One for my twin, 5andy.

[runnach]

Ripping out old en-suite room, removing bath and installing a roomy walk in shower and new white goods. And what a coincidence when I found a sheet from the Sun newspapers, date on our shared birthday. See date with corny joke

And hands up who had the then state of the art Amstrad tower unit, cooncil unit compared to the posh Bang & Olufson. Also hands up, anyone who poured their heart out to Dear Deidre?

Workwise, I was near to leaving seven year stretch with a local company, to start with another company Jan 84.

What a find

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[5andy]

….and only the year before we actually got married. After over 40 years maybe a question I should now be asking…Probably better not…..Good find though Terry.

 

[runnach]

….and only the year before we actually got married. After over 40 years maybe a question I should now be asking…Probably better not…..Good find though Terry.

Yes, best to keep it zipped, Sandy.

I forgot to mention, and I'm puzzled why the page was neatly folded and behind the top vertical mitre of door facing where it meets top horizontal over door facia door mitre?

Amstrad was the beginning of the making of Sir Alan Sugar.

 

[wildebus]

Never heard Amstrad called "Cooncil HiFi" but it matches the product
Play the lastest cassette on it when enjoying your carryout with 'Hoose Rice'

 

[wildebus]

Amstrad was the beginning of the making of Sir Alan Sugar.

The company I worked for in the mid '80's designed and made the hard drive in the Amstrad 1640's (that hard drive was the worlds first 3.5" hard drive and designed and built in the UK ). I wonder how many people here who had one of those PCs remember having to take hold of the computer and give it a violent twist to get it to work? The HD Drive used to suffer from stiction (probably used wrong grease or something) and the drive needed a sudden jolt to free the head mechanism.

 

[wildebus]

Ripping out old en-suite room, removing bath and installing a roomy walk in shower and new white goods. And what a coincidence when I found a sheet from the Sun newspapers, date on our shared birthday. See date with corny joke

And hands up who had the then state of the art Amstrad tower unit, cooncil unit compared to the posh Bang & Olufson. Also hands up, anyone who poured their heart out to Dear Deidre?

Hell of a coincidence with the dates there! Your post about finding the paper in the en-suite .... reminds me when I redid the bathroom in my House in St. Albans. house built 1940 and underneath the bath found some newspaper sheets from I think the Daily Mail dated mid 1950's and there was a 'dear deidre' type section on one page. Still remember one question and answer quite well .... "My husband comes home from work and doesn't take any notice of me" or something like that.
The advice from the 'Deidre' was along the lines of "be greatful he comes home. have his slippers ready and a drink to hand to him. get the children to bed so they don't annoy him. freshen your makeup", etc.
I think that would be considered slightly sexist nowadays, perhaps?

 

[runnach]

Hell of a coincidence with the dates there! Your post about finding the paper in the en-suite .... reminds me when I redid the bathroom in my House in St. Albans. house built 1940 and underneath the bath found some newspaper sheets from I think the Daily Mail dated mid 1950's and there was a 'dear deidre' type section on one page. Still remember one question and answer quite well .... "My husband comes home from work and doesn't take any notice of me" or something like that.
The advice from the 'Deidre' was along the lines of "be greatful he comes home. have his slippers ready and a drink to hand to him. get the children to bed so they don't annoy him. freshen your makeup", etc.
I think that would be considered slightly sexist nowadays, perhaps?

Yep, them were days before all this women's right crap, the worst thing that happened to man, when women were unshackled and allowed to leave the kitchen!!

 

[Rumour]

I had occasion to meet just plain old Alan Sugar when he had a small warehouse on the St. Albans Road in Watford. He hadn't long started up and imported quite a bit of cheap stuff. It was the late 60's and I was working at a hire place in St. Albans. He hired heater and other things from us. He could be seen in the early days rolling up his sleeves and unloading truck of these products. The picture portrayed of him now is not at all the guy I knew. But I guess he is acting to make the show watchable to some. Not me!

In 1976, I moved from Hemel Hempstead to Northants and my second next door neighbour bought a similar tower system in the early 80's. He was so proud of it he invited me in to have a listen to his new "HiFi". It was dire... I had a pre plastic crap Aiwa system with a linear deck, so when he played his loud, it nearly destroyed my ear drums. It was a couple of years later he heard my system and next thing I knew, he bought a Sanyo Music Centre. Shame really, Amstrad did make some better units, but he went Music Centre "HiFi"

 

[runnach]

Putting last of flooring back and this caught my eye, anyone know what card game on the rear is about?

 

[bartman]

Hell of a coincidence with the dates there! Your post about finding the paper in the en-suite .... reminds me when I redid the bathroom in my House in St. Albans. house built 1940 and underneath the bath found some newspaper sheets from I think the Daily Mail dated mid 1950's and there was a 'dear deidre' type section on one page. Still remember one question and answer quite well .... "My husband comes home from work and doesn't take any notice of me" or something like that.
The advice from the 'Deidre' was along the lines of "be greatful he comes home. have his slippers ready and a drink to hand to him. get the children to bed so they don't annoy him. freshen your makeup", etc.
I think that would be considered slightly sexist nowadays, perhaps?

Daily Mail in the 1950s. At least they'd got past their "Hurrah for the Blackshirts" days when their proprietor was praising Hitler and the British Union of Fascists.....or maybe they still haven't

 

[5andy]

Apparently as part of a promotion you could collect miniature playing cards. The grid allowed you to tick off which cards you have.