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timothy leary ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: December 29 2005 Location: Lilliwaup, Wa. Status: Offline Points: 5319 |
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Have you ever thought of replacing the steel strings with nylon strings?
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Dean ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Retired Admin and Amateur Layabout Joined: May 13 2007 Location: Europe Status: Offline Points: 37575 |
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I would say that all's quiet in Hampshire but that would be a lie.
Many years ago I made a wind harp (aka aeolian harp) and cut a hole in the car-port wall so the westerly wind that rips over the fields, leaps the back hedge and batters my house would produce soothing hums as it passes over the harp. Like a wind-chime but less annoying. Unfortunately all it ever did was emit the occasional moan and having tried many different tunings to get it to work, I finally gave up. Since then the steel guitar strings I strung it with have rusted and it has detuned itself quite badly. Low an behold it now works like a charm. And it is very loud. And atonal. In fact it wails and howls like a damn banshee, and not the Siouxsie kind either. |
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Stool Man ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: January 30 2007 Location: Anti-Cool (anag Status: Offline Points: 2689 |
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There were so many damaged roofs that the islands have run out of spare tiles, and we'll all have to wait until the sea is calm enough for the freight ship to dock (not just with tiles, but food etc too, obviously.)
I'm at the southernmost tip of south Harris. It's all amazing here usually. I saw somebody's shipping container had been rolled over onto their car. It takes something special to roll a shipping container. Edited by Stool Man - January 14 2015 at 10:27 |
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rotten hound of the burnie crew
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chopper ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator Joined: July 13 2005 Location: Essex, UK Status: Offline Points: 20047 |
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With those winds, I suspect a lot of sheds in the Outer Hebrides are now in the Inner Hebrides.
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Jim Garten ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Retired Admin & Razor Guru Joined: February 02 2004 Location: South England Status: Offline Points: 14693 |
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Is your shed OK?
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chopper ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator Joined: July 13 2005 Location: Essex, UK Status: Offline Points: 20047 |
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Wow, no wonder you've had bad weather, there were some really strong winds around Stornoway recently. Hope everything gets sorted out for you. Whereabouts exactly are you? - my wife has been to Lewis and thought it was wonderful. It's a place I'd like to visit at some point (well, you've put me off a bit but still...).
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Stool Man ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: January 30 2007 Location: Anti-Cool (anag Status: Offline Points: 2689 |
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Outer Hebrides. I moved up here from London a few months ago.
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rotten hound of the burnie crew
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chopper ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator Joined: July 13 2005 Location: Essex, UK Status: Offline Points: 20047 |
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It's ok where I am (Essex), just a bit wet. Whereabouts are you?
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Stool Man ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: January 30 2007 Location: Anti-Cool (anag Status: Offline Points: 2689 |
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What marvellous weather we've been having.
On Thursday night we were visited by a big storm, with winds over 100mph which blew loads of slate tiles off the roof - some of them landed over 100 yards from the house. The roof right above (well, about seven feet above) my sleeping head was struck by lightning, blowing several concrete ridge tiles about twenty feet and the telephone line was frazzled. One of the guy lines of the telephone pole outside the house was pulled up, along with the wooden railway sleeper it was attached to, which had been a foot underground. And of course we lost all power, heating, phone, internet etc for the next sixty seven hours. The weather's still playing up, and another storm is coming the day after tomorrow. How is it where you are? |
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Angelo ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator / Retired Admin Joined: May 07 2006 Location: Italy Status: Offline Points: 13244 |
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Why did you turn off the lights, JIm?
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ISKC Rock Radio
I stopped blogging and reviewing - so won't be handling requests. Promo's for ariplay can be sent to [email protected] |
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Jim Garten ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Retired Admin & Razor Guru Joined: February 02 2004 Location: South England Status: Offline Points: 14693 |
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Bloody hell - found one of my old patented methane accelerators behind the lawn mower; wonder if it still works?
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chopper ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator Joined: July 13 2005 Location: Essex, UK Status: Offline Points: 20047 |
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Syzygy ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator Joined: December 16 2004 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 7066 |
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I've found some copies of NME from the 80s. Let's see - 'ELP responsible for nuclear proliferation' 'Rush cause 8 species a day to go extinct' 'Genesis start the Falklands war' - funny, I remember them being much more anti prog than that.
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I've got my doubts about how much to contribute to the already rich among us...' Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom |
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chopper ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator Joined: July 13 2005 Location: Essex, UK Status: Offline Points: 20047 |
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Sorry we've been busy having a good clear out of the Shed. We're all good though, thanks. And yourself? |
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Angelo ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator / Retired Admin Joined: May 07 2006 Location: Italy Status: Offline Points: 13244 |
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Howryalldoininere?
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ISKC Rock Radio
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Jim Garten ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Retired Admin & Razor Guru Joined: February 02 2004 Location: South England Status: Offline Points: 14693 |
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Bloody hell - Chris back as well!
3 of us in here with some old paint, lardy cake & a dusty eukelele - seems like beer o/clock!
How else was I going to get rid of the Hogweed? Edited by Jim Garten - November 17 2014 at 11:23 |
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chopper ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator Joined: July 13 2005 Location: Essex, UK Status: Offline Points: 20047 |
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Sanity?
![]() Sorry Chris, the insects have eaten all the lardy cake over the summer.
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Syzygy ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator Joined: December 16 2004 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 7066 |
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Cough cough! Flippin' heck - it's a bit dusty in here! How I have missed this oasis of sanity and tranquility...
It's nice to be back, chaps. Is there any lardy cake? |
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'Like so many of you
I've got my doubts about how much to contribute to the already rich among us...' Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom |
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chopper ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator Joined: July 13 2005 Location: Essex, UK Status: Offline Points: 20047 |
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It appears the dynamite you used to clear the garden had a somewhat adverse effect on the shed.
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Jim Garten ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Retired Admin & Razor Guru Joined: February 02 2004 Location: South England Status: Offline Points: 14693 |
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Have to say, it could do with some work...
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