CHAIRBOY

Already mentioned Parkinson but Michael Winner is just as bad! Growing tired of the frequent Paddy Power ads featuring Carlton Palmer, Desmond Sinclair Walker and Richard Dunwoody - too absurd for words.

There are two and a half hours of live greyhound coverage on Sky Sports Extra, tonight (17 March) from Sheffield's Owlerton Stadium. The Betfair Trainers' Championship. The top six in the 2008 Trainers' Championship standings take part in this prestigious event. Last year's winner was Seamus Cahill.

http://www.sportinglife.com/football/news/story_get.cgi?STORY_NAME=soccer/09/03/17/manual_084855.html Go "yesterday"!

You might well ask? Seems strange for such a quality store to be reduced to "Others"!

http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=8787&highlight=speedway+tigers

http://bigwhitetent.co.uk/default.aspx Slainté Leah!

Paul Carrack lives in Chorleywood, Hertfordshire.

Just seen a feature on Calendar with superbike champion, James Toseland, and an entourage of bikers arriving at Weston Park, preparatory to visiting sick children at their hospital across the road. It was a popular visit and he brought lots of joy to many children and their parents. Thanks a lot James, more of it, you were obviously a bit hit - and that was without displaying your musical talent, too! Cheers.

Straight from the horse's mouth! http://www.stubleyhollowfarm.com/

Owlerton = Oh-ler-ton Oughtibridge = Ooti-bridge Beauchief = Bee-chif Malin Bridge = Maylin

No, they are on the corner next to Baxter's. Not 'big' on flowers but I use this shop continually, for getting my 'brownie points'. Friendly service.

He is best remembered for falling asleep during the Queen's Jubilee Review of the Royal Air Force at RAF Finningley in 1977 when there was considerable noise around him. Having a small sleep during exercise was referred to by members of the RAF as having a "Fred Mulley". It was suggested in the satirical magazine Private Eye that Mulley was guilty of treason (then still a capital offence) for having slept with the Queen. Tried to find a photo as I recall cutting one out all those years ago. Quite extraordinary given his company and occasion!

A need for a competitive alternative? Well, Jack Fulton's isn't everything but thank goodness it is there. For those relatively new to the area, the history is that the Co-Op once stood where the former Merlin Estates offices stand. Where the Co-Op is now, that was once the rival supermarket in the form of Shoppers' Paradise, Kwik Save et al. The Co-Op then moved across the lane to the present site in order to take-up the licquor licence. I haven't seen the legal documents but I heard that it was made clear that whoever bought the 'Merlin' site, well before them, it must NOT be a supermarket - probably accounting for the lack of competition - which is only provided in diluted form by Jack Fulton. One boxed pasta product at JF, obtainable at about £1 can be £1.80 across the road - and that's one item! Co-Op= Milk, bread and emergencies and Fulton's sell milk. Thank goodness the 52 Stagecoach goes to Morrisons!

Sorry to hear of your plight but not at all surprised. I posted the two threads about papers outside Sheffield merely to highlight that it is a national problem, and not just one for Sheffield. Well before the 'crunch', I was at a lunch and picked up on some journalists who/representatives had been to a meeting on provincial news and it was said - after 2015, there won't be any provincial papers left!

Further evidence today that the death-knell sounds again for provincial papers with 150 jobs to go at one of the country's better publications. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/7935737.stm

First-class cricket at Bramall Lane.

That particular shop, Geoff, at Mona Avenue/Springvale Road was called Dale's. I used that shop for sporting cards in bubble gum (which I slung). Although I recall the location of the shops in question by "Crookes" I don't recall a tuck shop, even though I remember his "Flying Saucers". I remember the Oxtaby, Theacker and Kelsey families living very close to this area and had heard the term "bombed buildings". Why I doubt a tuck shop, is that you often got a duplicate card with the gum but sometimes a different batch would bring 'new' cards to the collection and if there had been an alternative to Dale's, I would have tried it. An alternative tuck shop was at the bottom of Warwick St/Leamington St. at a property where in recent times, there was a tragic (fatal) fire at a converted flat - but this is going away from the site in question. I know where "Crookes" means but can't remember the wares of those shops, almost opposite Binghams.

http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s140/CHAIRBOY_2007/HSGGSSTAFF1.jpg Miss Furtado and team!

http://www.oldham-chronicle.co.uk/news-features/9/sport-news/20506/join-john-sheridans-pink-army Middlesex did it at cricket, last season. Aston Villa set the ball rolling by having a children's hospice on their shirts instead of a commercial sponsor. Slowly but surely..... http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/sport/football/oldham_athletic/s/1099913_oldham_1_leeds_1

As PT says, Gilbert and Sullivan (Savoy Operas) Gilbert the librettist and Sullivan the composer. Good stuff but you need a sense of humour! There was more to Griff than bellowing "F-why-ay (foyer) boy"!

A useful page to have at one's disposal. http://www.sportinglife.com/racing/cheltenham2009/news/

Who thinks these up? Des Walker has turned up now, poking his head through a garment in a wardrobe to refund a punter!

Discipline of that form has disappeared and things have gone down the pan! From what reaches my ears, the school is a sorrier place for it but hands are 'tied'! Yes, they are called "trainers", my daughter calls them that but 'plimmies' was one such term coming from plimsolls. I think 'Griff' did have a sense of humour, he was very keen on G&S.

The fact that Brian Rix is a Yorkshireman seems to have escaped your attention?

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