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Happy ending of ripping yarn
MENTION of Paulden's department store in the Diary the other week – a new book is being compiled on city shopping in the Seventies – brought this tale from Richard Sheldon.
In September 1970 he started work as a trainee department manager there..
He noticed the female assistants kept their till keys on elastic attached to their waists and thought he would go one better with string.
He says: "I forgot to take out my key and walked away, leaving most of my ripped trouser leg hanging from the till. I ended up getting one of the girls in the alterations room to stitch me back together. I couldn't have looked too bad as we ended up dating."
Today Richard has his own store, Country Pine at Worksop.
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Mystery of plant is cleared up
THANKS to all who took the trouble to tell the Diary its "mystery plant" was a yucca.
This page ought to get out more.
"You can see them all over Sheffield," says Sheila Law, who has them. She says they take six years to flower.
A Mrs Hole is even more specific, calling it a yucca philimentosa.
However Jeff Gibson calls it a yucca whipplei.
Whatever it is, it's a yucca and the Diary would have known if only it could spell yucca correctly, not with a double k. It turns out, after inserting the correctly spelled name into The Star's electronic library, that it was a gift from pensioner Frank Allen in 2001 who at that time had 15 in his garden.
So the Diary's yucca took eight years to flower.
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