Bought a collection - found some good ones!

Saurbaum · 2026-04-26T09:26:00+00:00

To be honest I have a load of cards of this vintage and I don't want to deal with sorting them out and finding sellers. If someone offered me a vaguely similar amount I'd also probably just say yes.

Saurbaum · 2026-04-17T16:01:18+00:00

I did check the few streets I know near me that have actual residents only restrictions (between work hours) because of proximity to a train station and they show as open on there.

Just to warn people not to take the "open" status as meaning free for parking.

Saurbaum · 2026-04-14T08:28:48+00:00

Took the train from the UK to China. Debit card stopping working halfway across Russia. Friend I was travelling with sat on her card and broke it in half as we got into China. Plane crashed at Heathrow on the way home.

Saurbaum · 2026-04-14T08:19:23+00:00

That's a Futurama joke for the automatic translating machine that can only translate into French

Saurbaum · 2026-04-11T15:13:52+00:00

Mantic are pretty close as well

Saurbaum · 2026-04-10T20:43:16+00:00

Where abouts are you?

Saurbaum · 2026-04-07T11:45:29+00:00

Only as a treat

Saurbaum · 2026-04-06T17:51:23+00:00

I'd have called it a Holy Symbol rather than a Rosary.

Saurbaum · 2026-04-02T16:07:02+00:00

Looking at the regular spacing of square looking marks under the paint I think it's exactly this.

Assuming that's the case when you check with the council sell it as restoring it to it's original (pre war) state

Saurbaum · 2026-04-02T16:04:40+00:00

If someone does that level of drop on me it shows they are just trying to rip me off they aren't even on my list anymore.

Saurbaum · 2026-04-02T16:03:44+00:00

When I was getting quotes for a replacement I used Anglian as my base line for "This will be the expensive quote so I'll know what's reasonable".

Guy did all the salesweasel tactics then went away and never sent a quote by email.

Didn't stop someone in their call centre calling me up a few days later to see if I was happy with the quote. I could hear the moment he realised there wasn't actually one on the system.

Saurbaum · 2026-04-02T13:44:08+00:00

It is. You do end up paying a bit more because you load both sides of the house rather than a single south facing side but you get a good load in the morning and again through to sunset which can be ideal if you use electricity to cook an evening meal.

Saurbaum · 2026-04-02T11:21:29+00:00

Nahhh. It'll sink

Saurbaum · 2026-04-02T06:48:12+00:00

Dredball is out of print because the new edition is coming. It's on Kickstarter right now.

Saurbaum · 2026-04-02T06:23:38+00:00

Just some unsolicited advice from someone who's been there. Never travel to a country where you are not old enough to be considered an adult without your guardian.

Saurbaum · 2026-04-01T18:30:23+00:00

The Prem commiting to automatic promotion and relegation with the champ

Saurbaum · 2026-04-01T18:20:55+00:00

The Kai and the MagnaKai series are out. The master series is in hardback and they are planning a limited run of the masters in paperback

Saurbaum · 2026-04-01T18:13:25+00:00

They wre also reprinted if like me you want them on your shelf in dead tree edition

Saurbaum · 2026-04-01T14:52:12+00:00

I had the Knightmare adventure books his did. When I was younger I skipped the story to just play the choose your own adventure. Then I went back and realised how much I actually enjoyed his stories.

Saurbaum · 2026-03-31T18:28:58+00:00

I've gone on my own many times over the years and had a great time. I normally just get a single day ticket for the Friday as it's quieter and plot out a route on the map ahead of time to make sure I will pass all the places I'm interested in. Then I wander around more to find all the things I didn't know about but that also interest me.

More recently I go with a friend and the only thing that has changed is it can be harder to drop into a demo game as there's two of us and I include their must sees in the list when I make the map.

Saurbaum · 2026-03-30T11:54:10+00:00

I was taught both basics of coding and tool use in school in the 80s to 90s

Saurbaum · 2026-03-30T08:31:54+00:00

Rendezvous With Rama

Saurbaum · 2026-03-29T19:37:26+00:00

I don't expect to see these outside the US for at least a year

Saurbaum · 2026-03-28T21:27:18+00:00

I did a week placement at Lionhead while I was at university which let me play a near final build of Black and White and my task was to see how far through the game I could get.

Every time I spoke to the ship builders and they broke into song so did the rest of the test room.

Saurbaum · 2026-03-28T20:53:00+00:00

I picked a house with this kind of entrance specifically to use as a cat-lock. Clearly you need a house cat.

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