Vic Patterson

1.  Left handed
2. Used furniture salesman
3.  Boiled goose feathers,
4.   Nude
5.  1911
6.  112
7.  Owl
8.  88
9.  All
10.  It is customary for the mother to take her babe from the breast and put her pipe or quid of tobacco in its mouth.”
11. Perjury
12. Canada, (Calgary.)
13.  False
14. Afghanistan
15. William Wordsworth
16.  Yes
17. Silverstone, Goodwood, Thruxton, Snetterton, Castle Combe…... 
18. 120
19. Thomas Coryate
20. Elton John
     

Thank you Canny lass, your advise is noted! 

And a Happy new year to all our friends and families, and wishing you all the best of health, wealth and happiness but not necessary in that order!

And if that Lotto does pay out I might see you in the new year.

1. Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree
2. Merrymakers going from one house to another with a wassail bowl in hand, singing traditional songs
3. The Pagan festival of the winter solstice
4. The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come
5. Button
6. January 6,
7. 1021
8.  Flying Fish Cove
9. A straw goat named Ukko
10. East to West?
11. Apart from being the world’s largest, what was unusual about the snowman named Olympia?
12. Capricorn
13.  Santa Baby
14. A cactus
15.  Female
16. In Japan, Santa is said to live on the moon. True or false,,
17.  Miss Fanny Bright
18.  Theodore Roosevelt
19.  1920s 

15 hours ago, Brian Cross said:

Thanks Vic how have you been mate? 

Bit of a tough year Brian but lucky to have okay health, enjoying shovelling snow, and more snow, and more s.... -25c but sunny. Merry Xmas.

Nice to see you are still with us Brian and your health is improving, your name often pops up! Merry Xmas to you and your family.

Congratulations Cl, a well deserved award for your dedication to our sanity, I certainly enjoy the quiz and can only follow the historic research, I must also congratulate all the other members for their contributions especially Eggy!

Covid has had a very negative effect on everyone and I feel your contribution has had a very positive outcome especially during these difficult trying times.  

  That didn't work too good did it! reduced size looked alright

mom and dad about 1930 I think.

It's very rewarding seeing the photos coming to back life again, I have also had some coloured using a Family Tree web site after I clean up using an Adobe program. All on my old Vista, I must try and use Gimp on the newer Windows!

My dad is in the middle, and mom and dad about 1930 I think.

6 hours ago, Canny lass said:

Welcome! What are you like with raw fish for Christmas dinner?

Ahhh! I'm a bit like Eggy but NO fish or shell fish, cooked or raw, no spices, no seasonings, no fruit and only nuts are chestnuts (cooked) but I do cook meat and veg with salt. 

Eggy, I have tried Gimp but didn't install it, yet, and found it very understandable and after looking at the cost of the competitors like Photoshop etc will probably download it, and learn how to use. I have tried NCR for my video editing but no success yet, I had my 9.5mm wedding cine put on a disc and I'm trying to edit out some bright flashes.

Some of the new technology I like such as using the finger print for filing in the passwords, I use it for everything except my banking! I have most important things on CD! (no 5 1/2 floppies) then memory sticks but now tend to use my external hard drive, makes it very easy to move between computers. I'm a bit leary of all the "cloud" technology, here we often loose the internet and if your information is "up there" and not on your computer? I'm all for adding what I want rather than trying to remove things I don't, but that is marketing. 

Same here Eggy, I got my Vista working again (my son did!) and have Windows 11 on my Acer, I only turn it on once a week, I just don't like it, I only use Vista for my photos as I'm using Apple for almost everything, Iphone, MacBook Air, iPad.

1.  micrometre
2.  Kidney
3. Rossini.
4. Elenor
5. 12
6. Flower arranging;
7.  Wallis Simpson
8.  North Sea
9. Private Joe Walker
10.  Pound
11. Danish
12. Three
13.  They had a weigh in a manger.

Merry Christmas Alan and to all of our friends, followers and families, and a safe and happy New Year.

1.  AIDS
2.  Elvis Presley"
3.  Stegosaurus
4.  Barcelona.
5.  New Orleans
6.  Radioactive decay
7.  Jill
8.  Mull
9. Triangular
10.  1
11. James Cook
12. Nashwan

Cl, I won't be doing any seasonal baking this year but I have done LOTS of snow moving, 4-5 times at 30-40 cm and lots of smaller dumps, but it's the wind/drifting I HATE! I also do two neighbours and the sister-in-laws driveways, I love my snow blower!

Thats quite a task you have coming up this weekend, but with family around it has to be magic precious times! 

1. Sodium,  Chloride. 
2.  Sausage
3.  Neon
4.  Piano
5.  John Smith
6.  Mount Vesuvius
7.  France
8. The Dons, The Reds and The Dandies
9.  Great Stour
10.  Eton
11. Badger
12.  Shrove Tuesday, 

1.  California
2.  Nucleus
3.  Fish plate
4.  Fred and Rose West
5. Cassava
6.  Dr Finlay
7.  Vladivostok
8.  Neil Sedaka
9. Farthing
10. Icteridae
11.  Michael Jackson'
12.  Elizabeth I 

1.  The most haunted hall in England
2.  Split and dried in the sun. (Fish)
3. Tony Curtis
4.  Uisce beatha
5.  Al Capone.
6. 14
7.  The science of education.
8.  3
9. Ruhr
10.  Avro Lancaster
11. Coca-Cola
12.  Originally Silver, (then copper then bronze.)

My Dyson just died recently and I couldn't repair it, I bought a new one then was able to revive the old one, now have two! (but now old one demoted to hobby vac)

9 hours ago, lilbill15 said:

It seems pertinent that those opining what Bedlington doesn’t need left the town a while ago and those advocating for community leisure provision are current residents.

There were many reasons for leaving the area but non were about Bedlington or the area, but I feel it has given me a different/wider perspective, which I respectfully share. 

Malcolm said,

"I personally don’t believe a full blown leisure centre will be seen in Bedlington but I was working on a small multiuse sports centre, at West Lea, and had the financial backing it needed off the then administration,"

I agree with Malcolm with his realistic vision for multiuse centre, My suggestion would form a group of others who feel strongly about the issue and with the guidance of someone like Malcolm look at the options, Raise awareness, Raise concerns, Raise funds if necessary! then Raise Hell until the appropiate authorities take notice! 

I personally would be considering approaching the new LARGE company moving into your area for sponsorship, our recreation centre built 1969 when the town was being built and it was named Akasaka after the major Japanese sponsor. Today it is very common for large companies to name facilities (stadiums etc) to get the publicity/ recognition. Bedlington "Britishvolt recreation Centre" BBRC.

2 hours ago, _pauls said:

No disrespect intended but that is very easy to say if you don't live in the town.

Earlier today I wrote a reply but then later deleted it, a reply to your comments, I wasn't sure it was my place to comment, like CL I questioned what facilities are available within the area? are there restrictions to the use of these, being from Blyth I used to travel to Bedlington, Ashington, Whitley Bay, Newcastle and many other places for my recreation, no parent drivers, no transportation at all.

Saturday I traveled to our next town South to watch the Grand kids play some ice hockey, 150km each way, sometimes I travel north to watch some curling, 185km each way, any of our kids showing prospects in a sport often travel to these places for higher levels of competition.

To have recreation facilities on your doorstep is great and desired but having them reasonably available is what really matters. It appears Bedlington has been left out for a long time and deserve to get some facilities to encourage youngsters to keep fit and meet others, socializing! 

I sincerely hope my comments don't offend anyone, just giving my opinion from a different perspective! (FWIW)

1. What sort of creature is a Greenshank? Bird
2. At what weight did Cassius Clay win his 1960 Olympic boxing title? Light Heavyweight.
3. Honeydew and Cantaloupe are varieties of what? Melon
4. Which lake is surrounded by Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania? Victoria.
5. What is the last book of the Old Testament? Malachi.
6. Which British scientist discovered benzene? Michael Faraday
7. USA launched its first space-shuttle in 1981. What was it called? Columbia
8. By what name is Agnes Gonxha Bejaxhui better known? Mother Teresa
9. Which metal is represented by the symbol Cs? Cesium
10. Who sailed away to die on HMS Bellerophon? ??
11. Which planet is nearest the sun?Mercury
12. Who succeeded Henry VIII as monarch? Edward VI  

I follow conversations and comment whenever possible, I don't visit albums very often as I find backing out of an album takes so many clicks!

Your suggestion CL makes a lot of sense and being a regular user it would seem a logical way to set it up.

Yes CL, I just checked my cut and paste and I only have 19 questions and the correct 15 is missing, obviously my not so nimble fingers did a whoopsie, in future I'll wait until my second coffee before attempting the quiz! and proof read before posting !

1.  Vlad the Impaler.
2.  Ancient Greece.
3. Wet sheets
4.  Día de los Muertos, All Hallows' Eve
5. Monster Mash:
6.  Coven
7.  All Hallows Even
8.  Hairy palms, 
9.  Wallachia
10.  Mary Shelley
11. Samhain,
12. To make holy or sacred,
13. Vine
14.  Eye of newt, toe of frog, Wool of bat, tongue of dog, Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg.
15.  Scream.
16.  Dance until they go mad or perish of exhaustion.
17. Ghost Town
18.  Witches
19.  Celts

I know of West Lea cemetery, would there be any connected to the other churches?