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Discussion of the BBC radio soap opera "The Archers"
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OT: Just been streetviewed!
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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?
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The Sunday Times
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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.
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UMRA Music Club: Bob Pegg
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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 »
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The spirit of John Peel lives
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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 »
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OT: backup programs
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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 »
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Age difference
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Sorted. Jim and Vicky are soul mates. They manipulate those nearest to them in a very similar manner. Let them wed, say I.
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the plinth in Trafalgar Sq
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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 »
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UMRA Music Club - Trees
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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 »
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