Everything posted by threegee
-
Market Place At Five To Five
-
If You've Just Joined, And Are Reading This...
...then don't forget to say hello in the Introduce Yourself forum. You don't have to say anything about yourself - though it woul be nice if you did. That simple post will qualify you to maintain your membership for a full year. This tells me (or the moderators) that you intend to be an active member, and have an active interest in the Town; that you're not yet another damn pill-pusher or other Internet low-life! This domain is for OUR community to use, and people genuinely interested in our community. It's not yet another selling platform for outsiders! Local business may use it to serve our community, and that's the extent of it!
- Uploading Fixed
-
V21 Customers Have No Service!
Quite a few people/firms in the area have no broadband service from V21 at the moment. This is apparently the result of a commercial dispute, and/or a bald attempt to hijack customers to another entity (Ezeedsl). It all depends on who you believe! Anyway, BT is being its usual unhelpful self in refusing to give out MAC codes to enable people to migrate to another supplier, and Ofcom is trying to pretend that there isn't a problem. Exactly what Ofcom employees get their inflated salaries and pensions for is, once again, open to doubt!
-
Please (Bedlington) Bear With Us
OK, so during the upgrade we've lost the Blogs and Gallery - for the moment. But it will be all come right - you'll see! Particular appologies to Bedlington Bears. Your masterwork will be gloriously restored. _______________________________________________ Note to Self: You really must get off your backside and show them how a blog should be done, you lazy b*! _______________________________________________ Notes to (unamed) person who rubbished the blogs because it doesn't support HTML tags: A bad workman blames his tools. It's intended for people who are not HTML literate. Show me some of your HTML that can't be done with the more straightforward BB code?
-
What Is It?
It's just a preliminary draft of a template. Had to have something to attach the redirect to the board sub-directory to. And, at 2.30 in the morning, you're not quite as fastidious as at your better moments. It will be fleshed out fairly shortly, and when presentable we'll put a link to the board on it. Will be launching a first couple of features next month. So if anyone has anything to contribute, or any ideas, then either post them on the board or send me the material directly. Just click on my profile and follow your mouse to PM or e-mail me directly. There's also an email address to send photo and text to as well - supplied on a need to know basis.
-
Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia
Just came across this... and yes, it is a valid english word. Can you work out what it means? No Googling or Wikipediaing until you've made an effort!
-
Wansbeck Homes Showhouse
Hey, we all need to wash our feet!
-
Half Moon Inn
Was the last time I drove past it! http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?cli...&multimap.y=251 Let your fingers do the walking: http://www.thephonebook.bt.com/publisha.co...ington&x=35&y=9
-
Levies on energy-wasting appliances
Maybe because the Green Party is peopled with a bunch of head-in-the-air types who don't have any grip on the underlying science, let alone have any practical and workable ideas. No change there then! You've only got to point out that clean nuclear has to be part of the solution to witness their hysterical and unscientific response. Yet... they will quote all kinds of pseudo-science to you to justify their luddite prejudices. In short: Green is the new Loony Left!
-
The Tin Mission
So would it have been on the empty bit of ground below the PoW cinema? i.e.to the North of same. There wasn't too many gaps on the West side of the Glebe Road, and almost all of what was there is still there. At least it was when I last took note.
-
Local Politics
So there's an election, is there Malc? The town is simply awash with excitement; you can feel it in the air! And all today I thought it was only wet leaves blowing in my face in the gales!
-
The Tin Mission
Not from Doctor Terrace, but you couldn't miss it looking out of the window! Was Doctor Tce or the Shiney Row the one nearest the Front Street, it escapes me just at the moment? There was also North Terrace, and some others just to the North East (but running North/South) which would have been demolished around the time Shiney, Doctor, etc. were renovated. That would have been the '50s or very early 60's, as I can just about remember riding around them on my bicycle with the other kids. Would the "Tin Mission" be what elders refered to as The Tin Tabernacle (sp?)? I can't really remember it but there was a space beside Watson's the newsagents (other) shop where something must have been. Indeed there were lots of spaces on the East side of the Glebe Road by the mid/late 1950s.
-
Internet Police
If you applied that to the rest of the media we'd be down to two TV channels, one cinema and about three national newspapers! Just about the entire advertising industry would be on the dole too. It's a chat board - all about interaction, and often someone else's call if what you're saying is worth saying - if they reply it quite probably was. Saying hello is just common courtesy. We need more of that, not less! Anyway, nice to have you on board!
-
Barrington School
Here: www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?lat=55.1477&lon=-1.573&scale=10000&icon=x They are building on both sides of the road. If you can put a red circle on it then I can get you the current photos.
-
Barrington School
Over the "Welwyn" road bridge and onward towards Bomarsund. Actually, come to think of it, there's probably more than one builder active there at the moment; they're building on both sides of the road. They look quite pricey, but then again even a well built pidgeon cree would cost these days. Well, they do - they just call them starter homes! Wooler has the important advantage of not being a less than 15 minutes car trip from the Metro Center.
-
It's Illegal, Its Immoral, And Will Make You Fat!
Neil Young http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Young - love child of the Beverley Sisters, but which one? Glad to find that he's older than me anyway.
-
Barrington School
Yes, I walked through it yesterday. And guess what? They're builing a mini housing estate for posh folks! This is - of course - is exactly what Bedlington needs; yet another housing estate for people who only sleep here, and don't give a damn about anything local ...unless it impacts their property values! Took some pix with the new phone, but will have to shrink them a bit before uploading.
-
Barrington School
Photos coming in a day or three. Just been trying out latest camera smartphone today, and results are really impressive for a tiddler that doesn't pretend to be a real camera. Only prob is I can't think exactly where the school was, though I've certainly been in the building at some point. Thinks... Bedlington Glove Company (gone bust) perhaps? Barrington Brick Co. is gone; I can easily remember the chimneys, but pinpointing the precise location now could be a tad difficult. We'll see what can be done, and what remains.
-
It's Illegal, Its Immoral, And Will Make You Fat!
Spot on, but I think you cheated! Should, of course, be: Or it makes you fat. I think it was the B side of Bye Bye Love, circa 1957. Now would that have been a 78 or a 45? I really don't know, but I suspect it must have been one of the big brittle ones. Long before my time - of course! Must have come across it again in recent years, but I can't think where. A movie perhaps?
-
It's Illegal, Its Immoral, And Will Make You Fat!
Shame on you Pete! I thought you - of all people - would have spotted the deliberate mistake in the thread title. It comes from a (still well known) 1957 'B' side. Not that I recalled that when I quoted it! Can anyone name the artist(s) and the 'A' side?
-
Anyone With Anything To Do With Horses In Bedlington...
None of that ****ing four letter stuff on my watch!
-
Anyone With Anything To Do With Horses In Bedlington...
Isn't it a traditional right, like grazing your sheep on common land? Horses still have priorty on the road. Why change something that's so quaint and works? Too much namby-pamby hygene these days, and not enough where it actualy matters (hospitals!). In former times there would have been a race between allotment/garden owners to provide the service quite FOC. Nowadays, I suppose, they burn a gallon of petrol to go to a garden center to pay big bucks for a bag of the stuff (c/w plastic wrappings of course)!
-
It's Illegal, Its Immoral, And Will Make You Fat!
I've noticed dozens of people buying info on how to double the top up credit on your pay-as-you-go mobile phone. What they are buying is pretty dumb. Not only is it dumb but it's an invitation to commit fraud and most certainly not "TOTALLY LEGAL!!!" as claimed. The That online auction site that is in no way as good as Free Bedlington.co.uk Classifieds sellers will mail you the instruction to enter your voucher number on two phones on the same network, but not to hit the confirm until - holding one phone in each hand - you are totally ready to do it on both phones in the same instant. The "double credit" depends on the finite delay to look up the voucher number on the mobile phone company's database, and then to mark it cancelled. It's only a matter of time before the software is changed to log the number of voucher activations, and then stamp on both SIMs. That's the least of your worries though, as legal action may follow; the culprits are very easily identified. What's surprising is the absence of negative feedback for the people promoting this scam. A sign of the times, or a sign that That online auction site that is in no way as good as Free Bedlington.co.uk Classifieds's feedback system is severely flawed? Perhaps it's both?
-
Where's Me Swimming Pool?
No, no, you misunderstand - our £1600 was spent on the sign in the Market Place. Or was it on cross-culture trips for councillors to Shalkswhatty - I've quite forgotten?