A massive pan of freshly boiled whelks.

99% of whom would struggle to name a Zeppelin track if you asked them, no doubt !:eek:

How dare you insult Mr Gallagher sir, the next time I see him in Dunmow Tesco’s looking at CD’s and Value bacon I’ll tell him what you said.
What made me smile was how young JP Jones looks and how old Junior Bonham appears.
Is JPJ not the stumbling block over further performances and recordings, if you look at the picture of them taking the applause at the end, he’s the one out of the huddle, a bit like certain people at the end of the Pink Floyd do at Hyde Park.
And for all you old Floyd fans, try BBC1 tomorrow night 10:45, looks good.
I’m lucky, I saw both Zep and Floyd in their heydays, 69-75.
Set the Controls for the Stairway to Heaven………..
I was listening to an interview with Pete Townsend a few weeks ago and apparently Keith Moon and John Entwhistle quite the Who to team up with Page and Plant, and that it was Moon who coined the name Led Zeppelin for the band, but they couldn’t see the band going anywhere and rejoined the Who, now that could have been interesting.

Were any Forumites there or was it just ‘celebrities’, there seemed to be enough of them going in when I watched it on the news last night.

Congratulations LN, to have a baby just before Xmas is a magical experience, it really makes it a special day and like no other that has gone before.
I waited till my son was 18 months old before he went to his first airshow, just make sure it hasn’t got any noisy jets.
By then he could walk and garble volumes, one of his favourite toys was a Matchbox Tornado, great, we took him to Wethersfield, he sat happily in his baby seat with the toy Tornado and when we parked up, a real Tornado was waiting for take off at the end of the runway at the time, woo hoo how exciting, I’m seeing one for the first time.
The mood changed when it took off in full reheat, lots of tears and screams I’m afraid.
I took a little tent with me to keep him out the sun, luckily for me, as every time a jet appeared, he hid in it, even from the sublime VC-10.
As he got older, I think that airshows became more of a source of funfair rides and toy stalls, rather than the flying part, he’s now 22 and at uni, had some great flying experiences including circumnavigating Kilimanjairo in a light aircraft, but I’m afraid he’d rather go clubbing than airshowing.
Have a fantastic Christmas with baby.
All the best, Pete.

I guess you must like Lincoln then 🙂 :confused:

The role of lottery funding is to provide money for a wide variety of projects – not to secure the existance of bodies such as the RNLI, Guide Dogs, Air Ambulance. No doubt some lottery projects will not, as we have clearly seen, be to your liking but they are designed to benefit as many people as possible – not just you and your tastes and what you deem to be a ‘worthy’ cause.

The only thing, it would seem, that we agree on is the value of those aforementioned services – it would seem more appropriate for them to benefit from secured and generous government funding than sporadic lottery hand outs would it not?

What, propping up a rich but failing church is of more benefit to the public than the organisations I have mentioned, what planet are you on sir, and yes, Lincoln is a lovely city, and I agree, the government should be supporting such neglected causes.
Fantastic countryside round Bradford though, have you ever been on the walk to try and find Heathcliffes farmhouse, try it sometime, it’s good for the soul.

Last years Xmas was spent surrounded with cardboard boxes as we had moved in 3 days before.
This year we are doing dinner for 7, the outlaws, my wonderful 91 year old mother, who will prove to be the life and soul, my son and stepson, who will no doubt team up to take the p### out of us, madam and myself.
She has ordered a local turkey and will no doubt cook every veg going, along with a selection of everything else, she’s a love, she has mysterious plans for other than a Christmas pud though.
Just a little comment, for those of you divorced people going through a bit of trouble at Xmas, I’ve gone through all that crap, but my son and stepson are a revelation together, they really love each other so much, they are inseperable, it can work.

How would you spend the money ?

If it’s more deserving Norfolk causes we’re talking about then how about the air ambulance and in particular the RNLI, both charitable organisations, both of which save lives rather than ‘attempt’ to save ‘souls’.
I seem to recall that a few years ago the RNLI were so strapped for cash that the venerable organisation at Caister, responsible for so much in the past, was forced to fund itself and relies on local hand outs and a second hand inflatable.
I was also mortified to find out recently that guide dogs for the blind are similarly reliant on charitable hand outs, and yes, I’m paying for one to be trained for some poor soul, hopefully not one of Kevs one eyed Somalian lesbians either.

Nice comments Kev, looks like we ain’t popular, well, not with some amateur psychiatrist from Bradford, shiver, at any rate.

Just tell them to ******* OFF ! Good for the soul !!;)

Interestingly enough, I’ve just been up there and watched peoples reactions, they mostly look at the floor and mumble, he is after all a big intimidating b#####d, he really does need a good kicking, might ruin his designer clothes though, then the great British public would really be in trouble.
I’ll have to hatch a cunning plan because I don’t see why I have to put up with this in my face every time I go shopping. Believe it or not the local police station is in the same car park and they are in and out of the store all the time in order to stuff their faces, which is all they do round here. He’s probably the local Chief Inspector.