Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

Loanranger

Ebay yes, but no luck. I will look on Amazon. Thanks.
ETA, Amazon, no luck either.
Am I right in thinking that one of the NP is a librarian, maybe she will know and also PN may know as she unearths fascinating material from newspapers. Can they help me, I wonder?

I have a copy of the newspaper but it is so fragile that it won't stand being handled to be photocopied nor to be opened out to be read. I have typed out the article I am interested in but want to create a hard copy archive for the family and posterity and thus need a less fragile copy.

Pyxis

Loanranger wrote: »

Ebay yes, but no luck. I will look on Amazon. Thanks.

Also, it might be worth contacting whichever newspaper group owned the Express, or whoever took them over, and see if they can help.



Would libraries have newspapers that old?

Or The British Library, perhaps?

chris_m

Conrad wrote: »

If you keep a hoe to the ready and go over your beds very regularly - like for example if chatting on the phone - you will find you really get on top of the weeds and they next year are far fewer and in time fewer still.

Things are looking better - the gardens hadn't had a lot of maintenance for some years before I moved in by the look of them.

IMO the best ground cover are dwarf pines, they never let you down and are very, very low maintenance. Now I do mean pines and British dwarf / squat Juniper, not conifers which can look like old people home planting schemes.




Pinus Mugo

Cheers, I'll bear that in mind if I need more stuff.
Currently at the seedling stage I have Gypsophila, Achillea, Dianthus, Alyssum, Aubrieta, Thyme and Hyssop. If they develop sufficiently I'll bung them in and see how things go.

Biggest problem is not knowing what's really in the beds (other than what I've put in) so identifying what can stay and what can come out. For example, I've been inundated with crocuses this year - in locations where I know I haven't put any in (I have done some) and don't recall them being there last year :think:

I'll get there eventually - hopefully

Loanranger

There are already online resources for the Daily Express but not the Sunday Express.
The British Library is a good idea but I probably need to know what to ask for in terms of a microfiche or whatever.

LydiaJ

Pyxis wrote: »

Man-looking! :rotfl: :rotfl:

Could just as easily be teenage-offspring-looking!

Or Lydia-looking. You have in your midst the woman who has to have her keys attached to the phone so that when she can't remember where she's put them (frequently) she can use the landline to ring them up and listen to where they are.

I do not do drilling. I do screwdrivering, but not drilling.

Helpful builder is here as I type, installing a full length mirror with mains powered LEDs down both sides in the dark corner of my bedroom, which is the only suitable place to put the mirror because of the constraints imposed by the positions of the doors and window.

PasturesNew wrote: »

If only ..... I'd been prettier, I could've either married well, or had a string of people queueing up to do little jobs round the house

Helpful builder does these helpful things because he knows that afterwards his wife will send me a bill and I will pay it...

However, I am having my bicycle serviced and fixed for free by the male half of best-friend-couple-next-door.

bugslet wrote: »

I'd have a beach then! Literally there is 10% lawn left. This about half way through it's destruction.....

http://buzzsta.com/m/1437838807982154131

and explains why there's a flipping big fence stopping her getting to the other bit of the garden!

Yes, it is very muddy, but look at how much joy she's experiencing as she bounds around.

bugslet

Oooo LED mirror sounds very swanky.

Yes, she's a remarkably happy dog.

vivatifosi

Loanranger wrote: »

Does anyone know of anywhere I could buy a copy of the Sunday Express, 4 November 1945, or get a copy from a microfiche? Or just a photocopy of the front page?
I have tried google but it appears that the Sunday Express is not readily available, unlike the Daily Express. It needs to be this date and this newspaper.
It is for family history purposes.

Hi Loanranger, I have access to some tools through work that may be able to answer this. Can you please PM me what exactly you're looking for and I'll have a bash at finding it for you. Alternatively, if you don't want to say that, check with your local library and whether they have access to the British Newspaper Archive. You will probably have to visit the library to use this, but it is worth checking first whether they have it and also whether the Express is on it. It is fairly comprehensive though. It is an online database.

LydiaJ

bugslet wrote: »

Oooo LED mirror sounds very swanky.

Like this but on a wall in a dark corner of a bedroom (otherwise useless space between the wardrobe and the door to the en-suite) rather than above a basin. It's at the right height for seeing yourself full length when standing.

bugslet

That is nice, I imagine it will really change the feel of the room if it's been a dark corner previously.

LydiaJ

bugslet wrote: »

That is nice, I imagine it will really change the feel of the room if it's been a dark corner previously.

Yes it does.

In the photo, they look like fluorescent tubes down the sides of it, but they're actually translucent plastic cylinders with a row of LEDs down the middle of the inside, so it's much less of a glare when they're on than fluorescent tubes would be. It's a nice warm white, too - not ideal for judging the colours of an outfit, of course, but nice for ambience. If I want to judge colours I can always use the mirror in the bathroom - natural light coming in through the velux window, and white white from a bulb over the mirror, but steams up whenever anyone's had a shower. So I can judge the colours in there and the other details in the one in the bedroom!