h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

hi
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its just sunk in you are in sheffield lol
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do you know burngreave rd, in particular the large house above the garage, if its still there.
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back in the late 60,s, i was the caretaker of the house, and worked at, spear and jackson tools. then tempered springs down near town.
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in 1994, i did the prints for the archites, for meaddow hall.
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i worked then at robinson parntership, i had to take early retirement in a way, after i had two heart attacks and a mild stroke. i was running the printroom on my own, and meadow hall was the main job at the time
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havent been back since the 1977, i will be all diff now i would think.
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jim

Hiya Jim hun Yes for my sins I'm in Sheffield. sorry don't know anywhere you said, had to go to the wicker the other day took ages to find it. lol.

hi miz
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they say when kennedy was killed, you remember where your where, i was in sheffield lol.
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its probably changed a lot, and all the old haunts gone now.
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i was there for about 4 yrs, then went to barnsley, then back here the bradford about 1980.
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i remember a pub that had talent comps three days a week, what a fiasco lol.
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at the time the largest firm was ,firth brown, i think thats gone to, i lived a few streets away.
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jim

Sorry Jim,
I just left you lastnight, my eyes were shutting. My dad used to work in Brown Baileys as did his dad before him. It then became Hatfields I think I was only little at the time.

hi miz
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i tend to just fall asleep watching the small tv in the corner, if i turn the sound off lol. thats the troble with the digibox, you watch tv at the same time as doing h2 or emails.
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im now 60+, and my memeory is less and less now, i had some good times in sheffield, only real bad time, was one night a tennant set the big kitchen afire, and i was upstairs at the top end, and trapped, till the fire brigade came.
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the landlord wasnt to happy, but i got the job of doing the kitchen out, and dint pay rent for 6 months. plus i got payed for looking after the house, and collecting rents jimxx

Ah thats why we remember diffirent things I'm only 41, so lots of things have changed ect.

I remember using the tv for mailing ect not done that for a few years now but it's still fresh.

hi miz
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im in contact with a lady in china, one in london, essex and a few here and there.
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a lot left the digi and either went on sky or just pc and never sent the email to me.
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they reduced the emails to 8 per page, max about 50 now.
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if you store, its not by email but by how big each is, its a set bandwidth. a total pain. at one time i stored small pics and animations, under 15kb. now the most is 4 or 5 pages of 8. jimxx

I go on now and then as people still have my blueyonder addy which I never use at all now. Apart from that only other time I use it is if I'm having problems, of which I can have many lol. I used to have to write everybody's addy in a book now I just add it to contacts.
Have you got a keyboard?

hi miz
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i have it was a fluke how i got it.lol
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in the past there was a cable mag, and a comp to win a keyboard
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i did a few comps, then one day, and k/board arrived, no details or explantion.so as they where £30 then, i couldnt afford and rang the mag number, they said i haddnt won one, so rang cable.
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apparently over 50 had got one out of the blue.
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someone where they where sent from had be fired, we got told, and had mailed at random about 100 out, so they couldnt ask us to return, so i got mine for nothing, i wouldnt be without it.
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it a pest to clean out now and then, taking all the things off and getting them back in the right order lol jimxx

I got mine for free, when we ordered the upgrade to digital (yes we used to be analog) I ordered it all over the phone keyboard aswell. When they came to install it they didn't bring the keyboard so the installation man said he'd got a few in his van gave me one of those but I never got charged for it, I wasn't going to say anything they have more money than me. About a year ago I picked it up and the battries had leaked so I had to throw it away, but nothing lost really.

hi miz
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you could have removed the old batteries and it would have cleaned out with a pointed knife.
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i have the d4000 pace box, its better than the first ones that came out. lately cable as been playing up, but they say its because the old cables are being changed to the new fibre optics.
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i still have my blueyonder email from over 2 yrs, i can use tit at the cyber, on this website.
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http://www.virginmedia.com
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acsess with mail with options to ntl, virgin or as i like the blueyonder. with my email and password.
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jimxx

We have tv, telephone and broadband through them, can't say we've had any problems touch wood, infact touch a whole tree at the minute a few things are going wrong at the minute (nothing to do with virgin) we also get our bill sent there now saves a few quid. Everything's now online. Are they changing the cables everywhere?

hi miz
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check out the website i sent, it might tell you there when you are getting your area done.
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as far as i know, its all being updated to fibre optic in time.
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they say it should stop the freezing and sticking on tv, and speed the broadband up.
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i have only tv and phone, i gave up internet 2 yrs ago, i had a pc with problems, its had a bad past, had been stolen, i got it took off me, then got it back, the h drive went. one thing after another. at £20 month for b/band, i gave up, now its digi and the local cybershop when i can jimxx

We got a really good deal with 'em, when sky was taken off Rob phoned 'em to complain ect so they gave us tv, phone & broadband for £26 per month best thing we hardly ever watched sky there was the odd program but nothing we miss.

hi miz
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i was one of the first on the analog ones in my area.
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what narked me back when the new box came, was they didnt say later that the digital active was on, i hit the active on the hand remote on day, and it came on the screen, it had been switched on for 3 months.
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i rang all the ones i knew, and none where aware it was on, we made a beeline the ld, and the slots to start, what a fun day that was lol
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i miss the platjam, they took it off, in the last update ggrr lol jimxx

I used to love LD all the quirky things to do kept you amused for hours, don't know why they stopped with that I guess there was bigger fish to fry online they sell most of those type of games now on various things like the nintendo with the dogs ect.

I'm off to bed now sleep well catch up next week xxx

hi miz
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sleep tight, im always about at home, have been for nearly 6 yrs.
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it was yoome2 that took over,and messed it up, now we have the 60p for all day, if you want toplay that long lol, some are to hard to finish, i dont bother now.
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sometimes i play the flash ones at the cyber pcs, night,night, jimxx

Hey Jim,
Hope you had a good bank holiday weekend, they all drift into one as the summer goes by. Did you see the cooling towers blown up? we watched it on tv next day it takes about 20mins to get to meadowhall from where we live, we were going to go but then got settled and just forgot about it. Chat later miz xxx

hi miz
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i saw the news on them, for a few mins, its the same old thing, out with the old, in with the new.
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they could have incorperated them into the new powerstation to replace the old.
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apart from lil, you will be the only one to know, since before i went to hull, ive been having a few dizzy spells, could be just bloodpressure,
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i thought at first it was my glasses, but thats been ruled out. i didnt make it open, as lil is in hospital, and i didnt want to seem that i was doing a bandwaggon.
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still waiting for the results from the doc.
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i said if i got to 60 ide be happy, so if i get to 61 in oct, its a bonus lol. , jim xx
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ps if you look on my space, you will find the link to me photos of me from about 11 in the choir to about 6 months ago