Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)

When working shifts on the National Insurance computer system we had a Handover Book where each shift would document anything that was worth passing on + a list of outstanding tasks that required action.It used to make me laugh when the shift taking ouver from ours would comment on my spelling. My response was always - if you know what the word is supposed to be does it matter how it's 'spelt'. Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno’t mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghi t pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I nivva (that ones for HPW) tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!

I have similar Bill and it's on both PCs- old & new. The most frustrating one is when I try to go back, using the reverse/backward arrow key, and correct a spelling mistake (that I make all the time) nowt happens. So even when I just want to go back a couple of characters to correct an 'i before e' (and @Canny lass knows all about my errors🙂) I have to use the mouse to click onto the exact letters I want to change - it is frustrating. ps. don't know anything about jelly guns - got hit a couple of times with a pellet from a Webley air rifle or pistol.

Can't remember them at all. The main sweets we got as kids were Barley Sugars and that was because my dad worked for Hugh Bolcows - breakers yard - at Cambois. All the men at Bolcows would search all the cabins on the ships that were there to be broken as the 'sailors' would have jars of Barley Sugars and many got left aboard there would have been other jars of sweets but I can't remember them🙃. My favourite was McGowans Highland Black Toffee - Cambois beach -c1953. Wouldn't mind some now but I don't think my dentures would would stay put trying to bite through a bar

As I will have a spare 1hr 20mins next week I will try the same as you and see if Greg is working 5 days a week😷. Never seen any updates from councillor @Malcolm Robinson - for a while . he normally keeps the group up to date - he must be having a well earned holiday🙂

Anyone who wants to gamble, responsibly, I don't have a problem with but surely if everyone used that site and made accurate predictions then all the bookies would be losers🙃. Surely to be a winner you have to have knowledge + a certain % of luck and enough money to withstand runs of bad luck.😰

Unfortunately no easier way Eddie. The majority of cases where I have created an album I have only had one photo to start it off then adding additional ones one at time.The system that this group runs on was upgraded a couple of years ago and I don't think I have attempted to create a new album, with multiple photos, since the upgrade. What I think might be the case is that after you have created an album you can then go into the 'Add Images' option and I think when you select Add Images it gives you a second screen with a black circle and a white cross in the middle. Select that circle and the system directs the procedure to your 'Download' folder on your PC/Tablet etc. and you can the select one, or multiple photos, and and the system will upload them into the album. If you don't have the photos in the Download photo you can still direct the procedure to the area, ie Desktop, where you have the photos. I'm expecting that the system will upload multiple photos so go it a go. If you need any help or would like me to upload them all into the album you create I will do that. Example of adding images to an existing album :- This is a link to the album - Bates Pit by High Pit Wilma - that I created for @HIGH PIT WILMA :-

@Eddie Yarrow - I'll work my way through your photos, adding numbers & text, and see if the Facebook members on the Bygone Bedlington Facebook group; Cambois Facebook group & Friends of Bates Colliery group can identify anyone. As there are a lot of photos it might be better to create an album in the Gallery under Historic Bedlington as it would make it easier viewing of all the photos.

@Bedlingtonian - can't remember seeing this photo before. Checked the old maps and Beech Grove & Hirst Terrace North are not on the 1898 map and are on the 1922. Ok if I share your photo on the Bygone Bedlington Facebook group? Then & Now

@Eddie Yarrow - would you like me to add any names that anyone comes up with to your photos? I could also post your photos, with numbers and text, on the Cambois Facebook group as there are relatives of the miners from Camboois, Sleekburn and West & East Sleekburn in that group. @HIGH PIT WILMA - might be able to give you some good info on the photos. This is an example of what I would do.

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I remember the first time I bit into a mince pie at xmas. I blame the person who offered me one, can't remember who it was, but I thought I was being offered a minced beef pie. Can't remember anyone calling them sweet mince pies

Stay safe maaaraaa🙂

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I would probably be the same if it wasn't for 'Mad Cow Disease' - BSE = bovine spongiform encephalopathy - 1996. We were a group of 3 couples that regularly ate out on a Saturday evening - Manzil's Indian restaurant, Morpeth. The other 5 had Indian meals and I would have a rump steak, very well done. So when they had to take steak off the menu I was sat in the restaurant one Saturday evening wondering what to try. The staff said they had mild curries that I should try and they recommended chicken tikka for starters and chicken korma for main, I accepted. Chicken tikka Ok, but still toooo warm for me - chicken korma, very mild and creamy and I have stuck with that, as my foreign food dish, for the last 24 years. I was working in London, late 1980's, on an MOD project, with a load of contractors and we used to have a project night out once a month at various restaurants. So we ended up in an Indian's one night and having partaken in a few pints beforehand I decided to be adventurous and go for a starter before my steak. Ordered Mulligatawny Soup - never again has Mulligatawny Soup passed my lips. Nobody else thought it was hot but my mouth was still feeling the taste/heat for the following two days.

Don't remember it from the 1960's when I used to pass that way. There again in the 1960's I wouldn't eat Chinese, Indian, - in fact I wouldn't eat any foreign food. I'm the same now apart from progressing to the English version of Indian food = chicken corma and eve that,on occasions, can be tooo spicey for me 😰

I used to enjoy a pub quiz, with a few mates and their wives. Good company - good beer - good food and very little success. These days I don't retain the knowledge - actually it was the same in my school days. Back at school I just knew where to find the answers = less to remember and I could get outside with more time to play. and today Google has reduced the the number of reference books I acquired. I didn't really buy books for me, they were for the kids to look for the answers i couldn't give them. Now maths, up to 'O' level, was simple. No need to read, once you had learned the basics = 2 to 10 times tables the rest was easy and if the answer didn't come automatically you could work it out wit a pencil - no need to stare into the depths of the memory hoping the answer would jump out. I only passed maths 'O' level. Not because I didn't retain sufficient info, it was because back in 1965 they deducted 1/2 a mark for every spelling mistake. I remember in the Mock GCSEs the English teacher said - Edgar you passed then we deducted the spelling mistakes, you failed.