The Night Mail

[Dave Hunt]

3 minutes ago, Happy Hippo said:

Surely you are multilingual?  All sailors of my acquaintance are :  Specialising in foul, dirty and downright disgusting.  And that's just for starters🤣.

As well as my previous linguistic attributes I can swear in four other languages.

 

Dave

 

Who took three goes to pass O level German

[New Haven Neil]

4 minutes ago, Happy Hippo said:

Surely you are multilingual?  All sailors of my acquaintance are :  Specialising in foul, dirty and downright disgusting.  And that's just for starters🤣.

 

Well, yes, there is that, but this is a family forum!  A friend once got into proper hot water when having just arrived home after 4 months away had lunch with the In-laws, and asked in a polite voice for Ma to 'Pass the f*&^%$g salt please'.  And we were the officers......

[BSW01]

I’d definitely be in the NOT British camp then, as my grandfather had a Portuguese father and an English mother! 

[rockershovel]

3 hours ago, Tony_S said:

My wife used to be an Indian citizen. Am I therefore not British by your definition of Nick Clegg not being British due to marrying someone foreign?

I dont believe you have read one quarter of my post. 

 

Nick Clegg isn't British, by his own admission. He is a European who holds dual nationality in the UK and EU and a US Green Card. He certainly doesn't place the interests of this nation uppermost. 

 

Like Rishi Sunak, his conflicts of interest through his wife's and father-in-law's business interests are evident.  

 

We have no equivalent of the Green Card. 

 

 

Edited Wednesday at 10:20 by rockershovel

[jjb1970]

The UK has various visa classes and permanent leave to remain for non-UK nationals with permanent right to live there.

 

I see dual nationality more as adding than subtracting. My offspring have dual nationality as a result of Mrs JJB being a Johnny foreigner (what is the feminine version of that?) and neither is any less British because of it. 

 

These days mixed nationality parents and shared culture and identity is increasingly just normal and common, I really don't see that as a bad thing.

[GMKAT7]

Good afternoon folks,

 

We here in 'dreary Derby' also tire of Snottingham acting like the 'Queen of the Midlands '.

 

The only good things going for it are the trams and the QMC, and some would dispute the latter when it comes to maternity care.

 

Once our new music/concert venue is up and running next year we won't have to trek over there to see the bigger groups who can no longer call at the Assembly Rooms.

 

As for Rock Ferry, the album is well worth a listen IMO in an ersatz 60s pop/soul feel.

For low-end gene pool, have you been to Burnley lately? 😂

 

Cheers, Nigel.

[Tony_S]

1 hour ago, rockershovel said:

I dont believe you have read one quarter of my post. 

I have, and responded to the bit that intrigued me.
The Clegg family chaps do seem to have a tradition of marrying women from other countries. 

[Hroth]

5 hours ago, jamie92208 said:

Ask Dave Hunt to translate for you. 

Yes, fortunately he was a bit further north, Wallasey and New Brighton.  It was in Rock Ferry that my mate and I decided thst we had found the very shallow end of the gene pool. 

 

Jamie

 

Parts of New Brighton rivalled Rock Ferry. Wallasey in particular, was known locally as "The Debtors Retreat"...

 

[DaveF]

I lived in Nottingham for about 12 of my first 16 years.  I still have relatives in the city.

 

I avoid the place, I never liked it much.  I don't mind the county, it is just the city I dislike.  Relatives who use the QMC give very mixed reports depending on exactly what they were having done.

 

David

[iL Dottore]

A smattering of languages can be very useful and can lead to some rather exciting adventures.

 

Today in Sapporo I was passing this building

When a nice  young lady asked me 飲みに来ませんか？ (Nomi ni kimasen ka?)

well, I couldn't let down the side could I by saying いいえ、結構です。(Īe, kekkōdesu) and walking on, could I?  So I went in and in the name of fostering good international relations steeled myself to have one of these:

I tell you, foreign travel is rough!

Edited Wednesday at 12:35 by iL Dottore
Missed photo

[GMKAT7]

Good afternoon folks,

 

Wrt the QMC, the Boss (SWMBO) went there for surgery in February this year (to remove a, thankfully benign, brain tumour) and both the consultant and the nursing staff (pre and post operative) were the very best the NHS offers.

However, the maternity care has been slated and was shown as needing improvement.

 

Like DaveF, I find the county of Nottinghamshire to have some wonderful places and countryside.

Plus, our dentist is from West Bridgeford.

 

Anyway, I will stop now before offending anyone further.

 

Cheers, Nigel.

[Tony_S]

42 minutes ago, DaveF said:

I lived in Nottingham for about 12 of my first 16 years.  I still have relatives in the city.

 

I avoid the place, I never liked it much.  I don't mind the county, it is just the city I dislike.  Relatives who use the QMC give very mixed reports depending on exactly what they were having done.

 

David

Aditi lived there from age 11 to 21 after years in Yorkshire and a brief interlude in Derby. I think she was happy enough until she was only allowed by her parents to go to Nottingham University. She later  managed to find an excuse to do a postgrad Cert Ed at Keele where we met. . If her family hadn’t been so difficult about our eventual marriage I think we may well have moved to Nottingham or its vicinity. However despite later encouragement from her family to move from Essex we stayed here, apart from short visits. Trips to Nottingham seemed to be mainly to shopping centres. Her family had moved a couple of times in Nottingham, finally to Burton Joyce. After Aditi’s Dad died, her Mum moved to Enfield to be near Aditi’s sister so we have no reason to return. Aditi’s younger brother settled in Kettering. 
We have visited Leicester often, Aditi’s brother was at the university and later in our son studied there. So we know the areas where students live, the university and some city centre restaurants. 
I have never ventured outside Derby railway station. 
I am perfectly happy living here in Essex, since 1975 (Benfleet since 1977). I probably wouldn’t go anywhere else except my wife does like to travel and I like the places she chooses once we get there. 

Edited Wednesday at 13:04 by Tony_S

[Winslow Boy]

4 minutes ago, Tony_S said:

Aditi lived there from age 11 to 21 after years in Yorkshire and a brief interlude in Derby. I think she was happy enough until she was only allowed by her parents to go to Nottingham University. She later  managed to find an excuse to do a postgrad Cert Ed at Keele where we met. . If her family hadn’t been so difficult about our eventual marriage I think we may well have moved to Nottingham or its vicinity. However despite later encouragement from her family to move from Essex we stayed here, apart from short visits. Trips to Nottingham seemed to be mainly to shopping centres. Her family had moved a couple of times in Nottingham, finally to Burton Joyce. After Aditi’s Dad died, her Mum moved to Enfield to be near Aditi’s sister so we have no reason to return. Aditi’s younger brother settled in Kettering. 
We have visited Leicester often, Aditi’s brother was at the university and later in our son studied there. So we know the areas where students live, the university and some city centre restaurants. 
I have never ventured outside Derby railway station. 
I am perfectly happy living here in Essex, since 1975 (Benfleet since 1977). I probably wouldn’t go anywhere else except my wife does like to travel and I like the places she chooses once we get there. 

You are a very wise man.

[Happy Hippo]

30 minutes ago, Winslow Boy said:

You are a very wise man.

Of course he is.

 

Tony keeps his railway in the garage rather than a sh..

[Tony_S]

8 minutes ago, Happy Hippo said:

Of course he is.

 

Tony keeps his railway in the garage rather than a sh..

Though there are many hobby related boxes on the dining table at the moment. I have been rationalising and sorting my hobby tools and the dining table is a good place, much bigger than my computer desk upstairs. I have a special tablecloth so that I dont damage any other tablecloths. Though I think our normal, everyday tablecloths are indestructible, I think Aditi’s Mum probably bought them with her on the ship from India in 1959 and put them away. No matter how much curry gets spilt they wash perfectly. They are a very heavy cotton. No one else in the family liked them so Aditi had them. 

[jamie92208]

2 hours ago, GMKAT7 said:

 

 

As for Rock Ferry, the album is well worth a listen IMO in an ersatz 60s pop/soul feel.

For low-end gene pool, have you been to Burnley lately? 😂

 

Cheers, Nigel.

Yes I have been to Burnley but also policed various places in West Yorkshire that were definitely in the shallow end if not dried up. The upper Spen Valley and the various villages south of Pontefract come to mind. 

 

I had a year in Nottingham at Uni and have very happy memories of my time there.  I actually watched them start building the QMC.  The lift shafts were built first using slip form paving. 

 

Jamie

[Dave Hunt]

7 hours ago, jamie92208 said:

Ask Dave Hunt to translate for you. 

Yes, fortunately he was a bit further north, Wallasey and New Brighton. 

Although I can understand proper Scouse OK, when it comes to the stronger elements of the Wirral or Bootle even I as a Liverpudlian can struggle. A lot of actors pretending to be Liverpudlian in fact mimic Wirral or Bootle (the north end of Liverpool) accents that to a trained ear are different. A mate of mine says the same thing about Brummagem and Black Country accents.

 

Dave

[Dave Hunt]

I went to Burnley once but it was shut.

 

Dave

[Happy Hippo]

1 minute ago, Dave Hunt said:

I went to Burnley once but it was shut.

 

Dave

I think you've misplaced a vowel!

[DenysW]

53 minutes ago, Dave Hunt said:

A mate of mine says the same thing about Brummagem and Black Country accents

West Bromwich more extreme still, back in the day before TV 'Culture' started grinding us all down to Estuary English.

[Compound2632]

3 hours ago, GMKAT7 said:

We here in 'dreary Derby' also tire of Snottingham acting like the 'Queen of the Midlands '.

 

At this rate, it amazes me that the Midland Counties Railway ever got off the ground.

[J. S. Bach]

1 hour ago, Dave Hunt said:

I went to Burnley once but it was shut.

Dave

I've been to places like that over here.

[Dave Hunt]

16 minutes ago, Compound2632 said:

 

At this rate, it amazes me that the Midland Counties Railway ever got off the ground.

 

Maybe because it promised a way out?

 

Dave

[Dave Hunt]

Just now, J. S. Bach said:

I've been to places like that over here.

 

Yes, a work colleague in San Diego said the same about Utah.

 

Dave

[J. S. Bach]

1 hour ago, Happy Hippo said:

I think you've misplaced a vowel!

Misplaces? Or chose the wrong vowel?