Sunday 26th February 2012 * Fell asleep, and woke up as I was falling out of the chair! How? - No idea, but the pan of soup got burnt while all this was going on. Monday 27th February 2012 * Tried again to get rid of the alarm I accidentally set on the DAB radio, and lost the one preset I had. * Searched in vain for my mobile phone, still looking. Tuesday 28th February 2012 * Found mob...
Monday 27th February 2012 Topic: Crime Nottingham Anti-crime scheme expands its 'carrot and stick' method Source: This is Nottingham A new scheme to keep track of Notts criminals is expected to be expanded. Almost 400 criminals in the county are on the Integrated Offender Management programme. It initially offers offenders help in a bid to deter them from crime but, if that help is refus...
A diary of one man's (Using the term lossely) utter failure, depression, frustration, cock-ups, and impecuniousness, starting in August 1947 Chapter 92 - The wind blew hard across the decaying graffiti'd gravestone littered cemetery.... The wind blew hard across the decaying graveyard. Creating unholy noises, and blowing up the Guards trouser legs something rotten, as he made his way acro...
A diary of one man's (Using the term lossely) utter failure, depression, frustration, cock-ups, and impecuniousness, starting in August 1947 Chapter 91 - The Night of the Flood The site was well out into the sticks, and consisted of the main factory, 12 electricity substations, and 3 separate warehouses, a fish pond (really no joke!) a secondary site with 15 lorries, offices, a fuelling po...
A diary of one man's (Using the term lossely) utter failure, depression, frustration, cock-ups, and impecuniousness, starting in August 1947 Chapter 91 - Stanley Matthews, or Jonah? It was on a very heavy muddy wet playing field come pitch, come quagmire on Melbourne Road Park, that I made my first (and only) appearance in the Nottingham Thursday Football League, for the Nottingham Co-op S...
A diary of one man's (Using the term lossely) utter failure, depression, frustration, cock-ups, and impecuniousness, starting in August 1947 Chapter 89 - A dark, dank, overcast night... It was a dark, dank, overcast night, with a roving light mist coming and going, interspersed with a get-you-soaking-wet light drizzle. I was assigned to a site that was about 14 miles out of Nottingham, in...
A diary of one man's (Using the term lossely) utter failure, depression, frustration, cock-ups, and impecuniousness, starting in August 1947 Chapter 88 - After the Heart Operation My first memory, was of the pain, and all the paraphernalia sticking into and out of seemingly all of my crevices. Slowly it dawned on me where I was, and what had taken place. I could not make out much detai...
Selected Senior Moments suffered by a Nottingham Senior Citizen. In the hopes of raising a laugh at them, and making them easier to live with. Sunday 19th February 2012 PM * Poured orange juice into tea instead of milk. Monday 20th February 2012 * Yet again caught talking to pigeons as I fed them, this time by a member of the street cleansing crew, who gave me a puzzled and con...
Sunday 19th February 2012 Topic: Antisocial behaviour - Crime - Cruelty Yobs set dogs on pup tied to fence in St Ann's Source: This is Nottingham - Evening Post Dog control officer Zoe Bestall, who works for Nottingham's Community Protection Directorate said: "She had been secured to the fence with a lead and a number of young males were encouraging Staffordshire Bull Terrier-type dogs to atta...
A diary of one man's (Using the term lossely) utter failure, depression, frustration, cock-ups, and impecuniousness, starting in August 1947 Chapter 87 - The Inspector Calls Well.. he was expected to! The manager of the Tesco I was working at in Nottingham on what was then called Granby Street, but later became Maid Marion Way, informed me that the new Area Inspector (of Tesco stores) Mr P...
A diary of one man's (Using the term lossely) utter failure, depression, frustration, cock-ups, and impecuniousness, starting in August 1947 Chapter 87 - Guarding: The Tunnel Chase - a rare Victory Well... I say victory... I was assigned to an out of the way Brick making company just outside of Nottingham. The site was spread over the brow of a hill. At the bottom. the offices, then the st...
A diary of one man's utter failure, depression, frustration, cock-ups, and impecuniousness, starting in August 1947 Chapter 84 - The Inter-Department Quiz I was working as fresh fruit/wet fish dep't manager, at the Nottingham Cooperative Society's Department store, the food hall in the basement. It was not a happy tome for me at all. The place and staff were very cliquey. So it surprise...
A diary of one man's utter failure, depression, frustration, cock-ups, and impecuniousness, which started in August 1947 Chapter 82 - Escorting the Prisoner After being on the minimum wage for so long, it came as a surprise to me when the boss asked if I'd like to do higher paid assignment for a day. I jumped at the chance. Then it came to light that it was a Prisoner Escort job, with an in...
A diary of one man's utter failure, depression, frustration, cock-ups, and impecuniousness, starting in August 1947 Chapter 79 - Grappling with Giselda Ah... how I remember Grizelda Baumgarter (last name changed for obvious reasons). She was 5'11" tall, around 14 stone, lovely long hair, gorgeous wide hips, tree trunk legs... chunky and pear shaped if you like. And I liked! Now you might...
A diary of one man's utter failure, depression, frustration, cock-ups, and impecuniousness, starting in August 1947 Chapter 76 - Nearly My Stage Début - In Oliver Twist In their wisdom, (and having no one left to pick) the Bridgeway Hall Methodist Chapel's Theologian committee chose me to play the (small but essential they said) part of Charley Bates, one of Fagin's pickpockets. I surprise...
7th Jan 2012: 22 year-old Burglar Sentenced for 42 break-ins Category: Crime 'This is Nottingham' Damian Foster (22) from Bulwell, has been found guilty of 42 house burglaries, 39 of them on pensioners homes in the Bulwell and Basford areas of Nottingham. Defence Council Tarquin Churchman asked for leniency for Foster, pointing out he had been raised by a single parent, and was hoping to fin...
A diary of one man's utter failure, depression, frustration, cock-ups, and impecuniousness, starting in August 1947 Chapter 71 Redundancies suffered 1960s: Where from: HM Forces, R.A.M.C. Why: Newly diagnosed medical condition. (Duodenal ulcers) 1970s: Where from: Private Store Manager Why: Owner sold business 1980s: Where from: Carters Drinks Why: Massive cutbacks to enable sell...
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