Canny lass

Threegee, this is about the bit that's not editable by me, so all that is also totally irrelevant. Can't agree with you on the publishing aspect either, I'm afraid. Beleive me if its on the Internet its published, at least potentially. "It's only visible to you", you say. Now there's a sentence that must have echoed repeatedly around the walls of the Whitehouse at some point in the past! I myself can't really see the logic in having made visible to me something which I would already know. I'm presuming of course that these warning points won't just sneak up on me in the night - although now that I think about it, my warning status did just that! You say that "If there is a problem I'm at a loss to see how this could be!" I guess I'd already worked that out for myself, so I don't really think there's any point in continuing the discussion. I'll just leave the last word to you.

Threegee, it's totally irrelevant through which warning system you recieved your warning and I am not asking you to eat your words - only to hear mine. As you have so rightly pointed out this is a democratic site. Neither have I askied you to disable the system or even to modify it - I've only pointed out that I felt my integrity to have been violated by certain aspects of it. I believe I have every right as a human being to do that here - this is a democratic site, is it not? I feel no need to google IPB warningsystems. I have a layman's understanding of them which is sufficient for my needs. I am not against these systems, indeed I believe they have an important role to play in the world we live in. However, I am against not knowing that I am being monitored and having my 'warning status' recorded and published on the Internet.

Threegee, I think you did say that, as I've posted above. You later said that you could "only remember one occasion that any were used." (July 18th, 8.59am) I am not against your feeling the need to have a system for dealing with disruptive elements. I can even accept that any such system includes being given a warning before any other measures are taken - in fact I think it's only fair and adult to do so. What I am against is: my, and presumably many others being under some kind of secret surveillance. (Nobody seemed to know about this points system, not even Malcolm - a moderator, who had to ask me where Id seen these warning points mentioned) that these points are published on profiles and in forums. OK, I have no points but I may have had, and that doesn't feel very nice. I cannot see my profile or my input in the forums through the eyes of the reader, so I don't know what they see. It's a very uncanny feeling, if you'll pardon the pun.

I'm all for knowing where the boundaries lie but should I ever cross them then a P.M. from a moderator would suffice to point out my disdemeanour. Warning points that appear in the forums are clearly not needed. Accordng to threeg it's only himself who has ever had a warning point. You can't claim that the warning point system has acted as a deterrent to bad behaviour, as it hasn't been known that it existed until a few days ago.

I'm just wondering why it was turned on - or was made public, if it's been there all the time? I've been using this site for a year now without knowing this system was in use until the fact that I had "0 warning points" started to appear beside my input in the forums a couple of days ago.

It feels just a tad Orwellian - if I may say so without getting a warning point!

...or pink underwear and push mowers.

Maybe they did, but they didn't get what they were wearing under their skirts at Moldens - or so I've been told, I hasten to add.

Just had a quick look at your profile Brettly. No mention of warning points.Just had a quick look at my profile. There it clearly states "0 warning points". Now it may be that no one else sees this when they visit my profile. Do me a favour and have a quick look. Can you read that I have no warning points? However, it's not what's on my profile that's worrying me. It's what can be seen under my information in the various forums. As I'm looking at it now it says "0 warning points" to the left of this message. Do you see it when you read or not? I can't read anywhere else about anyone having, or not having warning points.

Beneath my information on the left of the screen it say's "0 warning points'. These points aren't mentioned on anybody's other than mine. I can interpret this in 2 ways:Bedlington.co is putting me out there as a good example to all those (everybody else) who have got warning points. Bedlington.co is telling me to watch my step. It more or less says "watch it young lady, you've got a clean slate let's keep it that way'.

I have a vague recollection that the florist's shop was an off-licence in the 50's - early 60s.

Just had a look at Front Street east on Google Earth. Moldens and Feasters were where the solicitors are now.

Thanks threegee. So it's rudeness that's the cardinal sin then? Anything else we should be wary of? Why is it only me who's had warning points mentioned?

Afraid not, Foxy. Thought for a minute or two that might be me in the pink overall but then I saw it was the 1986 Picnic. Few years too late. You have to admit that many of the banners were small works of art. Anybody know anything about their making? Was it the miners themselves who made them or were they comissioned from professionals?

Totally agree Adam. It would be nice to know what we can get warning points for and who dishes them out. Like your new picture!

I seem to be the only one who's got a mention of warning points.I don'y know how I should interpret this. Does it mean that everybody else has had warnings?

What are 'warning points' and more important 'why haven't I got any'? This information appeared yesterday below my informationon the left of the screen.

You may well have bought school trousers here even if you didn't go to Westridge. The official uniform items were those with a badge on - or you could just buy the badges and sew them on yourself.They also sold the blu/white striped blouse for the girls. Ordinary grey/navy trousers and skirts were also on sale here as were plain white shirts. I'm now wondering if we're on about the same Moldens and Feasters? The ones I'm thinking about weren't at Vulcan Place. They were further down the front Street - at 'the bottom end' as they used to say - to the right of the Northumbend Arms in Foxy's Picture.

Spot on! Aprons were the order of the day but I can't remember suits. Shirt, tie and maroon coloured v-neck pullovers is how I remember the man in Moldens.The counters were display cases, with lots of small draws full of everything imagineable.

Forgot to mention, Proudlocks was definitely a bakery but I'm not sure just where it was. I think it was in Bedlington though, rather than at the station. There was one at Ashington as well so maybe they had a few other branches. Might have been one at the station as well.

Feasters and Moldens were sort of connected. They were next door to each other. They had only a very small window facing the street. Between the two shops and running at right angles to the road, was a sort of 'arcade' where they had their main display windows opposite each other. At the end of the 'arcade' the doors to the two shops stood at an angle of 45 degrees to each other. I don't remember any connecting door in the shops. You had to come out of one to go into the other though you were still under one roof. They were the mainstay of Bedlington, as far as school clothes were concerned. They were the authorised suppliers of westridge school uniforms. They were also the last shop in Bedlington selling cross-over pinnies (aprons, to the uninitiated).

They used to be the official suppliers of the Westridge school uniform.

Know it well. That's where my tap-dancing days started. Monday nights there were classes for tap and ballet with June Taylor as teacher.

i think that might be an early sign of dementia Keith.