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  1. ChrisM

    can you place any forum issues in here after the rebuild

    You make useful and sensible points, Andrew. I think, however, that any further discussion here on the principle of advertising may not be appropriate. Two reasons: First, decisions on advertising/funding are down entirely to the owner and the only involvement by members and Moderators is when...
  2. ChrisM

    Forum Issues After The System Rebuild - August 2024 and Later (see post#6 of 8 Aug 24 for explanatory comment)

    Now that the serious problem of duplication of posts seems to have been satisfactorily resolved – I assume it is and the only outstanding matter is for Mods to tidy up all the affected threads – I hope it's OK to get back to the general question. We had a situation where advertisements were...
  3. ChrisM

    can you place any forum issues in here after the rebuild

    Just to say, problem still ongoing. It applies to "Conversations" - which, being translated, means to me "private mail" - as well. Chris
  4. ChrisM

    THE ROLE OF THE MODERATORS AND HOW THE FORUM WORKS (PART 1)

    A good addition, Alberta! The world moves on, not always for the better. When this explanation of Moderators' duties was compiled four years ago, few of us had heard of the term "influencer". Therefore no mention was made of a newer Moderator duty, which is nowadays to vet New Members by...
  5. ChrisM

    can you place any forum issues in here after the rebuild

    Ads regularly appearing for me (on IPhone with no adblocker - why should I have to have one?) ) in mid thread, between posts. Also sometimes at the very end of a thread, like a final post. (The latter MAY be a bottom of the page advert but are in that case too close to the thread itself and...
  6. ChrisM

    Holidays of the past

    Some of these threads have been going on for a heck of a time! Nine years ago, now, I posted something here about my first conscious view of the sea, at the age of just four. I took it into my head recently to tidy that up, illustrate it, interpret it a bit and so on, just for the family...
  7. ChrisM

    happy birthday cookie273uk (eric)

    All the very best, Eric. Chris
  8. ChrisM

    SUNBAC Sutton & North Birmingham Automobile Club

    Penny, you may well have already looked but there seems to be a large number of images relating to SUNBAC online if you search via Google/Images, many of them pre-war. I don't know whether any/many of them relate back to a more detailed history of the club but one or two might. Cars were...
  9. ChrisM

    Seventy-five Years Ago Today....(and eventually Eighty!)

    A couple of short extracts from the full article which gives me the excuse of posting a photograph of my brother, Graham, from around that time - b. 1922 in Rubery, lived in Selly Oak, Erdington, Streetly and several hundred other places in Tunisia, Sicily, Italy and Austria up to November 1946...
  10. ChrisM

    Seventy-five Years Ago Today....(and eventually Eighty!)

    D-Day has happened! This is what I remember of it, viewed from the following day. And also a bit of the other things which were happening to me and family in those momentous weeks, 80 years ago. Bits of this you might just remember from five years ago but it's been tidied up, expanded and...
  11. ChrisM

    MY FIRST/SECOND GRANDCHILD

    And a Happy Birthday to James from me too. I wonder if eighty years hence he'll look back on and remember his eighth birthday, as I have been doing recently on mine. Suspect that the world might by then be an even more different place than 1944 seems to me now - which is wholly unrecognisable...
  12. ChrisM

    Seventy-five Years Ago Today....(and eventually Eighty!)

    ........ continued from previous post........ In these years following the end of the war, Dad has been able to do again what he has tried to do ever since he got married and my brother was born in 1922 - give his family a nice summer holiday. We go to Devon for two weeks at the the end of...
  13. ChrisM

    Seventy-five Years Ago Today....(and eventually Eighty!)

    Come to think of it, what about 75 years ago today? (Not quite so easy, I find, because there are no critical dates to pin everything to). 75 years ago today was June 2nd 1949, a Thursday. I was 13. And I'd been at Bishop Vesey's Grammar School for nearly 5 years. During that time I'd had...
  14. ChrisM

    Is this family

    This is why I said I could vaguely detect a wedding ring on the correct finger - but AI image only. Chris
  15. ChrisM

    can you place any forum issues in here after the rebuild

    My own view is a bit old-fashioned even though I'm aware of ad-blocking methods. I think that a website like this one should be, at the very least, just about acceptable to view to anyone who is a member or who stumbles across it while searching the internet. And, who, for whatever reason -...
  16. ChrisM

    can you place any forum issues in here after the rebuild

    The trouble with these Humix pop-up videos is that they are appearing adjacent to people's posts and appear to be attachments inserted by the poster. There is little or nothing to indicate that they ARE adverts. It took me a moment or two yesterday to understand why on earth Astoness had made...
  17. ChrisM

    Is this family

    There seems to me to be the slightest suspicion of a ring on the correct finger in the AI adjusted image - but not in the original (which is worrying!). Also in the new image there is remarkable similarity between the nose/mouth area for both individuals which confirms the assumption of a close...
  18. ChrisM

    Is this family

    Nice photograph, thanks for posting it and welcome to the Forum! Shouts Edwardian to me, or a little into the Great War. The boy is wearing knickerbockers, a fashion which started in the second half of the 19th century and lasted well into the 20th. The lady may or may not be wearing something...
  19. ChrisM

    Seventy-five Years Ago Today....(and eventually Eighty!)

    (Reposted, as it looks as though yesterday's attempt has been permanently lost due to Forum technical problems). This is another year of significant anniversaries, life having trundled on for a further five years. Now it's all 80 years ago! Since last posting in this thread and over the last...
  20. ChrisM

    can you place any forum issues in here after the rebuild

    You are probably aware anyway, Warren, but most of today's stuff seems to have disappeared. Chris
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