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Having a thruppeny bit and excitedly setting off for the shops where half a penny could get you four sports mixtures, but dropping the coin and seeing it disappear into a crack in the curb. I checked out that hole for my shiny golden coin every time I passed it for about ten years. Having what was by now an old thruppeny bit that was all cruddy. My science teacher taking an interest and offering to clean it for me. He made up some solution, we dropped it in to see it go clean and shine once again. There was a lot of fizzing and the thing disappeared before our very eyes. A misreading of the acid dilution by the science teacher. Having a sixpence that was now worth two and a half pence. Receiving this: not only receiving a letter addressed to me, as a kid, but one with an Aston Villa posting frank on it, I've never had anything remotely as good in the post in the 38 years since

Have you considered delivering the news to your mate as a musical number? I've seen this work on the TV and some stage productions. If your not much of a composer yourself, this wouldn't need too much of a tweek to get the message over...

a month on, it would be interesting to see a progress report on where we are on the items they gave the Queen to read out

Very tidy, too. ------ I had a play with a prototype of a new turntable a couple of days ago. A new table as in they are still thinking of a name for the company and the product. It's probably going to be called a T 12 because 'T' can stand for turntable and 12 can mean 12 inch. But apparently, T12 is actually a joke from League of Gentlemen, but it's lost on me. Every component made and put together in Hampshire apparently, so I'm not expecting it to be £99. It sounded bloody lovely, but then it had a lot of expensive kit wired up to it and was in a clever acoustic room.

Went there quite a few times when the kids were smaller, so my info is 5, 6 years out of date. Mine loved it, lots of rides, but nothing too crazy so the smaller kids and young teens are fine. Might be worth checking out some of the overnight stay hotel deals, we did that a couple of times because if you get lucky timing with the deal it doesn't cost much more than just the family entry, but you get a longer day because you're not travelling from wherever. DON'T let the kids think they can have a go in the Lego pick n mix shop. Not unless you can clone credit cards.

second column, third row I count a total of 11 royals on those front covers and I'm excluding what looks like Cleopatra, but including a couple of dark haired young women I'm guessing are photos of the new breeding stock who's name escapes me. Kate? Katy? Catherine?

come on everybody, everybody dance now... zoom along to 1'55 if you just want to slam and chuck a chair

Don't believe the hype, you'll possibly need the earmuffs for Mr Brown's vocals.

bye bye Croatia that was thrown on the pitch close to people who were clearly picking up debris, they need to be made an example of then somebody needs to have a quiet word with whoever is in charge of security and suggest they find a different career as of tomorrow morning without wishing to be a drama queen, long long ago I was in a ground and saw somebody hit by a flare, they died, this is not about final warnings and last chances

the recommended minimum in most publications like the AJ metric handbook is 2.4m, but some would drop that to 2.2m which is really noticeable when the car next to you is an A6, which is 2.1m mirror to mirror of course, being an Audi, this is solved by parking horizontally across a couple of disabled bays closest to the cash machine, window open, bon jovi booming

it's in the shed / garage / workshop at the moment it's in that tricky transitional period between arriving home and declaring: 'what this?, nah I've had it years'.

firstly, we need @blandy to tell us what turntable he bought... secondly, I'm going to try and get this thing installed and up and running on the weekend, the radio is cute in a 1976 kind of way (the receipt says this one was bought in 1978), but apparently the phono stage allows you to play a turntable through it and is supposed to be stunningly good.....well we shall see what 1976 stunningly good does with some scratchy old Jam singles.... Eventually (one day / some day), my plan with this is to rather deviously take the top off it, take the boxing off a DAB radio and ram the DAB radio into this some how. Maybe. I'm going to check the exact wording of the house insurance first.

There are two guys in my office that 'do' car park design. These things are not just thrown together, there is just as much design to a car park layout as any other element of a building. Having said that, different Clients want different qualities of layout and some local authorities dabble in the design before giving approval. If you have the car park designer, the client, the planning department and highways department all having a dabble, what you can get is design by committee. I would imagine most of you could have a pretty good guess which Clients would want to maximise the number of cars rammed in the legal minimum space for the minimum financial outlay and constructed the fastest, and which ones prefer a more relaxing, safe, logical layout.

puts everything else firmly in the trivia category from the comments on the radio, an exceptionally good person

Oh believe me, I have.

the power of the internet, the flag has been found and returned to it's proper carer as can be seen from this photo, alcohol ban in full force

jeesh, these ticket prices I know you guys got good value with your Neil Young gig as it sounds like he 'turned up', but for me those £60 / £70 tickets are just too risky. Not least, when another thing that often goes with a £60 ticket is a view from 60 metres away. It's no reflection on quality of sound etc., but a quick tot up of the last 5 gigs I've been to and I reckon my total outlay for tickets has been £38. What has come with that £38 quid has been a view from 4, 5, 6 metres away and on a few occasions a little chat with the band before or after the gig. I might just be tight.

It's unlikely to be any european country before 2030 at the earliest, so I wouldn't worry too much about that. There are dickheads out there doing their level best to spoil it. But you also have to remember there are cameramen with mobile phones and scooters, circling the place looking for any photo they can get of a tit in a bucket hat throwing a plastic cup. They aren't showing the street bands, the local school kids getting kits, Irish fans fixing an old guy's punctured tyre, welsh fans singing for a newly wed couple, england fans cleaning up the morning after the night before. I'm not an apologist like some on here. Just, you know, there's tens of thousands over there just having a nice time, having a beer, shaking hands and coming home with swapped Slovakia shirts.

I'm in a very tricky position. My boss has just discovered football in the last 24 hours and has decided that as an office we can all watch it here, together, with some snacks, as a bonding thing. I say boss, he owns the company. Personally, I'm perfectly comfortable watching the football with football fans, english, welsh, tibetan or whatever. Like anyone else, you can pretty quickly work out the decent ones and the thin skinned ones carrying patio furniture. But what I have here, is a rugby liking crowd that have suddenly discovered football for the day. I can't be doing with that. I'll be away to find some football people soon.

we've all stalked someone in a supermarket Waitrose is the best one in my area. By a quirk of business and geography Waitrose is perceived as posh and people drive in from the Vale in their Evoques and SLK's, but it is located within walking distance of a rough estate. The choice in Waitrose is amazing.

some videos describe them as refugees some videos describe them as Roma could just be kids some people just see happy local children playing a safe mutually enjoyed coin tossing game with the nice harmless tourists out on a cultural exchange to assess the mood in europe ahead of casting their referendum vote I'm edging more towards the first three than the fourth.

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