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Every time I decorate, I have to repair damage caused by 'overdoor hooks' that the family use. They are now banned in my house!
They are truly awful, they only work with badly fitted doors.
I reckon the interior doors here are over seventy years old.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
I have a door that is 117 years old. It is by far the finest door in the house.Quote:
Originally Posted by walpurgis
Bought myself this camera last night. Looks in great condition.
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Olympus SP-590 UZ. It will hopefully replace the older SP-550 UZ that I already own and is a very good 'all rounder'.
The bump up in resolution from 7.1mp to 12.0mp should be handy, although the images from the SP-550UZ are very good.
Something will have to be sold now. Seven digital cameras are too many! :)
No doubt. They don't make 'em like they used to! You've seen these before, and they're over 130 years old. The original stained glass Victorian doors in our kitchen and bathroom:Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
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Marco.
I've just sat through an episode of 'Sixty Minute Makeover'.
The "before" shot of the living room showed it to be ok, perhaps a little dated, and included some floorstanders and some surround speakers. The system itself wasn't in the shot.
In the "after" shot all the speakers had been removed, leaving only the telly. And the stuff didn't seem to be in any of the other rooms. How is that an improvement? If it were my house and I came home to that, I'd be using my size 10's to help Teri and her paint-monkeys to find the door.
At least they left the telly.
Well it arrived this morning. Seems in nice condition.Quote:
Originally Posted by walpurgis
Took this shot at about fifty yards on full tele zoom:
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And one of the pooch at about ten feet:
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They look decent enough. :)
pretty good geoff.
Yeah. I'll have to go in the menu and sort the metering. It seems to be using some kind of zone metering at the moment, with the zone indicator hopping about in the display. I like spot metering.
depends on what you like. i quite like zone at times as you often get a slightly softer pic akin to using a filter
Good shot of the dog.
He looks as intelligent as he is. Very. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
I've just been informed by my telly that the Furniture Village Sale ends this Sunday. Better hurry! I'm not sure whether my sofa will last until the next sale.
I'll wait until the next advert break to find out when the next one starts.
When I used to use film cameras, none of them had through the lens metering. I would either guess the exposure or take a reflected light reading with an exposure meter. Then the great majority of my photography was travel related. I would take a reading at the beginning and was amused to note that it wouldn't change over the duration of my visit. Using Kodachrome 64 slide film, 95% of the exposures were 1/125s at f/11.Quote:
Originally Posted by walpurgis
Just noticed the odometer of my car has passed 100,000 miles. Damn - I knew it was coming up, but wanted to experience seeing it trip over from 99,999 to 100,000!
Time to buy to buy yourself that new Jaguar? ;)
Marco.
Mrs. Pony has gone out for the night, and I've just realised I've been on this forum since 5pm! Time for some Chemical Brothers 'Born in the Echoes'. Brought on by the new O2 'Follow The Rabbit' ad.
The weekend has landed!
As children me and my brothers always liked to witness each 10000 miles rolling over. My dad would always alert us when it was coming up. Does that still happen?Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry
Not likely, kids these days are too busy gawping at their smartphones to care. They wouldn't even notice a lorry rolling over in the next lane, let alone the odometer.
Colin has cracked his Patella after falling over in the snow & ice.. silly old fool ;)
He walked around on it for about 10 days and wondered why it wasn't getting any better so his doc told him to go to the, rather aptly named, 'walk-in centre' at the local hospital where an x-ray showed the crack. I'd been telling him to go since he did it but he always knows best :doh:
Now it's all strapped up and he's on crutches and seeing the fracture clinic in a week or so. From what I've read it doesn't heal that quickly so he is really peeved that he can't cycle for at least 8 weeks which is a shame as he just bought his 4th bike, his 3rd carbon jobby
Oh dear, four bikes, one leg, life is harsh. :(
No-one makes a bike for one-legged people then? Gap in the market there.
You can actually ride a 'fixed wheel' bike with one leg.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
No idea what that is, Geoff. I owned a 'racing' bike for about a week in 1991. Sold it and bought a quarter of Afghani with the proceeds. Otherwise I know nothing about them.
You can ride a normal bike with one leg if you strap it to the pedal - assuming you have a foot on the end of the leg, or at least a knee and a bit of a stump.Quote:
Originally Posted by walpurgis
What do you do when you stop at traffic lights then? You'd just fall over. Or are all the cyclists you see running red lights one legged? That would explain a lot.Quote:
Originally Posted by Len Co
i just mow the fukers down!
One leg, one brain cell, and a bit of lycra. All you need!
I love it when they alternate between road user and pedestrian, makes me want to get out and give them a big kiss. :)
:rfl::rfl:Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
Nice one Steve
We NEVER ride on the pavement, only on the road and queue with traffic when necessary and not push to the front etc
It's the same as with most things, the actions of a few dickheads ruin it for the majority who do it right.
Earlier this week I was leaving a small car park at the front of a shop. A car held back to let me out, and as I moved, a bike flew across the front of my van, and if my brakes hadn't been a1, I would have launched him into the road. If he'd been on the road to start with, I would have seen him. But he was riding the pavement, with his hands in his pockets!
His appearance (trackies and trainers from Sports Direct and baseball cap with peak pointed skywards, village idiot-style) suggested he may be hurrying from his latest drug deal to get to the pawn shop before it closes to buy back his sovereign ring.
But I'm not one to pre-judge people. :)
Something that made me smile this week, a new advert for confused.com (I think) with animated Action Men. Magic!
I know what you mean Steve, there are some terrible riders out there and, as you say, they get us all a bad name :(
I'd rather they were on the pavement myself, especially when the pavement is empty.
Dual carriageway on the way home from work, big wide pavements either side. Never any pedestrians as it is out in the suburbs and no-one walks anywhere. But they still insist on cycling on the road, holding up everyone else. There's one bit where there is a very steep hill and even the most lycra-clad, nutty helmet ones on the lightest 2 grand bikes can't go up it at any more than snails pace. Quicker to get off and just walk.
I appreciate that it is not legal for them to cycle on the pavement. Perhaps the law should be changed so they can use the pavement as a cycle path if the situation is appropriate?
No idea why anyone cycles round here, it's all ridges and valleys so it's up hill and down dale 4 or 5 times to get anywhere.
My brother is a cycle nut and he loves the hills.
A couple of summers ago me and Mrs. P were having a ride to Lytham (me on the 'Blade, she was on her new toy, a Hyosung 650 Aquilla).
We came upon what must have been a couple of hundred cyclists on some organised run. This road has a designated cycle lane ( actually the pavement divided in two), but most of the cyclists ignored it and used the road instead, two and three cycles abreast. We could have got past them ok, but to try to pass cars which are stuck behind them at roughly 12 mph, is just inviting an accident.
I moaned about this to my brother, who told me many cyclists don't like to use cycle lanes because the road sweepers don't do anything with them, so the gravel makes them more prone to punctures. Honestly, they're paying no road tax, they got their lanes for free, what do they want, jam on it?
I'm not anti-cyclist, I'm really not, but there seems to be a growing attitude of 'I'm not breaking the law, so sod you'.
Even with the roads as congested as they are, I feel there's still room for all of us. It's the idiots who think their journey is more important than everyone elses that spoils it.
I'm not keen on curtailing anyone's freedom to do anything. But the whole cycling on main roads thing does need looking at. It really isn't practical in terms of traffic flow and the cyclists are in quite a lot of danger from the multitude of poor drivers. No matter how good a cyclist you are, you can't account for some idiot doing something random.
I have an idea which I reckon could 'out-eco' the cyclists. Show 'em who has the greenest credentials. I'm gonna buy a uni-cycle. It would use a fraction of the world's resources, and take up half the space on the road.
I would be a bit wobbly initially, so I will be nagging the local authority to make the cycle lanes wider. They wouldn't dare ignore me, after all I am saving the planet.
A job I was called on to do recently, was to jack up a suspended wooden floor which had dropped slightly, leaving an unsightly half inch gap between the skirting and the floorboards. The space under the floor was too tight for me, so I contacted the smallest guy I know to get down there.
It later occurred to me that there may be a business opportunity there. Perhaps I could start an employment agency using small people for jobs like the one I just mentioned.
I reckon I could get the sign language people from the early-morning TV shows on board-they must get sick of endless episodes of Emmerdale and Hollyoaks, and the hours would be better too.
I would call my agency business 'Lilliput It Right'.
Ouch! Just paid the annual council tax and water rates. That's made rather a dent in my funds so no Hi-Fi treats for a while! :rolleyes:
mine went up again... pay it monthly
The water company are taking the piss. The fee has near doubled in the last three years.
This is one area of AoS where I actually can provide 'expert' advice, and I assure you, the last thing you'd want to do as a one-legged person is strap your foot to the pedal! :lol::eyebrows:Quote:
Originally Posted by Len Co
*assuming you mean the 'missing' leg, even then, you would always have to make sure your weight is leaning over to the 'good' leg, else it's "Thank you and goodnight". :-)
Yes. I can see where that might get a little tricky. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by mightymonoped
What a shame. The older codgers here may be sad to hear Katie Boyle has died. The youngsters won't know her.
She was a really charming and very attractive woman. A regular face on TV through the sixties and seventies.
A shame indeed... does that make me an "older codger" ?Quote:
Originally Posted by walpurgis
Do you have a water meter Geoff? I changed to a meter years ago and now my water costs are tiny ..Quote:
Originally Posted by walpurgis
Possibly not a good idea. If the family should for some reason need to move back here, I suspect being on a meter could cost rather more.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ninanina
Not as old a codger as me. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Ninanina
(not that I feel old)