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  1. ferret

    Embracing my inner Foggy

    Well… hitting 60 in a few weeks so thought I’d buy something to stop my small change rattling about and falling out if my pockets. Handy to keep a few notes in to buy a round in the pub too if needed. :)
  2. ferret

    Chocolate dreams

    …. bring back Old Jamaica
  3. ferret

    Chocolate dreams

    Rum ‘n’ Raisin.
  4. ferret

    Go Ahead punk. Make my day

    Love the Harry Callaghan films plus the westerns and not forgetting Escape From Alcatraz.
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    The Summerwine.net music thread

    Here you go Mikey… we’re in here somewhere
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    The Summerwine.net music thread

    Hmmm ….I was there :) We walked from Stockport to Manchester with Stockport CND then onto Alexandra Park for the Carnival Against The Missiles gig. Evening gig later on that day in Manchester. Happy Days.. I still have a cassette bootleg of the AP set… bit of violent gig considering it was a...
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    The Summerwine.net music thread

    Sad news . You can tell we’re getting on when all our old musos start to fade away. David Johansen the other week.. no more NYDolls left.
  8. ferret

    Old Movies.

    The Abominable DrPhibes, Dr Phibes Rises Again, The Monster Club, Theatre Of Blood… he really hams it up!!
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    Old Movies.

    Any of the Hammer horror films for me. If they have Michael Ripper in then all the better. Also the Dr Phibes films with Vincent Price are brilliant.
  10. ferret

    Shops no more....

    Ha,ha.. my old school mates ended up doing backing vocals on their first album and security at their gigs. I saw them many times in the ‘80’s in and around Macc’. Even in the back of a flat bed lorry in a field after they got banned from playing venues. I used to visit their digs/ shop ( on...
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    Shops no more....

    Yes, that’s the one. Derek Davenport ran the health shop you mentioned. Also sold home brew equipment.
  12. ferret

    Shops no more....

    Great chippy back then just around the corner on Garden Street. You name it they sold it. The couple that ran it also had a cafe up by the canal in Adlington. Sadly no longer there.
  13. ferret

    Shops no more....

    We still have one in Macclesfield, just called in.
  14. ferret

    Fig Rolls

    Cockett & Sons? Great bakery too.
  15. ferret

    Fig Rolls

    Tripe and cow heels was a favourite of my Grandpa in the 70’s. I remember going to the local butchers to buy it with him. Rabbit is one of my favourite meats but it’s nigh on impossible to buy from the butchers around here even though I live in a rural county and there’s hundreds of the little...
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    Fig Rolls

    I love liver and onions.. prefer white to black pudding.
  17. ferret

    Down to a tee...

    That was the first one that came to mind when I read the question.
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