Nottingham Forest Discussion posts 3

28 Oct 2025 00:17:26
Well, that's it. Today is my 56th birthday!

After dying almost 5 years ago, having my legs amputated in the process of keeping me alive, and then going through months of renal dialysis and rehab I'm still here and loving my 2nd life!

I'm going to spend my birthday with my twin-grand daughters, my grandson, my lovely son and daughter and the ever-enduring rock in my life - my wife Sue. Happy days Reds.

28 Oct 2025 03:26:43
Have a great Birthday Legolas with your Family ????.

28 Oct 2025 08:07:59
Happy birthday lego, have an extra large traditional for me ??.

28 Oct 2025 09:40:21
Have a great day Lego my friend. I’m surprised you are 56 ( as I’m sure you are but in a different way). I don’t look a day older than 45 max! Take care and enjoy…. ?????????.

28 Oct 2025 12:29:48
Happy birthday mate from Young CARLO, see you soon.

28 Oct 2025 15:05:13
Should have said “you” not I Lego….

28 Oct 2025 17:30:30
Hope it's going well for you today Lego.! (Stokey, did you really mean 'you'not I, or are you really just very youthful? )

28 Oct 2025 18:10:35
Thanks Gents. I appreciate your messages.

Stokey - thank you for the compliment. Not sure you're right - but, if so, it's because I pickled myself with alcohol during my Army career! Members of the British Army are, without doubt, the fittest Alcoholics in the world.

28 Oct 2025 18:56:55
Norfolk definately referring to Lego. I look about 76 but I did have a very tough paper round as a kid and it got worse thereafter mate…. ?? ??
Lego, I assure you that you are looking very good. As you know, I went to my old friend tutor Constables funeral today and met up with some of my old colleagues I’ve not seen for ages.

The years have not been kind to them generally………. ??
Swapped a load of stories and reminiscences though. And they say crime doesn’t pay …….

28 Oct 2025 20:06:20
I've had a couple of wines to celebrate my birthday chaps (against Dr's orders as usual. ). However, we've just had a very surreal experience here which, initially, I put down to the booze. When Mrs Legolas got involved though I realised that I wasn't seeing things!

I went out earlier to our back door to find a Canadian Goose sat there. He didn't shy away or flinch. Initially I thought it was injured but no - I opened the door and he casually wandered into our house, shitting profusely in our kitchen as he went. He wandered around in our house for around 20 minutes, including warming himself by the fire.

Surreal to say the least. I like to think that it was my late Mum/ Dad coming to wish me a happy birthday.

28 Oct 2025 20:28:23
What you have been through and what you do for others is something to be immensely proud of, Lego. I hope you have had a wonderful day and hope many other great days are in front of you. You are a legend of man for what you give back.

There are not enough people in the world like yourself that help others the way that you do. A selfless man that deserves any good things that come your way.

28 Oct 2025 20:36:06
PS. Happy birthday ya oad git. ??.

28 Oct 2025 21:24:09
Wow. Thank you Silkman for your kind and heartfelt message. That means a lot to me mate.

FYI I was close to getting the ultimate birthday present today but, unfortunately, I didn't quite secure it. My 3 year homeless client has now moved into his council flat that I got for him, but I was hoping for good news today on the £3.5K I'm trying to scrounge for him to get it carpeted and equipped with white goods/ a sofa etc. The poor soul only has a bed and a microwave oven. He sits on a cheap camping chair in the evening trying to relax. Noone should have to live like that nowadays, especially someone who served for 14 years in our Armed Forces.

I'll keep fighting for him and, hopefully, I'll get that money for him over the next few days. That'll be a a nice, belated, birthday present for me.

29 Oct 2025 09:48:02
Good work and good luck Lego!
By the way, have a read if you have time of Chloe Daltons bestseller “ Raising Hare. a Memoir” about wild creatures bonding with humans and moving in …. very emotional indeed and well written…….

29 Oct 2025 21:04:23
£1, 545 raised for him today from one charity. I'll keep being a pain in the arse with the other three charities I'm trying to scrounge from tomorrow!

29 Oct 2025 21:19:42
Just magnificent my friend! ??????.

29 Oct 2025 22:51:30
Great work lego ??.

30 Oct 2025 17:41:30
Wish I looked 76 Stokie??‍???‍?.

31 Oct 2025 22:37:59
You don't look a day over 74 Carlo!

25 Oct 2025 14:03:22
Anyone watching Mother England vs The Convicts today? Going to be a grand old dust up????????.

25 Oct 2025 16:10:29
Best get the shackles ready for those in the next test ????.

26 Oct 2025 15:25:04
Politics.

26 Oct 2025 15:25:16
Pfft.

27 Oct 2025 20:30:17
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27 Oct 2025 23:00:46
On your bike ???.

22 Oct 2025 11:02:45
Apropos of nothing football related at all, I looked out over the fields and hills to the front of my house over the Sow Valley and Hanchurch woods immediately to the rear and was reminded of John Keats "Ode to Autumn" which I'd like to share with you.

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
Close bosom friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;
To bend with apples the moss'd cottage trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for the bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease.
For Summer has o'er brimmed their clammy cells.

Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they?
Think not of them, thou hast thy music too.
While barred clouds bloom the soft dying day,
And touch the stubble-plains with rosy hue;
Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn
Among the river sallows, borne aloft
Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies;
And full grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn;
Hedge crickets sing; and now with treble soft
The Red-Breast whistles from a golden Croft;
And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.

22 Oct 2025 22:48:26
One day stokey you'll wake up and realise how much tine you wasted reading books
To your pist on banter I'm 68 years old but the future is my only way forward, memories are great but tomorrow is what counts.

22 Oct 2025 23:26:47
I love Stokey, but he's just made my eyes bleed again.
Medic, medic!

23 Oct 2025 11:50:13
DTP I hope that “wake up day” never comes mate. Anyway, lighten up my friend, I was merely trying to be whimsical. Everybody’s different, thank goodness, and each to their own. Reading never killed anyone. Anyway, I resent your inference that I was “pist” when I posted……. ??????.
As for you Lego I actually deliberately shortened this great poem by leaving out the middle verse so count yourself lucky! ??
I may have recounted this story before but when I went on my CID interview the Det Supt ( a brilliant cop and ex Royal Marine, proper “Life on Mars” old school bloke) conducting it asked what I’d done at University. I said, amongst other things I’d written a dissertation on Keats.
He said “ What’s a fu”king Keat? ”
He said it deadpan and our paths crossed many times afterwards but to this day I don’t know if he was joking……. ???.

23 Oct 2025 19:30:27
As he was an ex-Royal Stokey I guarantee the guy had no idea who/ what Keats referred to! Bless him.

24 Oct 2025 22:39:22
Just noticed this. 7 thumbs up v 7 thumbs down! What’s going on? Can a bit of poetry provoke such controversy? ……. ?????Is there no subject we can’t fall out about? Amazing!

25 Oct 2025 21:53:04
Your post was shameful Stokey. How dare you bring up poetry born of our true English heritage? Can't you understand that most native English nowadays can only express themselves by putting up the Union Jack (usually upside down) on lamp posts, or spray painting a shaky-handed version of the St George flag on a mini-roundabout? That is the true expression of our English culture nowadays - not a recollection of ancient English poetry which formed the backbone of our heritage. You should hang your head in shame Stokey.

Seriously though, I enjoyed it mate! Whilst on the subject (and I think your big brain will clock this straight away) do you recognise this quote - "behind her eyes was a light with nothing to rest upon, a fire with nothing to burn"? I'll explain the relevance when we next meet up.

25 Oct 2025 22:11:55
I don't think it's the poetry stokey ??.

26 Oct 2025 00:20:33
Stokey, keep it up.

A high IQ, and being well read can never be seen as a negative.

Just finished "The idiot" by Dostoestky. Must admit a lot of it probably went over my head and I didn't relate to it as much as "Crime and Punishment".

And no I am not going to relate it to any posters on here.

Not that kind of guy. The only thing that confuses me about you, is you used to be a Policeman.

At least you aren't a stereo type. Unless you were to include Inspector Morse of course.

26 Oct 2025 03:11:41
67, Morse is apt and a good observation about Stokey, I'm Football, T. v and Old Films but when I read his posts I'll usually Wikipedia something he's posted what's peaked my interest, be it military, country's history to lantern jawed rulers! ?‍??.

26 Oct 2025 10:54:41
Well, I became a Policeman long before Morse ( which I loved… so different from John Thaws other cop Jack Regan) and after I’d graduated with an English Lit Honours Degree….
Lego, mate, there's nothing wrong with a flag of St George and a shaky hand, generally speaking……. I don’t know the quote. Is it from a Fleming Bond story? I’m stumped on that one ?
67, I had a Russian phase this time last year when my wife bought me a set of Dostoevsky novels, Vasily Grossman’s “Life and Fate” and I re read Anna Karenina again.

I have phases and fads ( and time to enjoy them I’m retired.
I’m popping over to Nottingham on Tuesday, sadly to attend the funeral of my old tutor Constable and visit an old mate ( and first marriage best man) who’s in QMC having had a stroke. I feel like I have a lot to read and see and do these days with old age creeping on. It’s like cramming for your finals ….

26 Oct 2025 16:09:58
Stokey - Hard Times by Dickens. Very apt ref Forest ATM.

26 Oct 2025 20:41:55
I’m guessing it’s a description of Louisa Gradgrind mate? Unemotional and cold due to her upbringing? can't remember that description though.
Confession time now …. I set myself to read the Complete Works of Dickens a couple of years ago, not realising it includes literally everything he ever wrote, including his letters, speeches, short stories and accounts of his travels across America.

I throughly enjoyed all of it, even the unfinished “Mystery of Edwin Drood”……
You probably know my wife and I did a pilgrimage to his house on Doughty Street in London several years ago. It was a thrill to see his writing desk and chair, even his pens. Just brilliant, well worth a visit.

27 Oct 2025 16:13:11
“You’re mocking me, aren’t you? ” Buzz Lightyear voiced by Tim Allen Toy Story 1995 ….
???????.

27 Oct 2025 16:59:08
When visiting Nottm he used to stay at The George Hotel down Hockley.

27 Oct 2025 18:29:47
I assume you mean Tim Allen, Carlo rather than Buzz Lightyear mate! ??
My own George Hotel true story involves your nemesis Margaret Thatcher. A colleague and I were instructed to guard the front doors when she came to give a speech to the local Tory Party members. It was a bitterly cold winters evening sometime in the early 1980s.

She arrived by car and swept up the steps with her escort and entourage and ( being very pro Police) stopped briefly to speak to us. She said something like “ Good evening gentlemen, it’s very cold isn’t it? ”
We replied in kind and she went in.

About 15 minutes later a member of staff came out carrying a couple of highly alcoholic steaming hot toddys for us, on her instructions. She’d also told him to to pop out with top ups when we needed it. Which we did ( it would have been rude not to, wouldn’t it).

The sequel to the story is that a very bumptious Inspector approached us later in the evening and smelt the liquor on our breath and said “ Give me one good reason why I shouldn't issue disciplinary notices” or “fizz you” as the expression was.

My colleague, much senior in service to me, said “ Well sir, it was on Mrs Thatchers instructions”
We heard no more about it…….

20 Oct 2025 16:35:31
My heart goes out to Stuart pierce and all family and friends.

20 Oct 2025 13:52:47
Our thoughts and prayers go out to our legend - Stuart Pearce for the tragic loss of his son. God bless!

20 Oct 2025 13:31:58
Condolences to Stuart Pearce at the loss of his son Harley, very sad news for all his family.

20 Oct 2025 13:21:08
Heart goes out to Stuart Pearce. ❤️

Worst thing that can happen to anyone. Puts things in perspective.

19 Oct 2025 16:58:56
Went shopping this afternoon, bought a lettuce, how long should it last?

19 Oct 2025 18:53:50
Depends how many pet rabbits you have Carlo? ??.

19 Oct 2025 20:58:32
39 days?

20 Oct 2025 00:27:30
Still last longer than a Red Headed Cabbage.

26 Oct 2025 16:05:10
Prediction looking pretty good about know?.

19 Oct 2025 16:52:04
Twas only on trump haters i replied eds and you know that. On discussion.? You going to post this. Or do I just leave.

{Ed001's Note - bull, you posted abuse at other posters with a different opinion. You constantly post nasty posts at Doc M because his opinion differs. This was just another example of you showing your true colours.}

19 Oct 2025 20:33:52
Politics has no place on this site as far as I'm concerned
It's about football or a laugh?
You can't laugh at politics and whatever it won't change the world, cus non of em can answer a question when asked one.

19 Oct 2025 20:48:33
Yeah doc. For some reason never liked the laddie. Anyway that's me signing off. Love this club, apart from family. Live for it. Take care reds. And remember, never take them around ya for granted. Goodbye ?.

19 Oct 2025 21:00:15
Mal get some help mate
Vodka will kill you.

19 Oct 2025 21:01:21
TACO Trumputin is hated for a very good reason, Bowie.

19 Oct 2025 21:39:02
Silkman your not helping as you have an agenda and only want to talk politics.

20 Oct 2025 05:53:37
Silkworm is right though, DTP. Trumpty is hated for a reason. There's no agenda in stating the truth.

20 Oct 2025 08:55:11
What agenda do I have, DTP?

20 Oct 2025 10:29:15
Definitely something weird about two (maybe just one) posters on a football banter site that only want to talk about Trump rather than football. Constructive posts or replies about football 0-22 Posts and replies about their messiah. ?.

20 Oct 2025 13:57:05
Confirmation bias, Robin. You obviously haven't seen any of my other posts or replies just the ones you want to see.

20 Oct 2025 14:38:56
No bias, inaccurate reading on your part mate. Constructive being the word??.

20 Oct 2025 15:53:35
Ignore the person.

20 Oct 2025 18:52:01
If Trump was one of the choices as the new Forest coach, critism of him on a "Football" site would be justified ?.

20 Oct 2025 19:19:13
You must have the same illness as TACO, Robin, Fabricating numbers.

20 Oct 2025 21:11:36
Saw this in the lonely hearts column.

"dear Donald we're both obsessed with you, your all we think about, all we write about, all we talk about"

At the bottom of the add was a GINDER address and was signed:

"lots of love Barry and Paul Chuckle"

????.

20 Oct 2025 21:43:15
What is a GINDER address?

20 Oct 2025 21:46:10
And an excellent hyperbole.

20 Oct 2025 21:47:24
And it was you're boyfriend Bowie who mentioned him first. ??.

21 Oct 2025 08:46:20
Stings when its close to the truth ay Ravers. I only commented on this thread because i know how you and Silkworm work, DTP spoke from the heart and you pair were there ready to pull him down. Smoke and mirrors, played it well for my part. ?.

21 Oct 2025 10:19:38
Hey Red Robin the Chuckle Brothers filmed an episode called “ The Steeple Chucks” at my house when it was derelict back in the day. Have a look on You Tube. They play hapless steeple jacks and the big chimney is still there!

21 Oct 2025 11:16:15
What did I put that was pulling DTP down, exactly? All I asked him is what agenda does he think I have. I don't see that as pulling him down.

And like ravers asked, what is a GINDER address?

21 Oct 2025 12:04:09
Grinder* the innocence part played badly there silkworm.
All you pair do is either talk about your messiah or comment negatively on other posts. Must be horrible living with that kind of outlook on life.

Stokey lol, i might give that one a miss???.

21 Oct 2025 14:09:32
Anyway i successfully distracted the pair of you and kept you both off track from talking crap about your agenda. Win win win. ???.

21 Oct 2025 18:59:30
What's the agenda? You and DTP have mentioned the 'agenda' but both fail to explain what the agenda is. DTP is a coward (as he's thrown accusations out in the past but never elaborates) so I don't expect anything from him. So maybe you might explain the 'agenda'? Or are you the same as him? Hmm.

21 Oct 2025 19:43:12
I don't know, i was just following what DTP said because it clearly gets under your skin. Judging by your reaction you better untwist your knickers me lover????.

21 Oct 2025 20:22:17
I don't know what GINDER or Grinder is so I think I'm safe on those accusations.

21 Oct 2025 20:30:08
I've been in 4 different countries in the past 5-7 days (one of them being the US) so i haven't posted anything negative or indeed anything at all.

21 Oct 2025 20:46:21
And i'm a monkeys uncle ?????.

21 Oct 2025 22:35:16
He lit a good one there winter ???.

21 Oct 2025 22:36:15
I can think of other things you are.

21 Oct 2025 23:30:31
DTP ???.

18 Oct 2025 19:52:44
Discussions:

Has anyone read about the plans for a rail tunnel connecting Russia to the US?
Personally i couldn't think of a better idea than building a tunnel under the Bering Sea, i mean in one of the most seismically active regions in the world. What could go wrong? ?.

19 Oct 2025 19:38:56
Not going to happen Winter. Simply because the two leaders will never be able to agree on a name for it - the Putin/ Trump Tunnel or the Trump/ Putin Tunnel?!

20 Oct 2025 21:45:15
Don't mention Trumpty, Lego. Robin will think you've got a soft spot for it.

22 Oct 2025 06:13:52
All you ever post about is politics.

18 Oct 2025 13:07:30
Eds. Is Bowie banned? Or missing in action? ?.

{Ed001's Note - he is banned.}

18 Oct 2025 13:57:06
Lol fair enough ?.

18 Oct 2025 14:03:26
And can we have him unbanned please? Pretty please with sugar on top.
We all get carried away from time to time. ?.

{Ed001's Note - he spent days constantly posting nasty posts aimed at other posters who disagreed with his viewpoint, I am not sure he deserves a return if he has so little regard for his fellow Forest fans.}

18 Oct 2025 14:38:15
Ah no, I wondered where he went to, hope your all good Bowie soft lad.

Be good and hopefully you can come back on, your the lovin' Uncle of the site!

18 Oct 2025 14:55:23
Yeah of course he deserves to come back, just speaks his mind Ed, we're all opinionated and it obviously spills over on occasion in discussions. Its all part of life, sticks and stones and all that. ?.

18 Oct 2025 16:06:02
He does "Bully" certain posters, DocM for one, just does not give other people's opinions may be better than what he post's.

18 Oct 2025 18:03:39
That's just your opinion and i have mine and i know for one I'm not alone. ?.

18 Oct 2025 18:43:27
Well if I stand alone no problem, but on this I agree with the Edd's.

18 Oct 2025 18:55:54
I disagree with people all the time. Just don't get personal. It's obvious when it's too personal and not banter.

18 Oct 2025 19:40:03
Problem with a lot of this is modern society has turned most people into (using one of my favourite northern terms) soft lads. Call someone a name in jest or jokingly and the old bill are at your door. Have a laugh online and get banned.
Alot of people on here get away with passive aggressive jibes at others and blatantly baiting yet nothing happens. i'm very much in the camp of nanny Bowie, say whay you think and don't be wet. ?.

{Ed001's Note - you never saw his posts, so please stop trying to make out he was hard done by.}

18 Oct 2025 19:47:03
Fair point ed. ?.

{Ed001's Note - but the bans are not life bans anyway. The idea is everyone cools off and thinks about it and hopefully learns. I have just been busy with my parents staying and have not been about so completely forgot about asking ed33 to let him back.}

18 Oct 2025 22:17:35
Yeah get him back on.

And while we're at it. DTP. Time to join in.

Looks like we are just about to start a new chapter.

Let's hope it goes better than the last one.

Fine margins. We could have scored 5 today. But we didn't. The big man needs to get this next appointment right or all the hard work of the last 4 years could count for nothing (apart from the memories of (course).

Play our cards right we can still have a good season.

18 Oct 2025 23:45:24
Fair play Ed, I know we don't get to see the posts you stop, so thank you guys for looking after, putting up with us and also for filtering what could really upset people.

Were all good lads but need a slap behind the back of the legs from time to time. ?.

19 Oct 2025 00:14:54
What got me about him, a poster was updating a previous post he made, about a situation he was helping with when Bowie posted "Give it a rest mate", just bloody rude in my opinion!.

19 Oct 2025 01:14:11
And why didn't you tell him that when he was here Mossy? ??.

19 Oct 2025 11:32:40
The poster didn't reply himself, I said "I" thought it rude, "I" didn't assume other people's opinions for them.

19 Oct 2025 12:10:12
?, "I need a hero
I'm holding out for a hero 'til the end of the night
He's got to be strong, and he's got to be fast
And he's got to be fresh from the fight
I need a hero
I'm holding out for a hero 'til the morning light
He's got to be sure, and it's got to be soon
And he's got to be larger than life
Larger than life"??.

19 Oct 2025 16:41:13
Thank you RedRobinHood I really appreciate that, it must have took you time and effort, I'm, I'm really choked?.

19 Oct 2025 17:12:02
Yes, I remember that post as well Mossy.

19 Oct 2025 18:12:18
Mossy if you don't appreciate me serenading you in my bestest cornish accent, well I'll find a new boyfriend ??.

20 Oct 2025 00:36:18
RedRobinHood I posted I appreciated it or was it just a "Fools Lullaby"??.

16 Oct 2025 21:15:24
Evening Gents - sorry, a bit of a 'Stokey post' tonight! I know that I've been regarded by others throughout my life as being a bit of a 'dreamer'. I don't mind that at all, but I prefer to call it 'imaginative' and 'forward-thinking'!

I remember as a young soldier in the early 90's Int Corps, briefing Officers about the security of a place called Borucki Sangar in the centre of what we called 'bandit country' in South Armagh, Northern Ireland. I warned them then about the future use of remotely-piloted model aircraft to fly over security and drop explosives within the base (many years before drones were invented). I was laughed at.

I also briefed later that after the Western-world came together to protect the Muslim community in Bosnia Herzegovina that we would end up eventually fighting emerging radical Muslims which had the potential to lead to WW3. Again, I was laughed at.

So, at the risk of being laughed at again I'm going to throw-out a future business-idea about Forest. Anderson has helped to put this idea to the forefront of my mind. What if Forest were to set themselves apart from every other PL club as being the go to feeder-club for English footballing talent? Just think about it for a moment.

We appoint Cooper in charge of our Academy and invest heavily in recruiting and developing the best English youth talent out there. At the same time, we try to focus on recruiting more senior English players with the potential to go into our first team. As football is regarded as a business today (despite us fans. ), can you just imagine how this would set us apart from others and create a 'unique selling point'? Maybe a positive way forward and a future ethos for our club that we are currently lacking?

16 Oct 2025 23:08:29
I have wondered what Cooper would have achieved with this crop of players? the majority English speakers unlike the ones he had, who needed interpreters to communicate. I don't think Marinakis is patient enough for your blue print, he wants instant gratification, if not produced he throws a srope.

17 Oct 2025 10:26:38
Football manager 26 is released on the 4th Nov lego??.

17 Oct 2025 10:49:42
Thanks for the heads-up Winter!

17 Oct 2025 11:16:58
Nothing wrong with a Stokey post Lego, mate!
It’s an interesting idea which could be implemented by an imaginative and innovative club hierarchy. Unfortunately we have an alpha male running the show who would take such a plan as a personal insult to his Greek machismo……. and probably burn your house down with you in it……….
I, personally, think the plan has some merit my friend!

16 Oct 2025 10:39:42
Before the inevitable pain to come on Saturday comrades, tonight I have the pleasure of going to Bridgewater Hall in Manchester to see Graham Nash (Crosby, Stills, Nash and ( occasionally) Young) with Peter Asher ( Peter and Gordon). A real blast from the past. You young ones on here won't know what I'm talking about. perhaps no one on here does, come to think about it.
If you want a brilliant account of rock and roll excess, have a read of "Wild Tales" by Graham Nash, particularly Dave Crosby's lifestyle.

16 Oct 2025 20:24:16
Hope you don’t Have a day without love Stokie. ???.

17 Oct 2025 00:42:01
If that happens Carlo you can just “Lock me away”
Besides, my motto was always “ if you can’t be with the one you love
Love the one you’re with”
Got me in a load of trouble over the years mate but great fun ??????.

17 Oct 2025 08:58:58
That was an old Police song, no not sting!

17 Oct 2025 10:40:09
Stokey at a push you could make a tenuous link to Nottingham Forest by Peter and Gordon. Peter is Jane Ashers brother, who as child actors appeared in an episode of "Robin Hood", Jane had a relationship with Sir Paul McCartney who wrote Peter and Gordon's first hit "A world without love" and a few more as well, and McCartney is the writer of our Anthem Mull. You always make for an interesting post Stokey.

17 Oct 2025 11:09:04
???Seriously it was a great show mate, all the wonderful songs and some cracking stories from both Nash and Asher. I hope, firstly, I’m still around to reach 83 ( which Nash is) and secondly that I’ve still got his energy …. The voice is still there and he moves well despite cracking one of his kneecaps in two in a fall in NYC his home.
His story about Dave Crosby’s proposed one day sail in his yacht around Fort Lauderdale bay which turned into a 9 week voyage, through the Panama Canal and finishing in San Francisco was an absolute cracker! He did see a breaching blue whale though, still, he says the most magnificent thing he’s ever seen …….

17 Oct 2025 14:13:09
Mossy, Peter told the story of “ World without Love last night. McCartney shared a room with him at Jane Asher’s parents house in Wimpole St just around the corner from Harley St where Asher senior was a highly successful psychiatric doctor. McCartney, as you say, was having a passionate relationship with Jane and wanted to escape “Beatlemania “ to write his songs. The family, enormously wealthy, even installed a top of the range piano for him.
At the time Peter and Gordon ( Waller) were singing in pubs and clubs for the price of a pint. Peter asked if McCartney had any songs he didn’t want and he gave him a song he couldn’t finish ( as he said, what can I do with a song that begins with the words “Lock me away”. ) Anyway, he said he went into a back room and finished off “ World Without Love” in about ten minutes and handed it over. The rest is history.
McCartney started writing it when he was 16 …….

17 Oct 2025 18:14:26
Also Stokey from Google, them songs wrote by McCartney for Peter and Gordon went down as written by Lennon and McCartney?, what gets me is I was 4 years old when that song was released, I can recall all the lyrics as many songs from the sixties, it may explain why music and songs are so beneficial for Alzheimer's patients?, a song from the past can sure stir up many memories, Cockney Rebel "Come up and see make me smile" School disco 1975?, "oh what a night" there's another ?.

17 Oct 2025 20:57:48
Yes I’m the same Mossy. I’m 68 so I remember songs from the mid 60s onwards. It’s like all the jingles from TV adverts at the time ( milky bar kid, cadburys flake, nimble bread she floats like a bird in the sky) and Tv kids shows like Stingray ( Marina, acqua Marina) Fireball XL5 ( I wish I was a spaceman, the fastest guy alive) etc. However, I can’t remember what I did yesterday! ????

Incidentally, Asher talked about the Lennon McCarthy tag for “ World without Love”. It’s erroneous. McCarthy actually pushed for his incomplete version to be finished and put out but Lennon blocked it totally because he thought it wasn’t good enough!

The Pete and Gordon version eventually knocked a Beatles song off the top spot of the charts ( can’t remember which Beatles song)

19 Oct 2025 15:51:35
The TV show music back then was memorable, Champion the wonder horse, Stingray (Marina), Adams Family, still sung today by modern supporters at games. My brother John was a massive Beatles fan, had all the records and his two lads he named John, Paul (True), when he passed all the records was sold by his wife, today how he kept them, would be worth a few bob.