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Post by Malcolm Clarke on Jan 29, 2021 21:45:22 GMT
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Post by CalgaryPotter on Jan 29, 2021 21:48:16 GMT
View AttachmentI love the t-shirt with a picture of him in his honorary degree robes Rocking it Nello, stay safe and healthy!!! |
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Post by onefatcopper on Jan 29, 2021 21:50:13 GMT
View AttachmentI love the t-shirt with a picture of him in his honorary degree robes Should be honorary club president, well done Nello 😷 |
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Post by Lakeland Potter on Jan 29, 2021 21:50:33 GMT
View AttachmentI love the t-shirt with a picture of him in his honorary degree robes Dammit - we are the same age and he's beaten me. I'm expecting the summons next week. My neighbour was jabbed today. He thinks he was done earlier than me because he is a Tory - but he is 2 years older than me. |
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Post by y_oh_y_delilah on Jan 29, 2021 21:54:06 GMT
View AttachmentI love the t-shirt with a picture of him in his honorary degree robes Dammit - we are the same age and he's beaten me. I'm expecting the summons next week. My neighbour was jabbed today. He thinks he was done earlier than me because he is a Tory - but he is 2 years older than me. Well John, I believe we’re about the same age, I’m a devout Tory and I had my jab one week ago today. Make of that what you will but obviously living in god’s country does have its advantages. |
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Post by Lakeland Potter on Jan 29, 2021 21:58:14 GMT
Dammit - we are the same age and he's beaten me. I'm expecting the summons next week. My neighbour was jabbed today. He thinks he was done earlier than me because he is a Tory - but he is 2 years older than me. Well John, I believe we’re about the same age, I’m a devout Tory and I had my jab one week ago today. Make of that what you will but obviously living in god’s country does have its advantages.  |
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Post by Malcolm Clarke on Jan 29, 2021 22:23:17 GMT
View AttachmentI love the t-shirt with a picture of him in his honorary degree robes Dammit - we are the same age and he's beaten me. I'm expecting the summons next week. My neighbour was jabbed today. He thinks he was done earlier than me because he is a Tory - but he is 2 years older than me. I've had mine too, John, and as you know myself and Nello are certainly not Tories  On that theme, as an aside, Priti Patel has achieved something which I didn't really think was possible. She is the only Keele graduate who Nello doesn't like  |
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Post by smallthorner on Jan 29, 2021 22:33:55 GMT
Dammit - we are the same age and he's beaten me. I'm expecting the summons next week. My neighbour was jabbed today. He thinks he was done earlier than me because he is a Tory - but he is 2 years older than me. I've had mine too, John, and as you know myself and Nello are certainly not Tories On that theme, as an aside, Priti Patel has achieved something which I didn't really think was possible. She is the only Keele graduate who Nello doesn't like I reckon we ought to have a NELLO STAND. What's not to like? |
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Post by crowey on Jan 29, 2021 22:35:30 GMT
Dammit - we are the same age and he's beaten me. I'm expecting the summons next week. My neighbour was jabbed today. He thinks he was done earlier than me because he is a Tory - but he is 2 years older than me. I've had mine too, John, and as you know myself and Nello are certainly not Tories On that theme, as an aside, Priti Patel has achieved something which I didn't really think was possible. She is the only Keele graduate who Nello doesn't like ..... must say I didn’t realise she went to Keele |
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Post by saturday on Jan 29, 2021 22:46:36 GMT
Oh wow!! That’s good
I wonder if Nello plays chess...I bet he does.
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Post by Lakeland Potter on Jan 30, 2021 8:21:28 GMT
Dammit - we are the same age and he's beaten me. I'm expecting the summons next week. My neighbour was jabbed today. He thinks he was done earlier than me because he is a Tory - but he is 2 years older than me. I've had mine too, John, and as you know myself and Nello are certainly not Tories On that theme, as an aside, Priti Patel has achieved something which I didn't really think was possible. She is the only Keele graduate who Nello doesn't like What they are doing up here, Malcolm, is working their way down the "cohorts" like everyone else. But, within each cohort, is a bias in favour of vaccinating those who live in the towns and larger villages first. I think this is sensible. Keswick, pretty though it is, has a population density much like most other towns in the country. My valley, on the other hand, is 4 miles long and has, at most, 100 adult residents - and during lockdown there are no self catering holiday makers who would double the population in normal times. And the cases and hospitalisations bear this out - I'd be much more likely to catch the virus if I lived in Keswick than living where I live - assuming I stick to the rules, which I do. |
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Post by ohbottom on Jan 30, 2021 8:34:05 GMT
At least now Bill Gates will know what he's up to!
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Post by davejohnno1 on Jan 30, 2021 8:50:12 GMT
How's he keeping Malcolm? Hope he's well? Nello looks like he's shed a few pounds.
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Post by Malcolm Clarke on Jan 30, 2021 9:05:12 GMT
I've had mine too, John, and as you know myself and Nello are certainly not Tories On that theme, as an aside, Priti Patel has achieved something which I didn't really think was possible. She is the only Keele graduate who Nello doesn't like ..... must say I didn’t realise she went to Keele I was told by a Keele insider that she has no interest in maintaining or even acknowledging her link with the University. If true, that's a bit sad, odd and interesting, since she went there a long time after it was known in my time and before as the "Kremlin on the hill", an alleged hotbed of left wing socialism which was remote from the local community (the latter point being more true than the former IMHO). She is one of 5 ex-Keele MPs (not currently) that I'm aware of. Three of them were contemporary with me, all of whom I knew as students (as did Nello of course), one from each of the major parties - Alun Michael, who was Labour Secretary of State for Wales, and later First Minister and now Police Commissioner; Don Foster, a good mate who became Liberal MP for Bath and got the Libs to be the first party support the return of standing at football grounds, now in the Lords; and Ian Taylor who became Tory MP for Esher. The fifth one is Paul Clark, some time after my time who became Labour MP Gillingham - and a "very good friend" of Nello's. There was also John, now Lord, Taylor who stood and lost in the very safe Tory seat at the time of Cheltenham, which was widely attributed to him being black, with the local Tory party members at the time allegedly being very unhappy at having a black candidate foisted upon them by Central Office. Hopefully that wouldn't happen now. He was rewarded with a peerage but sadly he was one of those convicted of fraud in the Parliamentary expenses scandal and went to prison. How did I get onto all that ? |
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Post by Malcolm Clarke on Jan 30, 2021 9:15:39 GMT
How's he keeping Malcolm? Hope he's well? Nello looks like he's shed a few pounds. Yes he has lost a bit of weight, Dave, which is no bad thing. He's fine. When all this started I was very worried for him because of course getting out and meeting people is what he's all about, but he has adapted remarkably well. He gets it, and has his support network. Blames Boris of course He rings me most days, and for some reason bollocks me when Stoke lose  as well of course as ringing all his other "very good friends" including Pete Bowker, who wrote Marvellous, Nick Gleaves, who played Rev Mark, and Rowan Williams, no less. He even got Adrian, Head of Community at Stoke City to come to his flat to pick up his xmas cards for all the players We are all keeping our fingers crossed that the stage play of Marvellous will be able to go ahead at the New Vic in the autumn, which can be a great feel good celebration of the end of all this awful business. |
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Post by scfc75 on Jan 30, 2021 9:18:37 GMT
That t-shirt is incredible. What a man.
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Post by sheikhmomo on Jan 30, 2021 9:19:27 GMT
View AttachmentI love the t-shirt with a picture of him in his honorary degree robes D My neighbour was jabbed today. He thinks he was done earlier than me because he is a Tory - Sounds like he should be injected with something else  |
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Post by skemstokie on Jan 30, 2021 9:56:25 GMT
Dammit - we are the same age and he's beaten me. I'm expecting the summons next week. My neighbour was jabbed today. He thinks he was done earlier than me because he is a Tory - but he is 2 years older than me. I've had mine too, John, and as you know myself and Nello are certainly not Tories On that theme, as an aside, Priti Patel has achieved something which I didn't really think was possible. She is the only Keele graduate who Nello doesn't like Nello has just gone even higher in my estimation  Had my jab yesterday with no side effects. |
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Post by davejohnno1 on Jan 30, 2021 12:57:24 GMT
How's he keeping Malcolm? Hope he's well? Nello looks like he's shed a few pounds. Yes he has lost a bit of weight, Dave, which is no bad thing. He's fine. When all this started I was very worried for him because of course getting out and meeting people is what he's all about, but he has adapted remarkably well. He gets it, and has his support network. Blames Boris of course He rings me most days, and for some reason bollocks me when Stoke lose as well of course as ringing all his other "very good friends" including Pete Bowker, who wrote Marvellous, Nick Gleaves, who played Rev Mark, and Rowan Williams, no less. He even got Adrian, Head of Community at Stoke City to come to his flat to pick up his xmas cards for all the players We are all keeping our fingers crossed that the stage play of Marvellous will be able to go ahead at the New Vic in the autumn, which can be a great feel good celebration of the end of all this awful business. Excellent. Please tell Nello I was asking about him and wish him well. Dave "Johnno" Johnstone (Keele University 1994 - 1998) |
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Post by Malcolm Clarke on Jan 30, 2021 14:29:26 GMT
Yes he has lost a bit of weight, Dave, which is no bad thing. He's fine. When all this started I was very worried for him because of course getting out and meeting people is what he's all about, but he has adapted remarkably well. He gets it, and has his support network. Blames Boris of course He rings me most days, and for some reason bollocks me when Stoke lose as well of course as ringing all his other "very good friends" including Pete Bowker, who wrote Marvellous, Nick Gleaves, who played Rev Mark, and Rowan Williams, no less. He even got Adrian, Head of Community at Stoke City to come to his flat to pick up his xmas cards for all the players We are all keeping our fingers crossed that the stage play of Marvellous will be able to go ahead at the New Vic in the autumn, which can be a great feel good celebration of the end of all this awful business. Excellent. Please tell Nello I was asking about him and wish him well. Dave "Johnno" Johnstone (Keele University 1994 - 1998) Have just done so, Dave. And guess what - Nello has instructed me to tell you to ring him - today if possible . I'll PM you the number |
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Post by madnellie on Jan 30, 2021 20:20:27 GMT
Yes he has lost a bit of weight, Dave, which is no bad thing. He's fine. When all this started I was very worried for him because of course getting out and meeting people is what he's all about, but he has adapted remarkably well. He gets it, and has his support network. Blames Boris of course He rings me most days, and for some reason bollocks me when Stoke lose as well of course as ringing all his other "very good friends" including Pete Bowker, who wrote Marvellous, Nick Gleaves, who played Rev Mark, and Rowan Williams, no less. He even got Adrian, Head of Community at Stoke City to come to his flat to pick up his xmas cards for all the players We are all keeping our fingers crossed that the stage play of Marvellous will be able to go ahead at the New Vic in the autumn, which can be a great feel good celebration of the end of all this awful business. Excellent. Please tell Nello I was asking about him and wish him well. Dave "Johnno" Johnstone (Keele University 1994 - 1998) We were just about there at the same time (97-01 for me). |
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Post by davejohnno1 on Jan 30, 2021 20:32:33 GMT
Excellent. Please tell Nello I was asking about him and wish him well. Dave "Johnno" Johnstone (Keele University 1994 - 1998) We were just about there at the same time (97-01 for me). You play in the university football team? I was actually working in 1998 but lived on campus with my girlfriend and mates who still had a year to go. Working and living like a student. I felt like a millionaire |
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Post by madnellie on Feb 4, 2021 14:38:07 GMT
We were just about there at the same time (97-01 for me). You play in the university football team? I was actually working in 1998 but lived on campus with my girlfriend and mates who still had a year to go. Working and living like a student. I felt like a millionaire Sadly not. Much to my disappointment, I have basically zero footballing ability. How about you? That must have been amazing! Especially with the prices of everything at the Union I was also living on campus in 1998 - O Block in Horwood (aka Suicide Tower LOL). |
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Post by Malcolm Clarke on Feb 4, 2021 17:01:14 GMT
You play in the university football team? I was actually working in 1998 but lived on campus with my girlfriend and mates who still had a year to go. Working and living like a student. I felt like a millionaire Sadly not. Much to my disappointment, I have basically zero footballing ability. How about you? That must have been amazing! Especially with the prices of everything at the Union I was also living on campus in 1998 - O Block in Horwood (aka Suicide Tower LOL). I remember 'O' block well from my time - 3 decades before you The only block on campus of more than 3 stories ( hence the reputation you mention). I might be wrong but I seem to remember from the last time I was there that it's now been demolished ? |
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Post by davejohnno1 on Feb 4, 2021 18:16:29 GMT
You play in the university football team? I was actually working in 1998 but lived on campus with my girlfriend and mates who still had a year to go. Working and living like a student. I felt like a millionaire Sadly not. Much to my disappointment, I have basically zero footballing ability. How about you? That must have been amazing! Especially with the prices of everything at the Union I was also living on campus in 1998 - O Block in Horwood (aka Suicide Tower LOL). Suicide block I lived in Lindsay, then offsite in Silverdale, then in my final year I moved up in the world and stayed in Holly Cross. Last year, I flitted between the big house (ex caretakers) on the site at the bottom of the campus (next to the pub in the village), and the first residence on the left as you went in through what was then the main entrance. I forget their name. One was Barnes and I can't remember the other or which was which. Funnily enough, I was in Horwood for the first 3 weeks at Uni but my mates were in Lindsay. I ended up swapping rooms with one of their neighbours in the end. I played in the football and tennis teams. I was 1st team captain in my second year. Played 3 years 1st team and then when I was a worker, I played 2nd team when I could play in midweek (Wednesday) and first team on a Saturday. Loved it. Great times. |
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Post by leicspotter on Feb 4, 2021 19:07:50 GMT
You play in the university football team? I was actually working in 1998 but lived on campus with my girlfriend and mates who still had a year to go. Working and living like a student. I felt like a millionaire Sadly not. Much to my disappointment, I have basically zero footballing ability. How about you? That must have been amazing! Especially with the prices of everything at the Union I was also living on campus in 1998 - O Block in Horwood (aka Suicide Tower LOL). Are you Sam Vokes?   |
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Post by Malcolm Clarke on Feb 4, 2021 23:21:09 GMT
Sadly not. Much to my disappointment, I have basically zero footballing ability. How about you? That must have been amazing! Especially with the prices of everything at the Union I was also living on campus in 1998 - O Block in Horwood (aka Suicide Tower LOL). Suicide block I lived in Lindsay, then offsite in Silverdale, then in my final year I moved up in the world and stayed in Holly Cross. Last year, I flitted between the big house (ex caretakers) on the site at the bottom of the campus (next to the pub in the village), and the first residence on the left as you went in through what was then the main entrance. I forget their name. One was Barnes and I can't remember the other or which was which. Funnily enough, I was in Horwood for the first 3 weeks at Uni but my mates were in Lindsay. I ended up swapping rooms with one of their neighbours in the end. I played in the football and tennis teams. I was 1st team captain in my second year. Played 3 years 1st team and then when I was a worker, I played 2nd team when I could play in midweek (Wednesday) and first team on a Saturday. Loved it. Great times. Which block in Lindsay, Dave ? I lived 1 year in 'A' block followed by 4 in 'B' block ( 4-year course for everyone in those days plus a sabbatical year as SU President). Be sort of bizarre if we had lived in the same room or something  Oh dear, this is getting a bit self-centred The village site was of course Hawthorns - all now demolished and replaced by housing  |
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Post by davejohnno1 on Feb 4, 2021 23:32:56 GMT
Suicide block I lived in Lindsay, then offsite in Silverdale, then in my final year I moved up in the world and stayed in Holly Cross. Last year, I flitted between the big house (ex caretakers) on the site at the bottom of the campus (next to the pub in the village), and the first residence on the left as you went in through what was then the main entrance. I forget their name. One was Barnes and I can't remember the other or which was which. Funnily enough, I was in Horwood for the first 3 weeks at Uni but my mates were in Lindsay. I ended up swapping rooms with one of their neighbours in the end. I played in the football and tennis teams. I was 1st team captain in my second year. Played 3 years 1st team and then when I was a worker, I played 2nd team when I could play in midweek (Wednesday) and first team on a Saturday. Loved it. Great times. Which block in Lindsay, Dave ? I lived 1 year in 'A' block followed by 4 in 'B' block ( 4-year course for everyone in those days plus a sabbatical year as SU President). Be sort of bizarre if we had lived in the same room or something Oh dear, this is getting a bit self-centred The village site was of course Hawthorns - all now demolished and replaced by housing Hawthorns. How could that possibly escape me? I had no idea its been demolished. The guy who owned the post office is a huge Stokie. My girlfriend used to think I'd gone missing on a sunday morning as my pop round to the shop ended up being hours long chats about the game the previous day. Lindsay L block for me. It was pretty grim if I'm honest, yet equally fantastic |
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Post by Malcolm Clarke on Feb 5, 2021 9:11:31 GMT
Which block in Lindsay, Dave ? I lived 1 year in 'A' block followed by 4 in 'B' block ( 4-year course for everyone in those days plus a sabbatical year as SU President). Be sort of bizarre if we had lived in the same room or something Oh dear, this is getting a bit self-centred The village site was of course Hawthorns - all now demolished and replaced by housing Hawthorns. How could that possibly escape me? I had no idea its been demolished. The guy who owned the post office is a huge Stokie. My girlfriend used to think I'd gone missing on a sunday morning as my pop round to the shop ended up being hours long chats about the game the previous day. Lindsay L block for me. It was pretty grim if I'm honest, yet equally fantastic Yes, Ken Wood. Good friend of mine too. The last time I saw him was visiting him in hospital but he sadly died. That was a few years ago. Nello and I went to his funeral. Before taking over the post office he had been the manager of the shop in the Students Union which in my day was owned and run by the Union. Long after my time, some new arrangement was brought in when they built the Union extension and moved the shop into it, and Ken wasn't part of the new managers plans, to use a football analogy. But I think he was very happy running the Village shop ( which also closed some years ago). His son, Tony, still goes to games and we always have a chat when we bump into each other at aways. Selling off the Hawthorns has only happened in the last few years. The University will have gained a large capital receipt for it, being a very attractive site for housing. It no doubt made financial sense to move everything on to the main campus, given the amount of land they have, and I would guess that the Hawthorns blocks were outdated and expensive to maintain, but with it went part of the old Keele's heritage and personality.  Random piece of information - throughout his time at Stoke, Tony Pulis lived in the management centre at the 'Thorns. I know someone who worked there. TP apparently used to sit for hours in the lounge on his phone, and the person I know used to try to get near enough to earwig his conversations so that he could become ITK on transfers etc But I don't think it ever really worked. |
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Post by davejohnno1 on Feb 5, 2021 12:20:13 GMT
Hawthorns. How could that possibly escape me? I had no idea its been demolished. The guy who owned the post office is a huge Stokie. My girlfriend used to think I'd gone missing on a sunday morning as my pop round to the shop ended up being hours long chats about the game the previous day. Lindsay L block for me. It was pretty grim if I'm honest, yet equally fantastic Yes, Ken Wood. Good friend of mine too. The last time I saw him was visiting him in hospital but he sadly died. That was a few years ago. Nello and I went to his funeral. Before taking over the post office he had been the manager of the shop in the Students Union which in my day was owned and run by the Union. Long after my time, some new arrangement was brought in when they built the Union extension and moved the shop into it, and Ken wasn't part of the new managers plans, to use a football analogy. But I think he was very happy running the Village shop ( which also closed some years ago). His son, Tony, still goes to games and we always have a chat when we bump into each other at aways. Selling off the Hawthorns has only happened in the last few years. The University will have gained a large capital receipt for it, being a very attractive site for housing. It no doubt made financial sense to move everything on to the main campus, given the amount of land they have, and I would guess that the Hawthorns blocks were outdated and expensive to maintain, but with it went part of the old Keele's heritage and personality. Random piece of information - throughout his time at Stoke, Tony Pulis lived in the management centre at the 'Thorns. I know someone who worked there. TP apparently used to sit for hours in the lounge on his phone, and the person I know used to try to get near enough to earwig his conversations so that he could become ITK on transfers etc But I don't think it ever really worked. I thought TP lived at Wychwood, or at least did so during our Premier League days when he "went up in the world financially". It was Tony I used to speak to (I'm not as old as you remember  . He used to help his parents out on a Sunday. I'm sure his mum was alive then as well. She was lovely lady. I give myself some credit for getting Tony back into being a regular at away games as I talked him into coming to a few with me at the end of my student days to share fuel costs then took him for nowt when I'd got a company car and felt like a millionaire working but still living student life with my mates and girlfriend . He got the bug back for away games and I see and speak to him regularly at away games (or used to pre-pandemic). |
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On that theme, as an aside, Priti Patel has achieved something which I didn't really think was possible. She is the only Keele graduate who Nello doesn't like 
as well of course as ringing all his other "very good friends" including Pete Bowker, who wrote Marvellous, Nick Gleaves, who played Rev Mark, and Rowan Williams, no less. He even got Adrian, Head of Community at Stoke City to come to his flat to pick up his xmas cards for all the players 
Had my jab yesterday with no side effects.
Oh dear, this is getting a bit self-centred 
. He used to help his parents out on a Sunday. I'm sure his mum was alive then as well. She was lovely lady. I give myself some credit for getting Tony back into being a regular at away games as I talked him into coming to a few with me at the end of my student days to share fuel costs then took him for nowt when I'd got a company car and felt like a millionaire working but still living student life with my mates and girlfriend 
