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Peas puddin 'ot, Peas puddin cold Peas puddin the the pot Nine days old. Read somewhere aeons ago that peas were the staple food for most of the UK poor in past centuries. That's before 'taters was discovered, and when venison was rarely on the menu unless it was road kill?

Audacity 2.0.5 is available for free download. http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/

The USB pre-amp that I use is an XP203. Don't know if they are still available. Bought mine probably about six years ago. Also use a Hi-fi headset plugged into the computer to monitor the sound when manipulating it. The Audacity software enables me to remove individual clicks without affecting the surrounding sound. This I found preferable to using a filter on the whole track.

I have a USB pre-amp that the specs show to have a flat frequency response over the whole of the audio range, coupled to a belt driven Sony turntable. Then use a couple of freebie progs to manipulate the captured input - Audacity and DC-Art32. What goes onto the CD's I burn is very much determined by myself. I leave some clicks, etc., in as to remove them also removes some elements of the original sound. Whilst out driving recently a friend asked if I had a turntable in the boot. By far the biggest plus is being able to play my old vinyls with minimal hassle. Previously they had just stood

Whilst I had rels who had been miners, nevertheless I concur with everything written here, copied from Wiki. And I post this in his honour.

Thanks for the map. Clif Ton. it's brill. It has brought back some memories, and questions. The green line was where the sewers ran, and above it the outside loos. They alternated between the Summers St house loo and the Queens Drive house loo. The houses on Queens Drive were significantly better and bigger than those on Summers St, yet they also had outside loos? I supposed dependant upon when they were built as to whether houses would have had outside or inside loos. So when would these have been built approx? Anyone know? PS I lived where the red arrow is pointing.

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I would request that the moderators remove #8. To mention a terrorist in the same vein is abhorrent. So Stan are you proposing a state funeral for Bin Laden, or the guys who killed Drummer Rigby when they die

There was laneway/alley on the right just passed the bridge on Waterway St, that ran up almost parallel to Summers St, then turning into Summers St. If I recollect correctly there were lockups along it, but they may have been attached to the backs of houses.

There was a TV/Radio shop on Arkwright St next door to the chippy at the top of Summers St. I think it was called Hames. We bought our first telly there. Remember my Grans telly, it had an awfully small screen with a big magnifying glass in front. There was grocers shop down near the bridge called "Meadows". I think they were part of a chain. Had an Aunt who worked there. They used to sell broken biscuits to us kids for a fraction of the price of unbroken ones. So who remembers buying half a pound of broken biscuits, please Miss?

Not so sure about nowadays with the stuff they feed chickens, but back then chicken liver, kidneys and necks were yummy. Never a big fan of tripe but even now love my liver and bacon in onion gravy (lambs liver preferably). Still buy chicken necks to cook slowly. Never eat chicken breasts - tasteless, need all sorts of gooey sauces to make them edible. Meat on the bone always has more flavour.

I think we used to get chicken giblets that didn't require a ration coupon, and were very cheap - big bag for a shilling. Chicken necks, livers, kidneys, stomachs, etc. The stomachs had to be skinned - remove inner layer. Chicken necks, when cooked slowly for a long time, were such that the bones were soft enough to crunch, so the whole neck was eaten. Giblet stew with lots of vegies was magic. Mix also included the Pope's nose. The sticky out bit above it's bottom. Whilst it was mainly fat it added to the overall flavour. PS. For us kids absolute heaven was giblet stew with suet dumplings, a

Here's a topic to exercise some older grey cells. Rationing. My Mum still used the phrase "going for the rations" ie. food shopping, right up untl she passed away in the late eighties, even though she had lived in Australia for thirty five years. I remember being sent to the butchers, ration book in hand, to get some sausages. If I remember correctly each family would have to collect their ration book from the Post Office at monthly? intervals, and a grocer would tear out dockets for the goods they had supplied. But memories are getting very hazy. Anyone able to add their memories of rationin

Just chatting to my niece on the phone, and she commented that she had to go food shopping. I replied "going for your rations", and she replied my Mum always used to say she was going for the rations, right up to the late 1980's when she passed away. People over there still go for their rations?

Perhaps they can program them to do a Father Christmas bit, and drop your parcels down your chimney. Now that would be a giggle.

Zyma were the previous host provider, not the current one. The reason why it used to crop up was that the "server error 500" error message was one of theirs. I did a cheap and cheerful tweak to the code to remove the reference to them.

The advantage of copying LP's to CD's is that I can play them in the car. Plus I can make up my own playlists, for instance taking four or five original Bob Dylan LP's, picking out the tracks I particularly like, then building a single CD with them in the order I prefer. Done the same with Peter, Paul & Mary, and Joan Baez. Funny thing is I can still remember most of the words, so get to sing along when alone in the car.

As I said previously: Still got problems though. Every alternate access brings up error messages on my website diagnostics system.

Thought it might be worthwhile resurrecting this thread rather than start a new one. Happy to "trade" any of my home/studio burnt CD's of the Watersons, Bob Davenport, Ian Campbell Folk, High Level Ranters, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, the Weavers, "Peter Paul and Mary", Julie Felix, etc., etc. for any of Ewan McColl's early works. Hugs Alison

Don't profess to have any particular knowledge of IBoard forum software, but have run stacks of other webserver sofware - Joomla, Mambo, Wordpress, Drupal, SMF, etc.etc. etc. and definitely know my way around Apache, PHP and MySQL. There should be a pile of server setup parameters within IPBoard. Parameters relating to caching, java and page compression, stay-alive entry points, etc. Plus PHP allocated memory, whether memchache is enabled, etc. Having SSH - secure shell access isn't that important. It just means you can run CLI progs, like updates. For instance Drupal has Drush, which has num

Mick, 84 spambots in 24 hrs amounts to 1 every 1,000 seconds. Given that a properly setup commercial server can handle hundreds of such requests a second, one every one thousands seconds is nothing. You really need to look elsewhere. When my server was the subject of a DDOS - Distributed Denial of Service, attack I was getting 20 hits per seconds.So yes that killed my machine for the duration of the attack, but it still responded to each one.

Sounds about right. I was working for them ten years before they appeared in your directory Bubblewrap. Used to deliver all around the very swishy Park Estate. Saturday mornings used to collect their paper money. Had a little cash book with a page for each customer. The tips at Christmas were well worth having. Don't know if it's still the same, but then Sunday papers included numerous supplements, and each paper was the thickness of a dozen weekday papers. The shop owner would drive around refilling our bicycle panniers at certain pre-determined places as we couldn't carry a full round of

Slight digression. Tuning the klystron in a Vulcan doppler radar we had a special long (12in) copper bladed screwdriver. The copper being non-ferous was not attracted to the magnetron. If we inadvertently used a normal screwdriver, then as one gingerly probed down into the guts of the radar, it would suddenly shoot sideways on to the 8KV magnetron power supply, and the person would find themselves on the other side of the room. Still have a scar on my right arm to show that I once used the wrong screwdriver. Getting at least one EHT zap was almost a rite of passage to becoming an RAF trained a

Used to deliver papers for the newsagent shown here. That would have been around late 1953 to early '57. Weren't supposed to be able to work under eleven years old, but like many I lied about my age. I was still nine when I started, but we needed the money. Do-gooders talk about child labour in the under-developed world. What hypocrisy, it was common in my lifetime in England.

Happy Thanksgiving - although the joke in Notts is that Thanksgiving is September 6, which is the date the pilgrim fathers left! There should be a place called Scrooby in the US, in New England? Scrooby in north Nottinghamshire is where the Pilgrim fathers originally came from. It would seem that at least two of them were educated at King Edward 6th Grammar School in Retford: