Author Archives: Paul

Dear All,

Had a wonderful time for the 21 hours I was in France. The reason I went was to collect my Radio, but my relatives had me take stuff for my Uncle and the bag was heavier going out filled with tools, parsnips, and gravy. View is a photo of the centre of town near my Uncle, although he is in newer section on outskirts. Weather was OK.

Keep Reading, Gadget17

Just a quick update from Gatwick Airport.

I am currently in Departures at Gatwick waiting for my 17:20 flight to Nice. This is to collect my Radio from my Uncle.

Will be back Sunday Evening, when I will close the All About Symbian Photo Contest. It’s a shame, as this months contest was “Trains, Planes & Automobiles”.

Bye for Now. (Will Post a Postcard here tomorrow hopefully.)

I attended the The Sutton And Cheam Radio Society monthly meeting tonight and had an enlightening talk by Dick Mills from the Radiophonic Workshop. He talked about early workshop practises and equipment, through to the later techniques and technology.

Dick Mills worked on special sounds for “The Goon Show” (Spike Milligan’s “Major Bloodnok’s Stomach”), “Quatermass and the Pit” & “Doctor Who” (Took over from Brian Hodgson in 1972) and more.

Other Links on BBC site for Dick Mills & Radiophonic Workshop.

From a Mad chat on Mobitopia about watches, we have come up with what we want in a decent watch that got the name the FrankenMobiWatch

? Analogue or Digital
? Solar or Kinetic
? Radio Controlled (From Rugby and or Frankfurt)
? That can switch times zones Automatically (possibly via GPS)
? Small form factor
? Deluxe Options MP3 & USB memory (so that the cheapskates don’t have to pay for it if they don’t want to! )

At work today whilst I was in the smoking room, an interesting question was posed.

Which Famous people (Dead or Alive) would you invite to a dinner party?

Mine dinner party would have the following guests:-
? Guy Penrose Gibson (Wing Commander) (Well is a namesake)
? Guglielmo Marconi (Inventor)
? Bill Bailey (Comedian)
? Phil Harding (Field Archaeologist)
? Robert Llewellyn (Comedian & TV Presenter)
? Steve Jobs (CEO, Apple CEO, Pixar)
? Thomas Harris (Writer)
? Douglas Adams (Writer)
? Jodie Foster (Actress)
? Jo Brand (Comedienne)

**Update**
? Leonardo Da Vinvi (Inventor & Artist)
? Micheal Palin (Comedian)
? Nelson Mandela (President)

Well I may add more later, but that enough for now!