The Thompsons talk Restaurant Week, Cinemas and Hyson Green

Restaurant Week

The man you want to talk to is Nick Turner, who works for St Mary’s Church. He eats more times in restaurants than any other person we know. He’s a friend of ours and he eats like a horse. Years ago there was World Service, Sonny’s and Harts. They’ve all disappeared! Sonny’s was a fantastic restaurant. It had soundproof glass. The only place we’d like to go to and have never been is the Pelican Club. For the jazz. Of course you’re not allowed to smoke, and we don’t smoke anyway, but you could just imagine: drinking whiskey and smoking and listening to jazz. It sounds marvellous.

Cinema

We don’t go anymore. All we used to see is James Bond, but the last couple of times they've not been light hearted comedies like they should be. We saw all the Pink Panthers, and we do like Kind Hearts and Coronets and Withnail and I of course. That is a superb film. But we always fall asleep and the person beside you always smells.

Hyson Green Community Action

Mary Potter, from the Mary Potter Health Centre, she was a nun. When she came there in eighteen-something, Hyson Green was a small little village. Anything to clean up the streets. But of course people should be responsible for their own actions. The amount of people you still see who just throw litter on the street. If you want to clean your street you can do - Mr Simpson does it. He’s in north Notts or wherever it is and he got a plastic bag from the Council and one of those pickers - loads of people do it. The Council can’t do all the streets of Nottingham. We’re all responsible. And some beautiful flowers brighten people’s lives.