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One of my favorite songs of all time, Elusive Butterfly by Bob Lind (also a hit for Val Doonican) Val Doonican version

A better quality version of Kites by Simon Dupree and the Big Sound with a lovely video. Well I never knew that, originally recorded by the "Rooftop Singers"

With the mention of Beatles tribute bands above I guess many of you have heard of The Rutles. This group was a "cheap" version of the Beatles (as they came from Rutland) thought up by Eric Idle of Monty Python fame which originally appeared on the BBC TV show Rutland Weekend Television (that...

I live near the old Lucas Shirley site. Not sure how long it is since some of you have seen it but the site has changed dramatically over the last few years, and is still changing. On the site a hotel has been built, numerous car showrooms, retirement homes, other business buildings etc...

Note the option to delay updates varies between different versions of Windows 10. Windows 10 Home (which I guess most of us run) has limited ability to stop or delay updates. Windows 10 Pro (for "Professionals") has more ability to stop or delay updates Windows 10 Enterprise (for large...

Web site for the project here (with maps of how it will look) https://www.glennhowells.co.uk/project/icknield-port-loop-2/ Another web site for the project here https://www.urbansplash.co.uk/regeneration/projects/port-loop And another web site for the project here https://www.port-loop.com/

I used to work near Five Ways in the early 1980s (for IBM the largest computer company in the world at the time). I sometimes used to walk up and down Broad Street during my lunchtime. I also took a load of photographs in the area, before and during redevelopment, which I have posted in this...

I sometimes get on the train at Solihull (where it is easy to get on with no ticket) to Moor St station. I ALWAYS buy a ticket. But if it is a busy time at Moor Street station the electronic barriers are often open and anyone can walk through without a ticket. Often trains in from Solihull to...

Below is a map showing Convgreve Passage (the red line with pointers at each end) pretty much as it is now. When finished it will be pedestrian only. For a number of years the council have been trying to make it easier for pedestrians to get from the city centre to the Jewelery Quarter but...

I updated one of my PCs to Windows 10 build 2004 (from build 1909) a couple of days ago but was not asked about retaining all data or clean installation. I never am during a major Windows update. It did the update but it kept all my apps and data and basically put the machine back as it was...

What was the fright? John Major coming in to her room :-)

If you are going to try to sort out your 64GB using Easeus try to do it on a spare PC and not your main one. So easy to get confused with various disks and USBs on a computer and it is easy to make a mistake. Maybe do it on a spare laptop or other PC, or get your PC engineer friend to have a...

Note there are (or were) plans to turn this house in to a care home. More here https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/revealed-new-plans-imposing-victorian-17742027

I would not play around altering partitions etc on your USB memory stick in case you get it wrong and alter the partitions on your hard disks making them unusable (this is easier to do than you may think, I remember reading of one person who formatted their whole external hard drive containing...

It sounds like you have two physical hard drives, with Windows and all your personal files on one, and these "backup" files on the other. So I THINK if you did a Windows recovery it would only update the hard disk with Windows on it and not the other hard disk. However we don't know what...

Very interesting write up. One slight "typo" if you plan to use the text elsewhere. In the opening sentence you say "I used play snooker and drink with John “Ozzy” Osbourne" I guess you mean "I used TO play snooker....."

Seeing the word "diphtheria" brings home to me how many illnesses that used to be very common are now rarely heard about. I was born in 1949 and it was common when I was growing up to hear of illnesses like diphtheria, polio, or tuberculosis as well as illnesses that went round schools...

With a big thanks to Galton and Simpson who wrote Hancocks Half Hour, for radio and TV. They got his "character" just right. Sadly Hancock was never as funny without Galton and Simpson writing for him. After he split from Galton and Simpson in 1960/1961 they went on write Steptoe and Son which...

I am sure most of you know about the TV channel "Talking Pictures". It is available on various platforms (Sky, Virgin etc, see web site below) While it does show mostly films and historic documentaries it also features many old TV series, some of them comedy. Recently it has been showing "Get...

In the first sentence am I right in thinking you are saying Windows 10 is being phased out? If that is what you are saying then there is no truth in that. Microsoft have said for a while that Windows 10 will be the "last" release of Windows. Windows 10 came out in 2015 and has been constantly...