Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)

Had a gander at the lot Malcolm and 'scratcha - deek and napper are three I could never have thought off. Tried putting them into a sentence - English - If you won't give me a view of your recent purchase I'm off to bed, to rest me head ,before going out. Bedlington - Giz a luk at what yi just bout before a sleep off this after's session. Chronicle - Giz a deek at that before a gan yem to me scratcha, as me nappa's knacking off gannin on the hoy = gobbledogook to me.

GGGs topic in 'Computing' on the iphone ------------------------------------------------- Posted 21 May 2014 - 11:25 AM We've known for a while that the iPhone 6 was going to be a fair bit bigger (once again), but here is a leak of one of the dummies supplied to case manufacturers to ensure they have their sizing absolutely correct. The white phone is, of course, a Sammy Galaxy S5. The Apple copy of the Galaxy Note seems to be due later. That this exists is in no doubt, and is another climb-down for a firm which ridiculed the original Note (and just about everything else they have slowly backtracked on). The Note 4 will be out near year end, so Apple have a lot of catching up to do. What it will be called is intriguing as surely they won't stoop to calling it the iNote? iPadPhone sounds more than awkward! None of this would matter if Apple adopted a live and let live attitude to competitors, and didn't constantly spin that their own originality and innovation was being compromised. The truth is that they are the biggest cloner of other people's ideas on planet Earth! made me think, in my own little world, how thinks have been cloned, or evolved or just grown ----------------------------------------------- made me think about how manufactured items have evolved so, in my own little world, I had a bit play :- Communications (ending with GGGs iphone 6) :- Malcolm's Terrier seat :- Flight :- Got any manufactured goods you can trace back etc you can show where the idea came from?

Don't normally remember much from films (last one I saw was Titanic!) but Dr Brown's Flux capacitor fro Back to the Future - brilliant. Surely the Flux Capacitor original?

Posted 19 May 2014 - 11:04 PM Can't remember the trophy name I think it was a shield,just remember the good times,the funny thing was Everybody thought they would have a walkover when they played the Sally Army but there cricket player was called Brian dixon He opened the batting for Bedlington & I do believe he played for Northumberland ."by the way I do know you & your brother very well nice to see your doing O.K........ 0 #49 tonyg Posted Yesterday, 11:32 PM the cricket club trophy for the pubs and clubs was called the bedlington cricket club novices . as a mate of mine showed me a medal from it tonight. Looks like we have all been there and done that. What a boring game when fielding. In the late 1960s I was forced to stand in the field for George Hemsted's Butcher's eleven. Brian Dixon, old school mate of mine, would also have been playing in the competition. Think it was one cricket club player per team and the rest were dragged in from anywhere.

Surely every manufactured product in this world is cloned from previous knowledge and then wrapped up to hopefully appeal to enough punters so it makes a huge profit for the company clone!

Can't remember hearing that one before - thank you Keith - Brilliant.

Can't remember this happening before - Credit card statement for this month = Outstanding Balance £0.00 = too old!!

Mmmmmm - memories - your post makes me think back and feel just as old as I felt yesterday. 1975 - ICL 1900s - fixed discs - can't remeber if they were FD80s or 800s 1980 - ICL 2900 - Exchangeable Discs - EDS200s My first PC - 1995 - ICL M40 - YES an amazing 40 Mb of store - cost £1,400+! = Lemmings - Kings Quest; Space Quest - Blox etc. No mouse, everything moved via the keyboard. Can't find that article you read on Disk Operating systems.

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Maggie John Sykes (of Newcastle –upon-Tyne) – 1833 – a Historical register of remarkable events. http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Local_records_or_Historical_register_of.html?id=MkkuAAAAMAAJ&redir_esc=y You may use this facility but in case you don't; I know you research the history of our county and probably search for historical books at various shops throughout our region. Whilst searching via Google for 'River Wansbeck – Wakenshaw Hall – Drowning' a link to Google Books (something I have never looked at, I don't read ) came up with a link to a book by John Sykes (of Newcastle –upon-Tyne) – 1833 – a Historical register of remarkable events. I have not read the 410 pages (closed my eyes for 10 mins and slayed 3 dragons, rescued and made love to 12 maidens………….) Looks like a very good Index, at the end of the book……….just nodded off and scored the winning goal at the FA Cup final, in injury time!

I think the newsagent at The Red Lion - Beadnell's, got a few mentions when we were identifying old shops etc but this was the only post I could find that covered it so I've added a picture I have just come accross. This is a very old 'photoshoped' postcard I saw in a book by Brian Godffrey - 'Postcards from Cramlington'. These were the postcards produced to cover the sight of the Zeppelin - April 14th 1915. It shows Dr Trotters monument, Beadnell's shop, The Wharton and a structure where the 'BUDC' shelter was erected.

Malcolm - is there any on-line facilities - NCC - Tesco - Morrisons etc. where we the bedlington.co.uk community could ask or /email about public toilet facilities? I have done a quick check on the NCC, Tesco & Morrisons sites but can't find an appropriate facility. Could the community site invite the local supermarkets & NCC to see what the locals complain about on their community site?

Supposedly actual comments made on students' end of term reports:- 1. Since my last report, your child has reached rock bottom and has started to dig. 2. I would not allow this student to breed. 3. Your child has delusions of adequacy. 4. Your son is depriving a village somewhere of an idiot. 5. Your son sets low personal standards and then consistently fails to achieve them. 6. The student has a 'full six-pack', but lacks the plastic thing to hold it all together. 7. This child has been working with glue too much. 8. When your daughter's IQ reaches 50, she should sell. 9. The gates are down, the lights are flashing, but the train isn't coming. 10. If this student were any more stupid, he'd have to be watered twice a week. 11. It's impossible to believe the sperm that created this child beat out 1,000,000 others. 12. The wheel is turning but the hamster is definitely dead.

Keith - I'm sure you have looked into all the ins & outs of starting work (and not getting paid for a month) but if I can help with any searching the .gov info sites, like - https://www.gov.uk/moving-from-benefits-to-work/support-when-you-start-working etc. etc. I will.

Remember the 'bricks' but unfortunately can't remember such convenience as a dispenser for us Bed. Station lads, we had to retrieve them from the ice-cream freezer.

Congrats Keith - I thought I spotted you on your way for the interview:-

Still does Keith, it's just your mind is in tune with the modern world and you should walk an interview! Unless you are Whinney the Pooh where Ho Hum = a sigh, a constant source of disappointment, Ho Hum. Good Luck (whatever way you are playing it) for tomorrow.

Keith - just been on the Hp support web site and they don't do a 7620 laptop - do you mean 6720? Not that I have a clue what the problem is and unless the red & whites are available to night you won't get many replies tonight - Arsenal are just about to give us, NUFC, a kicking - off to suffer, again.

Too late for the tourist trade but the now closed Barrington Arms gets a paragraph in Issue No 138 - February/March 2014 of The Northumbrian - Gordon Wilkinson (journalist I think) on a subject 'How a Pub makes a name for itself' has written :- ...... However a look in the window of the Barrington Arms in Bedlington during the Second World War could have brought good news to those fancying a pint. Beer was rationed in those days but it could be in short supply , so the landlord would stick a stuffed monkey in the window to tip off those in the know that he had recieved a consignment. The pub has been named the nicknamed The Monkey ever since.' No mention of where he got the story from.

Thicko's. So the police will be on the look out for short people who are a Toolbox short of a spanner! Anyone seeing a table balanced on four bricks please report it.

http://www.quailfarm.co.uk/index.php/quail-info/quail-breeding The Breeding Stock There are generally two main methods of breeding that are normally practiced in quail breeding. One is when you have mixed sex quails in a cage/ housing. The male-female rate should be 1:2.5 which means 4 quail cockerels to 10 quail hens. If you breed quails on a larger scale or don't have the time necessary to spend on the other method this is the one you want to go for. This method has some disadvantages as well, like frequent fights between the males, which causes general nervousness in the cage and the fertilization and egg laying rate can become irregular.

They have taken their time. These are the first Oscar nominations I have received :- She didn't notice Oscar sneaking up behind her.................. It was the silence of the limbs. New Valentine's Day card: "Roses are red, violets are glorious.. Never creep up On Oscar Pistorius.â€