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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.Comment
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I was long out of it by the 80s.Originally posted by vetran View Postfixing tellies? I was an apprentice tv service engineer on £1300 in the eighties.
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.
Still as dull as a dull thing here.Originally posted by NickFitz View PostNice afternoon out there if you like that kind of thing
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.Comment
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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.Comment
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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 anymoreComment
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have you told your missus you have put a couple of fertile birds up in their own little des res?Originally posted by WTFH View PostSo, 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.Comment
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Originally posted by WTFH View PostSo, 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?Comment
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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)Comment
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He'd probably be quite cross.Originally posted by xoggoth View PostPS Don't tell my cross trainer I called him boring, he'd be upset.
Now watching The Sewermen.When the fun stops, STOP.Comment
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