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Phoned up EMR today- nice lady in Southampton depot doing the answering- she said that you take copper coins,( or cuni, for that matter, ) and they bung 'em under the tester...... (oh- also, split your ally up into cast, extruded or rolled- clean extruded has shot up, for some reason.....)

What??? How bizarre - I use the one in Bedford, and they are used to them, and put them in 'heavy copper'.......

An excellent assessment.

Not sure whether I've posted this before, but it's entertaining trying to imagine where the dots should go that represent friends, family, and acquaintances ......:-)

I'm going to the cinema this week, apparently. I've been invited to a bowel cancer screening. Not sure what it's about....

I think there are more important things to worry about- so Crimea river....

I wish I could reply, but I find the whole arcane process of masters and dies and negatives and positives utterly bamboozling, along with things like some letters etc double struck, which is then explained by die movement, when obviously everything would be double, not just one bit.... Don't get me started on why only the waves disappear when dies get filled, not any other areas...that's just mad to me....

I was joking...!

Be careful to not overload the Hive Brain that is 'Predecimal' , Rob, with too many linked questions. This forum was the inspiration for the Borg in Star Trek, after all....

I had this slip fall out of a box containing a neck light- like a torc with leds in the ends for reading at night.... I have no idea what it means, or why it is credited to Shakespeare... I have already emailed the company and basically told them they are twats....

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I'm a picker I'm a grinner I'm a lover And I'm a sinner I play my music in the sun Welcome to the Forums!

I email pictures to me - after choosing what size I want - the only easy non-techy way I've found that works!

...if you aren't ripped off by the refiners....what a mine field. last time, a bag of old phone pcbs and 4 kg of tantalum capacitors was not refined as "not economic". Didn't return it...just lost it......played my face big time so everyone involved know they were taking the p**s.... The big bag of gold connector pins came out at .39% AU by weight, so got £600......

...no, in a small plastic tray.

I'm in the doghouse now....

OMG I made up 'Paracrufts' about ten years ago, and I've just found out that it bloody exists!!!!!!! There was an episode of Alan Partridge where he tries to pitch new programme ideas to the channel controller, all increasingly desperate, and one of them was 'Youth Hostelling with Chris Eubank', which, bizarrely, years later, was actually made!!!!

Crufts is back on TV again, and I never watched it before because of the antics of some of the awful dog breeders, and I won't watch it this time. I might wait a couple of weeks and watch Paracrufts......

Jerry, I think the world situation has changed somewhat from what it was when I started this thread.....

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I just watched Roberta Metsola addressing an emergency session of the European Parliament, and the contrast between her and Liz Truss is absolutely astonishing and embarrassing.

Just been looking up the Rain Bomb that Brisbane got....Christ - 8 dead already.....

I can imagine how much snow that would be. Unfortunately, if it happened, I wouldn't be able to tell anyone since you would only hear a faint muffled noise, if anything.... Weather is amazing- I used to go to Bear Valley, in the pre-covid days. 7500 ft up in the Sierra Nevada. It was, until the weather patterns moved, the snowiest place in the world- 75 feet in the winter. We took a cast metal outdoor bench one year, to put by the fire pit. This was our last visit before winter, so we tidied everything away, leaving the bare metal bench with its legs sitting on four 3" thick concrete blocks. I was there the next year to do the first visit of the season to the acreage. The bench was there- all four concrete blocks split in half, with the legs of the bench smashed into the ground- the seat was on the ground. Took some fun getting it out. The snow up there is known as 'Sierra Concrete' due to it's weight.....anything left out is crushed.

Lovely examples! Mine is a GVF that I saw as a very cheap BIN ( no attribution ) and grabbed it fast!

I've just done a check of 1875 pennies on Ebay: Obviously, many are that flat that it's not possible tell some apart... Large date 120 Small date 74 1875H 14 F79 ( sea over circle) 0 Pretty much as usual The Heaton version is touted as very rare, and isn't.( except in very good grades) and the F79 is hardly ever there- I see maybe 3 a year tops. Maybe some of the F79 are that flat you can't tell, but where are the other better grades, since it's only rarity 13 or R5, supposedly?