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  1. PUBLIC GROVELLING APOLOGY

     

    In view of some of my recent weird and plain wrong comments (a few moment's thought about the chemistry behind one particularly stupid remark should have held my jabbing right index finger), I have decided that I am going to keep a very low profile on other people's threads and maybe my own for a while - and sit in the Naughty Corner to ponder my poor behaviour. I will still be lurkin' an' likin', however.

     

    Cheers,

    Alex.

  2. PUBLIC GROVELLING APOLOGY

     

    In view of some of my recent weird and plain wrong comments (a few moment's thought about the chemistry behind one particularly stupid remark should have held my jabbing right index finger), I have decided that I am going to keep a very low profile on other people's threads and maybe my own for a while - and sit in the Naughty Corner to ponder my poor behaviour. I will still be lurkin' an' likin', however.

     

    Cheers,

    Alex.

    1. AlexN

      AlexN

      Note: should have been moments', not moment's. Unfortunately, staus comments can't be edited post hoc.

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  3. Hello everyone and a belated happy new year! 

    I hope to be lurking around on fantastic BM again. A mere 505 notifications to catch up on :frantic: !

    Yours truly still a bit 'blurgh' so if I'm type slow with replies, my apologies :sick:.

    Thoroughly looking forward to catching up.

    All my 'thread WIP's' are packed in boxes, so I may have to start something new. I only have three resin kits with me, so it looks like being one of those.

    I've not completed a resin one yet (he said, as if he has actually completed any I/m in the last decade :whistle: ), so it'll be fun trying (I hope).

    Happy modelling and here's to 2017 thoroughly kicking 2016 into oblivion for good!

    All the best

    The Frostie Muncher (thanks for that Miggers :D) 🐯 

    1. AlexN

      AlexN

      Good to see you back :). Happy New Year and Location!

       

      A.

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  4. Hello folks.

    Just a quick note. I'm afraid the old health has taken a dive again. I see the specialists on the 7th December, seems I'll be having a little liver surgery soon. Has gone really 'off' in just 3 days :mellow:. Liver functions gone to:poop:.

    Very frustrating.

    I didn't want people to think I'm being ignorant with messages, emails etc.

    Just asleep a lot. 

    Carry on muddling, back soon :) 

    TonyT

    1. AlexN

      AlexN

      Best belated wishes for the surgery, Tony. I really must learn to use the new forum factlities and keep up. I hope that it all went well.

       

      Best wishes from Alex and family.

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  5. To Mozzie or not to Mozzie? That is the question. 

  6. 22 days since my big Hobbyterra order was processed through a shipping facility in Ukraine, and no sign of it here yet...getting antsy.

  7. Coming down with something YET AGAIN. Being a parent is great.

    1. AlexN

      AlexN

      :( I am still catching lurgies that the nineteen-year-old brings home becasue she feels sorry for them. You have my heat-felt sympathies.

       

      A. :sheep:

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  8. Miss Bennett meets the North Gloucestershire Regiment (28mm work in progress). Not yet convinced they merit a thread of their own.

     

    30456660094_6d8be6285a_c.jpgMiss Austen and the North Glos regiment by jongwinnett, on Flickr

     

    30910483270_fc3a2f95b5_c.jpgMiss Austen and the North Glos regiment by jongwinnett, on Flickr

     

    30456660284_2ce404dc4a_c.jpgMiss Austen and the North Glos regiment by jongwinnett, on Flickr

     

    31242048336_6e3ae2b91a_c.jpgMiss Austen and the North Glos regiment by jongwinnett, on Flickr

     

    31163497551_3c6c920d65_c.jpgMiss Austen and the North Glos regiment by jongwinnett, on Flickr

     

  9. Did you ever have one of those days.....A ninety year old neighbour had her computer hacked this afternoon, while I was at her house sorting it out, we were burgled!  :mellow:

     

    1. AlexN

      AlexN

      Crikey. Good luck with dealing with it all.

       

      A.

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  10. Did you ever have one of those days.....A ninety year old neighbour had her computer hacked this afternoon, while I was at her house sorting it out, we were burgled!  :mellow:

     

    1. AlexN

      AlexN

      :(. Does sound opportunistic, I agree. Bit of a pest though - no doubt cards that have to be cancelled and replaced, loss of money, etc., etc., etc. :(

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  11. Did you ever have one of those days.....A ninety year old neighbour had her computer hacked this afternoon, while I was at her house sorting it out, we were burgled!  :mellow:

     

    1. AlexN

      AlexN

      Oh no!

      Rather a suspicious coincidence (I am given to conspiracy theories at the drop of a hat). Much taken?

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  12. I know a few of my BM compadres are Moon spotters, Eclipse people and skygazers, astronomers.

     

    The Super Moon is here tonight in the Southern Hemisphere already.

     

    I only have the iPhone and the moon really is ludicroudly bright.

     

    Here is a rough picture so those a few hours behind me know what they're looking forward to:

     

    Super moon

     

    Any advice on how I could have taken a better pic with the phone is welcome, but I hope it gives an idea of how bright it is B).

     

    Best regards

    TonyT

    1. AlexN

      AlexN

      Which is what you'd expect. What I meant was, it doesn't work in the Single Status Update panel

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  13. I know a few of my BM compadres are Moon spotters, Eclipse people and skygazers, astronomers.

     

    The Super Moon is here tonight in the Southern Hemisphere already.

     

    I only have the iPhone and the moon really is ludicroudly bright.

     

    Here is a rough picture so those a few hours behind me know what they're looking forward to:

     

    Super moon

     

    Any advice on how I could have taken a better pic with the phone is welcome, but I hope it gives an idea of how bright it is B).

     

    Best regards

    TonyT

    1. AlexN

      AlexN

      Interesting - the '@' function doesn't work in PMs, or not on Safari on macOS Sierra at any rate...

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  14. I know a few of my BM compadres are Moon spotters, Eclipse people and skygazers, astronomers.

     

    The Super Moon is here tonight in the Southern Hemisphere already.

     

    I only have the iPhone and the moon really is ludicroudly bright.

     

    Here is a rough picture so those a few hours behind me know what they're looking forward to:

     

    Super moon

     

    Any advice on how I could have taken a better pic with the phone is welcome, but I hope it gives an idea of how bright it is B).

     

    Best regards

    TonyT

    1. AlexN

      AlexN

      A tripod and the ability to stop the lens down to a narrow aperture...not easy with a phone. I tried this evening with my phone, and got the same result as you; tried again with the Canon Powershot zoomed in to 600 mm (35 mm equivalent) at f/8.0 with slightly but not much better success (no tripod, being lazy). Moon very clear tonight (15/11/16) and bright despite some cirrus high up. @Navy Bird is the one to ask, I think.

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  15. Aristocrats: "I Think I Am Becoming A God"

    By Captain Keith Douglas (24 January 1920 – D+3 1944),  Nottinghamshire (Sherwood Rangers) Yeomanry

     

    The noble horse with courage in his eye, 
    clean in the bone, looks up at a shellburst: 
    away fly the images of the shires 
    but he puts the pipe back in his mouth. 
    Peter was unfortunately killed by an 88; 
    it took his leg away, he died in the ambulance. 
    I saw him crawling on the sand, he said 
    It's most unfair, they've shot my foot off. 

    How can I live among this gentle 
    obsolescent breed of heroes, and not weep? 
    Unicorns, almost, 
    for they are fading into two legends 
    in which their stupidity and chivalry 
    are celebrated. Each, fool and hero, will be an immortal. 
    These plains were their cricket pitch 
    and in the mountains the tremendous drop fences 
    brought down some of the runners. Here then 
    under the stones and earth they dispose themselves, 
    I think with their famous unconcern. 
    It is not gunfire I hear, but a hunting horn.

  16. Beast has suffered a relapse.....At present he only has half the bits (& thus quarter the RAM) that he should!  :doh:

    1. AlexN

      AlexN

      There's no such things as too much RAM or too big a hard disk, as the saying goes (sort of). Remember 20 MB disks?

  17. The mighty beast is about to fall.....But he shall be reborn (with a shiny new hard drive), hopefully by midweek at the latest!  :pray:

    1. AlexN

      AlexN

      Good luck - just been there and done that! Trust that you had a recent backup (I didn't: 2+ years off the pace.  Happily all the aircraft snaps were safe!)

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  18. Getting to the point where I think about next builds. Polish MiG-29? Su-9? Su-24? Harrier GR3? One of three hundred other kits on hand? Maybe some sort of psychiatric therapy? Infinite possibilities.

  19. Getting to the point where I think about next builds. Polish MiG-29? Su-9? Su-24? Harrier GR3? One of three hundred other kits on hand? Maybe some sort of psychiatric therapy? Infinite possibilities.

    1. AlexN

      AlexN

      Harier GR.3, might avoid the need for paychiatric therapy - asl ong as you have some resin nozzles!

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  20. Deep breaths, Just got back from the builder, deep breaths, pending bank approval we are doing this. Phewwwww.

    1. AlexN

      AlexN

      Congratulations, Good luck with the bank!

       

      A.

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  21. For some reason, I can't post.

    1. AlexN

      AlexN

      Sorry about the atrocious glasses  - it appears that I was wearing the wrong typing.

       

      Cheers,

      Alex :fool: 

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  22. For some reason, I can't post.

    1. AlexN

      AlexN

      True story: IT in my las job used toupdate the (windoze) network one ayear. They would then spend the nect 12months fixing themassive number of breakages thst the update had caused. Then they would do it again. And agai. And again. And...

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  23. For some reason, I can't post.

    1. AlexN

      AlexN

      I have exactly the same problem, except that I had toreboot two devices. How the helldo you clear cahes on an ipad? 

       

      And I had to restart Safari to post this.

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  24. For some reason, I can't post.

    1. AlexN

      AlexN

      I have exactly the same problem, except that I had toreboot two devices. How the helldo you clear cahes on an ipad? 

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