Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)

Link to the Punch Drunk web site is :- http://punchdrunkcomedy.co.uk/ Extract from the web site :- PUNCH-DRUNK 4 TO HAVE REPEAT NIGHT! BEDLINGTON – We’re coming for you! We can confirm that due to popular demand for the SOLD-OUT Punch-Drunk 4 at Blyth on the 20th of this month, we will be adding an additional night in Bedlington the very following evening at Netherton Club (Tuesday 21-April-15). The venue is the same size as Blyth’s Side-Club base, and promises to be a packed house to rival that of Blyth’s. The launch event will feature a replay of Punch-Drunk 4 featuring all of the same acts, so if you missed out on Blyth tickets because of how fast they sold out, you can get the exact same experience on the Tuesday an inexpensive taxi ride away. If you’ve never been to a Punch-Drunk event before, you’re in for a treat. Our events are remapping the social calendar…in the midst of an ailing social scene where bars and clubs are dying off, we are calling on communities to united behind a permanent date in the monthly calendar where we vow, friends and family alike, to reconvene at the same place and time every month, to reconnect against a back-drop of laughter. (The Blyth events have been sensational so far and have received national acclaim winning “BEST LARGE COMEDY-VENUE IN THE NORTH” at the recent Chortle awards!) The laughter will be provided by the very best comics the international stage has to offer! Punch-Drunk 4 will feature the star-studded line-up of acts as follows: Host / Compere: Kai Humphries Mark Nelson Philberto Andrew Stanley Scroll down for full previews of all of those acts! Tickets are available for reservation with immediate effect through all the following channels: Simply Text or Call 07738663379 with your full name and ticket requirements Inbox the Punch-Drunk Facebook Page Online: - See more at: http://punchdrunkcomedy.co.uk/event/punch-drunk-4-bedlington-launch/#sthash.sxarO5Go.dpuf

Bayardm - I am not involved with the Bedlingtonshire Local History Society but I do remember Maggie posting a 2015-16 program - see photo at the end of my message. There is a contact number & email address for the Secretary, Barry Mead, on the ANLHS web page :- Association of Northumberland Local History Societies (ANLHS) Member Societies/Groups & Organisations Bedlingtonshire LHS The society was founded in 1968. Meetings are held from September to November and from January to April on the last Monday of the month at 7.30pm in Bedlington Evangelical Church. There is no membership fee but £1 is charged for each meeting. For further information tel. : 01670 861180 Or contact Barry Mead, Secretary by emailing bas.mead@google.mail.com. However in a posting 'History Society' Maggie posted :- ".................For details of Where and What is involved phone - 01670 820088" And within that same posting was an entry with the 2015-16 program dates with Monday 28/03/2016 scheduled as 'Blythe and Tyne Railway System - John Riley' :-

Now I understand, but I will still secretly giggle to myself as I imagine a little old lady, on her tiptoes, with the wrapper off her Werther's Original in her out stretched hand and cursing the council and a sweet and polite way old ladies are supposed to!.

So they havn’t won a game this month, though they had some shots at Leicester This Sunday their luck will change, and Mackems will gan yem te fester.

Wot - no Recycle Bin! Bring back PCs. with Vista!

Malcolm. I can see from the other sites where you post this message that there are many who want this matter sorted and I do appreciate there concern. However I would love to see the instructions that were given to the the team that were employed to carry out this task. Just so we can see how difficult it is for people of sound body and mind to install an item and stand back and probably say - '.......fitted perfectly to the required specification I we can see that it will fit the needs of all, including those vertically challenged'.

I agree with all the comments on the shop assistant but I believe if I was wanting wallpaper I would persevere with the shop Maggie. How many comments have you read on this site, and many others, about wanting to have a front street full of commercial shops rather than charity shops. I would even have to go as far as say I totally agree with my wife - never buying household furnishings on-line. View the items in the shop; in a dark corner and then in the light. Take a sample home and match that sample against all the other soft furnishing items, (that only she has gathered over many years), and make sure it works. Don't forget to ask everyone that comes into the house if they think the sample - goes with other items - brings out the colours c) is a good contrast d) doesn't clash etc. etc. etc. and regardless of what they say make your own mind up, unless you want to take the advice of someone else so you can blame them if the completed redecoration turns out not to your liking. The above comments are genuine. However I must add that my outlook on decorating the family home do differ from probably about 95% of the world's population, including my lovely wife. I have always wanted, and you could say achieved, a house that is clean and tidy and provides facilities to feed; entertain and keep my family safe and warm. BUT there are always, other than what is required, additional items to add to the whole experience of a comfortable night in the house. I can never understand why anyone would want to spend time staring at a wall, covered in wallpaper! I have purchased many items for the house that the whole family can share and enjoy - Tv - computer - Board Games - Lego - artistic materials etc. etc. I have never thought I will buy that wallpaper so I can stare at it, and enjoy it, is I have nothing else to do. Back in the early 80's I covered many walls with Knotty pine and lovingly sanded; sealed; sanded; varnished; sanded; varnished; sanded; varnished; sanded and a final coat of varnish. My theory - I will never have to do this again for years and years and years and I didn't, we moved and left it. The feature fire place, with gas fire, was built with stone. The more stone that was used the less of the walls would need wallpaper. Marble topped corner units so the TV could be in full view of every seat in the house. The other corner, with matching marble top, was where the wife could stand as many pointless objects as she wanted. So me and the kids played games, watched Tv etc. and the wife dusted her many knick-knacks, blissful harmony. I had to concede to the chimney breast covered with many strips of embossed wallpaper so you could hang a large mirror on the wall that covered half the paper (that paper had taken weeks to find!) and resulted in one sex of the family standing in front of it to apply many items to the face and thus blocking out the heat and quite often the TV from the other sex! Once all the kids had left we moved, leaving all the 80’s features, to a bungalow. Every wall in every room, freshly skimmed, not a strip of wallpaper to be seen. It has remained wallpaper free for the nine years – YES. Naturally I have had to concede to the hanging of a few items, including local works of art, that have I never stare at but the wife still takes a duster to them. Go out Maggie and get many samples of various items. Shopping for curtains is even more rewarding! Oh the hours and hours of endless enjoyment and fulfillment watching them hang seductively over the painted wall gives me immense pleasure. The country needs less of me and more people that will keep manufacturing moving. So get back to that shop Maggie and support the High street shops. ps. however I am content, no wallpaper and no pets.

The simple things in life - that could be the last Greggs Sausage Roll I ever see, mouth watering. Thank you Malcolm. As I grew older and took head of the dangers to one's health from eating all that hot pastry wrapped lovingly around the sausage rolls I decided I must not waste all my money on enjoyment. So I switched to the Gregg's hot Corned Beef Pastie thus reducing my life expectancy, as the fat content etc. is higher than the sausage roll, and leaving more money for the kids!

GGG - If you buy me a years supply of Gregg's sausage rolls I'll believe what others have written!

Simple answer... Britain… Right??? Not really. The modern version of the Sausage Roll is commonly attributed back to the Brits, but the idea of wrapping meat (or any food) in a puff dough is something the historians can never agree on. There are several examples of Ancient Greeks and Romans using pastry in delicate cuisine, but it's commonly believed the modern version of pastry wrapped meat was developed in the 18th Century. Flaky or Puff Pastry was concocted a long time after plain pastry had become common around most parts of the world. Many popular European flaky pastries, which are now seen commonly in supermarkets, are often eaten sporadically as a premium snack in the UK. One of the most famous snacks and earliest flaky pastry is the croissant. The origin of the croissant goes back to 1686 when the Turks tried to seize Budapest by digging under the walls of the city at night. Only the bakers were awake (working of course). They heard the noise and sounded the alarm, foiling the surprise attack of the Turks. The reward was permission to sell a delicacy at a premium price: the croissant became that delicacy. It wasn’t until the beginning of the 19th century in France that flaky (feulleté) dough was used and the now common forms first appeared. That's also about the time a very hungry British man decided he could make fun of the French by wrapping their favourite pastry around some cooked pork. Do visions of Inspector Clouseau cursing "swine" come to mind? Needless to say, the result wasn't all that great, but the war effort was just gearing up and the British people were very hungry. Sausage Rolls became an instant hit. The next major revelation for the Sausage Roll came around 1980. A very Hungarian (not hungry) man and his wife were just starting a new family in the wilds of the British Columbia Interior. Paul & Susan (P&S) Tolnai were entrepreneurs just starting out in the food business when they came across their first sausage roll. They decided to bring the Hungarian influence back into the pastry used to create the Sausage Roll. After years of fine-tuning their recipe they are finally ready to share this Anglo-Hungarian treat with the rest of the world. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Is 17 November 1558 to 24 March 1603 too early for the sausage roll, or is Elizabeth 1st right? The Blackadder series has several mention of sausage rolls. In the first series, episode "Born to be King", the Queen is loathing the return of her husband because she feels as she's "being used all night long, like the outside of a sausage roll". In the second series, episode "Potato", Queen Elizabeth I's excitement at the return of Sir Walter Raleigh lends her an excuse to describe some of her "pretty wild dreams", one of which is her being a sausage roll. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Dutch make their own versions = Sausage filled rolls are much loved in Holland. They go by the name of ‘worstenbroodje’ made with bread dough or ‘saucijzenbroodje’ when made with puff pastry. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ For how long can a Gregg's sausage roll be kept?

Mathew Corbett in hiding - Harry's grave to be moved

Cheers Maggie - all writing removed from all 3.

Maggie - Ok if I post the old programmes, and the current one, on the Bedlington FB sites? Might get some interest for the society.

Maggie - have I missed something? Do we now need plans to get the wind to change direction. Me mam always said if a was pulling a face and the wind changed direction me face would stay like that!

So is it just The West End that's getting these Malcolm?

A few names added

No. 30 - Eunice Ferguson ?

Elizabeth Foster (Bedlington Remembered Facebook site) is wondering if anyone can identify any of the kids in this 1950 Class 4 photo? The only info she knows is that her husband, Bob, is in the back row.

I agree - use both lanes and then merge as the road narrows. Use the outside lane and stop cursing those that follow the highway code. The world will merge into a better place - EU says so!

I would assume a Fat Controller listened to the arguments of the Thin Controllers and made a decision based on their vast experience and knowledge of what both the majority, and the minority of the audience wanted. I have nothing against repeated programs and whatever size of team is required to schedule these programs. What I would like to have is a Fat Controller that understands that it is only full programs that need repeating, some people may not have a method of 'catch-up TV' and we have to agree it would be extremely costly to to only show new stuff. I want a Fat Controller that educates the teams :- 1. the news reporter on the ground does not have to start their report with the same lines the news reader has just used and then stammer and splutter out two minutes of totally useless dribble cos there is no news to tell. Especially in tragedies when rescue operations are under way and trying to save lives. Leave the peple at the incident to get on with what they are there for and fully report on the story when everything is under control and some facts are known. 2. Pay off 90% of sports reporters and so called 'experts'. For example, the F.A Cup Final. Have one person in the studio introducing the scene we are about to see e.g. a camera watching the fans stream to Wembley and enjoying the day. DON'T pay someone to stick a microphone under a fans nose and ask stupid questions. DON'T pay a team of so called experts to tell us a) how each team got to Wembley, b ) what each team must do to win the cup c) don't pay a squad of ex footballers or managers wads of cash to analyze the game in hindsight. c) have one person commentating - 1964 Kenneth Wolstenholme on the early Match of the Day told the fans all they needed to know not a load of drivel. The microphone was never past across to another highly paid expert to repeat the commentary. (Don't mind paying for extra camera men so moves etc. from different angles can be shown allowing the viewer to work out what happened.). Scrap the after event analysis - stop paying worn out footballers that can't find a proper job, and failed ex managers to analyse what went wrong and what should have happened if the players, in 'Real-Time' had of just taken a moment to freeze play and work out all the options and then make the best play. In every sport if the commentator is a highly paid expert why do they need someone else to back them up. If they are all such experts how come they disagree with each other. Sack the majority and save a fortune. I could go on, but I would just be repeating myself! We need a Fat Controller to sack sports experts and then when they are all put out to grass and wander round Liverpool saying 'Gis a job, have you seen Yosser Hughes'.

Ooops - not an advert - got carried away when I was looking for the Hyundai advert with the Velvet Underground lyrics - I'm sticking with you, cos I'm made out of glue. Couldn't find it, but found this clip and posted it in error. PS - must try harder.

It was the same in the 50's in wor hoose. Experiment - Tried to get away with something and not get got clipped of me mam. Method - do something I was told not to, get clipped. Try a 2nd time - got another clip. Decision time - try again and get another clip or try something else? Simple - ask me big brothers, they would know what to do. They beat me up so I didn't try and get away with that again. Conclusion - no matter what I tried I got caught out. Eventually I learnt me lesson, 1993.