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Pete, You mean the old Grid Bias batteries - 6 x 1.5volts in series - very useful those were. Ain't seen 'em for years. Maurice :cool:

How many pharmacies will sell you chemicals these days? Few I bet. My pharmacy will get me 1 kg packs of Magnesium Sulphate - i use it as a fertiliser - and I think it is around £7 a pack. But I remember when I was young that you could buy many chemicals there or sometimes at the drysalters...

At least things were reuseable in those days as far as accumulators go - just recharge them and you're good for another few days. A few batteries are now rechargeable today, but most go for recycling. Is the lithium recoverable? I've no idea & am too busy to look it up. But every month we take a...

Bob, Alternative in this case means different. If you are still using Internet Explorer, support for that has stopped or is about to stop. Since you most probably cannot change it yourself, then you may have to call whoever is in charge of your network. Maurice :cool:

Cowdell Jones - can't be anything else in my view. Maurice :cool:

Bit late in the day to start worrying about that! Maurice :cool:

A calculator certainly isn't much used to you, Mort. Remember the old hat sizes of 6 7/8 - what do they use now, or does no one wear a hat where the size matters, just a big woolly sock over your head, though the latter is undoubtedly warmer. ........Now was that £7 19s 11 1/2d per sq ft? :)...

Christopher, Welcome to the Forum. This looks like the liquidation. I couldn't find much else about them though. Gerald Anthony Fenwick Coward seems to be either an accountant, a lawyer or venture capitalist, and his name has been associated with over 80,000 companies, so it is possible a...

I remember the 10 bob note was put forward as the new unitary pound, but rejected as pounds didn't change and most of the rest was in effect "tiddlers". I think that big business had a say in that. Over hear in Greece, supermarkets have always rounded to the nearest 5 cents (or lepta as they are...

Making someone feel or look like an idiot is never a good practice, and completely ignores the fact that people's rates of learning differ, and some things come naturally and others don't. I still struggle with calculus today, not that I have a need to comprehend it, yet I used to enjoy algebra...

Wam, The real test is are people still playing it 30 or 40 years later? Looking back 100 years, both Debussy & Ravel were modern and some decried their works, but they have consistently proved popular in concert halls, and have been used as models for much later music, even today. By contrast...

Bob, Is there anything to understand in that loud brash modern stuff? I don't think so, it is just noise to dance to. I regard John Cage 4.33 as just a huge joke and they have even set up one to play for goodness knows how many years now in Germany. Absolutely pointless. All day, all week more...

Brilliant photograph, John, and may you share many more. We had to make do with the electronic stuff as we're still in tight lockdown with all but food shops shut. But a cuddle means much more. Maurice :cool:

John, With "music" you've left the door wide open and I could fill a whole book with stuff that I didn't like, plus that which I thought was musically worthless - atonal stuff such as Schoenberg and Alban Berg, it's simply tuneless, and electronic dance music. As a child I didn't like Money is...

I don't think my old joints would allow be to get around the back at all, and it's grown so long now, I wouldn't trust anyone but a hairdresser to get it back into shape! Maurice :cool:

The death has just been announced of pianist Chich Corea aged 79 from a rare form of cancer. A big loss to the jazz world. RIP Chick Maurice :cool:

Smudger, We're getting a bit off topic, but when the customers outnumber the supplies, gentlemen's agreemants go out of the window and, as we have seen, it is still dog eat dog. :) Maurice :cool:

Finally got my appointment for 5 March and the second one for 3 weeks later. But our friendly pharmacist, a great guy, said on 15 February they are taking bookings for next age group which is the one my other half Jan is in. On that date he will get book Jan's appointment and make them at the...

I really prefer to see them hopping about, but they certainly eat them here and rabbit is available in a few restaurants (when they're open again!). When it's getting close to dusk, mainly in the summer, you sometimes see two or three guys out on the headland north of us with shotguns, and less...

Wendy, I'm still twiddling my thumbs & the lockdow is even tighter, not surpringly, but I'll message you with the details. Adding to that, our beautiful Spring weather, really warm and dry for this time of the year, is right now looking rather gloomy. We read real crazy forecasts of 1947-style...