Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People

PasturesNew

Nikkster wrote: »

Probably showing my age here (not sure in which direction ), but the only thing 'reel-to-reel' means to me is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reel_2_Real

particularly:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtrgjbG3uUs

Awww bless.... it's an old fashioned film/audio gadget - film/audio tape is on one reel, it's a "tape" so feed the end of that through the projector/tape head and attach it to an identical empty reel on another spindle.... press "GO" and the film/audio, when running, goes from one reel to the other, through the machine ...

https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7206/6786759454_fc32a1f5e0.jpg

It always has to be on one reel to store it/get it started.... you don't leave it half way through ..... you'd forward/rewind it back to one reel to remove it and put it back in its case.

I would say that not everybody had such a thing - as they were quite pricey. So it was a middle-class and/or enthusiast only marketplace. I've never used one, nor knew anybody who did, but I did know of their existence.

Nikkster

Yorkie1 wrote: »

Maggie's said most of it. No dairy or cooked meats. I do bung tomatoes in as they're easy enough to hoik out the following year (or replant for early, sturdy plants - far sturdier than those you deliberately planted from seed and cosseted lovingly ... )

If you use weedkiller on your lawn, don't compost the cuttings for about 3 cuts. Avoid putting too many lawn cuttings on at once. And after that it's fairly straightforward.

I remember going round with the biggest grin ever when I emptied my first compost bin on the allotment

Thanks for the compost tips everyone. I've already fished an empty egg box out of the bag of recycling in the kitchen

No weedkiller on the lawn - as evidenced by the fact it is less than 50% grass! That's on the list of things I'll think about for next year I think (not sure whether the grass in the front garden will stay yet).

PasturesNew

Nikkster wrote: »

I've already fished an empty egg box out of the bag of recycling in the kitchen

Mine are usually plastic... I don't think that'd work well

Generali

PasturesNew wrote: »

Awww bless.... it's an old fashioned film/audio gadget - film/audio tape is on one reel, it's a "tape" so feed the end of that through the projector/tape head and attach it to an identical empty reel on another spindle.... press "GO" and the film/audio, when running, goes from one reel to the other, through the machine ...

https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7206/6786759454_fc32a1f5e0.jpg

It always has to be on one reel to store it/get it started.... you don't leave it half way through ..... you'd forward/rewind it back to one reel to remove it and put it back in its case.

I would say that not everybody had such a thing - as they were quite pricey. So it was a middle-class and/or enthusiast only marketplace. I've never used one, nor knew anybody who did, but I did know of their existence.

Yup, that's what Dad had. His boss bought it for him for his training sessions.

vivatifosi

I have a copy of the Beatles Meet the Beatles reel to reel in my loft somewhere.

I've never been able to play it mind. I bought it for 10p at a jumble sale years ago. I think it is worth about £70 now.

LydiaJ

Half term. Spending time with DD - just about to watch her new DVD of Frozen. Haven't seen it before.

vivatifosi

Frozen's lovely Lydia, especially when you see that song in context.

Have a great time and hope you enjoy it.

Yorkie1

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

Very worrying indeed.

Lets hope that calmer heads prevail in the national elections which people will hopefully take a bit more seriously.

silvercar wrote: »

I wonder.

If all these people who have voted UKIP get the message that UKIP can do nothing in Europe, they could be persuaded to vote UKIP in a general election, "just to register a protest vote", "just the once". If UKIP can get the message across that they need power in Westminster to reduce Europe's influence can they get support? On yesterday's results I think they may have enough critical mass to do so.

I think this is a real risk. The truth is that in order to make much difference in our relationship with the EU (other than through the actual referendum), it's the national government which is the important level. Not council or MEP.

Where people have just voted for UKIP in order to demonstrate against what the EU stands for e.g. free movement of people, there are two ways to respond to that: a) to demonstrate to them that their view is based on illogicality or misunderstandings, or b) to say that for real change we need to change our relationship with the EU.

People who have formed their view on the basis of illogicality or misunderstandings frequently do not want to participate in discussions which might reveal that their purported reasoning doesn't hold water. In fact, they've voted based on something more instinctive. You're not going to change those views.

Nikkster wrote: »

Thanks for the compost tips everyone. I've already fished an empty egg box out of the bag of recycling in the kitchen

No weedkiller on the lawn - as evidenced by the fact it is less than 50% grass! That's on the list of things I'll think about for next year I think (not sure whether the grass in the front garden will stay yet).

My front garden is probably about 3m x 3m and has no lawn. I grow veggies and flowers on it.

I don't ever remember my parents listening to music on a reel-to-reel, but Dad was an oral examiner for one of the O Level language boards, and would seclude himself up in the study with such a machine, validating local examiners' marking, for hours on end at weekends and evenings.

Nikkster

Yorkie1 wrote: »

My front garden is probably about 3m x 3m and has no lawn. I grow veggies and flowers on it.

My front garden is a (fairly wide) pavement away from a main road, so I think I'll keep the edible stuff at the back (which is probably close enough to the fumes). I need to think about how to screen the house from the road (there are some overgrown shrubs doing that at the moment), but the grass is probably going to go as it is a bit of a PITA lugging the mower round there for the minute or so it takes to mow it.

Spirit_2

PasturesNew wrote: »

There was a BBC reporter on the news this morning, at a car boot sale somewhere like Nottingham... he was trying to go round and randomly chat to stallholders about things..... and those he spoke to either had no clue about anything or wouldn't speak to him.

At one point he did say "It just goes to show - the further from London you get the less people feel interested in this stuff that seems massively important if you live in London".

Like I said yesterday - most people really don't know, don't have the time to know/understand... and will just vote for whoever their mum/dad did, or will vote based on one leaflet's one-line promise ..... which won't be delivered.

In my current experience..this could not be more wrong. This situation I am dealing with has been going on for more than a year and not the interests of the chattering classes.

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