Mundane News

[PeteXXX]

Something like that would do me fine I think so long as I can transfer from negative to positive. I do have transparencies but the ones I mostly want will be on 35mm or 2 1/4 square.
I want to post them on to a local FB page which is inhabited by mostly locals unlike the other "local" pages infested with others who have had a holiday and have opinions of no real value or interest to anyone else really.

They vary from £37 to £lots on Amzon for the 35mm.
I think the issue for you will be the 2¼ square (120?)

 

[Illaveago]

How fast do electric bikes go ? I was being chased by one this afternoon in a 30 limit . I had to keep looking in my n/s mirror to see were he was. In the end he undertook me and shot off up the road .

 

[LeetleGreyCells]

The rain has now stopped. However, the water has settled around the outside of the village which is on a hill. Flooding all around. My wife managed to drive through one of the shallower floods to get home.

 

[oldwheels]

I bought some chicken food last month,they asked for feedback,I said the chickens had eaten it.

We once sent a cheque [remember them?] to somebody in Wales. Cannot remember what for but it was some sort of craft product. A week later we got a phone call. They had left the cheque on the kitchen table and the goat had eaten it and could we please send another one. Knowing the people involved we believed it was true. We cancelled the first one anyway but no attempt was made to cash it.

 

[DCLane]

How fast do electric bikes go ? I was being chased by one this afternoon in a 30 limit . I had to keep looking in my n/s mirror to see were he was. In the end he undertook me and shot off up the road .

Legally? 15.9mph. Anything over that they need to be pedalling. Or it's an illegally modified one when it's an un-registered e-motorbike.

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

How fast do electric bikes go ? I was being chased by one this afternoon in a 30 limit . I had to keep looking in my n/s mirror to see were he was. In the end he undertook me and shot off up the road .

About 15.5mph (or 25kph) but there are a lot of unrestricted or modified ones about. A couple of days ago I got overtaken by one that was doing 40 or more. I'd wound it up to just over 20 on the Raleigh and this mountain bike went past like I was stood still.

 

[classic33]

Back home from holiday;

Brown (garden waste) bin not collected Monday, but might be today
Black (general) bin not collected yesterday, but apparently they turned up at 5am this morning and missed it. That'll now have to wait for 2 weeks

Kirklees waste collection services aren't wonderful, which is why their contract with Sita is ending. They're worse than useless.

SuezSita here, and no better.

 

[carpiste]

Something like that would do me fine I think so long as I can transfer from negative to positive. I do have transparencies but the ones I mostly want will be on 35mm or 2 1/4 square.
I want to post them on to a local FB page which is inhabited by mostly locals unlike the other "local" pages infested with others who have had a holiday and have opinions of no real value or interest to anyone else really.

If you have negative scans you can change them to positive using paintshop pro or similar photo editing suites.

 

[classic33]

I'm currently waiting for him to take me to Tesco.

The road outside the fence is gradually disappearing from view. *glub* *glub* *glub*

Maybe a case of

View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=68e5snc3iyc

 

[Reynard]

Well, Tesco has been negotiated. I now have a suitable supply of fruit & veg, with a fair bit of it on sticker. And I also remembered to buy laundry soap this time.

Had spaghetti and meatballs for supper.

 

[Reynard]

Thanks. I will investigate further. Mostly I used 35mm and Rolliflex two and a quarter square film mostly b&w tho' there there are some colour also on transparencies. Need to be transferred on to computer memory. The macbook does not seem to do fractions so have to write it out the long way.

Ah, sounds like 120 / 620 medium format film. The difference between the two is in the spool; 120 has a metal spool and 620 has a plastic one with a bigger diameter core.

Most photo editing software will have a function to turn negative images to positive ones. Photoshop and Paint Shop Pro certainly do.

I'm in the hunt for a new scanner - I need the lightbox, plus a bed that's at least A4 sized. Don't think I'd get enough use out of a dedicated film scanner.

 

[carpiste]

Well last cup of tea then an early night for me. Tomorrow I`ll be road testing a new pair of Muddy Fox shorts I bought on sale at Sports Direct and a top I got for £8 from Halfords! Both look decent...I hope!

 

[tyred]

Been browsing a well-known auction site to see if I could get a set of OEM wheeltrims for my Fabia fixer-upper on the cheap as they the originals are always better quality than aftermarket.

My conclusion is that Skoda must have produced some of the most hideous wheeltrims of all time. Some of them are almost as ugly as the ones Merc used to use on 190s and the original C-class.

 

[tyred]

We once sent a cheque [remember them?] to somebody in Wales. Cannot remember what for but it was some sort of craft product. A week later we got a phone call. They had left the cheque on the kitchen table and the goat had eaten it and could we please send another one. Knowing the people involved we believed it was true. We cancelled the first one anyway but no attempt was made to cash it.

Years ago a neighbour was going to tax his car and left set the tax book, the money, an envelope and the tax renewal form on a chair while he briefly went to do something else. He came back to find the Alsatian had been at it and there was nothing apart from the little plastic window from the envelope bearing teeth marks and the remains of a few chewed up bank notes.

He had to apply for a new tax book while trying to explain that yes, the dog really did eat it.

 

[tyred]

I would go to bed if I didn't feel so tired.