I heard rumours of a drastic re-design, and hurried (eventually) over to have a look, and find that it is true. It looks to me as though Pete has ripped off your new look, although he claims that you have ripped it off Uborka. Either way, I think that if this is the new bandwagon, it's a very stylish one. It's so cosy and compact.
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Apparently he's contributed vocals to a couple of songs in Doctor Who. Doesn't give any details though.
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Completely new to me, nicely straddles the cusp between mainstream and obscure. The type of thing I always mean to do more of myself.
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Tres butch little number whines "Hey dirty, I want you. When it's good, it's really good and when it's bad I go to pieces."
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I'm not sure how Greasemonkey has passed me by, but now I've installed it I think it's going to be very useful indeed.
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And leaving them as they are is very easy indeed. Which is therefore my plan.
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Obscure early 80s New Romantic band. Found a few of their 7" singles when tidying out recently. Meant to listen to them, scan sleeves, write about them. Didn't. Best laid plans, etc. Maybe one day.
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Another 7" that I came across in the collection. Don't recall why I have this, was probably given it. I was intrigued by the name and so Googled. This Swedish page was the only worthwhile reference I could find.
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Last Orders: pictures of closed, derelict or former pubs around London and nearby counties.
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Chris Amies explains his motivation for creating the Last Orders collection. "I never took a picture of the Red Cow and neither, it seems, did anyone else - so part of our history and our memory has completely disappeared."
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"BT Group Archives preserves the historical information of British Telecommunications plc and its predecessors from the early part of the nineteenth century up to the present day..."
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As much about British telephone handsets as you could ever possibly want to know.
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When I was growing up, we had the red 700 series handset shown here. Still looks fab. Wonder if I could persuade Mrs Hg that this would be a valuable addition to our household.
Posted by Hg on Friday 24 November 2006 at 23:26.
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The similarity to Uborka genuinely hadn't occured to me, what with things having been so quiet over there for the past few centuries. No, the other sites that influenced me were numerous, but none of them was cucumber-shaped.
Actually, now I get the chance to mention it, the design is probably currently closer to its original early 2002 incarnation than it ever has been since the CSS-based revamp in the middle of that year.
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