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Most used to be single D cell "battery" powered though, my mum's complete oven was.
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Not quite "My Today" but more like "My Tuesday 28th March."
I was on a break for a few days in a static caravan on the Eastern coast of England. I visited the seaside town of Scarborough and stumbled across this oldie worldie Antiquie shop with these little gems for sale...............
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In all my excitement, I totally forgot to check the prices !
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Finished the screen area yesterday
onto the projector next giving the old girl a spruce up, then get it running
In the beginning it was this, then got some wood, built a frame, painted it black, added a few thing like two B/H 8 ohm speakers, a couple of 2000 ft reels I found in the garage and gave them the gold treatment, found an old Snow White poster, that one came out when it was released on VHS many moons ago.
PS Every time I park my car at the Heritage park ,these particular two ducks come out the pond and follow me, so now I give them a little bit of bread, they even tap at the car door
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Doug is that a little model battleship making its way across the pond?
The spring colour's look greatComment
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Brilliant photo of the South Island, NZ, taken by NASA five days ago
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Been a bit of a rush paint job could be better, but decided to give the old girl a quick spruce up over the last couple of days, problem is I spend to much time taking to folk about projectors and films instead of getting on with it in saying that its nice to talk to people
Anyway not a perfect paint job but it will do, hopefully I will get the old girl running soon with my home made 20 minute 35mm digest of "Dolphin Tail". I used a DVD for reference at the time. The last time I watched it, I felt I got the beginning a middle and end of it just about right nice film nice digest
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Cloud Gate
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We spent Easter week out in Indiana visiting our son at college. While we were there we went to Chicago and saw this astounding object sitting in Millennium Park near the Lake Michigan Shore. It is called "Cloud Gate", but more commonly just "the Bean". It's kind of disturbing to encounter, almost liquid, as if it's frozen in time waiting for someone to press "play" and rinse everyone in the plaza away!
As an Electronics guy it reminds me of about 10,000 lifetimes worth of solder, but it is actually many, many sections of stainless steel welded together and polished into a mirror surface.
Maybe appropriate for Easter, this end view looks like an egg, but it's actually an arch when seen from the side and if you walk underneath it, you can have the unique experience of basically walking inside a mirror!Comment
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This photo appeared in our local paper today which I think is nice so will post it here. The owner of the small town supermarket of "Methven" noticed one of her customers at the supermarket as being someone special, and when approached he kindly went along with this neat selfie If you know your films, you should know who this person is, at present making a film up at Castle Hill near Arthurs Pass. Hint a former well known American child actor who went on to have a successful career as a adult.
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Elijah Wood Lord Of The RingsComment
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Plus a few others, this one going back to 1992 "Forever Young" was a good film.
seems like a million years ago now. The 90s had quite a range of good ones that came out
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I realize the last two posts concerned DVDs, however I moved them to the What Blu-Ray did you watch last night? thread anyway. I think they'll be happy there.Comment
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A good sign Summer is on its way !!Comment
The news this afternoon, states that if you intend to travel on the Cook Strait ferry tonight, between the North and South Island, and if you are "prone to sea sickness", that it might be a good idea, to put of travelling on tonight's 8.30pm sailing, sounds like fun 
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