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Well my mojo has been in hibernation for many months but woke up a few weeks back resulting in me giving the layout a thorough clean and minor alterations to the station platform - originally it had more people which was annoying me. I purchased an Accurascale Siphon and to round things off a new loco just outshopped from Swindon appeared at Danemouth hauling a Siphon and carriage detached from an express at "The Junction". Oh look it's 7812 Earlstoke Manor 😁 Cheers, Dave
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I had a major turnout of all sorts of computer junk a few years ago. Nowadays when we have finished with a desktop/laptop it gets to run Darik's Boot and Nuke to ensure it's properly wiped, the screen is modified with a heavy hammer and out it goes! Incidentally when I started work at Wales Gas Board their recently installed computer was a Burroughs B283 with a whopping 9.6k of memory, 4 magnetic tape drives but no disk. I am writing this on a laptop with 16gb of RAM and 1.5tb of disk - how things have changed over the past 58 years! Dave
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Reminds me of a scene in Throughly Modern Millie where Julie Andrews does a tapdance to get the lift to go 😁 Dave
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All this talk of Spam reminds me of my retirement ten years ago. I was Information Security Manager at a small bank and my duties included the management of the spam filters on the email gateway. My boss added a tin of said meat product to my leaving present - I ate it the following week in my luchtime snack - our main meal is at teatime. I don't recall ever having spam fritters. Dave
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Funny you should mention that film - 'er indoors and younger daughter are watching it at this very moment. I am in adjacent room enjoying classical music and RMWeb 😁 Dave
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All this talk of office software and nobody has mentioned Wordstar running on DOS or CDOS - it disappeared when Windows became in fashion. And lets not forget Lotus 123, DbaseIII and Freelance Graphics 😁 Dave
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Brian, Had several caravan holidays there as a boy at the back end of the 1950s. In those days there were no raiings! Cheers, Dave
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or even Cardiff Trams Dave
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How about Cardiff Trolleybusses? Dave
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Reading the stories of inconsiderate parking I was reminded of a story told me by a former colleague many years ago. It seems that a group of bikers visited Barry Island, parked outside a night club and proceeded to to cause mayhem within. Now it appears this club was owned by a couple of brothers who were the type you would not cross. The Constabulary were called and took the offenders to the nick leaving the bikes unattended on Barry Island. Unfortunately during the night a large heavy lorry, never identified, ran over the bikes causing considerable damage to them. I suspect bikers gave that club a wide berth thereafter! Dave
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In the real world I cannot ever recall...
Danemouth replied to AY Mod's topic in Modelling musings & miscellany
Phillip, I can remember another one in Cardiff on the corner of Greenway Road and Rhyl Road in Rumney - only ever saw the amber light flashing on one occasion 😀 Dave -
I too have a childs identity card from that era - @martin_wynne has blanked out the bit with his name, address etc. These cards did not have a photo. Dave
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Our Pharmacy (an independent) is directly opposite the surgery with an undertaker next door to it! Dave
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and buqqered an unscheduled Sunday afternon nap 😒 Dave
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Pentax - my first serious camera in 1972 was a Pentax SP500 followed by a Spotmatic F. When their lens mount changed from screw to bayonet I changed to Nikon (1977) and stayed there. There followed a pair of FEs, F3s F100, D70, D600 and now a Z6. This has worked well for me, auutofocus came just as my sight was aging, digital replacing film made it much easier when lecturing in camera clubs and the Z6 a comparatively lightweight mirrorless camera in my early 70s when a smaller lighter body was appreciated. I now carry the Z6 with just two lenses - 14-30 mm and 24-200mm I haven't kept any old gear but my advice is to buy the camera and enjoy admiring it. Dave
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Full story here https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11960491/Moment-two-blundering-men-filmed-trying-tow-caravan-using-mobility-scooter.html
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Confessions of a Canton goods guard
Danemouth replied to The Johnster's topic in UK Prototype Discussions (not questions!)
Wasn't it "Grab a Grannie" night on Mondays at the Rank? -
Confessions of a Canton goods guard
Danemouth replied to The Johnster's topic in UK Prototype Discussions (not questions!)
You could ask for "Half of Dark and a Clarks Pie" Dave -
PB, I've followed the ongoing saga of the H/S/L refurbishment - all I can say is "Thank goodness I can afford to pay someone to do it for me". I remember the words of my late father many years ago - when I told him I was papering the lounge he said "My decorating days are thank God" - he was in his 70's (as I am now) and was absolutely correct! Dave