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    Exactly.. Only braindead idiots will be going abroad on holiday this year, so hell mend them! Why risk all that stress?

    I just don't get the desperation to jump on a bloody plane, to go to some shitey tourist resort...

    Once things open up, there'll be plenty of places to visit in the UK... We'll be off to West Wales!

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    Also **SAY NO** to unjust 'vaccine passports' or certificates, which are totally incompatible with a FREE society!!!


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    All Happy Days in the UK, IMO.

    Lots of jabs bought and available. Infection rates plummeting due to facemasks being enforced in closed spaces.

    Bit disappointed that certain people are showing lack of moral-fibre in the face of the Covid-19 Pandemic.

    In denial. 5th. columnists. Anti-vaxxers. Just want to party, play football, and worryingly, breathe in each others faces.

    95% of the oldies have had a first jab. Seems to work.

    We can only hope for the best. Portsmouth is 25% illiterate. 50% of my Town wouldn't know 2 metre social distancing from a hole in the ground.

    Even after a year of this horror.

    What idiot designed these floor signs in the supermarket? No wonder it has all gone horribly, horribly wrong.

    Reason we are trying to get the infection rate down is to avoid the Covid-19 variants. The Unknown.

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  3. #6513
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    Quote Originally Posted by Marco View Post
    Exactly.. Only braindead idiots will be going abroad on holiday this year, so hell mend them! Why risk all that stress?

    I just don't get the desperation to jump on a bloody plane, to go to some shitey tourist resort...

    Once things open up, there'll be plenty of places to visit in the UK... We'll be off to West Wales!

    Marco.
    For a boating holiday??
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    Quote Originally Posted by Marco View Post
    Exactly.. Only braindead idiots will be going abroad on holiday this year, so hell mend them! Why risk all that stress?

    I just don't get the desperation to jump on a bloody plane, to go to some shitey tourist resort...

    Once things open up, there'll be plenty of places to visit in the UK... We'll be off to West Wales!


    Marco.
    Fliss is talking about camping in Cornwall - Bossiney Cove, Cornwall (in good weather absolutely marvellous sea/sights/swimming) with day trips to Crackington Haven etc

    If all the arseholes have booked flights, it could be very pleasant
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    i might go to wales
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    Quote Originally Posted by mad-moon View Post
    For a boating holiday??
    Nah, there are some lovely picturesque little seaside towns, way off the beaten track, and Pembrokeshire has always been somewhere we've wanted to visit. It's very much 'the land that time forgot', and been ravaged little by modern commercialism or consumerism, meaning that life there is more 'real' and closer to how it once was back in the day, which suits us down to the ground!

    So we'll just book a nice hotel somewhere central, and tour around in the car, probably go sometime late Aug/early Sept, where by then things should be largely back to normal

    Marco.
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    Protect your HUMAN RIGHTS and REFUSE ANY *MANDATORY* VACCINE FOR COVID-19!

    Also **SAY NO** to unjust 'vaccine passports' or certificates, which are totally incompatible with a FREE society!!!


  7. #6517
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    Quote Originally Posted by guy View Post
    Fliss is talking about camping in Cornwall - Bossiney Cove, Cornwall (in good weather absolutely marvellous sea/sights/swimming) with day trips to Crackington Haven etc

    If all the arseholes have booked flights, it could be very pleasant
    Hopefully that's be the case, Guy, although in normal times, during the summer months, I'd always avoid very touristy places, such as Devon or Cornwall, as even if where you're staying is relatively quiet, the surrounding towns often aren't, and I can't be doing with crowded places.

    Anyway, if you go, I hope you guys have a great time and the chance to enjoy life again, as we could all do with a break!!

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    Turntable: Heavily-modified Technics SL-1210MK5G [Mike New bearing/ETP platter/Paul Hynes SR7 PSU & reg mods]. Funk Firm APM Achromat/Nagaoka GL-601 Crystal Record Weight/Isonoe feet & boots/Ortofon RS-212D/Denon DL-103GL in Denon PCL-300 headshell with Funk Firm Houdini/Kondo SL-115 pure-silver cartridge leads.

    Paul Hynes MC head amp/SR5 PSU. Also modded Lentek head amp/Denon AU-310 SUT.

    Other Cartridges: Nippon Columbia (NOS 1987) Denon DL-103. USA-made Shure SC35C with NOS stylus. Goldring G820 with NOS stylus. Shure M55E with NOS stylus.

    CD Player: Audiocom-modified Sony X-777ES/DAS-R1 DAC.

    Tape Deck: Tandberg TCD 310, fully restored and recalibrated as new, by RDE, plus upgraded with heads from the TCD-420a. Also with matching TM4 Norway microphones.

    Preamps: Heavily-modified Croft Charisma-X. LDR Stereo Coffee. Power Amps: Tube Distinctions Copper Amp fitted with Tungsol KT-150s. Quad 306.

    Cables & Sundries: Mark Grant HDX1 interconnects and digital coaxial cable, plus Mark Grant 6mm UP-LCOFC Van Damme speaker cable. MCRU 'Ultimate' mains leads. Lehmann clone headphone amp with vintage Koss PRO-4AAA headphones.

    Tube Distinctions digital noise filter. VPI HW16.5 record cleaning machine.

    Speakers: Tannoy 15MGs in Lockwood cabinets with modified crossovers. 1967 Celestion Ditton 15.


    Protect your HUMAN RIGHTS and REFUSE ANY *MANDATORY* VACCINE FOR COVID-19!

    Also **SAY NO** to unjust 'vaccine passports' or certificates, which are totally incompatible with a FREE society!!!


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    Quote Originally Posted by struth View Post
    i might go to wales
    Lol - I thought we were coming up to see you! We're both dying to visit Scotland again, and see friends and family up there, plus Del's sick to the back teeth of being stuck in Wrexham, so she'll defo *WANT* [subject otherwise to a MAJOR tantrum] to get out and about again when the time is right

    Marco.
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    Turntable: Heavily-modified Technics SL-1210MK5G [Mike New bearing/ETP platter/Paul Hynes SR7 PSU & reg mods]. Funk Firm APM Achromat/Nagaoka GL-601 Crystal Record Weight/Isonoe feet & boots/Ortofon RS-212D/Denon DL-103GL in Denon PCL-300 headshell with Funk Firm Houdini/Kondo SL-115 pure-silver cartridge leads.

    Paul Hynes MC head amp/SR5 PSU. Also modded Lentek head amp/Denon AU-310 SUT.

    Other Cartridges: Nippon Columbia (NOS 1987) Denon DL-103. USA-made Shure SC35C with NOS stylus. Goldring G820 with NOS stylus. Shure M55E with NOS stylus.

    CD Player: Audiocom-modified Sony X-777ES/DAS-R1 DAC.

    Tape Deck: Tandberg TCD 310, fully restored and recalibrated as new, by RDE, plus upgraded with heads from the TCD-420a. Also with matching TM4 Norway microphones.

    Preamps: Heavily-modified Croft Charisma-X. LDR Stereo Coffee. Power Amps: Tube Distinctions Copper Amp fitted with Tungsol KT-150s. Quad 306.

    Cables & Sundries: Mark Grant HDX1 interconnects and digital coaxial cable, plus Mark Grant 6mm UP-LCOFC Van Damme speaker cable. MCRU 'Ultimate' mains leads. Lehmann clone headphone amp with vintage Koss PRO-4AAA headphones.

    Tube Distinctions digital noise filter. VPI HW16.5 record cleaning machine.

    Speakers: Tannoy 15MGs in Lockwood cabinets with modified crossovers. 1967 Celestion Ditton 15.


    Protect your HUMAN RIGHTS and REFUSE ANY *MANDATORY* VACCINE FOR COVID-19!

    Also **SAY NO** to unjust 'vaccine passports' or certificates, which are totally incompatible with a FREE society!!!


  9. #6519
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    Quote Originally Posted by Marco View Post
    Nah, there are some lovely picturesque little seaside towns, way off the beaten track, and Pembrokeshire has always been somewhere we've wanted to visit. It's very much 'the land that time forgot', and been ravaged little by modern commercialism or consumerism, meaning that life there is more 'real' and closer to how it once was back in the day, which suits us down to the ground!

    So we'll just book a nice hotel there and tour around in the car, probably sometime late Aug/early Sept, where by then things should be largely back to normal

    Marco.
    Sounds like a plan...that's what people should do when they go abroad...stop away from the commercial holiday hotels/sites...and venture out into the sticks and see the old way of living. My old pal, who's passed on now, used to visit places, where he told me there was one shop in the village that sold everything...the fruit and vegetables, were still covered in dust and soil, the way they had been picked...he also said he would regularly step out the front door and pick oranges from the trees in the village...the country...Spain...But I can't remember the name of the place...It'll come to me...
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    I stayed in some place in Spain back in the late 1980s and there were chickens running around in the street. Can't recall the name but it was near to San Sebastian. Properly rustic anyway.

    There was a power cut while I was there so we had to go to a cistern and draw water by hand. The locals said that wasn't out of the ordinary.

    Might have changed a bit by now I suppose.
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