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.. with Tyson Fury winning the World Heavyweight Boxing Championship and Britain (Murray family) winning the Davis Cup, along with F1 finishing today with Hamilton champion again. It makes up for the home nations pretty dismal display in the Rugby...

Things seems to have heated up with the " Jungle" migrants and the French police just recently.. A very  sad situation.    Some brave people I know have driven over with food and clothes and helped construct a kitchen . 

Wonder if we are going to see any this year?  What would everyone like to see?   90% off a Statement system? 95% off 14m of Super Lumina speaker cable? Free mu-so with every set of Naim chips?  

For some reason my iMac is refusing to log on to iStore or Facetime. A dialogue box asks me to log on with Apple ID I enter the required password, click sign in and the rotating icon keeps on rotating. I can't quit Apple store either, I have to use...

Its getting close to the end of its last flying season. If anyone is interested where its flying in the next weekends, search Vulcan in the Sky & a very useful twitter can watched during flights. They normally give location (flying over) & show a map of the scheduled flight path. https://twitter.com/XH558?ref_...serp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor The flight path to central south England is normally right over my house, it looks like its doing so today, so hope to...

  Here here we go again. Williams is the first to unveil their new car for the 2015 season. Oh, dear! It looks like the trend this year among the designers and engineers are uglier and wider front spoilers.  I wonder what the other...

I recently bought time trial bike, not complete, needs brakes, QR skewers and pedals to get it running and possible a front chain ring.   I've spent a couple of days trying to identify the frame manufacture, without any success. Googling "extreme...

The first part of a series of three programmes on BBC4 about power generation in the UK got me looking at the Grid-Watch web site here .   Fascinating, Captain!   John.

A rather revealing conversation between John Humphries and Herr Frank’s son yesterday morning. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p038djg4 Not to be missed, though mind the bad language for those who are sensitive. ATB from George

Awesome.... just awesome...

Well, I think SWMBO's 5 year old Toshiba laptop (now running Windows 10) is dying (sigh). I had to sort out a connectivity problem for her earlier on this evening.  It wouldn't connect to our BT Homehub 5 via wifi.   First thing I did was to...

Paris attacks leave at least 60 dead and about 100 hostages. All information is still very confusing. Hollande closed all borders. Should be something very massive. Force amis franÇaise. Regards. Erich

After donkey's years working full time, and then some, I've taken the decision to improve my work/life balance, and my lovely employers have agreed that I can work four days a week, so 30 contracted hours instead of 37. Having spoken to various people...

Much was made of the combined singing of La Marseillaise at Wembley but if you actually read the words it is deeply unpleasant with more than whiff of facist overtones.   Arise, children of the Fatherland The day of glory has arrived Against us...

Any body interested ? Can England win? Karl

The British Museum needs someone to assist them in identifying a vintage  Melanesian speaker cable...!   https://www.facebook.com/hasht...id=10153718469989723   Any suggestions? 

We're about to fly out of Heathrow, and as my daughter is asking for a new iphone for her birthday / Christmas, I thought I'd look at the prices at Dixons Duty Free shops.  There seems to be some savings over normal purchases.   Does anyone...

All the threads on this are now closed, and I cannot reply to Richard's above.   What used to work, no longer seems to.   I find the image, click on share (now just a curved arrow) and it gives me three options, none of which work:  ...

I see this word all the time here, but still don't know what it means.I ve googled Mullet and only get Haircut or Fish.In HiFi Corner there is a Thread called  Is The 272 a Mullet ?   Any comments most welcome

Forum may be down for a while tomorrow, I see... bugger, that means I'll have to go listen to my stuff instead of talking about it 

Does anyone know how to select a language on the Naim website? Whenever I look it is in French but as quite a few sub-articles are appearing in English (maybe no-one has got round to translating them yet, or it's a bug?) I'd rather browse the website...

Anyone here do taichi? I’m been doing it for 5 years, and loving it. Would be interesting to discuss experiences with another enthusiast.

I suspect plenty of people here have done this. Is it possible to cut the hole and reseal it or does it require a new sealed unit? I suspect the latter but thought I'd ask anyway. Cheers.   TomK.  

After having been made redundant three and a half years ago and having had a prolonged period of ill health meantime I am soon to be back in the world of employment. 30th November in fact I'm to be Database Manager with the Royal College of Surgeons...