Me got man in steam stripping my sitting room walls and ceiling . It's going to be an all day job looking at the progress .

Everytime we used the Post Office Checking system , passports were back in a few days .

The last time I did it a friend posted hers at the same Post Office I used for checking mine , at the same time and hers took ages to come back but mine was here in under a week - it's clear they are handled differently and as ChrisA indicated the teeny extra cost [ after subtracting the cost of Special Delivery ] is nothing to write home about .

There's another point too - if we don't use our local Post Offices we will undoubtedly lose them .

OY -- Stefan - hang on there

We rarely comment about your dyslexia [ just when an error makes us laugh ] - now look again

Now go back and slowly read it please and remember this is one of his first posts and it probably took a lot of courage to make it and admit to his problems .

And yes - I have made this public deliberately - as your post in response is probably too long for him .

With apologies to our new member George

Urgh

Decorator moves in tomorrow to strip the wallpaper off walls and ceiling in my HUGE 3 windowed sitting room .

This is a job that's been needed for years but we never could face the upheaval .

Now it starts .

Once I'm back from Belgium he will be able to start the plastering and then I can finish the room and make it mine .

AGAIN

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I'm surprised they didn't strip his wheelchair to look for explosives !!

I keep coming back to look at the first one

It's a great shot

Now I know that folk have got the impression that I don't like B&W - true often I don't - but these - they really appeal to me.

The first one - those swirls round the 'black hole' absolutely wonderful [ hiding from George after that word was used ]

The next one - the cross section and the cracks developing in it - very nice

Crumbly timber - it shows very clearly how it's crumbling in layers , but no two bits are the same

last one - colour is interesting , nice layers in the wood but I don't really like the collection of grunge - I think I would have liked to see that with the stuff out .

Goodness gracious

I think the skies must have fallen

Thoramay - in this case wireless does mean without wires - ie there is no cable attaching it to the camera .

In my case [ K-x ] there is no possibility of attaching a remote by a cable - Pentax did not see the need to put a 'socket' there for it so I have to use the Pentax Remote Control F like Gartmore and the receiver for the remote is on the front of the camera.

Wondered where you'd got to

Hope you enjoyed our country and the midges weren't too biting