian name is Ки́їв, written in the Ukrainian Cyrillic alphabet, and usually rendered in Latin letters (or romanized) as Kyiv. Before standardization of the alphabet in the early 20th century, the name was also spelled Кыѣвъ, Киѣвъ, or Кіѣвъ with the now-obsolete letter yat.
But spoken in Russian, Kiev sounds more like “Key-EV.” But at times, it sounded more like “keev,” with the long “ee” pronounced as a single syllable.
I remember fifties/sixties Soviet cameras marked with the 'Kiev' brand. Quite liked them.
'Viewers in Scotland will have their own programmes.'Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
My favourite is the Italian port of Livorno, I still have a world atlas from about 1972 which shows it as 'Leghorn.'
Immediately brings to mind the once highly popular 'Foghorn Leghorn' cartoons, now sadly confined to the dustbin of history by political correctness.
They're telling you what you can and can't do, what you can and can't say, what you can and can't think, but it's not fascism because they don't call it fascism.
Re-runs of Kenneth McKellar and Andy Stewart shows? :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
No more than I could say I have visited: Shqipëria; Hellas; Mesopotamia; Persia; Cathay; French Indo-China; Ceylon; The Japans; Haute Volta; Abyssinia; Tanganyika; Bechuanaland: North and South Rhodesia, etc..Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
was once known as ligorno; think thats where leghorn came fromQuote:
Originally Posted by Macca
aye, ive been all over the world too... london, newcastle and dublin:DQuote:
Originally Posted by Barry