Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)

Refund travelling supporters, absolutely daft. They will be asking Lee Clarke (as it was his duff team, not the caretaker managers), to refund the 13,000 (or so) Birmingham fans their ticket money for yesterday's thrashing by Bournemouth.

If a supporter can afford to travel to an away game then they have to live with the result, regardless of win, loose, thrash, humiliation etc..

Refunding supports will only reduce the fun and jokes their rival fans can taunt them with.

Not as if there haven't been similar scores before.

Ggg hypothetical question if your after building work & want a job done lets say extension to your house ???? You get quotes done your

Local builders quote you£15k then a pole knocks on your door & says he can do the job offering the same spec & guarantee for

10k which one would you choose answer from your head not your heart please.....

Working on Foxy's addition of both quotes from legitimate companies with Trade Union members, and not the mam at the door saying 'I've noticed from years of experience of driving through this estate that you require an extension, like the one I built over the road......' - surely we all go for the £10K (big ones for GGG).

The second time - 1998 - I decided to go for an extension to my house I got 3 quotes, all from small local firms that other people had used = (approx) 1) £4,500, 2) £6,250 & 3) £10,000. No idea if the employees were union members but assumed they were. Would you a) go for the cheapest (that could be the same quality) and drive the other two to reduce their prices or go out of work; go for the middle one cos it 'seems' fairer or c) go for the most expensive, cos you can afford it, as you know it must be of a higher standard and you can brag that you had the best?

Or get more quotes = 'A show of Hands' and go with the majority price.

My logic - 3) £10,000 - he's extracting the urine - No chance, 2) £6,250 - seems a fair price based on other peoples experience but he's from Cramlington, so no - 1) £4,500 - Bedlington lad, going on his own cos he knows he can do better than the others, employing Bedlington tradesman - YES all the way, and it turned out champion.  

No doubt the entrepreneurs will know the full meaning/implications of this :-

https://www.opencompany.co.uk/company/09225443/ridge-farm-bedlington-limited

Demolition of Queens Head Guidepost now complete - Sixtownships history group - 'Eva Abdin' posted Got this link via Australia !

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loRY5Yy0dWg&feature=youtu.be

There are no bad beers, just an unaquired taste

Keith if I have a drink that has an unaquired taste I would call it s***.....

My vote goes with Kieth on this one. Remember having just attained that legal drinking age, 1966, and four lads of us off on our first holiday, in a caravan, in the 'sun drenched' resort of Gt Yarmouth. Can't remember what brew was being served in all the bars but it was not to our taste, as well as flat and warm! Even at that early age we knew, pointless whinging about it just keeping ordering and drinking until you finally slurred - 'snot a bad, hic, pint, hic, really'. We acquired many a bad taste over the years. Not Bedlington, but yesterday, a pub I have driven passed for years but never been in -  Longframlington, The Village Inn - Wychwood Hobgoblin, excellent.

Parsnip and Bramley Apple soup with Felton's Running Fox artisan bread also excellent - beef sandwich, the chef likes his peppers for seasoning, too much for me but at least they could be scraped off. 

How do I edit a post?

naomi1987 - you will probably have to contact an administrator if you want to edit an old posting.

This is a previous response from Fourgee to another user on editing a posting:-

Posted 02 October 2014 - 11:19 AM

"A few days later " has to be "several years later", as you will understand.

Can someone tell me how you can or remove your own posts? Or isn't that possible?

I updated it. You can only edit your own posts up to 15 minutes after posting to avoid abuse with people editing their first post after somebody has replied. There is a full revision history feature coming soon to allow editing of posts at any time.

This is what we need :-

http://interactive.guim.co.uk/embed/2014/apr/image-opacity-slider-master/index.html?ww2-dday

Thought I had added the instructions.

Using 'mouse' 'LEFT CLICK .. HOLD IT AND DRAG YOUR MOUSE GENTLY FROM LEFT TO RIGHT ON THE ORIGINAL PHOTOS....

AND IT WILL BECOME THE EXACT SAME LOCATION TODAY .... DRAG IT BACK OVER AND YOU ARE IN 1944 AGAIN.'

Amazing!  Some really useful work there. It took me a few seconds to get orientated, but we are looking in a North Westerly direction from above the Jubilee Terrace / Palace Road area.

 

All we need now is for someone with a decent drone to take a contemporary shot to superimpose. 

Threegee maybe you can get an image via google map just a thought.

This is what we need :-

http://interactive.guim.co.uk/embed/2014/apr/image-opacity-slider-master/index.html?ww2-dday

All very interesting .

I do need a lesson on the Mb / MB / GB details.

Basically not a clue.

As Jeremy Paxman would say -  Your starter for 10 (or in 1 byte with 8 bits = 00001010)  - this link gives an explanation that enables you to see how much data you are using for basic operations like email, letters & photos.   http://introcomputing.org/bits-bytes-2.html

You don't want to get into the 'geeky' side - just seen a chart with some more 'bit' names I haven't seen before  

1000       kbit  =      kilobit

10002    Mbit  =    megabit

10003    Gbit  =     gigabit

10004    Tbit   =     terabit

10005    Pbit   =     petabit

10006    Ebit   =     exabit

10007    Zbit   =     zettabit 

10008    Ybit   =     yottabit - and not a single mention of the Nibble!

In computing, a nibble (often nybble or even nyble to match the vowels of byte) is a four-bit aggregation, or half an octet. As a nibble contains 4 bits, there are sixteen (2⁴) possible values, so a nibble corresponds to a single hexadecimal digit (thus, it is often referred to as a "hex digit" or "hexit").

Have a nice day.

See how considerate Mr Ashley is, catering for those supporters who are currently less fortunate, than the majority, enabling them to share in the pleasure the team brings to THE CITY. Sunderland however do have to get close to the bottom to encourage their average fans to pre book a seasons worth of entertainment.

PREMIER LEAGUE - MOST EXPENSIVE SEASON TICKET

Arsenal £2,013 -

Tottenham £1,895 -

Chelsea £1,250 -

Manchester United £950 -

Queens Park Rangers £949 -

West Ham £940

Liverpool £869

Manchester City £860  

Southampton £853

Leicester City £730

Crystal Palace £720

Everton £719

Newcastle United £710

Burnley £685

Aston Villa £615

Stoke City £609

Hull City £574

Sunderland £525

Swansea City £499

West Brom £449

It's a bugger when you retire, I had forgot all about those little bits, I spend more time at the dentists sorting out my Byte!  

Back in 1975 running an ICL 1906A mainframe where the operating system was a massive 256KB (yes '256') programmers had to make a request for additional bits to be allocated to store data.

I can never imagine that I will come out of this debate with BT a winner, but I enjoy the challenge.

The free phone help line gets you very friendly operatives, but not technical staff.

Checked my usage on the 10th and although not a massive increase it was significant to think here we ago again, I'll be over my limit and have to pay more.

Checked 10/10/2014 - Your allowance usage from 01 Oct to 10 Oct

You have used 6.42 GB of your monthly 20 GB allowance and have 13.58 GB remaining. Your average monthly usage is 8.67 GB.

Sunday I raised an enquiry, BT 'on-line' service. Response was within 4 hrs so that was good but the 'technical' told me ".... and as it's half way through October you usage should not go over the 20GB this month...". I had to explain that 10 was not half of 31, it's fractionally less a 1/3rd of 31 - so 3 x 6.42 = 19.26 leaving me less than BT's calculated daily September average, 0.92, to play with on the 31st. 

20mins of waffle and I had to give in for the day and say I would continue monitoring and no doubt I would be back updating the enquiry number as it stays open for 2 weeks. Then later that day the customer survey email arrived - Would I like to complete the survey, rate the answer/explanation given for my enquiry, and help BT improve it's service?

I did - and the 'Not Satisfied' radio button got a few selections .

No further calls since.

Eggy I'm not surprised he can't remember, he was drunk as a skunk. The band was called 'MERLIN' and I think he persuaded our lead guitarist Harry Bryzinski to let him get up and sing a song. I wasn't too keen on the idea as it was my last gig with the band, and I didn't want anything to spoil it. The band went back to London after that gig. Sad moment for me, but I had a wife and child up here and they came first.

I will let him know the name of the band - Dave is on the fb Sixtownships History Group site. I just new him in 1967-68, both members of Bedlington YMCA.

Hi Maggie, Welcome and best of luck with your research. http://www.freebmd.org.uk/ is a free website that may help you for old research. Rgd's Ian

Welcome Maggie - Like Bedlingtonian I have used FreeBMD many times and there are no fancy gimmicks with it, if gives you what you ask for. Like all genealogy sites all the Births Marriages and Deaths are not yet recorded (only 263 million at the moment!) but with FreeBMD there are ways of finding out what years have been transcribed to the database - the front page of the site gives a few details on what years will eventually be recorded.

This info may not be correct but using the info in your introduction I did a few quick searches. The service allows you to specify a range of years to search the database with so for ' Dorothy Murray Reston (nee Metcalfe) who was born in Bedlington at end of 1800's.  - I searched between 1836 (start of the records) and 1910 for any Dorothy  Murray Metcalfe - nothing completely matched but lots of Dorothy Metcalfe's came back but nothing for the Bedlington registration district of Morpeth. Nothing possible came back so did a calculated guess, using you info, on Marriages and searching for  Surname Reston - Between 1910 & 1930 in Any District loads of info came back and one particular for 1918 was :-

 Surname           Given Name  Spouse             District            Volume  Page 

Marriages Sep 1918

Reston             George P         Metcalfe          Tynemouth      10b      609

Naturally I have no idea if this is correct and lots of this type of work is often 'guess work' Using the info returned from this search I searched for Metcalfe 1917 to 1918 and this was returned:-

  Marriages Sep 1918

Metcalfe          Dorothy W      Reston             Tynemouth      10b      609

Doesn't fully match your info, different middle christian name, but searching the old records does throw up many differences that have been distorted over many tears.

So although the searching is free if you require copies of the BMD certificates they can be requested within the service for £9.25 each. So if you thought the above marriage records were you relatives you could request a Marriage certificate and that should include additional info on the couple and their fathers. Good luck. 

Welcome ajeans - naturally the names, when you get to most of our ages, sound familiar. Never knew any Chapman's or Leightley's personally but there are a couple of Barrington County Primary schools photos, from the 1950s. Barrington school was was on the ouskirts of Bedlington Station and many pupils were from Bedlington Station. One of the photos has a George Chapman, in the same year as my brother so will have been born 1945. Another has a Marlene Leightley taken c1959 and the kids look about 5-6 year olds.   

Dave Holland, or 'Holly' as he liked to be called got up on stage with us and sang a song at the Domino during our last gig in the North East. That was in 1971 Eggy, ask him if he remembers that night.

Willy - Dave remembers when he was DJing at the Domino and singing with many of the bands. He can't remeber 'Willy j.' - and I couldn't give him the name of your band cos I couldn't find it any of the posts.   

Eggy just get 'unlimited' and stick to Freeview.

We have been trying out a cable thing for BT Sport and the time wasted is unbelievable.

They tell you it is simple but all to often you need a small child to help.

Couldn't miss out on the sport Maggie, that's 90% of my Sky usage. Whilst I could get to the pub to watch the football, with a crowded bar, I never had Sky. Now can't get to the pub so it has to be Sky. Normal Sky has no affect on download and when using the Sky 'On Demand' download service even BT has a chart to show you the size, in MB, of downloading programs. Just checked yesterday's download figure with BT and they show me using 2.64GB and other than the normal 'surfing' - fb -etc I never requested any music; videos etc. etc. I would be surprised if BT ever gave me a detailed breakdown of a downloads, just over a certain size like 500mb would do, but I will persevere for a while but will probably have to give in the end and go unlimited!  

David Holland, Toby Twirl singer, just messaged me - Toby Twirl played the Club Domino December 31st 1968. 

Symptoms - as far as I can see, having gone through all the topics and settings on the BT Home Hub 5 Manager, and made what updates I think will not lock me out of my WiFi world. For my benefit the WiFi world is a boon, without going into specifics a world without cables to trip over and units to get down to (never to get up again) is my world!

Since my first notification, from BT, iro me reaching my monthly 20GB download limit I do daily checks and I believe I am now secure from 'piggy backers'.

My package with BT is :-  Unlimited Anytime Calls - Inclusive calls to UK landlines and half price calls to UK mobiles at anytime - My Broadband 20GB BT Infinity 1.

Within the BT Home Hub Manager screens I have checked the SETTINGS etc use the BT help scripts:-

'To prevent unauthorised access to your Hub's settings, BT Hub Manager is password protected.

To change your Hub default settings you'll need to log into in BT Hub Manager by entering a password.

On first use you'll need to enter your Hub's 'Admin password' (it's on the Hub settings card), then click the 'OK' button on this page.'

BT Wi-fi Status: Active - Wireless network/SSID:                BTHub5-9PMX - Wireless interface type:                802.11 b/g/n (up to 150 Mb/s)

Security:              WPA2 Only (Recommended) - Channel selection:           Automatic (Smart Wireless)

When I first checked through the Home Hub Manager screens I came across this dialogue and a 'flow' diagram of the wireless devices acessing the Hub were given. From the devices I identified all the IP addresses as my families devices - Windows phone - Sky On Demand - Grandson ipad/tablet (for school homework). 

Now the flow diagram shows my PC as the only device and this part of the screen display:- 

"Home Network - Devices - The diagram below shows all the devices that are connected to your BT Home Hub. Click on the device name to view and edit its settings or to remove it from the network."

Naturally no supplier is going to say in it's blurb to it's customers that it gets hacked. BT blurb with the Home Hub Manager says :-

Wireless - safety and security

You might wonder what's to stop other people tuning into your wireless network. After all, your personal data is being sent on radio waves in the same way as a radio station sends a signal.

The answer is that your Hub has an in-built security system that scrambles the signal it sends. It does this with an encryption code, so the signal doesn't make any sense to other computers. We then give you a unique code - called a wireless key - to enter into your computer. This means you're the only one who can pick up your Hub's signal. This keeps your data safe at all times.

WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access) – Extra Strong. Used by new computers

Since I did my checks and changes etc. after spending 20 mins discussing my concerns with BT operative my usage is slowly getting back to what it was with the Home Hub 2 = average 7.3GB a month - but I will be checking daily for the rest of this month and make decisions as and when necessary.

The current daily usage monitor is showing my average GB download as 8.67, this includes the last months 20.56, but just today it actually displayed a reduction in usage:-

 Checked 08/10/2014 - Your allowance usage from 01 Oct to 07 Oct

You have used 3.84 GB of your monthly 20 GB allowance and have 16.16 GB remaining. Your average monthly usage is 8.67 GB.

Checked 09/10/2014 - Your allowance usage from 01 Oct to 07 Oct

You have used 4.4 GB of your monthly 20 GB allowance and have 15.6 GB remaining. Your average monthly usage is 8.67 GB.

Checked 10/10/2014 - Your allowance usage from 01 Oct to 09 Oct

You have used 3.78 GB of your monthly 20 GB allowance and have 16.22 GB remaining. Your average monthly usage is 8.67 GB. IT's GONE DOWN

If you can see anything in the above that requires further checking or changes with in the Hub Manager I will have a look. 

Good job I'm retired, would never of had the time to do this when 3G was in control - garden, golf and gurgling ale! 

Thanks

I would go for Tartan as the worst beer - but a bottle of Export for the best beer. Remember them from the Terrier, Tony, when Vic & Vi had it.

Tartan gets my vote. Never suffered from headaches, then and now and in between, apart from the time I drank Tartan - probably the Black Bull or The Dun Cow.

Couldn't get past the first moth full with Guinness and now I drink it regularly. Started in 1988 when we used to fly home from London on a Friday Night at the end of the working week. Heathrow lounge where the choice was down south 'flat warm bitter' (probably Double Diamond) or Guinness - soon got a taste for it. 

From a Sixtownships History Group member  :-

Willy - as my memory was having a nap between remembering one of the turns I got the Sixtownships History Group members to help. There have been a load of acts names posted and I will work my way through the postings, extract the acts name and post them, along with the name of the person that remembered the act. - Like the one hit wonder 'Little Arrows(in the air)' Leapy Lea!  

Extract from Sixtownships posting, contributor's name first:-

Jan Hill  - Dave Berry, Norman Collier.

George Barnett  - freddy and the dreamers, the animals

Lynn Bramley  - always remember lulu been there

June Nichol  - I saw Gene Pitney at the domino

Alan Maddison -  Applejacks,(song Tell me when) Leapy Lee (song Little Arrows was his hit), unfortunately seen them both. One hit wonders !!!

Lyn Nicholson  - Remember going to see The Tremeloes definitely at The Domino x

Steve Davies -  Love Affair

Norma Agnew  - The searchers Desmond decker and the aces mac and Katie casoon Hermans hermits  - I also remember there was a female topless group on we were asked to take the big whiskey bottles down cos they were soiling the view for them standing at the bar the drummer was very popular. I worked there for a few years.

I remember going in one night and this little man was walking around wearing a fur coat I said ti the rest of the bar staff who brought the monkey the manager George England said in a very stern voice that Norma is Del Shannon. Oops.

Jackie Hoult -  I saw Gene Pitney at domino with Lynn Taylor, June Bingham and Thora Cole. In front row. Recall act before him was Dickie and Dotty! What a laugh they were?

Charlie Crisp - The Herd....

Doug Ramsey -  Frankie Vaughan,Joe Brown,The Caravelles,Dickie Henderson..

John Dawson - The main photographer was Bill Ward. What a photographer he was. So dedicated and captured many treasured memories he did.

Brian Davison – The Troggs, The Fantastics were there twice. with hit song (Something old something new something borrowed something blue.)

Allan Kidd -  Del Shannon ( twice),New Vaudeville Band, Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band

Anne Donothey  - tommy trinder,mersey beats,.swinging blue jeans,geno washington and the ran jam band.x

Mick Riley -  Gene Pitney

Jack Kidd  - For the first couple of years John Shelly was the resident DJ, and I've been racking my brains trying to remember the name of the resident House Band? Can anyone throw any light on their name?

I'll get it started............The Peddlers, Amen Corner.........walking across a sticky floor that nearly pulled your shoes off.

Willy - as my memory was having a nap between remembering one of the turns I got the Sixtownships History Group members to help. There have been a load of acts names posted and I will work my way through the postings, extract the acts name and post them, along with the name of the person that remembered the act. - Like the one hit wonder 'Little Arrows(in the air)' Leapy Lea!  

Anybody remember when the Troggs played at the Domino? .....Girl.. you really got me now ..you got me so I don't know what I,m doing yeah Girl you really got me going.... they charged top dollar te see them I was underwhelmed te say the least, seeing them live but the song has grown on me and I play it in the car on occasion

Yes - Troggs and - Dave Berry (The Crying Game) - Norman Collier (Testing, Tes..., ..sting,.....) - Freddy and The Dreamers.

Did The Animals appear there?

Eventually found the BT Home Hub (activity) Log and discovered there was another WiFi address using my hub! So along with the 2 I knew about, my old Desktop PC and the newly fitted Sky WiFi Mini download/on demand box, was the wife's Nokia Lumia Windows phone that will have initiated connection when the hub was installed 5 weeks ago.

Started monitoring on download usage via the BT Broadband monitor for the new calendar month on the 1st.

On the 2nd - 0.93GB recorded over the first day - so if I keep at that average I will again go over, and be charged, my 20GB monthly allowance.

Switched of the wife's WiFi.

On the 3rd - sods law - BT decided to upgrade their Broadband monitor so it was down all day.

On the 4th - 09:00 - monitor still down.

On the 4th - 15:00 - monitor back in use and still recording my usage as 0.93GB.

Roll on Monday - check usage and switch off Sky download box. 

Switching off the -Sky Wireless Connector - TV On Demand Straight from your Sky+ HD Box (MINI SD501) - I know this should have no affect on my normal download usage but that was my next step, just so when I next discuss with BT Help Desk (at least it's an 0800 number) to say I had tried it.

 Checked 05/10/2014 – Mtce -AGAIN

Checked 06/10/2014 - Your allowance usage from 01 Oct to 04 Oct

You have used 3.0 GB of your monthly 20 GB allowance and have 17.0 GB remaining. Your average monthly usage is 8.67 GB.

Checked 07/10/2014 - Your allowance usage from 01 Oct to 05 Oct

You have used 3.0 GB of your monthly 20 GB allowance and have 17.0 GB remaining. Your average monthly usage is 8.67 GB. ????????????????????????????????? same as 06/10/2014 ???????????

Checked 07/10/2014 - Your allowance usage from 01 Oct to 06 Oct

You have used 3.41 GB of your monthly 20 GB allowance and have 16.59 GB remaining. Your average monthly usage is 8.67 GB.

2. Sky On demand box disconnected – 09:00 08/10/2014 –Windows phone still off

Checked 08/10/2014 - Your allowance usage from 01 Oct to 07 Oct

You have used 3.84 GB of your monthly 20 GB allowance and have 16.16 GB remaining. Your average monthly usage is 8.67 GB.

Checked 09/10/2014 - Your allowance usage from 01 Oct to 07 Oct

You have used 4.4 GB of your monthly 20 GB allowance and have 15.6 GB remaining. Your average monthly usage is 8.67 GB.

Looking at those dates and figures BT is recording my total daily usage, Upload & download, at an average of approx 0.5GB per day, over 3 days, compared with the average 0.93GB per day for September. My Habits haven't changed; the BT Home Hub Log still only showing my Desk Top PC IP address as connecting, so I am going to leave it as it is until Monday then switch the 'On Demand' box back on and if that appears to cause the download usage to increase I will be surprised!    

I used to mock the service men, including my brother, in the 1960-70s. Join up for 11 years and play around the world.

I have to take my hat off to anyone who has joined up, including the TA, in the 21st century as they know whats in store for them. I salute them.

As for any country -  USA  - England & the rest of Europe etc - getting involved in any world crisis weather it's to benefit their own trade and economy or not, regardless of your political view, what choice dose the world have. Lie down and be dictated to or stand up and dictate your own rules. Just the same as when we were growing up and at school, fight back or submit!