Recent content by Rob

Recently I noticed that my hard drive had inexplicably gone into the 'red' although I could not understand why as I should have had at least 100 Mbytes free space. On investigating, mainly by trial and error, I found that Windows Media Player was making thumbnails of all my JPGs, a lot of which...

Everything you need to know about Quantum Electrodynamics. QED ...

I didn't have a car until the mid 70s as I always had motorcycles. When finally forced to give up riding (by an ex-girlfriend) and not having passed my car test, I bought one of these which, being a three wheeler, you could drive on a motorcycle licence. 700cc and a glassfibre body meant it went...

Er ... no, although they DID find out about the time when I got stuck halfway up a cliff at Berry Head quarry near Brixham and had to be roped up to the top by the coast guard.

When I was about 10/11 I was living in Torquay, a large seaside town on the south coast of Devon. In the summer you could hire small motor boats from the harbour for two shillings and sixpence per hour. You were only supposed to use them in the confines of the inner and outer harbours but me...

I don't know about other parts of the world, but here in the UK one of the delights of getting up early at this time of the year is 'The Dawn Chorus'. We haven't got many spectacular looking birds but what they lack in looks they more than make up for in their song. This morning I heard the...

The first 45 record I ever bought was this one. I think it cost 6s/8d in 1964 (or 3 for a quid) The first LP I bought was this. Costing, I think, 19s/6d in 1966 I've still got the LP but not the single.

For Christmas I always had one of these in my Christmas stocking ... Some of these for Easter, they're still around now ... And this on bonfire night ... I've not seen it around for a long time but there was something called Kali (pron. kaylie) which was like sherbet but coarser and...

My first camera ... First record player (note the autochange) ... First recording device ... First family vehicle ... First family car ...

Thanks for that Phil.

Nice one Ken. I thought this thread had died a death.

Get yourself one of these. I remember them being available in the UK when I was a kid. They were also advertised on the back of 'American' comics such as DC along with all sorts of other things, most of which were useless ...

Named after the Rev William Spooner of New College, Oxford, who was prone to mixing up parts of words with, sometimes, hilarious results. Probably his most famous 'slip of the tongue', when asked to toast the Queen (Victoria) came out with, "Three cheers for the queer old dean" Any examples...