Don't miss a trickle!

Ey up my little tricklers!

So far, so good I hope as far as the trickle goes.

As for a time line of trickles, I will be issuing a new trickle every week. Any more and you'd be saturated. So that's final...

All the best things are weekly anyway. Heat magazine, Question Time, Euromillions and Friday nights. With Neighbours (despite it's controversial new advert breaks), Jo Whiley and St Patrick's Day the only exceptions to this weekly mantra.

So a lot has happened around and about since the last trickle.

What about the Nottinghamshire man with his chicken-dung booby-trap? Sick of continually being broken into Joe Weston-Webb set up a catapult loaded with chicken muck ready to splatter the attacker. Joe's theory: He could sniff out the culprit! Surely this is the plot of the next Home Alone film? Macaulay Culkin would have loved that. Who's got a catapult handy in the garage though? Oh yes, that's right... just behind the bikes, in front of the freezer... Don't trip on the tool bag on your way...

Nottingham's Lace Centre shut its doors for the final time. One of the only remaining medieval buildings in the city, the Lace Centre's Severns Building stands below the Castle, with Robin Hood guarding it from across the street. I'll tell you this for nothing, he wants to get a new job.

The Lace Centre has said that lace making will never flourish again in the area. The skills will be lost and Nottingham will no longer be the lace city. So if we're not the lace city, we're not the Robin Hood city since the Tales of Robin Hood was allowed to go under... what kind of city are we? The Gun Crime city? I'm sure the tourists will be flocking.

Thank Goodness for Goose Fair because that's all we have going for us now. Please don't take our helter skelter... I just wouldn't recover.

Finally, a tribute to all those people who lost their lives in the Hillsborough Disaster in 1989. This week was the twentieth anniversary of the disaster in which 96 Liverpool football fans lost their lives when too many people were let into the FA Cup semi-final against Nottingham Forest.

To spare a thought for all those who were there, Forest fans and Liverpool fans alike and hope the football fraternity will never make those mistakes again.

Til the next trickle amigos...