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[classic33]

Yes.

And you have the only key?

 

[Gravity Aided]

You had the choice between dishonour and war. You chose dishonour and you will have war.

I believe that was Mr Churchill to Prime Minister Chamberlain in the House of Commons in October of 1938. Over the Munich Agreement.
I believe Winston Churchill also said An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last...

 

[classic33]

Am mounting photos for my scrapbook / archive.

File is definitely overfull now. I need to think of alternative storage options.

Small filing cupboard. You can then split the various publications, whilst keeping them in chronological order.

 

[Gravity Aided]

 

[classic33]

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You'll go giving her ideas.

 

[Gravity Aided]

I think that's the British National Archives, by the way.

 

[classic33]

I think that's the British National Archives, by the way.

She'll find a way in. And back out again.

"..,parent department is the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport...

 

[Reynard]

And you have the only key?

Yes.

 

[Reynard]

I believe that was Mr Churchill to Prime Minister Chamberlain in the House of Commons in October of 1938. Over the Munich Agreement.
I believe Winston Churchill also said An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last...

It was indeed. My source is "Honourable Insults: a century of political invective" by Greg Knight MP

Truly worth getting your mitts on a copy of this if you can. Some of the insults are just pure class. Just don't read it on public transport and cackle like a maniac. You will get some very strange looks. DAMHIKT...

 

[Reynard]

Small filing cupboard. You can then split the various publications, whilst keeping them in chronological order.

It's not very portable though, is it? What I have is a lot of stuff for a scrapbook - which is what this thing started out as - but a filing cabinet is kind of overkill. Remember, you're talking to the person who has two decades of Autosport back issues under her bed... (Boxed and in chronological order)

Actually, the solution I'm thinking of is one of those hanging file boxes or the concertina file boxes, but keep each individual year (or parts of) bound in report files.

 

[Reynard]

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Reminds me of the Imperial College library...

 

[classic33]

Yes.

Where've you hidden it?

 

[Reynard]

Well, after giving up on looking at filing options, I spent the rest of the evening unpicking a puzzle that's been bugging me for a fair while.

Many moons ago I was given photocopied extracts from a magazine article for my scrapbook. Irritatingly, the person who gave me the extracts had eviscerated the article - and that included details of the publication and the date. There were a few clues in there though, and thanks to an archive of magazine road tests I stumbled upon this evening, I've managed to *finally* pin it down.

9th July 1988 issue of Motor

That deserves a celebratory but it's late, and after last night I really don't want to have to keep getting up to wee...

 

[Reynard]

Where've you hidden it?

Well, it's still in the fridge actually, but is now masquerading as something else. A bit of creative use of packaging.

Anyways, off up my oddly even wooden hill.

 

[classic33]

It was indeed. My source is "Honourable Insults: a century of political invective" by Greg Knight MP

Truly worth getting your mitts on a copy of this if you can. Some of the insults are just pure class. Just don't read it on public transport and cackle like a maniac. You will get some very strange looks. DAMHIKT...

Nowt out of the ordinary with that last part up here. Suppose we've got used to southerners travelling through/using Leeds Station to not notice them now.