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    fletty (in famous Yorkshire accent!)
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    Quote Originally Posted by DaveTTC View Post
    Can you write that in a Yorkshire accent please

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    Ther'll be truble ut mill if you keep oup blatant digressions like that mi lad.

    BTW, How did NCArcher bring everything back on track so easily and do you think it will last?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bushmiller View Post

    BTW, How did NCArcher bring everything back on track so easily and do you think it will last?

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    Quote Originally Posted by ian View Post
    and next we'll have the bloke in Brisbane w ho has a swimming pool in his.


    can we not start a "we was so poor we lived in a hole in the road" saga -- for one it's too hard to do a proper Yorkshire accent via a keyboard.
    Quote Originally Posted by Bushmiller View Post
    Damn.

    Ian's post has just prevented me from saying anything about my three sided, sod floored, leaky roofed shed that's cold in winter, hot in summer and very windy for 364 days a year. Consequently I won't dwell on the hordes of insects .

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    Quote Originally Posted by DaveTTC View Post
    Can you write that in a Yorkshire accent please

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    Quote Originally Posted by fletty View Post
    There's nowt real t'millers shed bah't t'roosty iron

    ...... there, I've said it!
    Google translate failure reported.
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    Quote Originally Posted by fletty View Post
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    ye ha' carboard box wit lid, luxsury, we had to mak' do wit' ...
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    That reminds me of a little story I heard on the radio (a long time ago. The lord mayor of Leeds was being interviewed. When asked what it was like to live in Yorkshire he said,

    "Ten percent of the people in the UK live in Yorkshire: The other ninety percent woud like to!" (Very broad accent)

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    Quote Originally Posted by fletty View Post

    .... ready for my next project which is a display frame for a leadlight panel from an old shop

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    Hopefully I will keep it this clean......

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    Last year I was approached by a lovely lady who was worried that the above leadlight panel had been "under her bad for many years" and was " getting floppy"!
    She asked me to make a frame to support and protect the panel rather than display it. However, after I framed it with some of Mapleman's stunning camphor laurel, the panel has been on display and hasn't returned to the bedroom.
    A few weeks ago she asked if there was a way that it could be hung and viewed from both sides. I still have a stash of Chinese 'hanging brackets' and so I said yes. She delivered it last week and today I fitted a cutting blade on to an angle grinder, plunged into the top of the frame and fixed the brackets from the back with phosphor bronze Robertson screws that merge beautifully with the camphor laurel...

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    ..... and leave the front of the frame unmarked. I took a few quick pics and luckily I did because she couldn't wait to see it, turned up, and has taken it home to hang in a window where it will be a feature from both sides!
    Unfortunately the 'hanging brackets' are only polished on one side but that didn't worry her at all.

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    The Chinese brackets matched the frame beautifully but I wish I'd had another few days to admire it through MY window.

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    Got love the colour, grain and figure of camphor laurel Alan... I just finished a replacement coffee table top 600x400....BEAUTIFUL... Cheers, Peter

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    All right gents, here's the photos of the new camphor laurel replacement coffee table top...
    The timber was supplied by Greg Ward....
    Thank you to Tony for the homemade "wipe on poly" recipe...4 coats...

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    The first two shots are "phoney photos", before coating and after 2 coats then the others with the top installed with my Sony A6000.... Cheers, Peter

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    That is beeeeautiful Crowie!
    I bet there's not a blocked sinus anywhere in the house

    H and number 1 daughter are currently hiking around Turkey. H is a great photographer but has constantly complained about the weight of her Nikon DSLR even though I reduced the lens load by getting a single 'lightweight' 24 to 300 lens. That dilemma was solved by the Nikon being fatally dropped earlier this year and H planning on travelling with a Nikon B500 which has a screen but not a viewfinder. That screen is almost impossible to use in bright light so I boldly went when no man should go and bought her a Sony A6000 without consulting
    After a bit of token displeasure, she used the camera for a few days before flying out and declared it a great success. She has a single (I think) 18 - 200 lens (24-300 in full frame parlance) and loves it.
    Im about to 'fatally drop' my Nikon DSLR and get an A6000 for me ...... or maybe a 7000

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    Alan, I bought the Sony A6000 with a 18-200 Tamron Lens for the trip to England and Gymnaestrada in Finland; mostly very happy though a 300 lens would be nice and a little more understanding of the manual controls.... Lens selection is reduced with the "mirror-less lens" though for about $500 I could buy an adapter for the Cannon or Nikon mounts, but the kit I have is great point and shoot camera...
    The Sony A7000 has good reviews but then I suspect you've already researched them...
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    Quote Originally Posted by fletty View Post
    That is beeeeautiful Crowie!
    I bet there's not a blocked sinus anywhere in the house

    H and number 1 daughter are currently hiking around Turkey. H is a great photographer but has constantly complained about the weight of her Nikon DSLR even though I reduced the lens load by getting a single 'lightweight' 24 to 300 lens. That dilemma was solved by the Nikon being fatally dropped earlier this year and H planning on travelling with a Nikon B500 which has a screen but not a viewfinder. That screen is almost impossible to use in bright light so I boldly went when no man should go and bought her a Sony A6000 without consulting
    After a bit of token displeasure, she used the camera for a few days before flying out and declared it a great success. She has a single (I think) 18 - 200 lens (24-300 in full frame parlance) and loves it.
    Im about to 'fatally drop' my Nikon DSLR and get an A6000 for me ...... or maybe a 7000

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    Please wait till you venture north next before you drop it ..............a pillow will be in place I'll swear it got smashed on impact
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    Quote Originally Posted by fletty View Post
    so I boldly went when no man should go and bought her a Sony A6000 without consulting
    After a bit of token displeasure, she used the camera for a few days before flying out and declared it a great success. She has a single (I think) 18 - 200 lens (24-300 in full frame parlance) and loves it.
    Im about to 'fatally drop' my Nikon DSLR and get an A6000 for me ...... or maybe a 7000
    Quote Originally Posted by crowie View Post
    Alan, I bought the Sony A6000 with a 18-200 Tamron Lens for the trip to England and Gymnaestrada in Finland; mostly very happy though a 300 lens would be nice and a little more understanding of the manual controls.... Lens selection is reduced with the "mirror-less lens"
    The Sony A7000 has good reviews but then I suspect you've already researched them...
    I've had an NEX6, the for runner to the A6000, for 4-1/2 years now.
    Very happy camper.
    even with the 16-50 lens attached it still fits in a coat pocket -- but maybe my coats just have big pockets?
    I also have the 55-210 zoom, but except when shooting sport, I mostly stay with the 16-50.

    Have never missed having the higher megapixel count of teh NEX7 / A7000.
    regards from Alberta, Canada

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    Actually, my secret reason for lusting after an A6000/A7000 is that, right at the end of the film era, I bought the most beautiful camera I have owned, a ContaxG1. I never really got use out of it because, like so many, I got swept up in the digital revolution. The G1 came with 3 glorious Carl Zeiss fixed focal length lenses, (I think) 28, 45 and 90mm. In the darkroom (remember them?), I could blindly pick up a roll of film, put it under the enlarger and immediately tell if it used a Zeiss lens or any other inferior lens. I remember several rolls of B&W taken in the Queen Victoria Building. A microscope showed that images from all of the lenses were crystal sharp from edge to edge. WELL, there are adaptors available for the A6000/7000 that will allow me to use those Carl Zeiss lenses again AND have autofocus! BRILLIANT

    Happy Easter everyone, fletty
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