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Managed to sell two tickets back to the Hall (minus a £1 charge on each one) and one to my wife's boss's partner. Good gig, a bit of a mixed bag (the Luening and Ussachevsky piece from 1954 was superb, Jonny Greenwood's piece very lame) and I'm afraid the main irritant was a mr cocker. Always nice to see some theremin action. Ended with a decent reworking of Kraftwerk's "The Model".

I've tried to PM you but it says you're not allowed to receive them. I can perhaps take a bit of internet with me when I head up to town, to do try to PM me if you're interested.

I'll be offline soon so shout now if you want a ticket!

I bought five and only three of us can go - anyone want two tickets for theremins, moogs and ondes martenot? Hitchcock soundtrack music, portishead, goldfrapp and radiohead types...

Who rides the gorgeous green Walvale that I've seen in Forest Hill lately? Is it the bike that jammy did up for someone whose father had raced it?

Anyway, it's such a beautiful frame. Not so sure about those white rims though. Maybe I'm just jealous as I'm still off the bike after a ripped calf muscle three weeks ago...

Blimey, that's exactly the same machine that I've got stashed away in the shed. Oh how I wish I was not hobbling around on crutches!

thanks both - PMs sent!

Ideally I'd find some rigid blocks, so if anyone has some spare, do let me know!

I need to post a fragile item this weekend and am looking for some polystyrene blocks of the sort that comes with electrical goods. Does anyone have some of this kicking around that they could spare? I'm not after a huge amount - enough to pad out a box that's about 60cm x 30cm x30cm

I live in Forest Hill and work in Holborn. The complicated bit is that I'm currently on crutches and unable to drive for the next several weeks and so I'm hoping someone near to Forest Hill or Holborn will be able to help out.

ooh-er

just saying, I bought a lovely grubb with original purple paintwork and the cyclist headbadge for £20 a while ago from a nice chap up in Kentish Town

but times have changed and now they are v sought after

(PS I no longer have my grubb...)

Well, I now have a gorgeous WM-D6C sitting in front of me, thanks to a kind cyclist in Oxford.

The next step is finding a suitable microphone. Does anyone have any suggestions for where to look for a small mic with good off-axis rejection so my son can record stuff out and about without the sounds being swamped by wind, traffic, planes etc?

"wrong" shide?
Just back from Dulwich Paragon 75th Anniversary ride and dinner, Sir and Madam, Hello to you.

Well, riding to the right of the lights as you face up the hill outside the station but given that the whole road from that junction was shut for the sewer repair, it's an academic point. I'd forgotten about the DP anniversary ride - looked like a nice route down to Shoreham. Sorry I didn't recognise you quickly enough to say hi. Are the salmons in service yet?

Digger on a road bike shweeping round the "wrong" shide of the shouth shircular at Foresht Hill yeshterday afternoon. Mrs R and I were croshing the road with a chicken in a polyethylene bag (not fast and bulbous).
(Sorry, danish pastry in my mouth)

Hi, sent a PM some hours back. Can you please let me know if you saw it? Cheers!

"I suspect central London is not ideal", said tynan

trudat

but number 6 ought to be achievable

for the rest, it's not really a question of learning to be honest - just point the camera at the sky, focus carefully and open the shutter for about 10 seconds or, in the case of the moon, more like half a second

All shot with a Canon 1000D with kit 18-55mm lens for the first three and the Cinelli, a nifty fifty for number 5 and a dinky little 70mm travel scope for the earthshiny moon (shot on my way to the only bottle shop in town - got some funny looks walking it with a telescope and manfrotto tripod over my shoulder)

I was on the wrong end of the planet to see any perseids this year but I did see a pretty hefty chunk of rock breaking up and burning up as it entered the atmosphere above Northern Territories. I didn't get a photo of it (I was on my way to the bogs on a campsite at the time) but here are some of the celestial delights I did meet while away.





oh and saw this in Sydney as well

Dibs on the softshell please! PM on its way.

Might I have seen the Lionel Blair Witch at lunchtime today then?

erm, not quite sure if this is the right place to be admitting this, but...

...Lionel Blair sitting outside a cafe in Covent Garden this lunchtime.

EEI - thanks, could be interested. I'm now exchanging emails with my son, in which he is saying he reallty wants to use tape because it's cool. I think he may be wrong there.

What model is the Sharp, and how much would you want for it?

His phone is a stone age relic (a Nokia 1110 like mine) and can only do phone calls and texts.

Dicki, yes' I'd looked at that thread and may follow up some of the leads there.

My son has expressed an interest in having a small walkman-type machine to record sounds when he is out and about and is looking for a walkman or similar that either has a decent built in mike or can take a mike.

He might be interested in a minidisc recorder if it's one of the ones that you can connect to a PC with a USB cable but his "dream machine" (over and above the 531c-framed bike that I'm letting him use) would be a WM-D6C. He tells me he's not interested in a solid state jobbie.

Does anyone out there have such a machine that they could bear to part with? Budget will be small but he will have some pocket money soon!

It looks like a marble..

damn, rumbled again...

You have camera + telescope? Are you in London?

you are not alone PaulR

I've got two cats and a guinea pig to protect me. They won't let me get abducted...

I may the the only person left on this thread but that's not going to stop me...

Here's Jupiter from about 4am today.