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I was on night shift at the same hospital my daughter was in when she went into labour and after several calls the midwife put her foot down and said "stop phoning Richard, I'll call you if things change" LOL. He was born at 06:50, I gave the quickest handover report I could and was holding him...

Its not the van, it was a Mini car, sorry mate. Did you know Dave Evans he worked on intercom installations IIRC.

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Fred also wrote a book https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1107419.Mental_Prodigies One last photo for you.

I never met Ron, he and Frank had a fall out over something or other. He and Frank were in the RAF, Ron was not a flyer (I think groundcrew) and Frank worked in Radar, he was ground based too but did fly missions when new radar equipment was being developed (he also landed with US ground troops...

I knew Frank from when I was eleven through to his death, a gentleman and one of the most intelligent people I have ever met. He loved ham radio (G5IW) and after retiring to Wales got a part time job at Aberystwyth University in the physics department. They were doing an upper atmosphere...

Your a bad man Morturn your going to cost me best part of £300!!! I've got some spare worktop space in the radio shack crying out for a 3D printer :cool: I'm a bit of a silver haired geek, love technology so I'm buying one.

My step father was Frank Barlow, he and his brother Ron took over from their father Fred when he retired. The company was sold to Ryman's IIRC. They had a yellow Transit van, minivan and mini...the mini was given to me when I past my test age 17...lots of great memories of that mini. Frank...

Great job there but can you imagine the local H&S inspector visiting there today...unsecured ladders, goods obstructing the public pavement etc....he'd have a breakdown.

Good site for aerial photos https://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/ We're so lucky living here in South Wales, Brecon Beacons is a 20 min drive, Barry Island/Porthcawl about 40 mins and an hour to the Gower Peninsula :cool:

The good curry houses use mutton or goat, still do. I love goat but can only get it when I drive into Cardiff. There used to be a fantastic Jamaican cafe/take away on Dudley road and their goat dishes were fantastic. If you were a regular you could buy little bags of off menu 'special herbs'...

" how curry houses offered an affordable meal out for many people at the time" The business plan and the food served. Most restaurant's were family owned and run with members working long hours for less pay than the workers in unionised industries around them is and was a major factor for...

4K video downloader is free, downloads from a lot of sites including youtube and dailymotion plus you have the option to rip only the sound/audio track which is great for getting a copy of harder to find music. It creates a folder called 4K video downloader in your W10 video directory so easy...

VLC with handle any media you throw at it, I'm in the radio shack typing this and VLC is playing one of my blues playlists in the background; works well on Android phones too.

Many thank Mike Whisky, 73 and good DX to you too.

Joking aside I've had a busy 12 months. The wife went back into nursing at the start of the outbreak so there was me, ham radio and I got back into restoring old Primus type stoves but the big thing was home schooling the grand children; the parents are front line workers so I had a 7 year old...

Don't let facts stand in the way of a good story ;)

State Enrolled Nurse was a two year course and you had more limited promotion prospects compared to a State Registered Nurse who trained for three years. Day to day clinical role was much the same, both could issue patient medications etc. My mom nursed there (SRN), my wife also then went on...

Another foot tapper for you all

My lad sent me this, he said it sums me up a treat Hope he was joking :)