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No, it was just to get your attention, What you do is advertise an ugly spud competition, first prize a fiver, all spuds to be sent to you. Pick a spud, pay the prize and start bagging up all the spuds you have been sent.
Anyway back to business. Apparently my reference to the "wireless" seems to have given rise to some jocularity, "Radio" is a truncation of radio wave receiving device, or some such, "trannie" has, today, other connortations, (ref. "gay" "bad" "cool" etc in modern lingua franca) and I don.t wish to mislead, so we have wireless.
Yes I do still have a gramaphone, a transcription one. But I also have a programme for converting analogue to digital so can put records onto c.d. This is not so great an idea as it at first seems. Records have to be washed and dried first, then played at normal speed to get the signal, then you have the option of removing clicks scratches etc, then you can re-balance the sound finaly you can record it to c.d. You have now listened to the entire record at least once, bits of it a dozen times as you play about with it, and finaly you play your new c.d. to check it. All this to a record that you havn't listened to for twenty years, result you won't listen to it again for another twenty years 'cos you are heartily sick of it now.
Spring is here, I have a daffodil out, see pic. same one blooms early every year, last week of Feb (a week early this year). To those of you eagerly awaiting news of my new shed it is still at the planning stage, though I am amazed at the amount of "come in handy" stuff that I am removing from the ruins of the old one and am now tossing merrily onto the scrap heap as of no further use.
The new lifeboat has gone off service with an engine fault, a rod came out for a breath of fresh air, through the side of the crankcase! Is it just me or do others think modern diesel engines are over stressed with turbos etc? Well sorry chaps and chappesses but I need a brew so I'm off. Cheers Paul