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I’ll be making a rare venture north to Burton end of February for the Great British Beer Festival. Anyone going let me know nearer the time

11 minutes ago, Kokosnuss said:

No objection to them but it never really occurs to me to go into one, because I've usually scoped out other / better options.

I'd much rather a Wetherspoons took over an old building though, than the awful trend of knocking it down / ripping out its innards to build 'luxury apartments' (cramped apartments that cost the earth and are located somewhere nobody actually wants to live).

Maybe that's more of a Derby City Council thing than anywhere else though? Who's supposed to actually live in all the new housing where Debenhams was, who can afford it?

It’s a pity Spoons wasn’t around years ago when the 18th century Assembly Rooms in the Market Place was demolished and rebuilt at Crich. Would have made a great Spoons pub

There are two Spoons near me. Average age daytime is about 70, from 19.00 on it changes to 19. Good beer and cheap. 

3 minutes ago, kevinhectoring said:

One swallow doesn’t make a summer   Don’t count your chickens ... 

a bird in the hand…

Rye, and Romney Marsh area of Kent. Great walking, nice little towns, the Military Canal

7 hours ago, AndyinLiverpool said:

at 55 any chance to strain my groin is gratefully accepted

At 75 I’ve got tight nuts and a rusty tool, but WD40 helps

The hat? Appalling. Doubtless a good football manager but definitely a man lacking good taste and style. Might get one for my dog though. 

3 hours ago, Brailsford Ram said:

Straight out of the Arthur Cox philosophy of the privilege of being a footballer-remember you are well paid to play the game you love- the supporters who pay to watch you and work underground mining your coal are nowhere as well paid and most of them will not live as long as you will.

Coal miners? A strange example to use since the virtual collapse of deep coal mining. The last deep coal mine closed nearly 10 years ago. 

5 hours ago, Elwood P Dowd said:

Samuel Plimsoll was a British politician and the man who devised the Plimsoll line, he was the MP for Derby in 1867.

And plimsoll shoes are named because they resembled the plimsoll line on a ship’s hull

The cathedral was built in the 14th century and the existing tower added in 1530s. However by 1650 the fabric of the church had deteriorated severely and was almost collapsing by 1700. The Corporation wouldn’t pay for a new church so the vicar Dr Hutchinson decided unilaterally to demolish the church to force the Corporation’s hand. He hired a gang of workmen to demolish it overnight in 1723. The Corporation was then forced to arrange the funds to build a new church in neo classical style in 1725 with original 1530s tower retained.

It all reminds me of the old Willie Nelson song I’m My Own Grandpa

Now, many many years ago
When I was twenty three
I was married to a widow
Who was pretty as could be

This widow had a grown-up daughter
Had hair of red
My father fell in love with her
And soon the two were wed

This made my dad my son-in-law
And changed my very life
My daughter was my mother
'Cause she was my father's wife

To complicate the matters
Even though it brought me joy
I soon became the father
Of a bouncing baby boy

My little baby then became
A brother-in-law to dad
And so became my uncle
Though it made me very sad

For if he was my uncle
That also made him the brother
Of the widow's grown-up daughter
Who, of course, was my step-mother

My father's wife then had a son
That kept them on the run
And he became my grandchild
For he was my daughter's son

My wife is now my mother's mother
And it makes me blue
Because, she is my wife
She's my grandmother too

I'm my own grandpa
I'm my own grandpa
It sounds funny I know
But it really is so
I'm my own grandpa

I took DNA tests from two sites some years ago. They tied in with each other sort of.. 70% Germanic (Anglo Saxon and Danish),   15% Celtic, 8% South Asian, 6% Spanish, or Italian depending which site you look at, and the rest “other”.

fits in with what I know. My great grandmother was a Gujarati who married my great grandfather who was in the Sherwood Foresters based  in India. The Spanish or Italian bit is a mystery but it only takes one trader a thousand years ago from far flung lands who had a fling with a local woman….. I’ve traced one bit of my family tree back to c1720, all farmers in and around Derby but my mum’s side is Welsh. My maternal grandad’s name was John Bach Pugh and his dad was John Bach Pugh (no imagination these Welsh) who came to Derby from the valleys to work at Ley’s. There’s also some Scottish in there as well from the Gunn clan. I’m a real mongrel.

4 hours ago, angieram said:

Hard to imagine any other monarch, really. 

Been there all my life, and probably for almost everyone on here, I would think.

I was 7 when she was crowned. Met her twice, a lovely lady

On 30/08/2022 at 21:36, sage said:

I've been diagnosed with Vertigo which isn't much fun if you like driving, drinking and being able to stand still for more than 20 seconds. 

I was wondering, what would make a better illness to suffer from that is the Title of a Hitchcock film

Driving’s not so bad if you don’t have “far to go”.  But I briefly had Vertigo but I had grommets inserted in my ears and it cleared 

5 hours ago, Alpha said:

Look either side of it. And look at the state of that. It's about as subtle and complimentary as Kenny Burns at a free buffet. 

What the hell is that? It looks if memory serves me correctly to be on what I remember as Tennant Street. Derby council has a lot to answer for. The Mayor’s parlour stood there. Built in 1483 it was unnecessarily demolished in 1948. Check photos of it on Google. A beautiful building. Was replaced I think by bus stops to Chaddesden. And I remember in the early 1960s the lovely old 15th century half timbered Nottingham Castle pub was pulled down next to St Michael’s Church along with the old Wesleyan Chapel to make way for a car park! And don’t get me started on St Alkmund’s Churchyard! Thank goodness the 1839 Midland Railway workers’ estate near the station was reprieved from demolition along with the Brunswick pub. Shame about the frontage of the original station though.

20 hours ago, Reggie Greenwood said:

Derby no more a dump than any other City. 
Has some great buildings all around apart from near the Derbion , especially around The Strand , Friar Gate , Sadler Gate etc 
I was in Cambridge a few weeks ago. Far more beggars and druggies there. 
Not been to Alvo for a while so can’t comment on that but. 
Notts City apart from a few streets around Hockley is much worse than Derby. 
There are some great houses on Dairy House Road , Hartington Street area but like Hyson Green you wouldn’t want to live there. 
Just think that folk get a bit snow blind to what is near to them .

I went back to Derby for the first time in many, many years. I was born there and left when I was about 27. The shock of walking down St Peter’s Street to the Market Place with fresh eyes! Buildings in terrible state (look up from the shop fronts) and the once lovely cast iron railway bridge over Friargate was in a poor condition. True though there are some very attractive city centre parts especially round the Cathedral. I used to work in the local history unit of the Wardwick library for a few years and often took visitors on walking tours pointing out buildings with their history.

10 hours ago, Kokosnuss said:

For such a picky linguist you appear to have mixed up the letters a & b.

Yes I’m a cunning linguist aren’t I?

1 hour ago, Rampant said:

Lukas Jutkiewicz may be leaving Birmingham City during this window. 

A - realistic target?

B - good enough?

A - No

B - Yes

West Ham fans are notorious for leaving early when the team is losing. If they are losing then from about 20 minutes to go, the fans start streaming out. The vast majority use trains and tubes including the new Elizabeth line to get there so it’s not as though they fear traffic chaos. Fickle *****!

1 hour ago, angieram said:

Have been there for Olympics and World Athletic Champs. Would love to see football there and we'd get loads of tickets.

I’m a STH there. £160 for over 65s! Great ground but beer (well it’s only lager and it’s only Fosters) is £7.50 a pint! And a hot dog for £8.00.   I prefer Orient round the corner with its CAMRA winning bar, and it’s incredibly friendly and knowledgeable crowd.

1 hour ago, BaaLocks said:

A lot of the explanation is down to the fact that when you remember something you are not remembering it, you are remembering the last time you remembered it. It's like a rewrite of your memory bank every time you recount that memory.

Take a moment to consider a memory from a long time ago of a friend or family member for have known for a long time. You don't remember them as they were at the time of that memory because your have rewritten your memory of that person subsequently.

Which is why, in law, testimony of events long passed are so flawed, as suggested above.

"We didn't realise we were making memories, we just knew we were having fun." - Winnie the Pooh

5 hours ago, Frogram said:

On the subject of offal , my dad used to love tripe , in all it's disgusting forms . He'd have it cold with vinegar and a  tomato , or cooked in milk and onions , this would stink the house out , and make me feel queasy . Don't even ask what chitterlings were !

 

 

 

Chitterlings hmmmm. That takes me back, very tasty

I’m trying to be clever and incorporate  Northern Irish town names in jokes. I know what you’re thinking, “is there Enniskillen that?”

2 hours ago, Unlucky Alf said:

Gone closed some 10 years ago like the Pub on the corner of Nightingale Road, Royces bulldozed down for a new housing development on Nightingale Rd, Mitre(bulldozed down now Starbucks coffee shop 

Blimey. That means all my schools are no more. St Dunstan’s Infants, Nightingale Junior, Pear Tree Secondary Modern and Joseph Wright Secondary Art School all gone. Even the Art College in Green Lane.

and I loved being in the Sea Cadet Corps. I ended up as a Leading rate and had a drummer’s badge. The HQ was in the entrance to Markeaton Park. Another one gone.