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A million leaves form their own dam in the River Blyth; just above the concrete dam South of Bedlington.

Taken with a Nokia N80 phone and reduced to 800 x 600.

...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!

See: Here. and See: Here too.

The problem is now sorted. I've tested with up to approx half megabyte files (really too big for the web anyway), and it not only works fine but the thumbnail generator doesn't bomb out either! I think the file size limit is set to 1MB - will confirm and test this when I get a quiet moment. Will bump the available upload space as actualy needed. Presently there's about 50MB globally available, but this can be increased to anything sensible if it's being used productively for the Town - and not filled with crap! Getting the Galleries and Blogs back on line is now a priority - got some pix to post myself. Uploads may be restricted to the members only forums in future; we'll see how it gos. Enjoy!

test 398.11k file 480.49k file

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!

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?

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.

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!

Hey, we all need to wash our feet!

Initial work complete. Thank you for your patience! We're planning quite a few "pretties" on the site now. About time we changed the boring old banner too!

The Board, PM etc. will be offline for some hours over the weekend in order to upgrade the software. At the moment we've no exact timings for this. We'll do our best to minimise the outage, and will post notices on bedlington.co.uk as to best estimate of completion time. Sorry for any inconvenience.

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

You'll be able to upload providing the pictures aren't too big (800 x 600 pixels or less). However.. we're carrying out a software upgrade later in the week, and will see if the present limits can be upped by a considerable factor. Anyone having difficulties can always contact me directly (click on my profile and PM or eMail me) and I'll happily post-process the pictures to suitable sizes and resolutions for them.

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!

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.

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!

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.

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!

All BBs are plagued by people who join but don't post. Some just lurk, for most their joining is just a fleeting interest, and they never bother to visit again. But, in the process, they clog up membership lists and make handles unavailable to genuine contributors. They make the moderators job more difficult too. Well... not here and no more! We've just had a cull of people who joined but never introduced themselves, or even had the courtesy to say hello. All non-contributing members who joined before August are already gone. If you are reading this then you're not one of those, and your membership is still active. If you joined more recently than July 31st, haven't contributed anything, and want to keep your access, e-mail and personal messaging rights, etc. then you must have a non-zero post count. Members who joined in August have up until the end of this month to illustrate that they are still active. From then on we'll be tightening up on the grace period. This board is for active members only, and we are not looking to display over-inflated membership figures like most. On-going, members will need to contribute at least once a year to keep their membership alive. Hardly a problem for some!

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.

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.

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.