Our latest conversation with Nottingham's most opinionated grocers.
Cycling
We don’t cycle, but we do have a cycle. We’ve had it ten years. We started really keen but the roads are a bit dangerous. We were thinking of getting a tandem, but we’d argue too much. Cycling in mass is a marvellous idea, a bit like joggers in a mass. We saw some up near the Bread and Bitter, and they looked like a tractor all together with their lights.
Comedians
Someone told us a joke: ‘I know someone who worked in a shoe recycling factory, they said it was sole-destroying.’ The best comedian we’ve ever seen was Jimmy Tarbuck in Derby about twenty years ago. We know people don’t like Jimmy Tarbuck but he was very funny. We would have liked to have seen Tommy Cooper when he came to Nottingham, but we didn’t and then he dropped down dead which was a little disappointing.
200 issues of LeftLion
Perfect. A friend of ours said, ‘Isn’t it a left wing newspaper?’ and we said, ‘No, it’s because that’s where everybody meets’. How many have we been in? Must be over ten years. Sometimes people recognise us, but our father is far more famous than we are. He was the groundsman of Notts County Football Club.
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