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  1. Dragon Soldier

    You know you are getting old when:

    Her hands (and elbows) ain't!
  2. Dragon Soldier

    You know you are getting old when:

    You want proof of that, try and get a ghanzi at Madonna's.
  3. Dragon Soldier

    You know you are getting old when:

    Used to work with a live sound engineer who could do it unfailingly through bar PAs. As long as he had a comparison to work from, he also had an extremely good hit rate on estimating bit rate by ear. On a vaguely related note, I recently obtained a modern turntable (Numark Pro-TT1), fitted...
  4. Dragon Soldier

    The Soda Thread: Coke not Classic; Throwback Pepsi

    There can be only one...
  5. Dragon Soldier

    D-Day 2014 70 years

    I was in Normandy, in Ranville to be precise, it was an anchor point for the British 6th Airborne landings. After a busy day I was sitting on the campsite on the night of the fifth when the costal fireworks started. bangs, crashes & crumps with the occasional flash on the horizon. Atmospheric...
  7. Dragon Soldier

    Show us your photography

    Nominally the first building in France to be liberated from the Nazis. (Ask for the local cider) Beautiful vehicle. BUT... I got stuck behind him on the way to the ferry home. I might have called him naughty names. There was an effort to collect as many C-47/DC-3s as possible in...
  8. Dragon Soldier

    Show us your photography

    Just a few from last week in Normandy. RAF Dakota. - This was over my campsite. Britain's major tool of 3rd Reich inner city redevelopment. Do I need to tell anyone here what these are?
  9. Dragon Soldier

    On yer bike!

    Please try not to laugh at my latest "find". Not quite sure what it is, but vintage guestimated at 1910s. It will give me something to play with until the start of the new rugby season, and possibly some way beyond!
  10. Dragon Soldier

    Gramophones, Phonographs, Victrolas....

    Finished this off this afternoon after a bare wood rebuild. Not something I'd be in any rush to do again to be honest" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykQ8Sb0q-28
  11. Dragon Soldier

    Digital watches/clocks

    I think in 24 hour clock terms, it is 22:35 as I type. To me that is the simplest and quickest way of communicating the hour of day. I can read either analogue or digital, with equal ease. In terms of relating it to how I think, a digital timepiece which works on the 24hr system is most...
  13. Dragon Soldier

    The Powder Room is Now Ladies Only. But I LIKE Talking To Ladies!

    There's a reason that most forum software has the facility for "secret", invisible, invite only or selectively available rooms. Principly the prevention of silly arguments.
  14. Dragon Soldier

    Hiking food.

    I take a mix of plain flour, bicarbonate of soda, salt and dried milk powder. Added to enough water to make a "flappy" dough, this is a mixture for Irish soda bread. No oven needed* this bread can be cooked in a pan or on a griddle and it will rise all on its own. You can add fruit or...
  15. Dragon Soldier

    does Food still taste the same as back in 1900 - 1920? or 1930's?

    Now? Honestly, probably not a lot. Provided, again, that you don't buy from the junk end of the market. The last twenty years have put paid to a lot of that. BTW. By "junk end" I don't necessarily mean cheap end, although it often is the case, it need not be. I wonder to what extent...
  16. Dragon Soldier

    A little bit of Lancaster

    It's been bodge modified, something I intend to correct, but this evening I acquired a R1155A RX. As fitted to Lancasters, Sunderlands, Lincolns and... Some other RAF heavies. I think this is my first tube comms receiver...
  17. Dragon Soldier

    Rare RAF Aldergrove film from World War Two found in attic

    The chap running to the Anson.... :D
  19. Dragon Soldier

    does Food still taste the same as back in 1900 - 1920? or 1930's?

    I would have thought that provided one actually cooked food, rather than heated it from pre-packaged containers and avoided the obvious temptations of dirty fast food, that today's diet would, by every metric, be superior to that of fifty/sixty years ago. Certainly those who eat a well...
  20. Dragon Soldier

    Vintage Rugby Jerseys

    Nah, different occasion....
  21. Dragon Soldier

    Vintage Rugby Jerseys

    I was at Saints last year for the HEC game, great fun. Spent most of the weekend in the Thomas A'Beckett. Fine side, finer support.
  22. Dragon Soldier

    Overly appreciated movies?

    It is my sincerely held belief that had Abrose lived he would have been discredited.
  23. Dragon Soldier

    Overly appreciated movies?

    Not sure if it's really in the spirit of the thread, but two "classics" which I personally detest. Odd Man Out - It's not a bad yarn, but it's a yarn. It's a yarn written by someone who was a realtive "blow-in" to where I'm from and produced for cinema by someone who'd never been there at...

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