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Any one who would buy these off someone whose obviously on the make must be barmy but it takes all sorts. I noticed on the news this morning that the shelves in some supermarkets had sold out of eggs, all the shelves were empty where eggs should have been. Why eggs? They don't keep.

Nice one, I like it.😃

I remember Linda and John who had it in the 70s , I think they then went to the Timber Top.

I'm not sure Bassetts do boiled sweets, or do they?

This was normal practice of putting unrelated people in one grave if they couldn't afford a family grave , maybe they still do this. I know my own father was the last one a grave at Burngreave Cemetery, none of the others in the grave are related.

I also like watching medieval dramas but have you noticed how they put modern day sayings in as well, sayings that would never have been used in those days.

Tonight was from 1953 I think it started but I'd never seen tomato sauce until the early 60s but I suppose they had it down south. I noticed the jars of boiled sweets he was putting on the shelf in the early 60s said Moxons on the jar, I wonder if it had deliberately been changed and it should have read Dixons. I remember the Dixons sweet company.

I don't like Mondays, Bob Geldoff.

If he's painted it himself then no.

Perri and Vennesa were the true winners, Perri has done well all through the sessions but just like any other TV competition they vote for the personality not the talent.

In the 1959 Kellys directory the vinegar company whose yard we use to play in before the smell over took us was called Sheffield Vinegar Company at the bottom of Netherthorpe Street.

By saying that does that mean the Boomerang is still open? It was years since I went in there.

I hate to admit this RiffRaff but I agree with you.

Are you talking about the larger mini disc player and recorder or the small pocket size mini disc. I have both but the small pocket sized one once had a problem by not staying shut, I looked on line and bought a second hand one as they don't make them anymore. Before I abandoned my original one I fiddled with it and found the little metal hook inside that holds it closed had bent a fraction, I straightened it and it now opens and closes perfect. Maybe the same thing has happened to yours, try sliding something very thin around the opening to try and unhook it

You can buy it in Morrisons, I always do because I can't stand the taste of malt vinegar.

When I was a youngster there use to be a vinegar depo at the bottom of our street on Netherthorpe Street, as kids we use to go in and nosey but soon came out of the yard because of the strong smell. On the 1911 street directory ( not that I was alive and kicking then ) it says Number 10 - - Sheffield Vinegar Brewery &Co. Thomas C Marshall vinegar brewery.

I never found this at all funny, no there's enough rubbish on television without bringing this back.

Wasn't the fussels the sweet syrupy one that we use to dip babies dummies in?

Sand it it first and use an oil based paint not water based. I've done this myself and six years on its still looking good.

You maybe right too.

I remember Terry and Roy from that road.

Back to the Boomerang in Netherthorpe, it use to get packed every weekend and in the week as well. Maude use to play the organ , I think they called her Maude I'm sure someone one will correct me. Her party piece were the fishing song, We'll fish all day, we'll fish all night, something like that and the whole pub would be singing along but I am going back to the 60s. Anyone remember? She was quite a toughie, it paid not to get on the wrong side of her. As I remember she was the landlady too.

Neither did I. OK you can't get away from the newish houses in the background and the cars that keep driving past in the background but when you come to the customers entering the shop you would think they would have them dressed in the appropriate fashion of the day like the shop keeper and his family and not in jeans and blue hair.

Not everyone has voicemail.

I have just have just finished reading Lenny Henry Who am I Again? It was OK, starting from his early fame at the age of 16 when he won New Faces and telling us about his mother coming over to live in the UK before he was born. His sisters and step father followed later. Yes it was interesting but he sort of left off half way which suggests there's another book to follow. He never got as for as him being knighted.