Gramaisc
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staffordjas
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One of my mates dad used to run the Trumpet (Radford now) and one night when we went on a pub crawl up that end he rang all the publicans to tell them not to serve us as she wasn't 18 yet
staffordjas
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Luckily mobile phones weren't invented in those days, and not many camcorders were carried around on nights out .
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Gramaisc
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Digitised Super 8s will be accepted.Luckily mobile phoes weren't invented in those days, and not many camcorders were carried around on nights out .
kilmaccumsey
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Old gas lamp in town
Gramaisc
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In the doorway opposite the Colonnade?
Mudgie
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That must be before Ken Huntington.
Mudgie
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Yes, taken over in 1966.
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Didn't we used to have a bit where we guessed bits n bobs round town?
kilmaccumsey
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I took the long way round to the pub tonight, to check on the sweet pea hedge, having noticed that it was starting a fortnight ago.
I'll keep an eye on it and aim to get some seeds this time.
Mudgie
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I've never seen them growing wild like that.
staffordjas
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Found our favourite pub , The Dog House in town centre , just as we are due to leave Stafford . Typical ! Really enjoyed the South West cider , service and atmosphere in there as well as hubby enjoying his various pints.
Looks like aiming to get at least one more visit in before heading south !
Looks like aiming to get at least one more visit in before heading south !
Gramaisc
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... this roll of carpet.
I'm demolishing an old wardrobe in the Shed, the access arrangements don't work very well and it's not a good use of the space - I'll save the boards it's made from as 'material'.
Anyway, the point is that I got it, and several more rolls, around fifteen years ago. I used to set up an exhibition stand annually at G-Mex and they would lay out the floor in two colours of carpet - to denote stands and pathways. At the end of each booking, they would take up all the carpet, skip it, and replace it with two different colours, as the layout arrangements would be different for each exhibition. This would generally happen twice a week.
I suppose the skipped carpet, about two acres of it, if the full floor was in use, might have been 'recycled', but I would not put money on it. There was a huge amount of 'security' around the place, so it was felt necessary to ask, before shoving a load in the van, and acquiescence was given to remove it all, if we wanted. We had grey, as seen, and red available. I got a good supply of the grey and have used it for many things - I made a bespoke sheet to fit the load area of the car, following all the edges and with slots for seat catches, etc.
I should now have enough left to see me out.
It's very thin, not plush stuff, but it is remarkably hard-wearing - I just blast it with a pressure-washer now and then, maybe three times in that decade and a half.
I'm demolishing an old wardrobe in the Shed, the access arrangements don't work very well and it's not a good use of the space - I'll save the boards it's made from as 'material'.
Anyway, the point is that I got it, and several more rolls, around fifteen years ago. I used to set up an exhibition stand annually at G-Mex and they would lay out the floor in two colours of carpet - to denote stands and pathways. At the end of each booking, they would take up all the carpet, skip it, and replace it with two different colours, as the layout arrangements would be different for each exhibition. This would generally happen twice a week.
I suppose the skipped carpet, about two acres of it, if the full floor was in use, might have been 'recycled', but I would not put money on it. There was a huge amount of 'security' around the place, so it was felt necessary to ask, before shoving a load in the van, and acquiescence was given to remove it all, if we wanted. We had grey, as seen, and red available. I got a good supply of the grey and have used it for many things - I made a bespoke sheet to fit the load area of the car, following all the edges and with slots for seat catches, etc.
I should now have enough left to see me out.
It's very thin, not plush stuff, but it is remarkably hard-wearing - I just blast it with a pressure-washer now and then, maybe three times in that decade and a half.
Theresa Green
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Google is 24 years old
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Before Google, I wouldn't have had any way of knowing that.
Gramaisc
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... that there is, in Finland, a lake which is the same shape as Finland.
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... an unauthorised housing development.
I had actually gone to find a 'guerrilla Christmas tree' that somebody does every December, about a mile off the road, but I was a little early, it seems.
December the 8th seems to be regarded as a transition date into the pre-Christmas period here.
I had actually gone to find a 'guerrilla Christmas tree' that somebody does every December, about a mile off the road, but I was a little early, it seems.
December the 8th seems to be regarded as a transition date into the pre-Christmas period here.
proactive
Enjoying a drop of red.
Always put our Christmas deccies up on the 8th. But as we're off for the festive period next Thursday and not back until new year, there doesn't seem much point.