Recent content by wam

Some years back I used to know a girl (Lin? Grant?) who claimed her dad had played in Dave Brubeck's band in London in the 60s/70s. Robert Plant was a fan and turned up at her dad's wedding (not to her mother this time). She told this story a few times. Someone else I knew slightly claimed he...

Inch long scar on right hand after being stabbed with a cold chisel at school.

Just because Microsoft no longer provides updates to an operating system doesn't mean the computer will stop working. It will be exposed to more internet threats but, if you're reasonably careful, these don't mean so much. Most people think Linux is something obscure that no-one has ever seen...

I walked past there on the way home from the dentist yesterday. It does have all of the signage on the outside at the side but the window nearest the front shows something white sand solid at an angle suggesting that, at least, that room isn't in use. The front on pershore road is a different...

Probably not it's an old scam that's been around for years. Since the content of the link is behind a paywall at the daily Express, you could say that the article itself is a scam trying to get you to stump up for an Express subscription with an article that could have been written years ago...

Some of these you report as spam. If the email has some kind of link that you are supposed to follow report it as "phishing". Some email providers have this as an option. This incurs a block on the sender as well.

Presumably the ads on this site come from a particular scheme/provider etc. From the look of some of those I'm getting here I'd question the ethics of that scheme. Who are they?

Odd that you should put it that way. The pavements outside the Moseley station are currently blocked and there are temporary traffic lights there that slow down traffic on St Mary's Row on occasions. Not that much different from normal. On the other hand Kings Heath station has its temporary...

Nearest you get to that at the moment is the basement of Forbidden Planet on Bull Street. Same specialist books, less imports, no second hand. There's some second hand that might suit you at BookTower on poplar road in kings heath but that's little more than a shelf or two. If you have an...

Credit card numbers don't usually change with reissue unless you've got an upgrade or reported it lost or stolen. The acknowledgement number will change.

I tend to use this as a map reference https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=16.3&lat=52.45909&lon=-1.88978&layers=175&b=3&o=100 You should be able to change date to see the map through time - in the box about map overlays - but it does have different detail depending on the map you choose.

They still do tours by zeppelin in parts of Germany. https://zeppelinflug.de/en/zeppelin-flights?srsltid=AfmBOor208dFuTH53b_OcLVYrQE4-b8BWGFTS41M6Nm-8oWx1N2XXd5R

I remember some time ago after someone found a similar memorial from the local presbyterian church asking around about what was supposed to happen to such things. If the church still exists - in this case The Wesleyan Church not specifically the one on corporation street - it should still belong...

Some time in 1978 I started working for S Rose & Co who sold wholesale clothing and a few other things. At that time their main building was on the corner of Lionel Street and Ludgate Hill. They also had sections of the business in buildings on the other side of Ludgate Hill. The main building...

I think the "illegal" thing about Crass records was part of the selling point. The record that the police raided for and took away (not a flexi disc) was still for sale at the high street chains.