OT: Just been streetviewed!
	Busy reading umra and glanced out of the window to see a google streetview car turning round just outside the house at the end of our close a couple of minutes ago. Any otherrat noticed their place being streetviewed? By David  - 09:46 - 10 new of 10 messages

	UMRA birthday info for 6 July 2009
	Birthday News for today, 6 July: Min Lacey. By Birthday Monitor  - 07:06 - 5 new of 5 messages

	The Sunday Times
	Apparently Janet Fisher is a major character in The Archers and also knows the new head of the secret service. All as revealed on facebook apparently. It is a strange old world. By K Richard Whitbread  - 5 July - 1 new of 1 message

	UMRA Music Club: Bob Pegg
	Bob Pegg is a very good storyteller who now lives in Aberdeenshire, but whose roots are in the folk rock/acid folk music of the early 1970s. Some of his stuff is available on his MySpace page <[link]> and there are a few early tracks on YouTube, but very little from his best works.... more » By Stephen  - 5 July - 2 new of 2 messages

	The spirit of John Peel lives
	I couldn't help thinking of him and his love for odd names for groups, and purple prose describing them, when I read this There are plenty of other names - like Freq Nasty, Scratch Perverts and Perhaps Contraption (who've been described as "seriously high grade, tetrahedron-shaped, hard-boiled bendy pronk", in case you needed some... more » By J. P. Gilliver (John)  - 5 July - 1 new of 1 message

	OT: backup programs
	OK, so I am now the proud owner of an Iomega external hard drive and its free software, EMC Retrospect Express HD 2.5. This assured me that I could do complete backups of the system but also drag and drop files. I began by a complete backup, then I scheduled backups (backsup?) of my documents daily.... more » By Jane Vernon  - 5 July - 3 new of 3 messages

	Age difference
	Sorted. Jim and Vicky are soul mates. They manipulate those nearest to them in a very similar manner. Let them wed, say I. By the Omrud  - 5 July - 3 new of 3 messages

	the plinth in Trafalgar Sq
	An umrat of long ago has just rung me to say she has got a place on the plinth. 22nd July. Has *anyone* got a stuff llama she could borrow? She really really wants to be Lynda Snell but she hasn't been able to locate a blow up llama, so stuffed is the next best thing. If you have got such a beastie and are willing to loan, let me know,... more » By chris mcmillan  - 5 July - 16 new of 16 messages

	UMRA Music Club - Trees
	I don't know whether UMRA Music Club is really aimed at flagging up acts that may not only have been overlooked by umrats, but by most of the world; nonetheless I thought that it would be worth commending the small but perfectly formed oeuvre of Trees, a folk rock/acid folk outfit that recorded two albums in 1970, and then disappeared for... more » By Stephen  - 5 July - 9 new of 9 messages

	What night is GA-night and how often?
	I ought to know but I've forgotten. Presumably umbrella is going to notice eventually that Alastair is never available for 7pm supper on that day. By DavidK  - 5 July - 12 new of 12 messages