Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)

I'm no hep @Tonyp - I was BGS 1960 to 1965 but can't remember a Pauline Robinson from my time there.

@Maggie/915 - copied your post onto the Bygone Bedlington Facebook group.Posted you

That should say - 'whats the matter Abdul, wont it start'😂

1. What does the name ‘Spam’ (meat - not computer) stand for Answer = Special Processed American Meat. 2. Who was the World Darts Champion 5 times between 1980 and 1986 Answer = 3. By what other name is a Dublin Bay Prawn known Answer = Norway lobster 4. Who said “The lion and the calf shall lie down together, but the calf won’t get much sleep” Answer = 5. Which member of the royal family married Marina of Greece Answer = 6. When politician Roy Hattersley failed, for the third time, to appear on ‘Have I got news for you’ his chair was occupied by what Answer = 7. Which ex-England footballer is the father of a television weather forecaster Answer = Bobby Charlton. 8. What is the cube of 3 Answer = 27 9. Which animal has the scientific name Capra hircus Answer = 10. How many British pounds in a hundred weight (cwt) Answer = 112 11. Which parasitic plant was sacred to the Druids Answer = Mistletoe 12. In a game of poker which is the best hand: flush, straight run or three of a kind Answer = Flush I’ll bet you didn’t know …. Elizabeth Taylor never threw away any of her clothes. Answer = I didn’t – Liz must be who my wife was influenced by = keep clothes, keep them looking good and then keep saying ‘WE’ need more cupboard space

I still get the notifications within the group = But I used to get an email for every new post or comment that was made in the group and the email contained a link taking me directly to that new post or comment. Within my Outlook setup I have a separate folder for all the groups I am a member of and Outlook allows you to set rules, with conditions etc., so that when an email comes it uses the conditions to place that email in the relevant folder - if no condition met then the email goes into the 'top level' folder = Inbox. Can't remember the exact date I stopped receiving notifications via email but as you can see from the following screen shot I still have a notification, red asterisk, from when you commented, Saturday 04/09/2021, on the 'Info on Historical Buildings' topic.(The yellow asterisk just shows a group where there are still unseen emails (still in bold). No doubt @Andy Millne can explain why the email notifications have stopped being sent to me.

I would join the club but I'm not an ex-pat.

Yes Cl- it's down to 17c, outside, and a mere 22c in the bungalow - with window open 🙂. Getting dark by 20:00. I'll do the quiz later - too busy clarting with images What is strange is that I never received one notification email that anyone had posted/commented last night = nothing from Cl - Vic or Tonyp's comments And last night I settled down to watch NUFC v Leeds and half time went wild - a bottle of Wychwood Dice man stout - 5% + Kettle plain crisps - I nearly toppled me zimmer frame when I went to bed

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Not that this will help your cause but I can't resist mentioning the Travellers Rest in the mid to late 1960's. The Travellers Rest was the pub every dart player, and anyone else from their pub would want to go to. For an away match at any other pub it was your own transport or public transport to get there. The Percy Arms dart team hired a minibus when they were away to the Travellers and the team and any other person that could be crammed into the minibus spent the rest of the evening, including a lock-in at the Travellers. Normally after a darts match the home team landlord would come out with a couple of plates of sarnnies - plate of cheese chunks with crackers and a dish of pickles. The away team would grab a sarnnie, sup up and get back to their pub for the last hour but that didn't happen at the Travellers. The away team stayed at the Travellers till well after closing having a few more pints plus the best spread of food laid on at any of the darts matches = Yorkshire puddings - roast tatties - plate upon plate of sarnnies - cheese and crackers - pickled onions - crfisps and probably food I have forgotten. Well after 23:00 minibus back to Bedlington