Junior8

Noting the word Society I assume this is not part of any course but some kind of student unincoporated association. If this is the case I would strongly advise them not to publish anything on Social Media that they have licensed and more especially anything they have performed that should have been! I would also ask - what is the point? They'll be gone in a year or two, the recordings will be of little interest to any following cohorts and I suspect will never be looked at again. (Disclaimer: This view may be connected with the fact that I am profoundly grateful that none of my student performances were recorded, especially the Street Theatre in Liverpool c 1974! Think on - as they used to say in those parts.)

No I'd just managed to forget them...

Good to see the Patt 45 has not been forgotten!!

I suppose the best way would be to glue everything that does not have to be moved to the table!

Now added - anybody any use for 2 off Kodak Carousel magazines and a couple of decent flat screen monitors for say backstage work

Extension leads gone.

Go to any reputable soft furnishings company and enquire - Miss J8 works in one and they have stuff treated all the time. I'll bet they can make just what you want - or know somebody who can.

I am clearing a deceased estate and have the following for anyone who can use them and collect them from South Hants. Around 40 bc 100W lamps boxed in fours, two academic gowns for those doing Browning, 40 Years on etc, around 10 off 13 amp extensions 4,6 outlets and I off 8 way I think surge protected, two or three desk lamps and a box of stationary sundries for the prop cupboard. No hurry but if interested pm me.

Back in 2018 I nearly didn’t make it to a funeral on the Thursday before Bank Holiday. Why? My train from Guildford to Reading arrived (from Gatwick way) full, not of passengers but of tents, rucksacks, folding chairs and other detritus being lugged by a few folk (and I mean a few folk) on their way to Reading Festival. I forced my way on, apologies to the three or four I ruthlessly pushed aside, and travelled wedged against the door. But at least I got on which is more than can be said for a good many poor souls. Put simply many non mainline GWR services especially those from Portsmouth to Cardiff can hardly handle the normal demand. Unless GWR and X Country really strengthen services into BTM for those dates and festival goers take to the trains it will be, I suspect, carnage.

As usual no one seems to be asking the relevant questions about a 450 seater operating with no planning consent https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-67612785

All my alarm bells are ringing - don't use this item on any account.

A reason to go - and I can't.... Typical

Do you actually need a Cash Register? Would a cash drawer do instead? These were often just a simple wooden cased drawer with a bell, triggered by a peg on the back of the drawer which could be easily mocked up see https://I.ebayimg.com/images/g/9OcAAOSwXfFhicAw/s-l1600.jpg ,

I feel your pain! It was fifty five years ago for me and I agree about the stuff we'd grab and do up and it wasn't much different around thirty years ago as those who remember the bidding wars for ordinary Strand stuff at the (was it 1995?) Stagecraft Salisbury auction of excess hire stock. But even then the price of new equipment was in real terms much higher than imported Chinese now. With the cascading of second hand gear over the past few years I'm not surprised most societies have all they need and if it's simply taking up storage space for one I don't expect the others would be any different.

I think you have to accept that it is worthless and even the traders who polish up Patt 123s for the home interiors market aren't going to give you much for anything. But look at it the other way - you've probably had far more use out of this stuff than you had any right to expect and it certainly doesn't owe you any money. Strip the guts out and get the metal weighed in - it might be enough to buy a few drinks for the cast.

When my last two major customers went into liquidation in 2019 I looked at the portfolio of work, that which I'd retained after turning 60, and found (like many a freelance does I suspect) that much of it was economically pointless especially as even then the exes were rising all the time. So I decided to retire bar a bit of pro bono work I can do without leaving home. The small business idea is attractive but before you know where you are it will begin to interfere with all the time you thought you'd have. My experience is the same as Kerry's and I fear had things not changed in 2019 followed by the Pandemic I might still be working simply out of force of habit.

Glad you thought that Tom I counted them too. But something else happened too I fear.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-65970802

Yes - well outside the author's usual subject matter but based on the idea that ' the bomber would always get through'. Appropos ojc above we had the 1 in 3 talks when in the VIth form which seemed to merely advise us to take all the doors off make a shelter under the stairs with them and cope with a tin of beans and the radio. The civil servant sent to give this talk seemed to find it as risible as we did. (Especially as none of us actually owned any doors at the time.)

The machine Stuart mentions draws 2Kw according to the spec. I'd ask for a demo. If it does the job go for it - anything to avoid the organisation around dry ice. (Mind you I haven't used the latter for years. )

Just as an aside to this anyone with important slide archives they haven't looked at for years might like to check them over. There are certain batches from all brands that are badly degrading in the interface between mount and film apparently. Personally if I was the OP I'd keep the best of the batch because in a few years time you can bet your life someone will want one desperately as no one any longer makes slide scanners! (About thirty years ago I found a willing indeed eager recipient for the last Epidiascope in the store! Aldis Epivisor naturally. Only kept out of sentiment naturally!)

There are so many imponderables and things that could go wrong with anything like this forget it and save the money.

A few years ago now - or with my age it may be more like 12 - I covered a conference on ethical sourcing in the rag trade. The keynote speaker who was the monitoring officer for a group of UK sports goods retailers - not the one most people think of - reckoned that going forward it wasn't the ethical sourcing that would be the problem it would be price and logistics. Asked bluntly she reckoned it would be logistics but the burden of her message was make hay while the sun shines because it isn't going to last forever. Sadly one cannot expect politicians to understand the effects of any of their, what I suppose we should dignify by the name of, policies but the fact is that she was clear that irrespective of this (and Mr Cameron's poll) sourcing goods from miles away just to save labour costs might turn round and bite. (On tyres, down here, I suspect one of the main reasons for price inflation seems to be that a major wholesaler has hoovered up many of their independent retail customers. I've got the best deals by simply using the garage I use for everything else.)

Some of the 'ready mades' for temporary access are so heavy and/or inconvenient they simply end up unused as well. If the staff likely to be using them can't handle them - this happened at one venue I know, I could hardly lift the thing - then they right choice was not made.

Walk into a studio and tape a phone to a monitor? And it's a laugh.....good grief. Why is no one, apparently, taking this seriously?