blakeyboy

That makes me feel better- they wouldn't let me watch it either......!!!

Watched 'Quatermass and the Pit' the other day- fantastic! Interesting dialogue exchange in the middle: Professor Bernard Quatermass : Roney, if we found out the earth was doomed, say, by climatic changes, what would we do about it? Dr.Matthew Roney : Nothing. Just go on squabbling as usual.

Wow! Was it correctly identified as such when it was sold?

That sounds like Donald...!

Ah- but isn't that where the real fun is?

I sometimes wonder whether, if I won the lottery and bought a big pile of rarities at an auction, which lets face it, is rather easy to do, I would get half the pleasure that I get from finding a worn rarity at the bottom of an old tin of crap like has happened on occasion...... ...and I can show off the found gem on here, instead of just hiding a pile of expensive bronze in a bank vault where no-one can see them.....

Mathematics is hard. The athletics is on the telly. Both singular, hence 'is', not 'are'. When you abbreviate it, you shorten the word. For some reason, maybe just because of the sound, the English keep the 's'...

Ha! One of the few things they have got right.....! The other one i noticed was inTrader Joe's supermarkets where the sign in the till lane said "15 items or fewer".....

Should we all carry "RarestPennies" cards?

Think they said each wheel was about 23kg, so the math works...

Yeah- it was next door to no.38, but 39A is the maisonette round the back.....

Thanks! I don't see why you would bury such a collection inside a General Sale! Lot 207, the last on the page, makes no sense as regards description and the two ( different) coins pictured. The F69 estimate seems very low too!

22 tonnes was reportedly stolen, and at the retail price of that stuff, the total is way over £300k...

'Polishing the Planchet' is an album by XTC....

Don't worry- not a problem- if you take on something that proves too big to handle, you learn a hell of a lot about yourself and other people., which is always a good thing. We had some great parties there!

I'm only ever quoting me when I speak. Hall refurb stalled due to many reasons. Just too much- gonna sell on, sadly.

I've had a bad day- 8am I had my flu jab that I really didn't enjoy, and I have a very sore arm. It's rather screwed up my day. Mind you, having the flu jab done at Kwikfit was probably a bad idea, in retrospect...

Fortunately, the Desk Sergeant was surprisingly understanding.......

Here's one for people with certain brain types. Stayed in a hotel in Pickering. Sitting on the loo, looked at the view in front of me. Floor tiles not parallel to either wall in this corner, and they are not parallel to _any_ of the four walls, so the tiler must have started randomly in the middle and worked outwards.....??? The pedestal isn't parallel to the wall either. The ceiling has no 90˚ corner. Lying in the bath also did my head in.

I've been offered 500kg of pennies from change, in copper fire buckets. Gonna be £3k plus, due to the scrap. Seller is adamant they are unchecked, maybe true, since as I was talking with him on his market stall, I found an 1897 F148 'High tide' in one of his 10p tins.... All this takes me back to my dog-eared 'check your change' book, that went everywhere with me in the late '60's.... ...Co-op, probably 1967, corner of Bewdley Street and Crowther Street in Kidderminster, and I saw my mother receive an 1860- date visible only, but the oldest I had ever seen.....I think I still have it.....

Thanks Rob. Useful as usual!

Agreed, and the extra fat under the chin makes Victoria look likes she's put on a stone in the first picture...!