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  1. I startidd my eggtensive heducayshun  at the villuj infants.  Thatt skule mayd me wot I am twodae

    Shud your name not be Kieth? Barton infants were taught 'i' before 'e' accept after 'c'. And that's why I failed my English Language - 1/2 a mark deducted for every spelling mistake.

  2. It is know as the old church hall to some, others call it the old school depends who you speak to eggy but it is the building between the market place club and the St Cuthberts church.

    Thanks Adam.  The school that developers wont touch because their are two many restrictions?

  3. First the Yep, very interesting. I enjoyed that, thanks Malcolm.

    Just proves my theory I have developed over my whole life - Every body has different ideas and you need someone to make the decision, rightly or wrongly.

     

    I still feel that after taking the time to watch it all - 75+ mins I must add my bit:-

     Man made Global Warming

    Medieval Warm Period

    Holocene Maximum

    So now we have the inconvenient truth we can relax knowing that all the hot air from the 30s, 40s, 50s and 60s will soon escape our atmosphere.

    Once we have eaten all the livestock on the planet and gone vegetarian the planet will benefit.

    If we can get Keith to check for sun spots and publish his daily findings Bedlington will know how to plan the number of Ice Cream vans to have out each day.

    Conclusion s

    Today's global warming is a result of expelled hot air from theories the mouths of protesters complaining that Britain was warming up following a period of 4 decades of cooling.

    The Thames  (and hopefully the river Blyth) will freeze over again.

    If we solve global warming thousands will be out of work, there will be more decades of hot air from unemployed scientists saying it was all Margaret Thatcher's fault and Britain will again freeze over.

    No climate models, including Elle Macpherson, have everything going for them.

    Bottle permafrost and sell it to Australia and your descendants will be rich for ever.

    If you take a holiday in Iceland don't forget to take your mosquito protection spray.

    Buy less clothes and spend the savings enjoying the rest of your life and leave the tweaking of forecasts and predictions up to the scientific community who have spent the last 30 years in doors, away from the sun. 

  4. Mars is at its closest to Earth tonight, so we all know what that means - the invasion is imminent. That light on Mars was just the beginning, the machines will be heading our way soon, it will be the rout of civilization, the massacre of mankind.

     

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    Well, that's the end of that then. Can I offer you a lift to a different universe Keith? Malcolm is fueling the eggy shuttle! 

  5. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&list=PLSKUhDnoJjYn0TV9V84C4Wr2DjKPc492c&v=8oI_laHhGjE

     

    Check out the above link on youtube.

    This is the notification I received giving a link to a site that has a list of known/possible affected services:-

     

    Recently, a major security vulnerability named "Heartbleed" has made headlines around the world. This is a severe vulnerability stemming from a coding mistake in a widely-used security utility called OpenSSL.

    The bug affects the encryption technology designed to protect your sensitive data on the Internet, like usernames, passwords and emails.

    This is a flaw in the OpenSSL encryption code, not a virus that can be stopped by McAfee or other consumer security software. Because this vulnerability takes advantage of servers, and not consumer devices, businesses need to update to the latest version of OpenSSL to mitigate and address the dangers posed.

    The severity of the Heartbleed vulnerability cannot be overstated: several major enterprises use OpenSSL, and are likely affected by this vulnerability as well. The dangers posed by this vulnerability are very real and could affect you if exploited.

    So what do you need to do?

    • Right now, the best thing you can do is wait to be notified about affected services and patches or you can investigate this list provided by Mashable that has some well known brands listed.
    • If you'd like to investigate whether or not a website you frequent has been affected, you can use this tool.
    • Reset your password for every online service affected by Heartbleed. But beware: you should only change your password after the afflicted business has fixed its servers to remove the Heartbleed vulnerability. Changing your passwords before a company's servers are updated will not protect your credentials from being leaked.
  6. H G. Wells was right!!! Soon the motherships will arrive. Keep watching the skies.

     

     

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saOSXTrpvWk

    'Curiosity' got the better of me so I checked it out!

    Spoke to Kimberley, currently being explored on Mars,  and she reckons it is the Australian rover using a Clas Holsen Halogen 60w bayonet fitting candle bulb.

    However  Melissa Rice of the California Institute of Technology said in a release.

    'An artificial light source was seen this week in this NASA photo which shows light shining upward from the ground.

    This could indicate there is intelligent life below the ground and uses light as we do.

    This is not a glare from the sun, not is it an artifact of the photo process.

    Look closely at the bottom of the light.

    It has a very flat surface giving us 100 per cent indication it is from the surface.

     

    Ben Biggs, editor of All About Space magazine, said: "While the "light" is as yet unexplained, it's quite a leap to assume that it has an intelligent source.

     

    Patrick Moore's protégé had no idea :-

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    However a check with Nasa and they say  the bright spot is not that unusual.

    Curiosly the Mars rover takes images using two cameras, one in its right eye and the other in its left.

    While the image from the right eye shows this bright spot, the same image from the left eye does not.

    Nasa says:-

    'If you do a little research, you can see that the light is not in the left-Navcam image that was taken at the exact same moment (see that image below). Several imaging experts agree this is a cosmic ray hit, and the fact that it's in one 'eye' but not the other means it's an imaging artifact and not something in the terrain on Mars shooting out a beam of light.'

    "The public can afford to speculate wildly but Nasa is an organisation internationally renowned for credible science.

     

    I have therefore delayed the scrambling of the Eggy Shuttle, but it is poised, on the roof, ready.

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  7. Went on-line to update the Parking Eye system of a Blue-Badge car registration and the www.northumbria.nhs.uk/parking page, from October 2013, still directs you to register on the system www.northumbria.nhs.uk/patients-and-visitors/car-parking BUT when you get to that page it says - 'The trust is currently changing the system used to manage its car parks so patients and visitors are asked to carefully observe signage in hospital car parks during this transitional period. 

    Costs

    There will be no change to current parking charges for patients / visitors which, at £1.20 per hour or a maximum of £4 for a 24 hour stay, continue to be some of the cheapest in the NHS. 

    In addition:

    • A free 20 minute period exists which allows 'pick-ups' and 'drop-offs'.
    • A half hourly charge of 60p is in place after the first hour of parking has been paid.
    • Disabled (blue) badge holders continue to be exempt from charges and should display their badge in their windscreen.'
  8. When our youngest, not two years old, she stayed with me mother, for 3-4 weeks whilst the wife went into hospital for an op and recovered. My mother could talk, skip, dance and amuse children all day. One little rhyme the youngin came out with was :-

     

    Igglede pigglede   (not Higglede Pigglede)

    Isolocite

    Bumbalada jig

    Every man who has no hair

    Aut to where a wig.

     

    No idea where it came; can't find anything about it on the www so it might be 'Bedlingtonian' (but it could also be Scottish, from me dad's side).

     

    Anybody else heard that rhyme?

  9. Only 7/10 for me! I'll have to get home more often!

     

    A question: Did you all get the Word "kets". I've never Heard this in the plural form. I've only ever Heard "ket" and then not only with the meaning sweets. My parents used the Word "ket" to describe anything that was rubbish. That could be anything from sweets to furniture to TV programmes.  

    Same here - only the singular 'ket' and it was used to refer to any product that was thought to be sub-standard.

  10. Just brilliant. Keep recycling sir. Are you going to add a chainmail cushion?

    As well as a cushion you could add a house number plaque like the enclosed and you might get a few sales in Bedlington :-

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  11. Following the sponsored charity walk on the 23rd of this month did the Bedlington Terrier group/club manage to set a Guinness world record - most number of Bedlington Terriers in a park or on a beach?

    Nothing on their Facebook site to say what was achieved, just a few photos of the gathering of owners and dogs at Bedlington Terriers FC.

     

  12. How To Maintain A Healthy Level Of Insanity in retirement.


    1. At Lunch Time, Sit In Your Parked Car With Sunglasses on and point a Hair Dryer At Passing Cars...watch 'em Slow Down!


     2. On all your cheque stubs, write'For Marijuana'!


     3. Skip down the street Rather Than Walk and see how many looks you get.


     4. Order a Diet Water whenever you go out to eat, with a serious face.


     5. Sing Along At The Opera.


      6. When The Money Comes Out of The ATM, Scream 'I Won! I Won!'


     7. When Leaving the Zoo, start Running towards the Car Park, Yelling 'Run For Your Lives! They're Loose!'


     8. Tell Your Children over dinner: 'Due to the economy,we are going to have to let one of you go...


      9. PICK UP A BOX OF CONDOMS AT THE PHARMACY, GO TO THE COUNTER AND ASK WHERE THE FITTING ROOM IS.


      10. Go to a large Department stores fitting room and yell out: THERE IS NO TOILET PAPER IN HERE! 


  13. "To the hills we lift our eyes" Nah. It was more De Profundis for meI or Non carborundum illegitimus! AB

    I'll believe you - Je ne comprends pas (and that will probably be wrong).

    Only remember Semper Sersum as 'Ever Upwards'. So after reading that off the school badge no more latin for me - 'B' stream all the way, couldn't spell french but the Bedlington accent was excellent for speaking the lingo.

  14. I only spent a short time at Westridge, a term or two, after refusing to go back to the Grammar school which I hated at the time. I must say it was probably one of my happiest times at school. I was rarely bored in the lessons and really took to subjects I'd never taken before, like metal work and technical drawing. Most of the teachers seemed enthusiastic and I had my mates around me. A lot of fun and I look back and sometimes wish I'd never passed the eleven plus, but hindsight is pretty useless really. I left at the end of the summer term in 1965. Although I was in 4r the lure of money made me want to leave so I did without a single qualification to my name. Great fun reading the posts on here. 

    Does that mean you were the first to go Semper Sursum!

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