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Count Steer wrote: Mon Apr 08, 2024 3:06 pm

Rockburner wrote: Mon Apr 08, 2024 2:23 pm Popped into town to pick up a "Wallet" from Barclays that apparently had my name on it.

No idea what it was.

Turns out it was a manuscript for a book I'd written in 1992.......

I'd forgotten that I'd left a copy in the bank when I was sending it to publishers (obviously it got no interest whatsoever).

Nice to have it back, I'd lost all the copies I had from back then. It's shit, but it's nice to have a copy!

You can serialise it on here!

And get barred until the heat-death of the universe? no thanks.

Rockburner wrote: Mon Apr 08, 2024 3:09 pm

Count Steer wrote: Mon Apr 08, 2024 3:06 pm

Rockburner wrote: Mon Apr 08, 2024 2:23 pm Popped into town to pick up a "Wallet" from Barclays that apparently had my name on it.

No idea what it was.

Turns out it was a manuscript for a book I'd written in 1992.......

I'd forgotten that I'd left a copy in the bank when I was sending it to publishers (obviously it got no interest whatsoever).

Nice to have it back, I'd lost all the copies I had from back then. It's shit, but it's nice to have a copy!

You can serialise it on here!

And get barred until the heat-death of the universe? no thanks.

Sounds even more interesting! Wossit about? Any spaceships in it?

Rockburner wrote: Mon Apr 08, 2024 3:09 pm

Count Steer wrote: Mon Apr 08, 2024 3:06 pm

Rockburner wrote: Mon Apr 08, 2024 2:23 pm Popped into town to pick up a "Wallet" from Barclays that apparently had my name on it.

No idea what it was.

Turns out it was a manuscript for a book I'd written in 1992.......

I'd forgotten that I'd left a copy in the bank when I was sending it to publishers (obviously it got no interest whatsoever).

Nice to have it back, I'd lost all the copies I had from back then. It's shit, but it's nice to have a copy!

You can serialise it on here!

And get barred until the heat-death of the universe? no thanks.

Self-publish it on Amazon!

Editor on TRC said something like 'Think of the worst book you have ever read. Now think of what we have to read and reject.'

cheb wrote: Mon Apr 08, 2024 3:43 pm Editor on TRC said something like 'Think of the worst book you have ever read. Now think of what we have to read and reject.'

And this is worse than that.

With old age comes wisdom.

cheb wrote: Mon Apr 08, 2024 3:46 pm With old age comes wisdom.

summat like that....

Has it got spaceships and/or helicopter crashes, I might be interested in reading it if so?

KungFooBob wrote: Mon Apr 08, 2024 3:58 pm Has it got spaceships and/or helicopter crashes, I might be interested in reading it if so?

no, no (..t that I can remember), and no.

Although - if your favourite film is Commando, then you may well have a similar mentality to the target demographic.

After tracking the book down, finally read "The Giant Killers" by Andrew Stephenson (1976), a short story set on a battlefield of the near future where 3 soldiers are trying to hunt down an advanced AI tank of the enemy. Chilling and creepily accurate use of drones (also some truly horrific bio weapons). Bloody good, but very grim and a portent to Mans place (or lack of it) on the near future battlefield.

Rockburner wrote: Mon Apr 08, 2024 3:44 pm

cheb wrote: Mon Apr 08, 2024 3:43 pm Editor on TRC said something like 'Think of the worst book you have ever read. Now think of what we have to read and reject.'

And this is worse than that.

Must be better than that if the bank was holding it as collateral.

Count Steer wrote: Mon Apr 08, 2024 6:49 pm

Rockburner wrote: Mon Apr 08, 2024 3:44 pm

cheb wrote: Mon Apr 08, 2024 3:43 pm Editor on TRC said something like 'Think of the worst book you have ever read. Now think of what we have to read and reject.'

And this is worse than that.

Must be better than that if the bank was holding it as collateral.

It could have been blackmail.

Took a cheapo rivet gun apart and got it back into working order eventually.
Went up west and had lunch with Tam for her birthday- spent 1/2 an hour in Covent Garden watching the street performers- came home and ordered a bath from Victorian plumbing.

Been to see a Doc. This time he didn't stick a finger or snipper up my chimney, but merely asked I visit the Vampires at the Stab Lab & get a fresh PSA number.

Potter wrote: Mon Apr 08, 2024 7:52 pm

MingtheMerciless wrote: Mon Apr 08, 2024 6:06 pm After tracking the book down, finally read "The Giant Killers" by Andrew Stephenson (1976), a short story set on a battlefield of the near future where 3 soldiers are trying to hunt down an advanced AI tank of the enemy. Chilling and creepily accurate use of drones (also some truly horrific bio weapons). Bloody good, but very grim and a portent to Mans place (or lack of it) on the near future battlefield.

Made me think of Rogue Trooper, probably my favourite character in 2000AD.

Sounds like an inspiration for the Terminator film too.

Went to meet a friend for coffee. He lives down in Macot (just at the bottom of the mountain road) and I still have no transport. So I thought, yesterday, that I'd hitch down.

The weather this morning was not ideal! Just about raining as I set off but a lovely chap with the accent from hell (led to a lot of nodding and smiling from me, didn't understand everything ) picked me up within about 500m of me starting to walk

Great chat and coffee with my friend, then the return hitch - bit less happy as it was actually raining then BUT, one of the bus drivers from up here was driving back from shopping and he gave me a lift from about 100m from the start of the mountain road So really I didn't have to walk far at all and didn't get very wet


And it's been snowing up here for hours. Bloody lovely

Wandered the shore below my house, it's a been a very low tide so there's been fresh stuff to look at. I also cleared from flotsam while I was down there, nothing exciting sadly, a couple or three usable feed bags and a 5litre can of engine oil. If the latter is still oil it'll get used as bar oil in the chainsaw.

Got home to find the milk had gone bad...
Yes....the Gremlinette is home from uni.

Holy shit,how much cow juice doya neck?

Yorick wrote: Wed Feb 07, 2024 7:27 pm

Taipan wrote: Fri Feb 02, 2024 11:11 am

Yorick wrote: Fri Feb 02, 2024 10:18 am
First guy checks all doors, seatbelts, lights etc.
Second does lots of brake tests.
Next guy puts car on suspension and steering rig and checks underneath while he's downstairs.
Last guy does emissions.

Might have been a bit longer than 15 mins, but felt like we were in and out in no time.

The office does all the paperwork.

Out of interest, is rust an issue on cars on the islands, or does the heat keep it at bay?

We followed this old beast today. No idea how old it is.

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I saw this beauty yesterday. All the chrome was perfect and whole car amazing