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Phone, iPad and computer all working fine! Thank you…

Never went to the Lyric, but the Palladium always seemed to have great flicks!

Happy Birthday Bob, have a great day with many many more returns!

Sorry about this!

This is a Chatanooga Choo Choo! It is a part of the Chatanooga Mountain Valley Railroad. A couple of years ago for Christmas, our son and his wife gave us dinner (white linen tablecloths) on a two-hour train ride pulled by a sister locomotive. This was taken in the CMVR yard near the station.

Back in the day, galvanizing was “hot dipped” tending to leave a thicker coating. Today most (not all) galvanizing is electro galvanizing which is basically a plating process. Electro galvanizing does work quite well, uses less material and is excellent for metalworking and takes paint very...

Amazing how satisfied and pleased we were to get a single figure once in awhile. I collected Coldstream Guards on horseback (made out of lead and leaded paint) I wasn’t told they could make me sick so I didn’t.

Today is Cinco Demayo you should be serving that with a margarita or Don Julio! Love those quesadillas….

I think slow cooked or braised meats are the absolute best! Along with rice and macaroni pudding of course :) , maybe some bread pudding as well!

What we call: “snatching defeat from the jaws of victory” particularly photo 1. Thank you!

Castellated, your great uncle maintained and refit the drive belts for the machinery. It was for the most part a critical job. Many of the belts “back in the day” had to be custom fit or they were even more dangerous. Usually there was a master drive belt from the power source which was more...

And they were pretty good days! Could really go for a cheese roll and a pint right now.

The belts were leather and maintenance was important, if a belt failed during work hours it was a severe safety issue. When I left Brooke Tool Automation in November 1962, 30% of the machines were still belt driven.

I had numerous invisible friends! Never knew about Kelly dolls or totopoly either.

I must have lived under a rock, I never remember subbuteo or new footy :-(

Beautiful garden!

Absolutely, we get the same! One of the pistol trainers “takes no prisoners” he never gave up until he instilled safety in you.

Ours was: NOR 7614, how’s that for 62 years on :)!

Next door!