blakeyboy
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17 hours ago, blakeyboy said:
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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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Yep- I see the same...
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Is it funny that Banksy thinks that judges use gavels?
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Bloody Top Cat and his Gang have set up home outside my workshop....
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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"....
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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.
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I've tried three times since I posed...anyone got an idea about what works?
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Yes, I just got the 403 forbidden page- just trying a small photo attached to a post.....
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A very cool trip!!!!!
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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....
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Spring in Queensland
in Nothing whatsoever to do with coins area!
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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.....!