philmayfield
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Thanks! But it’s not me anyway.
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...............and we all wear Chairman Mao unisex suits!
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I remember when £20 a week, £1,000 a year was something to aim for. When you earned that you had 'arrived'!
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Well I still can’t abide Vera Lynn and Gracie Fields!
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All modern, so called ‘popular’ music is rubbish. There’s no memorable melody and the words are repetitious. Of course our parents used to say that pop music of that era was rubbish back in the 50’s. Plus ca change!
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I used to travel a lot on business in Europe during the Thatcher years. So many times I was told by the Europeans 'I wish we'd got a Mrs Thatcher!'
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Closing public toilets in a city centre was a stupid thing to do. Then they wonder why people pee in the street!
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........... and nobody understood a word he said!
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It's not lost any of its accuracy over the years then. It's a British Thornton which I bought in the basement of Boots on High St. in around 1967. It sits in my study on top of my traditional chemical laboratory glass-cased beam balance which I still use sometimes.
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I forgot to mention the slide rule for solving complex multiplications and divisions. I've just found mine whilst searching for my log tables. I used to be a dab hand on the slide rule. The only problem was knowing where to put the decimal point in the answer!
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Log tables were useful at the time because there was no other easy way of doing complex multiplication and division. I still have a set somewhere. There were superseded by electronic calculators. Even the early versions of those took up a lot of desk space. I remember Ray Leatherland of Leatherland Office Equipment was a whizz at repairing those and he was round at our office quite regularly fixing faults. When Clive Sinclair first brought out the pocket calculator with the red led display we never looked back from there and now we can do the most complex scientific calculations on our smart ‘phones. Like you, l have never come across a quadratic equation in real life. I suppose the idea was to train the brain but for what I’m not sure.
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I used to buy pure industrial meths as a solvent for printing inks. I had to have a licence to store it from Customs and Excise. I've never tasted it!
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The Sagar used to be very good but haven’t been for about 15 years. Different management now probably.
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God, what a way to start the day. It can only get better!
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I’m just as cautious as ever. Keeping 2M way from the few people I see and not leaving my immediate area unless absolutely necessary. I don’t think we’re out of this by a long way yet even though many people are starting to get less careful. I’m lucky in that I live in the country and have got loads of space. I wouldn’t care to be living in a high rise flat in a city.
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They insert a surgical mesh. You can usually observe the operation on YouTube if you can bring yourself to watch. I viewed my hip operation but only afterwards. It was fascinating!
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It’s called a truss Loppy!
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Not me but my late father. It’s a very straightforward operation these days and recovery takes about two weeks. No heavy lifting for six weeks.
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Yes, there’s nothing worse than to keep driving to the grass heap to empty the bag. This is a Toro zero turn so it turns on a sixpence. It’s cut my grass cutting time by more than half and leaving the mulched grass on the lawn has no adverse effect; in fact it’s never looked so good - until now that is; the dry spell has turned everything brown but the recent rain has encouraged some green shoots once again.
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Mines not here until next month. It’s coming from your side of the pond! No rush though. It’s for a spare machine I didn’t get rid of when I bought my last machine some 4 years ago. This one picks up and the other one mulches which I much prefer.
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No, I simply love Amazon. Last month I've bought a plethora of items ranging from a 4 stroke wheeled strimmer to 10 pairs of boxer shorts. The only items outstanding are an oil filter for a lawn tractor and a garden potting bench. It's always exciting to see the van come up the drive. Amazon drivers and the postman are the only real people I see these days!
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I have a large ginger tom sitting on my Times Jumbo crossword but I’m doing my best to work round him and he is helping me with the clues telepathically. The others are helping their human mummy with the gardening!
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Apart from getting petrol for the horticultural machinery I never go out these days. We’re pretty well self contained with supermarket deliveries and the odd visit by my wife to the farm shop where they limit the customers on the premises and make them use a hand rub. Our daughter usually visits on a Saturday with some treats from Newark Waitrose. What has increased is the number of deliveries from Amazon, almost every day. I doubt I will ever go into a shop again now I’ve joined Prime and get next day deliveries. We have a large garden and a meadow so there is always something of interest to catch up with. Strangely enough I’ve not missed seeing people although I do chat on the phone to close friends. Sadly the rain has turned the grass from brown to green so I shall have to start mowing again.
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It's always been difficult to get good employees no matter what level they are. Many people just want a job that pays OK rather than a career.
Nottingham Scouting 1942 onwards
in pre 50's Nottingham
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There’s racism in all races. They all have a pecking order. Look at the caste system in India as an example. Even in the U.K. we still have the upper, middle and lower class system. The current displays are just an excuse for the rabble to go on the rampage as they have had little else to do whilst in lockdown.