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[ROL]

Many of us have praised the glossy standard of our very good club magazine.
At this difficult time may I suggest some welcome changes please, namely more blank pages, each page being perforated to easiliy remove and if less shiney and softer paper.
Many thanks

[nathanglasgow]

 

[kev]

Agreed, gloss paper does not clean, it just moves it about...

(30 years in the paper industry btw.)

[Old Hywel]

When can we expect the next copy?  Can we wait that long?

[Dentman]

What size hole do we drill in the corner 

[Wittsend]

Many of us have praised the glossy standard of our very good club magazine.

Looks like you are a closet member.

Have a forum ugrade and a website access account on us 

[w3526602]

Hi,

In December 1956, I glanced over my shoulder. Unfortunately, I was cycling "furiously", probably 30mph plus, at the time, and had not noticed the unlit lamp-post.    So that was my Christmas sorted ... fractured lower epithisis (sp?) of my left femur. Two months in hospital. but luckily the first six weeks was spent in Lloyd Ward, Croydon General Hospital, in a "hip spiker". I could see nothing of my left leg, between my belly button to my big toe-nail.

Fortunately, Lloyd Ward was staffed mainly by student nurses. that was an "Xmas and a half". I still wake up smiling... mistletoe.

"Do you want your bottom rubbed?" What a stupid question!

And then they moved me to Purley Hospital ... which is where I go "on topic". We were limited to three sheets of perforated paper per "session".... ONE TO WIPE ... ONE TO SHINE ... ONE TO POLISH. This was the sort of paper that I used as tracing paper.

When the plaster came off, I used to cycle to hospital for physio-therapy ... one leg pedalling ...one leg dangling ... crutches tied across my shoulders.

Happy daze!

602

PS. If anyone knows Rita Penfold (ret'd now?), in New Zealand,  give her my regards. She won't forget me ... I was her first enema ... while the nurse who was training her raided my locker, looking for chocolate.

[Porkscratching]

Ahh..Croydon General Hospital 602...there was my first vist to a hospital,  little kid, early 60s, I had put my hand on the circular top of an old Valor parrafin heater, ( life lesson learned there ).  Another visit to the same establishment was in the same era, this time I had my finger firmly stuck down the funnel of a toy plastic tug boat....

We looked on t'internet the other day for hard toilet paper, purely out of interest, and to try and explain the concept to a youngster ( who couldn't understand what we were on about! ) it seems you can get it, though they were out of stock naturally....

[Clifford Pope]

At this difficult time may I suggest some welcome changes please, namely more blank pages,

I read that a newspaper in Australia produced a "Coronavirus Supplement" featuring entirely blank pages. :)

[w3526602]

Hi Clifford,

There are times that are "difficult" ... I once considered this problem, and wondered if all those blank sheets could be used as "advertising space!". Crosswords?  What ever, earlier I had written a huge screed, making suggestions  ...  only to have them dumped, when my PC went off-line. I'm assuming the computer literate bloke next door had logged onto his "Megabyte Blaster", and killed my wimpy lap-top. (Can that happen?)

So, in an attempt to get my oar in, before he returns ...

... could we have a monthly, one page feature, by our "specialists", covering each of the different problems that are regularly raised on this forum, but going into greater depth?

Where wouid you start?  How about how to choose which new chassis to buy ... and how to hang it from your garage rafters while de-gunging all the mechanical items. Eg: When my new chassis arrived (I should have pics of the delivery truck, craning the chassis onto my little trailer ... which made it easy to shunt around, single handed)

Ideally, the items should be produced in the same chronological order as the assembly sequence.

My "oar is in" ... is it time to paddle away?

602