Pick Six

from LeftLion August 2023 Issue 162

BEST OF THE MONTH

Notts Spot Broadway. Great films, great food. Good date spot. Good coffee spot. Always gets the sun. You heard it here first - it doesn't miss.

With the new football season starting this month, we asked Art of Football’s Lead of Women's Football Grace Quinn to recommend six things she loves…

Song

Be Safe by The Cribs. This is definitely on my eight desert island discs playlist. It suits every emotion: happy, sad, angry, you name it. I actually found it when I was like sixteen and thought I was really cool, so it's a bit nostalgic for me. Plus The Cribs are from Wakefield, like me, so there's an element of Yorkshire pride there. Perfect song in my opinion.

Holiday destination

Cala D'Or in Spain. I went last summer with my family and it's such a nice village, right next to a beach and so quiet to just go and relax. I genuinely don't feel like I've ever been so relaxed. There's white villas and purple flowers everywhere and when I feel a bit of burnout coming along it's probably the only place I want to be. Sat in the sun, sipping pina colada, probably listening to Harry Styles. That's me sorted.

Book Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton, hands down. If ever I want advice, need grounding a bit, or just want to feel like I've got a sister in the room with me, the focus on female friendship in this book is unmatched. Genuinely a life changing book and something I hope to always read over and over and over. I'm obsessed with Dolly Alderton, so my obsession with this book doesn't come as too much of a surprise.

Film

Bridget Jones's Diary. I'm very much a romcom girly so it is a toss up between this and Love Actually, but I think if it came down to it nothing quite compares to singing along to All By Myself with a massive glass of wine on the sofa. It's the definition of just girly things, and encompasses a lot of the feelings and experiences I have as a young, single, woman with a close group of girls and a daily existential crisis. Absolute classic.

Meal words: Dani Bacon

This has been a hard one to pick, however I reckon probably a poke bowl with yuzu salmon, miso tofu, sticky rice, all the pickled veg, mango and pineapple salad, kimchi, edamame beans, and a really citrusy sauce WITH veggie gyoza on the size and pickled ginger. Probably with an Asahi too and definitely sat in the sun (around 4pm?). It's fresh, it’s got about a million different flavours, and just makes you feel like you're living your best life on holiday.

Spotted Ilkeston Town

Person 1: Looking for somewhere nice local (ish) to meet a friend for a coffee but will need to be open after 3pm

Person 2: Just get a bottle of white lightning and sit on market place benches

Sherwood Sounds

It is delightful, that, regardless of the fact I do not watch the sports ball, I do not care about the sports ball, and I do not have the TV or radio on, I can STILL hear the Match of the Day theme song as it is blasted out from the ice cream van touring the neighbourhood.

Strelley, Beechdale, Bilborough, Aspley and Broxtowe Community group

Nottm

Has anyone got any old cds they don't need. I don't need them for listening to...only to make a pigeon scarer

Spotted Ilkeston Town

Person 1: Just to let people know there’s a cow escaped onto pioneer nature reserve in kirkhallam, it sounds stressed because it’s lost but not sure who to call Person 2: We tried to approach it but it ran the udder way.

Person 3: Tell it to MOOOOVE over, sorry

Sneinton

Hey Sneinton, Me again. its ok i don't Bite i jus do what is right.

Sherwood in Nottingham Community Group

Anywhere in sherwood I can get a ring cut off of my finger? Tried icing it, string trick etc and no luck so I think cutting it off is my only option.

Spotted:Radcliffe

Person 1: So, is it just me or have we had a time warp back to the april rain season ?