That's so sad, Annie. Enlightenment, by school officials, has come too
slowly. Well, I guess that's what adaptability is all about. During the war,
most of us kids were told to "grow up", fast, and think for ourselves (ideas,
for games, etc.). Our fathers weren't around, and our mothers were busy with
housework/regular work.

Yep, I'm pleased to report that Annie and I held the inaugural UK Berk convention in London today. We did indeed have food parading in front of us, on a circuitous route, but being true Berks what we thought might be marzipan sweets were in fact something quite different! So we earned our Founder Berk Membership with flying colours!

And yes it was lovely :))

They were nicely spaced I thought - until after I grabbed myself a fruit salad and created an interesting bunched effect on the conveyor :) The sweets were... an... *scrabble for an appropriate word AND... settle on a bunch* ... experience that involved... ALL the senses I think :)

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That's so sad, Annie.

Awww... it's okay. I was a kind teacher :) Had a SLIGHT effect on how other kids viewed me for awhile - but they got over it :)

Enlightenment, by school officials, has come too slowly. Well, I guess that's what adaptability is all about. During the war, most of us kids were told to "grow up", fast, and think for ourselves (ideas, for games, etc.). Our fathers weren't around, and our mothers were busy with housework/regular work.

And weren't they BRILLIANT games! And cost nothing at all to play! Not like now :/ small fortune and you have a disc that makes everyone foul tempered throughout :)

Disks --> Frisbees. We made them by interlacing popsicle-sticks together.
You had to be good, when "sailing" them, or they'd break apart, when landing.

Today, the young folks use their thumbs to tap out messages on their twitter-
boxes. Some schools, I understand, don't even teach longhand, anymore.
Amazing.

For us, good penmanship started with a straight pen, dipped into an inkwell,
and applied to yellow, blue-lined paper. The slightest incorrect pressure
on the nib, resulted in a blot (a no-no).

The jury's out, as far as I am concerned, as to whether people's brains profit more from tapping out words/sentences, or penning them.

I still think kids should learn how to actually right words. Maybe not cursive< as my penmanship is horrible. I can hardly read my own writing. Thats why I mostly use printing. Technology is nice but kids do need to know how to be able to write the words with a real pen.

My mom is a lefty. Back when she was a kid in school in the late 30's she had her hand whacked with a ruler a lot. Untill her mother found out about it. That ceased real quick.My Grandmother was a small woman but she was certainly not meek.

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I heard that Thor was a member of the
Berks R Us club, I do hope this is a
false report.

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I still think kids should learn how to actually right words.

Quite agree :-))))

OK, So Im a berk, And I should take my own advice:)

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What no Bezerk Berks? ;)

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

Happy Christmas James :-)

Merry Christmas Chris and a Happy New year.

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Late this morning, I used a low fire under a large frying pan to melt some butter and heat something in it as part of my lunch. After eating the lunch, I wondered why I kept smelling a faint odor of overcooked butter smoke. Finally got up to go to the euphemism and discovered the fire was still on. Just glad it wasn't on higher than it was.

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David
Sitting on my butt while others boldly go,
Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri.

Then, there's looking for one's eyeglasses -- to find them, after some time
has passed, that they're on . . . you guessed it.

Then, there's looking for one's eyeglasses -- to find them, after some time
has passed, that they're on . . . you guessed it.

LOL. I guess that makes my wife a berk also. We spent an hour looking for her glasses. I looked under the bed ,couch every where we could think of. I happened to finally open my eyes and yep they were pulled up on her forhead.
So we are both berks:)

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I have had my Canon Ixus 140 for just over a year now and it goes everywhere with me, I have taken over 6000 pictures with it and you have seen some here.

Well today there was a steam train through South Croydon and I set up my cameras as I usually do, I use my Canon 600D in sport mode to take lots of pictures quickly, and I put the Ixus 140 on a tripod and use it to video the scene.

Well I suppose I should have known better, It took the video of the steam train fine, then a non stopping train went by.

I will leave you to see the result.

Camera demise

I will post it's final video in the train thread later.

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Ouch. My Sony blew over on a tripod a few years ago, but it only received a few dents to the metal work and continues to work just fine. Hope your Canon is recoverable Bernie.

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Ouch. My Sony blew over on a tripod a few years ago, but it only received a few dents to the metal work and continues to work just fine. Hope your Canon is recoverable Bernie.

I think probably will not be worth the repair



The lens will not come out and camera just shuts down.

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Sorry to hear Bernie. :-(

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TimeLord04
Have TARDIS, will travel...
Come along K-9!
Join Calm Chaos

Oh.... sorry to see.

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My last video camera was a model with a hard drive in it. A real spinning hard drive. One day I was out watching trains with it on a tripod and the wind blew it over. Not even the wind from a passing train, just an ordinary gust. All it would tell me after that was "disk error." So even the video on it is unrecoverable.

Now I have a GoPro, but I'm not thrilled with its fisheye distortion.

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David
Sitting on my butt while others boldly go,
Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri.

I still think kids should learn how to actually right words.

Quite agree :-))))

OK, So Im a berk, And I should take my own advice:)

:)))) Happy Holidays James:)

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rOZZ
Music
Pictures

I still think kids should learn how to actually right words.

Quite agree :-))))

OK, So Im a berk, And I should take my own advice:)

:)))) Happy Holidays James:)

Merry Christmas and a happy new year Julie.
Edit- Bernie Sorry for that happening, Good shot by the way. Did you say ouch or another euphenism :)

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:( Oh Bernie... that is painful! :( My commiserations on it's demise. Erm... Good footage though :) *smack hand several times for deploying a smiley*

Seems you are in good company... :)

Happy Christmas eve fellow berks :)))))