blakeyboy

Bloody Top Cat and his Gang have set up home outside my workshop....

He was so ubiquitous in the '80s that people started not liking his success. Doing both Live Aid concerts by jumping on Concorde didn't help etc... I still play Brand X albums, and yes his Genesis contributions were great- I got into his era of Genesis far earlier than the Gabriel stuff.. Trick of the Tail is excellent and Collins is superb on it. "after he was awarded the Galactic Institute's Prize for Extreme Cleverness he got lynched by a rampaging mob of respectable physicists who had finally realised that the one thing they really couldn't stand was a smartass"....

T and T in Tunbridge Wells use EasyLive Auctions- I kept track of a pile of coins and stamps I put through and it worked well.

I've tried three times since I posed...anyone got an idea about what works?

Yes, I just got the 403 forbidden page- just trying a small photo attached to a post.....

A very cool trip!!!!!

What a loss. Bonkers and so funny. A trailblazer, and what a way to go out- just two weeks after such a concert! Considered almost godlike when I was young, in the West Midlands- really flew the flag for that area. I helped my mate do Terry 'Geezer' Butler's garden in the 70's, and we used to play about in the kit room at Terry's house- my mate Matthew on Bill Ward's kit, and would mess about on a Minimoog. Terry came home one day and announced the new album, 'Never Say Die', and we listened to the acetates of the album, each disc one side each, on the standard 70's rocker hifi- turntable, Mackintosh amp, and big JBL speakers, in Terry's lounge. What an evening. It's still like it didn't really happen....

You are right- a few beers and a garden chair will make you expand....!

I used to live the same distance from the MK Bowl in the late 80's early 90's, with the stage facing our way, so had all the big concert sound for free as well. Out with the beers. Michael Jackson, Simple Minds etc etc.... ( Kim Wilde's singing was so off she drove us indoors.....:-) ) I'd like to smugly point out that my fingerprints are all over the guitar pedal boxes being used on the Oasis tour, because I was part of their development in a small way, so Noel has paid for my beer whilst not listening to his concert!

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/177044730415?_ul=GB&mkevt=1&mkcid=1&mkrid=710-53481-19255-0&campid=5339078641&toolid=10001&customid=eb%3Ab%3Avms%3Aeb%3Ap%3A177044730415%3BEAIaIQobChMI54Kose63jgMVjJRQBh1rcjJLEAQYASABEgJqffD_BwE&_trkparms=ispr%3D1&amdata=enc%3A1ot04FryeROeNsXpfnIQ3Ew23&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=21778424393 What is it about this penny, particularly the obverse, that is making my nose twitch?

Reading the sports section on the BBC website this morning, I have just genuinely realised that champion golfers Schauffele and Scheffler are two separate people. No wonder I've been confused.

Inspired.

Penny Lane? Three coins in the fountain? Brother can you spare a dime?

Hmm...I can increase the value of my collection by 30% by sitting on it? For how long? Just while I'm watching the telly? Uncomfortable but profitable then....

Funny how the reverse has virtually no edge- I have a feeling that some of my 1909's are like that- what's the explanation? Sorry if it's been discussed at length before, but I can't remember..... Is it time for my walk now?

There are corners of Ebay where it is ALWAYS the first of April.....

Yes, but does it have invisible friends?

That's what she told me, too!

I used to get weakness at 12and 6 o''clock- turned out to be too much coffee....

I did have a "whoop" with the first, damaging cough two years ago- very alarming initially!

My wife is in the top 5 'advisors' and 'most helpful authors' on the ebay seller central forums, and she thinks us selling off crap on Ebay is over. The search function is rigged now as well. I search ebay by typing the description into Google and adding 'ebay', then I look in images, and I find things that don't exist if you type the EXACT description into ebay itself....! We are going to do our own website, the theory being that yes, we stand no chance of our items being found, but if we start off with listing strange items that no-one else has, then anyone looking for such things will find us at the top of the list. From there it's word of mouth until Google notices the traffic and get involved....

Agreed, but if you hadn't mentioned die clashing. If a blank isn't between the dies when they come together, they clash, and leave impressions of each other on each other. The results usually, as would be expected, show as sharp lines etc- have a look at early bronze pennies of Victoria. Ghosting, by contrast, isn't the result of damage to the dies, and is nebulous and vague, as you would expect. Have a look at early George V pennies.

Thank you.....went to the docs today to organise a scan- that damn cough has, I think, given me a hernia, like the one a cough gave me two years ago. Damn and blast.

Honest posts like that are always required! I haven't bought anything interesting for ages- just been too busy trying to sell so much crap that's built up over the years, and get a website up to help with this. However, I read all that's posted. The one good thing I get from this site is getting an insight into other people's passions, and trying to understand what they see in coins I know nothing about....