On This Day....

The story of my life; I cast around teh intarweb to find something interesting that happened 48 years ago today and this is the best I could find:

Moving Tinned Fruit By Rail 1959 Boxes of United Canners food being loaded onto railway vans at Boston, 4 February 1959. United Canners, based in Boston, Lincolnshire, produced canned fruit and vegetables harvested on local farms. Despite increasing competition from road transport, large quantities of food were still delivered by rail in the 1950s. The tins were transported to the railhead by British Railways articulated lorries.

Edited to add:Project Blue Book - light in the sky over Washington. Almost interesting!



( All the interesting stuff happened the day before: )

On This Day....

The story of my life; I cast around teh intarweb to find something interesting that happened 48 years ago today and this is the best I could find:

Moving Tinned Fruit By Rail 1959 Boxes of United Canners food being loaded onto railway vans at Boston, 4 February 1959. United Canners, based in Boston, Lincolnshire, produced canned fruit and vegetables harvested on local farms. Despite increasing competition from road transport, large quantities of food were still delivered by rail in the 1950s. The tins were transported to the railhead by British Railways articulated lorries.

Edited to add:Project Blue Book - light in the sky over Washington. Almost interesting!



( All the interesting stuff happened the day before: )

The Day The World Gets Round

Champagne breakfast and good music.

Observe what My Girl^TM has bought for me:

Living In The Material World

The remaster of George Harrison's under-appreciated second solo¹ album, Living In The Material World.


¹Second post break up of the Beatles. We should not forget Electronic Sound or Wonderwall Music!

The Day The World Gets Round

Champagne breakfast and good music.

Observe what My Girl^TM has bought for me:

Living In The Material World

The remaster of George Harrison's under-appreciated second solo¹ album, Living In The Material World.


¹Second post break up of the Beatles. We should not forget Electronic Sound or Wonderwall Music!

electronic elegance and telly transcendence

Greetings to you, my Only Reader.

You chance upon my journal as I bask in the glow of near perfect TV reception both upstairs and in the lounge downstairs. Our Hero's continued fiddling with signal splitters, coaxial cables and connectors has finally paid off. Actually, it was the application of a further £1.88 to the problem together with a number of magic incantations rendered in the original Anglo-Saxon that did the trick.

In addition to decent terrestrial telly reception downstairs, we now have passable Freeview Digital too, though I shall be happier to gloat about that if we still have it in say, a week's time. But for now...

In other news, ellefurtle has demonstrated a knowledge of home electronics that had passed me by and eluded colonel_maxim entirely. It seems that through the simple stratagem of setting the clock on the hi-fi system in the lounge, we are now able to prevent it cycling through an incessant and previously interminable display mode. In short, we can now turn the brute off. My solution, less elegant it is true, was also effective. I pulled the plug out.

electronic elegance and telly transcendence

Greetings to you, my Only Reader.

You chance upon my journal as I bask in the glow of near perfect TV reception both upstairs and in the lounge downstairs. Our Hero's continued fiddling with signal splitters, coaxial cables and connectors has finally paid off. Actually, it was the application of a further £1.88 to the problem together with a number of magic incantations rendered in the original Anglo-Saxon that did the trick.

In addition to decent terrestrial telly reception downstairs, we now have passable Freeview Digital too, though I shall be happier to gloat about that if we still have it in say, a week's time. But for now...

In other news, ellefurtle has demonstrated a knowledge of home electronics that had passed me by and eluded colonel_maxim entirely. It seems that through the simple stratagem of setting the clock on the hi-fi system in the lounge, we are now able to prevent it cycling through an incessant and previously interminable display mode. In short, we can now turn the brute off. My solution, less elegant it is true, was also effective. I pulled the plug out.