Recent content by Humphrey

My new car arrived at the dealers yesterday, but due to work I can't pick it up until the 27th. After 3 month wait another week won't hurt and I have it in time for my hols in June.

I am hoping to get one through eQSL, I have sent him one automatically. Will have to wait and see.

It was Yesterday. On Ham Radio. But I worked China for the first time, in FT8 on 15m, it has only took me 25 years, now I am waiting for the reciprocal QSL card. A little triumph for me.

I see they are saying they are from Carlisle and had a grudge against the National Trust, so they weren't the locals that everybody thought it would be

And the news studio is now just behind the Metro Centre, on the riverside industrial estate. A friend and fellow radio ham, up here, used to be a Broadcast Television Engineer for Tyne Tees on City Road, for about 30 years before he retired. That was before they closed down the City Road...

They had to call it Northumbria police, because when they amalgamated the old local forces in the 1974 changes, they swallowed up the old Northumberland Constabulary, along with Newcastle City Police, Gateshead Borough Police, some of Durham Constabulary and a couple of other areas. Northumbria...

I moved from one newsagents to the other in our village, when I found out I could earn an extra 35p a week for a round of the same size. Doing the paper round at 7am and the place was deserted except for the milkman.

No being pedantic, but: Just to correct you there is no such place as Northumbria. You went to South Tyneside, North Tyneside & Northumberland. Always annoys us people up here when they call it 'Northumbria' as it is just laziness. By the way you were lucky to get to the Farne Islands as the...

They are not very popular in the UK, but they sell loads in Europe. I like it, plenty of room, I'm 6'1" and their is plenty of legroom front and back and it is very economical, 60+ mpg on a motorway run and 45 - 50 around town. They say they aren't as sporty as a Golf or Focus, so cheaper...

I'm awaiting my new Skoda Scala, ordered in February, due to be built next week, delivery end of May. I had to wait until the new facelift orders were open, so I've had to wait an extra 6 months for my new one. It is the second Scala for me. I have had Skoda's of various guises for over 20...

I think the 1st one is really good, really gives to misty moody moors feeling.

Too cold and wet up north at the moment for much gardening, and it costs a bomb to heat the glasshouse early in the year. I will start some cauli & sprouts in a couple of weeks and then sow some leeks a week or two after that in the glasshouse. Then star in mid April with my summer bedding.

If I won the lottery I'd buy it like a shot, be great for Ham Radio.

Before crisps were made nationally by the same company. We had Tudor Crisps up here in the North East, made on Teeside. Never heard of Walkers and only new golden wonder existed when I went to my cousins in Hampshire. The Co-op had the monopoly on milk delivery up here, you used to have to buy...

I also have a Davis Vantage Vue, after having several cheaper ones over many years, but cheap by often. It is far more accurate than cheaper ones. I have been uploading weather to the internet for about 15 years now, PWS, Windy.com, Wow. I would have bought the professional one, if finances had...