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We always top up the tank on Thursday night (camera club night) as we are passing the petrol station on the way home. To avoid traffic congestion at the entrance Asda had coned off the main entrance and made a route through their old car park and it was all very orderly. By 2100hrs it was taking on average 10mins including filling time, no worse than a normal Saturday.
We did notice on the "outward" journey there was an ongoing tanker delivery so no need to panic

Comment by tyronet2000 posted on Another pointless thread at 30/03/2012 - 11:46

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Thanks for the input. I don't think I'll be spending a lot on software. I'm stuggling with what I have at the moment, cs5 with topaz adjust plug-in and lightroom 3.6, ( have found picasa the best for leveling horizons ) and often find myself tweaking a photo into the recycle bin.

Comment by tyronet2000 posted on DxO Software at 30/03/2012 - 11:32

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Have been receiving email containg "offers" for some of this software. Does anyone use it, is it much different to say basic photoshop or lightroom.

Comment by tyronet2000 posted on DxO Software at 30/03/2012 - 10:08

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ChrisR wrote:


Do we now live in a lunatic society ?.

I dead to think what would happen if there was a real emergency in this country.

Take care.
Yes. The lunatics are running the asylum, and have been for some time now

Total collaspe and anarchy, but weve already had samples of that

Makes you glad to be old

Comment by tyronet2000 posted on Another pointless thread at 30/03/2012 - 10:03

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On the factory trawlers we used to station "the man who could do it quickest" behind the fish heading machine to remove the cheeks from the cod heads. It used to take quite a while to get a bucketful but was worth the hassle as deep fried the cod cheeks are really good eating. Coley was the best fish for making fishcakes and and pickled monkfish was ambrosia. A fish commonly known as a "squaddie" (AKA norwegian haddock) becaue of it's bright red colour was used for making fish soup.

Comment by tyronet2000 posted on Another pointless thread at 29/03/2012 - 11:42

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I loved baked halibut or tubot liver probably as scarce as hen's teeth now

Comment by tyronet2000 posted on Another pointless thread at 29/03/2012 - 09:05

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bforbes wrote:
Malt is what you had on a spoon in the winter.
With the cod liver oil mmmmmmm

Comment by tyronet2000 posted on Another pointless thread at 28/03/2012 - 22:36

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I can't believe my luck, I've had two snaps approved in the Gallery

Comment by tyronet2000 posted on Another pointless thread at 28/03/2012 - 18:27

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Frogherder wrote:
You can only use the post decimal ones Stan, I think you can also get rid of 1/2p ones providing they add up to the appropriate value. Snag is you probably have to use a large envelope (which will cost more).

I think I'll save my collection for my grand kids, it'll be a museum item by then and might be worth a few bob. Or it might be if I ever get round to sorting out the placky bags and choc boxes full of unsorted ones that I've put by awaiting a rainy day when I can spare the time to sort them.


Bernard
A lot of the stamps are in 50p and £1 booklets (machine vended) and as the postage increased there weren't so many stamps to make up the page
I got rid of the pre-decimal collections when I retired, something like 23 Lindner Albums and a few odds and sods.
The decimal denominations were all bought at face value including the first "window" books. Any pre-decimal that I come across I'll give to Liz to hand in at her church.

Comment by tyronet2000 posted on Another pointless thread at 27/03/2012 - 22:57

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As an ex collector I have lots of "spare" stamps and last time I looked on ebay they were going at less than face value, especially the "Prestige Booklets" etc,. Time to dig them out for postage I think.

Comment by tyronet2000 posted on Another pointless thread at 27/03/2012 - 20:14

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