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rushfan4 
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 Posted: September 22 2008 at 17:28 |
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Syzygy wrote:
limeyrob wrote:
Spent a good few hours mowing the lawn over the weekend. I use a petrol rotary mower. It's not too noisy but I wear padded ear protectors...........
..........over my Walkman earphones so that I can listen to prog at the same time!!!
Who said blokes can't multi-task???? |
If you're anything like me you probably spend longer choosing what to listen to than you do actually doing the job. |
But it's such a critical decision! The next 30-60 minutes of your life hangs in the balance! 
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It is thread chains like these that remind me why I like you guys on this forum. This is such a prog fan thing to do. I'm definitely glad I'm not the only one.
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limeyrob
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Posted: September 22 2008 at 17:31 |
No decisions necessary.
As I commented in other threads I have discovered the 'Shuffle Items' option on my Walkman which shuffles between albums rather than tracks. So all I do is press play and leave it to the player. Until then I had my albums sorted by title, but after a few plays I had a good idea of what was coming up next.
Not any more. Only had the player for three years.
I rarely cherry-pick tracks. it has to be the whole album for me.
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mystic fred
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Posted: September 23 2008 at 01:37 |
Dean wrote:
After several months of toil (and about 5 years of planing and procrastinating), Darq Towers now has a moat to repel invaders:
Added the final touches this weekend and transfered the fish from their temporary home in a large tub to the relative luxury of a 2000 litre pond. 
If nothing else I now know not to give up my day job to become a brickie. |
very neat job, Dean! 
my poor old tomatoes were devastated by all the rain we've been having, they're all rotting away on the truss (hope that's the only kind of truss i'll be dealing with in the next 20 years  ).
time to lay my plans out for a Greenhouse - next Spring's big project.
today a Greenhouse, tomorrow who knows? watch out Homebase here i come! 
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mystic fred
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Posted: September 23 2008 at 01:43 |
limeyrob wrote:
No decisions necessary.
As I commented in other threads I have discovered the 'Shuffle Items' option on my Walkman which shuffles between albums rather than tracks. So all I do is press play and leave it to the player. Until then I had my albums sorted by title, but after a few plays I had a good idea of what was coming up next.
Not any more. Only had the player for three years.
I rarely cherry-pick tracks. it has to be the whole album for me. |
back in 1982 i had one of the original tape-player Sony Walkmans, the sound quality was excellent, but there was always this competition to see if the batteries would last the length of a whole album...
are the digital Walkmans good? i tried one of those Zen MP3 thingys - as i suspected it sounded like the proverbial bee-in-a-tin-can 
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Man Erg
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Posted: September 23 2008 at 02:50 |
Dean wrote:
Added the final touches this weekend and transfered the fish from their temporary home in a large tub to the relative luxury of a 2000 litre pond.
If nothing else I now know not to give up my day job to become a brickie. |
That's impressive,Dean.
I thought that you said that you had 'a patch of lawn'.
That would make an excellent pub garden...But then again I suppose it already does
Edited by Man Erg - September 23 2008 at 02:50
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Do 'The Stanley' otherwise I'll thrash you with some rhubarb.
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Jared
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Posted: September 23 2008 at 02:53 |
limeyrob wrote:
Until then I had my albums sorted by title, but after a few plays I had a good idea of what was coming up next. |
that, and the fact that every time you turned it on, it automatically played all the 'Asia' albums again...
..were distinct disadvantages... 
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Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson
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Jared
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Posted: September 23 2008 at 02:55 |
mystic fred wrote:
watch out Homebase here i come!
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I think 'Shed' residents can get 10% off on Wednesdays...
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Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson
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Jared
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Posted: September 23 2008 at 02:57 |
Man Erg wrote:
That would make an excellent pub garden...But then again I suppose it already does |
are you saying he 'creosotes' his wooden bench in Real Ale, every spring?... 
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Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson
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Man Erg
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Posted: September 23 2008 at 02:58 |
fandango wrote:
mystic fred wrote:
watch out Homebase here i come!
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I think 'Shed' residents can get 10% off on Wednesdays... |
Not forgetting a subsidised meal from the 'restaurant'.
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Do 'The Stanley' otherwise I'll thrash you with some rhubarb.
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Man Erg
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Posted: September 23 2008 at 03:01 |
I do...sealed in with a top layer of crisp crumbs and moss.
Edited by Man Erg - September 23 2008 at 03:39
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Do 'The Stanley' otherwise I'll thrash you with some rhubarb.
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Atavachron
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Posted: September 23 2008 at 03:06 |
Dean wrote:
Added the final touches this weekend and transfered the fish from their temporary home in a large tub to the relative luxury of a 2000 litre pond.
If nothing else I now know not to give up my day job to become a brickie. |
sweet, though as an American I look at it and see a BBQ pit waiting to happen 
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Posted: September 23 2008 at 03:31 |
Dean wrote:
After several months of toil (and about 5 years of planing and procrastinating), Darq Towers now has a moat to repel invaders:
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Dean, I am seriously impressed  ... not so much at the beautiful formal pond (by day and night), but by the fact it took five years to plane the wood alone - how bloody thick was the plank to begin with? 
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Jim Garten
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Posted: September 23 2008 at 03:40 |
Incidentally, I have to share this with you people even though you will probably laugh & call me names, but I've just had the most terrifying car journey of my life (and I've been one of Heavyfreight's passengers when he had the MX5  ).
About halfway to work, at about the point in town where I was in heavy traffic & there was nowhere to pull over & park, a large Herfordshire field spider crawled out of the air vent in the car & took up residence on the dashboard.
I don't do spiders.
I hate the  s with a vengeance...
OK - I admit it, I'm terrified of the bloody things (how I spent a year in Australia amazes me ).
Even though my car journey is only about 10/15 minutes even in heavy traffic, I swear this morning's trip took about 3/4 hours & how I managed to drive safely with a body so charged with adrenalin that I'm still shaking even now with the come-down is a mystery to me (ridiculously, it was a good 10 minutes after getting to work before I was able to go back to the car, check the spider really was dead & switch my iPod off).
Still, no harm done, car still in one piece, shreddies still clean & most importantly - one less spider in the world.
Pathetic, eh?
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Also found out about 15 minutes ago that cornflakes & adrenaline don't mix... 
Edited by Jim Garten - September 23 2008 at 04:25
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VanderGraafKommandöh
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Posted: September 23 2008 at 04:29 |
You eat Shreddies whilst driving?  That's where the spider came from... it's a toy. It comes free with all packs.
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Atavachron
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VanderGraafKommandöh
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Posted: September 23 2008 at 04:49 |
Jim made a rather bad schoolboy error. He meant Her tfordshire. 
Edited by James - September 23 2008 at 04:52
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Dean
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Posted: September 23 2008 at 04:53 |
^ okay - who moved Stonehenge to Herefordshire? 
I bet that was some bloody freshers-week student stunt. har bloody har.
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VanderGraafKommandöh
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Posted: September 23 2008 at 04:56 |
Dean wrote:
^ okay - who moved Stonehenge to Herefordshire?
I bet that was some bloody freshers-week student stunt. har bloody har. |
I noticed that too.
Edited by James - September 23 2008 at 05:01
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Jared
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Posted: September 23 2008 at 05:00 |
Dean wrote:
^ okay - who moved Stonehenge to Herefordshire?
I bet that was some bloody freshers-week student stunt. har bloody har. |
actually, I think I recognise the bonfire night photo...
I reckon those are Kington trees...
and if so, I was there...
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Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson
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Syzygy
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Posted: September 23 2008 at 05:19 |
Dean wrote:
^ okay - who moved Stonehenge to Herefordshire?
I bet that was some bloody freshers-week student stunt. har bloody har. |
Be fair, Stonehenge is near Herfordshire - in the same way that, from Australia, Glasgow is near London.
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