“Two heads are better than one only if they contain different opinions.” ~ Kenneth Kaye

27 November 1982 ► #Nottingham’s Royal Concert Hall opening concert took place with Elton John. #NottinghamHistory

Five out of six people agree that Russian roulette is safe.

There watching, their everywhere and it’s they’re job…

November 2015 ► #Nottingham's Boots UK and Dr Stewart Adams were presented with two blue plaques by the Royal Society in honour of the research by Dr Adams that led to the discovery of ibuprofen in the 1960s. #NottinghamHistory

We remember #Banx cartoons #RejoinEU

“Quiet! I think I heard something…”

24 November 1937 ► The James M. Barrie memorial tablet was placed on the old #Nottingham Journal office, Pelham Street, Nottingham. #NottinghamHistory

24 November 1781 ► Samuel Fox the #Nottingham philanthropist and abolitionist was born. Fox later supplied burials for cholera victims, food for people starving and helped start the first free school in Britain for poor adults in Nottingham. #NottinghamHistory

Friends are like penguins. If you push them hard enough they fall over.

Good grief; is this an instruction, advice or a warning? 😬

#Caturday reading

22 November 1946 ► #Nottingham Panthers professional ice hockey club played their first competitive game. #NottinghamHistory

Everything seemed to be coming my way today, but I was just in the wrong lane.

21 November 2011 ► #Nottingham brewer Castle Rock took the top prize at the Society of Independent Brewers Business Awards in London. #NottinghamHistory

21 November 1978 ► #Nottingham’s Viv Anderson became the first black football player to represent England at international level when he was picked to play against Czechoslovakia. #NottinghamHistory

21 November 1932 ► #Nottingham’s Western Boulevard opened, costing £250,000. #NottinghamHistory

21 November 1928 ► #Nottingham’s new Central 'Covered' Market was opened. The market was relocated to the new building on King Edward Street from the Market Square when the new Council House was being built and the Market Square was being redesigned with its 'slabs'. #NottinghamHistory

I intended making a John F Kennedy jelly mould today, but I didn’t want to set a president.

“To protect his identity…”

20 November 2009 ► The Cabinet of the United Kingdom met for the first time in the East Midlands at #Nottingham’s Albert Hall. #NottinghamHistory

20 November 1995 ► #Nottingham’s Robin Hood railway line was extended via Sutton Parkway and Mansfield to Mansfield Woodhouse. #NottinghamHistory

I would like to apologise for the national coin shortage. I’ve been watching the news and I had to start a swear jar…

Curse-ive

November 2006 ► #Nottingham University unveiled the largest magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner in the UK, using a 40-tonne 7T (seven tesla) magnet with a magnetic field 140,000 times that of the Earth's. #NottinghamHistory

When lifts/elevators are working correctly, half the time I feel let down.

Firstly, the taxes that we all pay should be spent on public services and infrastructure that benefits all of us, and not on subsidising corporations. Secondly, join me in calling on governments to #TaxTheSuperRich Please share and add your name: act.gp/42iAjSi

If I ever need a little entertainment, I load our dishwasher incorrectly and post a photo of it on social media.

No Max, I don’t know what I’m doing with my phone either…

18 November 1992 ► #Nottingham’s City Information Centre opened in new premises on Smithy Row. #NottinghamHistory

I stole a rabbit today. Then I had to make a run for it.

Old man birthday cat Max has been sleeping and shedding fur on the sofa today…

Our cat Max is 18 today; shown here today and alongside his birthday candle from his first birthday, 17 years ago. His expression is definitely more “why have you set fire to my food” than “thank you for my birthday candle.”

17 November 1981 ► #Nottingham’s Women's Hospital on Peel Street closed. #NottinghamHistory

New York, 1626…

That’s a big one. Went to find something to catch it in, but when I returned it had disappeared…

Have you tried… AI peas?

16 November 2010 ► #Nottingham City Council was named Transport Authority of the Year for the second time at the UK Bus Awards in London. #NottinghamHistory

“Please read this entire label before use.” That was the header on a huge bottle of indigestion medication, covered in reams of minute text; good grief, if I didn’t have indigestion before, I soon will have…

Huh? Oh, yeah. Sure.

A Maine Coon kitten for #Caturday

November 1973 ► A Zone and Collar traffic control scheme was proposed for #Nottingham, to reduce the amount of traffic entering the city centre and to improve bus services, in an attempt to deal with the rapidly increasing number of cars in the city. #NottinghamHistory

I saw a cat meme earlier, it said the reason a cat wants you to open a door, but then doesn’t go through it, is that it actually wants YOU to go out… That’s probably accurate; Max often sits and stares at me, and I suspect his reason is that he just wants me to move, so he can have the whole sofa.

14 November 2009 ► #Nottingham Contemporary, one of the largest contemporary art spaces in the UK, opened with an exhibition of works by David Hockney and Frances Stark. #NottinghamHistory

Give a hungry man a science textbook and he will eat Faraday.

#NigelFarage now claims that businesses are drowning in red tape…

#Trump’s own Truth Social AI tool is calling BS on his claims about tariffs, Jan 6 and bid for Nobel Prize. The tool disputes many of the president’s wildest claims… ►

The further a society drifts from the truth…

November 1948 ► #Nottingham Playhouse, one of the country’s leading producing theatres, was founded in an old cinema on Goldsmith Street. #NottinghamHistory

Angus has a new nickname…