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Indeed. One of the best. And there's JG Ballard, another fine author, who wrote of his experiences as a boy in Japanese-occupied Shanghai in "Empire Of The Sun". Eric Lomax's "The Railway Man" is another. The film adaptation was on a couple of nights ago. I knew very little about the Burma...

Bravo! :LOL:

I worked in Sydney as a teenager (RAF Dad, in Singapore, 6 months to kill before uni). This was 1969. I worked in a warehouse at Darling Harbour with a bunch of decidedly mis-fit Aussies and one of them was a skinny sickly-looking guy who kept himself to himself and hardly spoke a word. He used...

Not fussing at all. You're the one who upped the ante with the first personal dig: "It's ok to admit you were wrong you know, the world won't end. But of course no-one on here ever does, just tow (sic) the line and stay stubborn lest you look foolish." Prior to that I was, quite reasonably I...

*sigh* The insults started with implying that I was 'stubborn' and 'looking foolish'. Now, I'm a big boy and that's water off a duck's back, but you did ask. I can't remember the last time I had a 'You started it!' 'No, You did!!!' argument. It must have been 65 years ago with my sister.

Hey, you started with the insults pal. It's a two way street.

Having been to the Axminster factory, and having seen their chucks being manufactured, I would be confident in saying that they are a superior product. They are machined out of solid billets of stainless steel to very tight tolerances. Plus, they are made in England which might mean something to...

Yes, I did read it all. Read it a while ago actually. It makes exactly my point. The words 'pot 'kettle' and 'black' are coming to mind here. I'm not the one posting garbage every five minutes, as you can see by my post count.

Nice try, but that BBC article is talking about increases in infections in Bournemouth. And then it goes on to say exactly what I did - they have no way of telling if visitors spread the infection among themselves and then took it home with them. Edit to add: not surprised at all that the...

If anybody is in the market for a bench grinder Yandles are knocking £30 off the RPBG6 and RPBG8 today only (Friday). I have the 6" grinder and it's a nice quiet smooth running unit. https://www.yandles.co.uk/record-power-rpbg6-6-bench-grinder/p26198

How can you possibly be sure 'nothing bad happened'? As I said previously (and you conspicuously ignored) that's rather hard to quantify, given there are no graphs or stats for people who converge on southern beaches, and sit for several hours in a seething ant-heap of humanity, and then...

Would someone please show me where it now says I am required to pay to participate in this website? I'm reading in multiple threads of people threatening to leave, but the only thing I can see is a request for a voluntary contribution.

He has a pretty good internet connection for somebody sat in depths of the Greek countryside.

I've long ago come to the conclusion that our friend who purports to be a greek farmer is actually sat in one of those fake news factories in Russia. It's the only logical explanation for all the disinformation he relentlessly churns out. Yeah, I know... paranoid or what. But they have a very...

Well, that's rather hard to quantify isn't it? Given there are no graphs or stats for people who converge on southern beaches and sit for several hours in a seething ant-heap of humanity, and then disperse back to their homes all over the south of England. We get day trippers from as far away...

Six weeks ago most of the infrastructure we have for dealing with influxes of hundreds of thousands of day trippers was still being brought out of mothballs. Toilets, refuse collection, beachside catering, traffic management, etc., etc. Facilities are mostly back in place now. Bournemouth has...

Perhaps not. I spent six years in the tropics (three in Singapore, three in Hong Kong) as a kid. My Dad was in the RAF. In Singapore our bungalow was opposite an area of virgin jungle on the perimeter of Changi aerodrome. We had all sorts of creepy crawlies slithering, scuttling and flying into...

Yeah, That's the ticket. Don't understand it, so kill it. Me, I'm more of a live and let live kinda person.

This is what happened to me when an unsecured Jacobs chuck flew out of the headstock of my lathe. It was holding a soft polishing mop which smashed into my safety glasses with a force that felt like a punch from a heavyweight boxer. I was rendered momentarily unconscious. I was lucky; Lord know...

My 'smock' is a six quid drivers jacket I bought off ebay many years ago. Works for me :mrgreen: