blakeyboy
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Those HEIC files are a pain- and I only use a Mac!
People don't set phone pictures to formats other people like.
Size problems on posting pictures is an easy fix- email to to yourself, setting the image size you need, then drag out of the email you receive into your post.
That's all I've ever done- no extra programs needed either.
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Maybe it's me, but it's only a short time ago that members were talking of the lack of activity on the forum,
as if it was stagnating, and now we have a pile of new members turn up recently.....good to see....
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On 11/17/2025 at 12:28 PM, blakeyboy said:
I wonder if there is, by the slimmest of chances, anyone on this forum who knows where Citrus Australasica, the 'finger lime' or 'caviar lime' is a native species?
I wonder.....!
Brisbane iswghere it;s from, by coincidence.
Your soil looks good there John.
I have some Ceasalpinia and some Delonix seedlings growing to try again- left over seeds from the batch you sent me!
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I remember Terry Wogan interviewing her in a right obsequious manner and she wasn't having any of it. She was terrific!
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Thank you Mr.Zappa.
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I've just read that there's a Yellow Ice Warning in place for the UK.
Sounds revolting.
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3 minutes ago, blakeyboy said:
I have a cheap 10" Dobsonian.
And before Copper 123 jumps in yes I do tell that to all the girls at parties!!!!!!!!!!!!!
...and no it doesn't ****ing work....:-(
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11 hours ago, ozjohn said:
Sorry I missed this one earlier. Nice photo. What telescope do you have?
I have a cheap 10" Dobsonian.
And before Copper 123 jumps in yes I do tell that to all the girls at parties!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I wonder if there is, by the slimmest of chances, anyone on this forum who knows where Citrus Australasica, the 'finger lime' or 'caviar lime' is a native species?
I wonder.....!
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17 hours ago, blakeyboy said:
From the other direction
Turmeric, Delonix regia ( from old seeds from John), delicate hibiscus etc.
I got fed up with my dark garden so I've done something about it!!
..and in the top pic you can just make out the yellowing fronds of a very old, very small jacaranda.
Like most tropical flowering trees, they should only be grown for their lovely foliage here in the UK- they just will not flower in a pot.
In the spring I am going to plant a Caesalpinia Gilliesii and a Citrus Australasica outside,
against the shiny fence in the sheltered corner, where I can give them their own little greenhouse for the winter.
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Kemi Badenoch says I should resign.
Why me? i don’t know what I’m supposed to have done.
Maybe I left a knife in the fork drawer or something…
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From the other direction
Turmeric, Delonix regia ( from old seeds from John), delicate hibiscus etc.
I got fed up with my dark garden so I've done something about it!!
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This is what my garden looks like in the cold and damp!!
Cycad, Musa, Echium, Canna, Hedychium all wrapped up.
Soil heaters in the pots if it gets very cold.
I fit a translucent tarp across the veranda, and we get a small room full of plants to play cards in in the winter!
Lemon/lime cross full of fruit this year- gonna do some lime pickle....!!
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If the die iswhole, and held in a collar, there can only be one axis of rotation, the centre.
All details will be affected, and all doubling will show the direction of die rotation to the same extent.
This is not what is happening to this 1967 date. The doubling of the 6 is on the die!!!!!!!!!!
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I still don't get it.
If the die moves, all the coin is affected.
If the die is held and can only rotate, then the effect is geater near the edge.
Surely this is the case?
So a doubling of just the date can't be down to the die moving- the doubling is already on the die...?????
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9 badges now!!
Just 'Milk Monitor' to get and I have the set!!
And yes, Kylie is still in the top ten....
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I'm having to do this via firfox, since Safari on my old laptop wont work wuth this forum any more!
Also, you have lost the reputation score. This was useful. Someone could hae a low posting count but a high reputation, showing the 'quality; of their posts, and someone else could have a posting count of a million and a reputation of zero meaning they post rubbish all the time.
If I remember, there are two members with reputations bigger than their posting counts!!
Quite a feat...
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Not to this I'm not....
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i've been looking for a good 1890 'dropped 90' for ages.
My only example is a VG one found for me by Mike Hopkins....
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I have a problem with using acetone- not in itself, it's a very useful cleaner, but the fact that the metal is left totally exposed to the atmosphere after cleaning.
I think a slight protective oil layer should be left, and I do mean 'slight'...I use Electrolube EML for switches with silver contacts on equipment.
EML was specified for switch contact protection when the equipment was made, in the late '60's and early 70's.
The switches that have had protection still work fine.
Switches that were cleaned with types of 'contact cleaner', that have no protective inert oil, are through the plating and down to the brass,
and require very expensive replacement. It would be worth experimenting - a small amount is applied, and a dry clean paintbrush is used to
remove all but the finest trace- enough to create an invisible barrier.
People promote olive oil for some coins, but if you look at the impurities in olive oils, it's difficult to believe it's not corrosive...
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On 10/3/2025 at 3:33 PM, Citizen H said:
Victoria Half Crown, 1898, it was very mucky covered in crud, It was left in soapy water...over night... as I forgot it was there, very impressed by it condition its turned out to be, just goes to show that gentle cleaning does pay off.....
Your Mother was right....:-)
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9 hours ago, terrysoldpennies said:
I don't know if it would make any difference but I post my pictures in jpeg ?
Terry- is. jpeg different from .jpg? I always have posted .jpg in the past without problems....
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"This is a testament to your test reply of someone's test" , he replied testily.
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On 9/11/2025 at 1:08 PM, dmw2602 said:
A couple of interesting additions for me (still can't post pics), will need upgrades at some point, but happy with the finds.
BP1888B and 1903 Open 3
Best of luck with an upgrade to the 1903....good examples are, for some reason, very rare indeed!
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Safely storing copper and bronze coins
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I had a bottle of benzene as a child for showing watermarks on stamps.