problems posting

[philippa]

i seem to have been locked out.

just tried to post a reply to Weyland on the havana beach thread and found that i couldn't preview my post. anyhow i went ahead and posted it but i think only what i quoted is showing.

anyone else having problems?

[Patrick]

Hello! Panic over!!! (for me anyway!) I was toying with doing some Spring Cleaning and altered a bit of code that changes the look of the board - Only I didn't remove all the code properly so it sent everything haywire! Then I couldn't get back into the admin section to repair it.

For me.

Sorted now anyway.

Sorry.

[tarzanontarmazepam]

No panic is comparable. I remember once losing the Mortal Orchard altogether. I had to await on proboards staff to bring it back.

Houston don't know they've been born!

[Deleted]

i have an ongoing posting problem and its a bit weird as it effects me not only here but on other forums as well, what it is is that no matter what i type in the reply box once its been submitted and i read it is rubbish. can we fix this please? :/

[tarzanontarmazepam]

Mar 1, 2010 17:05:07 GMT @costal said:

i have an ongoing posting problem and its a bit weird as it effects me not only here but on other forums as well, what it is is that no matter what i type in the reply box once its been submitted and i read it is rubbish. can we fix this please? :/

I have the same poblem mate. It's been ongoing since 2004. I blame Microsoft. Everything I post is shit.

LOL.

[Patrick]

Mar 1, 2010 17:05:07 GMT @costal said:

i have an ongoing posting problem and its a bit weird as it effects me not only here but on other forums as well, what it is is that no matter what i type in the reply box once its been submitted and i read it is rubbish. can we fix this please? :/

Regular readers will have noticed that I too suffer from this.

There must be a name for it?

[Deleted]

;D

[motorist]

Mar 1, 2010 17:10:55 GMT Patrick said:

Mar 1, 2010 17:05:07 GMT @costal said:

i have an ongoing posting problem and its a bit weird as it effects me not only here but on other forums as well, what it is is that no matter what i type in the reply box once its been submitted and i read it is rubbish. can we fix this please? :/

Regular readers will have noticed that I too suffer from this.

There must be a name for it?

Everything I post is absolutely exquisite. You have to change your settings. Where it says "post utter nonce", untick that box ;D

[Weyland]

Mar 1, 2010 17:38:04 GMT motorist said:

Everything I post is absolutely exquisite. You have to change your settings. Where it says "post utter nonce", untick that box

Concur.

[tarzanontarmazepam]

Mar 1, 2010 17:38:04 GMT motorist said:

Mar 1, 2010 17:10:55 GMT Patrick said:

Regular readers will have noticed that I too suffer from this.

There must be a name for it?

Everything I post is absolutely exquisite. You have to change your settings. Where it says "post utter nonce", untick that box ;D

Thanks moto...knew I was doing something wrong. I'll untick the 'how to lose friends and not influence people' box too.

[tarzanontarmazepam]

Nope. It's not working...must be the fooking computer. I'm still posting shite.

[Deleted]

i clicked 'restore factory settings' but all that happened was a conveyor belt appeared before me and a lady wearing an apron started shouting at me to pack faster.

[Weyland]

Mar 1, 2010 18:09:47 GMT @costal said:

i clicked 'restore factory settings' but all that happened was a conveyor belt appeared before me and a lady wearing an apron started shouting at me to pack faster.

Ask her -- politely -- to get her kit off. Works every time.

[No need to thank me . . . just post the photos.]

[Deleted]

i'll let you know how i get on in 3 and a half hours time when my shift finishes.

[tarzanontarmazepam]

Mar 1, 2010 18:26:42 GMT @costal said:

i'll let you know how i get on in 3 and a half hours time when my shift finishes.

I love Costal.

[revisedartlily]

I used to work on a factory production line, making some weird inner bits for radios. I love the smell of electricity in the air, do you know what I mean?
(And we all wore pinnies, very hideous they were too).


That was when I was 17 and just out of school, uneducated due to being the naughtiest girl in the school. After a few years of jobs I hated, I got some retraining and did other stuff. Which paid more and did not involve pinny wearing.

[Patrick]

Mar 6, 2010 6:37:52 GMT revisedartlily said:

I used to work on a factory production line, making some weird inner bits for radios. I love the smell of electricity in the air, do you know what I mean?
(And we all wore pinnies, very hideous they were too).

That was when I was 17 and just out of school, uneducated due to being the naughtiest girl in the school. After a few years of jobs I hated, I got some retraining and did other stuff. Which paid more and did not involve pinny wearing.

One of my favourite lines from Peter Tinniswood's books about the Brandon family, describing old tram sheds; "The air had the tang of stale electricity".

You escaped the crowds then Lily?
stub-crouch.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=rusty&action=display&thread=1963

[alanseago]

I have long since abandoned my search for Peter Tinniswood's books. I remember a splendid line from 'Uncle Mort in the south country'
"Real ale, as makes your knees throb on a Friday night".

[Weyland]

Mar 6, 2010 13:46:04 GMT alanseago said:

I have long since abandoned my search for Peter Tinniswood's books. I remember a splendid line from 'Uncle Mort in the south country'
"Real ale, as makes your knees throb on a Friday night".

Great stories. The original TV series was wonderful too.

Plenty of web hits, for example here. Dunno about postage.

[Patrick]

A Touch of Daniel was a special re-release. A Timely one too, because it had been - as all the books are, out of print since their last outing in '86/7. Even then I couldn't get hold of it - though I bought all the others back then, after having "Except You're a Bird" from 1984. I can specifically remember my Dad coming home with it from London, and from then on life was full of Mort-isms. Here's how daft I am over it though - I came across the original '87 Touch.... on ebay last year, and despite having bought the re-re-issue, I snapped it up. Well, it pays to have the complete set in the same style. I have seen some of the paperback editions on abebooks.co.uk seller pages for upwards of £100!!! at one point, at least when they turn up on ebay they're more reasonable! (£2.99).

I was a fan of the TV series when it was out, and whilst John Comer, Liz Smith, and Robin Bailey are wonderful in their parts - the characters playing Carter and Pat were disappointing. After devouring the books many times over (they take me to a happy place in times of trouble), I'm not sure I could return to the TV series, the fabulous lines are there, but watching the clips on You Tube, it just doesn't have the pace of the vocabulary that you get in your head. Also - the fantastic descriptive writing is so much an element of the whole atmosphere, and worthy of some our greatest writers....

"The snow hit the city without warning.
One minute the sky was robin's-egg blue, next minute it was whipped by savage black clouds, and the blizzard swept in.
Then it stopped and within minutes the snow froze solid, and the sky turned to deepest mauve and grey.
The city cowered beneath the snow.
Buses slithered sideways down the steep hills of the suburbs.
Trolley bus wires snagged and snapped.
Blue lights flashed on the cabin lights of grit lorries, red lights flashed on the cabin tops of snow ploughs fighting their way through the drifts on the main roads into the city.
There were accidents. Limbs were broken in tumbles. A narrow boat rammed the frozen lock gates by the Navigation Inn. Hen coops were buried to the eaves.
That evening Carter drove Pat and Mrs Partington to Mr Shirtcliffe's to take supper.
At first Pat had refused the invitation.
Mrs Partington had pleaded with her.
Her happiness was at stake, she said. Her whole future was in the balance. Misery, despair, and utter wretchedness stared her in the face if Pat would not yield. There was not the slightest need to worry about the welfare of her brass curtain rails."

My utmost favourite, also from Except You're a Bird is the description of Christmas. I've posted it before - but it is truly wonderful. You can smell it, you and taste it and you can feel it through his wonderful narration.

I wrote to David Nobbs, who was a long term friend of PT, a while back, suggesting he would be the ideal chap to re-write it for television, I had a lovely reply. We could both see it done as a 50 minute Comedy Drama, and I think it could work well as that, because all the characters are so much deeper than a sitcom portrays them, but it all depends on so many things. So I don't hold out much hope.