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    Originally posted by DoctorStrangelove View Post
    Doesn't sound nearly as exciting as Cwmbran.


    Following the afternoon's cleaning of the springs, a ferret about in the freezer has revealed a pack of M&S frozen peas BBE Oct 2012.

    There's an icecream carton of green gooseberries dated 2010.

    Somewhat knackered now.

    In 1974 I was on £1500/pa fixing tellies, the academic career being rather less than glowing.
    fixing tellies? I was an apprentice tv service engineer on £1300 in the eighties.
    Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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      Trundling done as I forgot about the experiment in training the neighbours

      Nice afternoon out there if you like that kind of thing

      Bit of a queue for Iceland up the side road (maybe five people) so I didn’t bother popping in.

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        Originally posted by vetran View Post
        fixing tellies? I was an apprentice tv service engineer on £1300 in the eighties.
        I was long out of it by the 80s.

        Tellies didn't have valves anymore.

        Plus working inside in a 3M factory making tape was rather better paid, and gave day release for HNC.

        After which came CEI Part II and Siliconix for nearly 10 years.

        Alongside the aforementioned programming guide to the Loughborough University Modular One Computer, I found the exam questions.

        Not the foggiest idea about any of it, which summed up pretty well my response at the time.

        Degrees back then were rather less dumbed down than they are now.

        Originally posted by NickFitz View Post
        Nice afternoon out there if you like that kind of thing
        Still as dull as a dull thing here.

        White sky, sunless, though quite warm and humid.


        Tea: chilli con carne with rice, custard (boiled over to my eternal joy) and orange segments, 0.91 pints of good Glengettie tea.

        Entertainment: TBD, then Sewermen at 21:00, Moon thing on BBC4 at 22:00.

        I may try having a bath later to see if it stops my back itching so much.

        That'll be the first one for several years, a cold shower being rather more usual.
        Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; 21 May 2020, 17:04.
        When the fun stops, STOP.

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          In November 1995 I got my first proper job, after a summer of fleecing tourists. I was a junior accounts assistant on £10k a year.

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            So, to celebrate my endowment coming in, I’ve just bought another house* in Surrey.






            *Note: It is a chicken house, suitable for 8 chickens, or in our case, 2 guineafowl.
            …Maybe we ain’t that young anymore

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              Originally posted by WTFH View Post
              So, to celebrate my endowment coming in, I’ve just bought another house* in Surrey.






              *Note: It is a chicken house, suitable for 8 chickens, or in our case, 2 guineafowl.
              have you told your missus you have put a couple of fertile birds up in their own little des res?
              Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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                Originally posted by WTFH View Post
                So, to celebrate my endowment coming in, I’ve just bought another house* in Surrey.






                *Note: It is a chicken house, suitable for 8 chickens, or in our case, 2 guineafowl.


                Does a guineafowl need more space than a chicken? Or are you planning on increasing the guineafowl headcount?

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                  It’s clouded over rather now; not in a rainy way, just the way it does after it’s been sunny for a while

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                    Been doing my loony dancing out in the street to music played for that clap for the NHS thing. Won't have to go on the boring cross-trainer tonight.

                    Bit earlier hung a mesh thing in front of my office window to stop any more little birdies crashing into it. Usually I hang some old Christmas decorations which look a lot nicer but couldn't find them.

                    PS Don't tell my cross trainer I called him boring, he'd be upset.
                    bloggoth

                    If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'
                    John Wayne (My guru, not to be confused with my beloved prophet Jeremy Clarkson)

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                      Originally posted by xoggoth View Post
                      PS Don't tell my cross trainer I called him boring, he'd be upset.
                      He'd probably be quite cross.


                      Now watching The Sewermen.
                      When the fun stops, STOP.

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