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Post by eliseharris on Dec 2, 2015 14:54:16 GMT
The old shack is Ollie's garage. The garage door has been torn off and someone dumped a load of old trees at the entrance. There is another door, all covered in ivy. I have been in the once I think. It had a few old board games and a chair and a few broken bits of furniture. I think foxes live in there. I haven't looked for a while.
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Post by floppycatlovingbunny on Dec 2, 2015 15:56:39 GMT
The foxes are feasting themselves on your potatoes.
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Post by CampKohler on Dec 13, 2015 20:51:18 GMT
Floppy: You rogue, Elise is a proper lady and would not allow anyone to "feast on her potatoes." ---- Elise, I assume you are going home to spend Christmas with your mom and dad. What days will you be gone? (Don't search your clothes for that GPS tracking module; it's been too cleverly hidden [or perhaps slipped into your food]). I hope you will get some footage around Pontypool and put that in a video. I don't expect you to go digging in 14th-century iron mines, but surely there must be something interesting in the area. Perhaps you could find a tiny radio station and sweet-talk them into letting you video all their equipment, wires, cables and the like (I like technical stuff like that). Maybe, in exchange, they would like to interview you as the big-city show-biz girl come back home for the holidays. I just learned there was a movie called Pontypool, which name comes from the Canadian town.
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Post by floppycatlovingbunny on Dec 13, 2015 21:35:07 GMT
Elise is a foxy lady. She should make a video about A Stealth Christmas In Wales. "It was always snowing at Christmas. There were no reindeers. But there were cats. We waited to snowball the cats. The wise cats never appeared."gutenberg.net.au/ebooks07/0701261h.html
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Post by eliseharris on Dec 14, 2015 19:22:47 GMT
I could do that. I might. I have a long holiday there this year (the cheap tickets had gone for the dates I wanted so I am going this Thursday and not coming back to London until January 4).
I used to do work for Valleys Radio but they are long gone. I did work experience for Radio Gwent before that. Also long gone. No radio in that area any more!
I am going to talk to the people in Pontypool Museum to see about setting up a local project though. Ongoing so I may be back a lot more in the next year or so.
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Post by CampKohler on Dec 15, 2015 21:17:29 GMT
So let me get this straight: Every station you work for folds it's tent and the employees are summarily dismissed and kicked out into the cruel, cruel world. But wait, let's not put two and two together here. Able Radio is still in business. Maybe you could convince them that starving comedians are a disadvantaged group. Two down, one to go. Seriously, I hope you can keep in touch with us here and post a few still pix of the Harris Castle celebrations (tree, etc.). (There is a new write-up about forum photos forming—like the fog on the moors—in the Technical Forum. I will finish it up next week.)
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Post by eliseharris on Dec 21, 2015 10:14:44 GMT
I left London without a proper adapter for my camera battery charger but I have borrowed a camera and will try to get stuff done now. Meant to do a video of me decorating the tree yesterday but I left the room and when I got back it was done already!
It is a bit chaotic here as a mouse chewed through a water cable and there was no heat, light or gas for a while as a knock-on. Then when my parents tried to fix it they discovered the gas was never properly installed and has been a risk for at least three years. The floorboards are getting torn up on Christmas Eve to fix it.
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Post by floppycatlovingbunny on Dec 21, 2015 20:52:58 GMT
Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house, not a creature was stirring, except for a mouse who was chewing through the water cables.
It's too bad that your camera wasn't left on while you left the room so you could have captured the Pwca as he magically decorated your gigantic Christmas tree in the blink of an eye.
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Post by CampKohler on Dec 22, 2015 20:23:26 GMT
A "water cable??" They put water in cables in England? Well, there it is. We put our water in pipes in the U.S. and we put our electricity in cables; there's no mixing the two. Perhaps something is lost in the translation between English and American. Ripping up the floorboards?!? Yess!! I want to see exactly what was wrong with the gas pipe that put your folks sitting on a ticking time bomb. Please take some detailed pictures and post* them here (or better yet, in the latest video topic. (We're not using the video topics as intended. Gotta push that.) You will want to be there at the moment they open in the floor, because if there is 100,000 pounds stashed under there.... Well, need I say more? Oooh, oooh, technical stuff! What kind of an adapter are you talking about? Are the electrical receptacles in England different than those in Wales? Or are you talking about something on the other end of the charger? Do you use the camera itself to charge the battery or is the battery removable and fits into a cradle for charging? ---- *The photo tutorial in the Technical Forum is finished.
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Post by eliseharris on Dec 27, 2015 13:45:11 GMT
A cable that led from the pipes to the washing machine. A cable can be chewed through. A sort of pipe but a chewable one!
I got the camera from a US source and it needs an adapter to work in UK outlets. I stupidly brought one that changes UK plugs into US or continental European ones and not one that changes US ones into UK.
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Post by floppycatlovingbunny on Dec 28, 2015 16:58:47 GMT
If you had a converter that changes UK words into US ones, your "cable" would have translated to "hose"..
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Post by CampKohler on Dec 29, 2015 19:44:45 GMT
Then do you water your garden with a "water cable?" Do fire fighters extinguish conflagrations with "fire cables?" In other words, is the use of the word cable here something that is wide spread, or is it just your personal lingo?
re: adaptor: If it was just the difference in power connectors, then the correct one—one off of any U.K. appliance—could simply be spliced onto the adapter's power cord, which anyone with a modicum of electrical talent can do. However if the adapter was not designed to adjust to various countries' electrical systems, then no amount of connector changing would help. So now would you please read the input rating of the adapter, which should appear on the label, albeit in mice type. If it covers a wide range, e.g. 100 – 250 volts AC, then you can easily make it work. Your voltage is 230 VAC, 50 Hz, so if the input will be happy with that, then the only change needs to be a physical one, i.e. the connector. So check out the adapter and let me know what it takes.
I can't wait to see the pipe pix.
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Post by CampKohler on Jan 13, 2016 8:29:03 GMT
So, Elise, what is the ratings of your adapter?
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Post by eliseharris on Jan 13, 2016 20:05:14 GMT
Not sure what the adapter is - 230 I think. Though without the correct plug it makes no difference. US is a two prong one, continental Europe a slightly different two prong and UK three prong. The plugs are not at all the same. The adapter is necessary.
I did not see the pipe or cable in question - I have no real idea what was bitten through by the mouse. Sorry. It was hearsay as it happened before I got there.
Sorry I have been away. I have been busy for part of the time and ill for the rest.
I think I have solved the ill part with lots of ginger tea.
The busy involved auditioning and then filming for an advert. I may not be the one they choose but it took up a few days.
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Post by floppycatlovingbunny on Jan 14, 2016 4:18:01 GMT
I've been ill too. Lots of Vitamin C and aspirin. Finally seem to be over it now. You can get Vitamin C (ascorbic acid) in powder form, so it's really easy to take, just spoon it into your tea or juice or soda or cocoa or whatever you drink (even water). You could even put it in your porridge or oatmeal or soup, etc.
I hope it's an advert for vegetables. I think you have the necessary experience.
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