MrMuddle

Thanks for the help / advice chaps.

The wrestling was Saturday afternoons on "World of Sport" with Dickie Davies, the wrestling came on at 4pm before the footie results.

Big Mick McManus was a great wrestler.

Clangers was great as well, but the best was "Captain Scarlett and the Mysterons", remember sitting in the NAAFI in Loughborough watching it, the place was packed out with us Squaddies, but that was the repeats of the 60s show, redone in the 80s.

here the format from World of Sport

1230 On The Ball - football preview with Brian Moore and in later years Ian St. John and Jimmy Greaves.

1300 Sports Special 1 - A wide array of sports, often including clips from US show Wide World of Sports. Less prominent sports such as darts, snooker, bowls, water skiing, speedway, rallying and others would also feature.

1330 Racing, The ITV Seven.

1500 Sports Special 2 - see Sports Special 1.

1545 Half-Time Scores - the half-time scores from that day's football, plus racing results from races that had taken place in the previous hour.

1600 Wrestling - a mainstay of the World of Sport schedule from 1965 until it ended. Many of the wrestlers featured became household names in the UK and the greatest rivalry was between Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks

1645 Results Service - all the full-time football scores, match reports and league tables plus the last of the day's horse racing results.

Proper sports, with proper wrestling, none of this talk for ten minutes, fight for two that is on TV nowadays.

I can remember my Dad & older brother watching sports programmes, where the idea was to get a motorbike to the top of a very muddy hill, (scrambling ?), there was a family called the Lampkins who were pretty good at this. I've got a feeling this was on TV on Sundays. Can't recall seeing it for years though, perhaps it's died out.

I've watched Speedway on TV here, but it's not the same without the smells and the smoke.

The ITV Seven! I'd forgotten about that, used to spend an hour or so "picking out the winners", in the Saturday morning paper, then off to the bookie's in time for the first race, can't remember how much it was to have a go, but it was a good, daft bit of fun.

As for the Gerry Anderson stuff, I got hooked early with Stingray, and followed all of his shows, my own favourite was 5...4...3...2...1...Thunderbirds (Are Go!!).

Was Four Feather Falls one of Gerry Andersons shows ? I can remember that from when I was little, and Twizzle, (who's arms grew longer), plus Torchy The Battery Boy.

Happy Days, and thankfully I'm still having them.

When my wife got her British Citizenship, the local Mayor (a lady), was there to give out the Certificates.

She was absolutely lovely, took time to make all the participants feel welcome, and made the whole thing memorable. My wife was also sent a photo of her and the Mayor a week or so later, which she treasures.

Good luck to the OP and his wife, for your future together.

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Personally, I think it's nice. In fact, I often smile first, and have never failed to get a smile back.

I'd like to get some posters or prints by artists such as Dali, Monet, van Gogh, to decorate the house with. Do any shops in Pattaya (preferably - I know my way around there), or Bangkok, sell them ?

Thanks for any help / suggestions.

If you want to read books mainly then I wouldn't buy the Kindle Fire as it is more of a tablet. Basic Kindle is perfect size and no temptation to keep flicking over to check emails or whatever social networking you may be into. When I'm reading I like to be in the zone!!

That's a good point. I am very easily distracted and I would definitely be flicking between things.

However, i do like the idea of having a minimal amount of devices

okay so there is Kindle fire..what else ...must be many out there?..can anyone recommend best ...least expensive..need to buy one for me and one one for wife..are any limited to download source options? My sis in Europe says some are..how much should one expect to pay? What should I be looking for..?

Thx

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Hope this will help David, I use a laptop for reading books, with the Kindle for PC program. I downloaded quite a lot of books, while I was in the UK, but here in Thailand, I cannot download books that are classified as "free", on Amazon's UK website, (the likes of Charles Dickens, and other classic works, long since out of copyright), as I am outside the UK. The site directs me to the US version, where a small fee is payable. As I'm a) Scottish, and blame America for the collapse of the world economy, I reject this option.

There is, apparently a way, to convert between various file formats for books, so that they can be read on different readers, I have a mate in the UK who sends me books he downloads, and then converts them so that I can read them on the laptop.

Back to the topic, I'm currently re-reading The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx.

Wrestling was definitely shown on Saturday afternoons, as my Auntie used to visit on Saturdays, and would arrive 15 minutes before the wrestling started, with a box of cream cakes for tea! I always got one of those individual trifles, with jelly, sponge and fresh cream on top.

This was in the Tyne-Tees ITV area, perhaps it was shown at other times in different regions, which possibly explains why some posters have different memories.

Earliest Dr Who ? I can remember watching it from the start, I was about 9. I've recently watched the first two serials featuring the Daleks, and in the first series they didn't say "Ex-ter-min-ate" once, and I've watched 3 out of 6 episodes of the second series, and so far they haven't said it yet either - curious. I always thought that they said it from the start, funny how time plays tricks on the mind.

Wrestling was quite big in our town, there were two venues that used to show it, Middlesbrough Town Hall, and Farrer Street stadium. I can remember going with my Mum and Auntie, (but sadly, no cream cakes while we watched !).

One thing that has come back to me, writing this, is that we used to walk to the Farrer Street stadium, (we lived in the town centre), and our route took us past the old Workhouse. Mum and Auntie both used to walk on the other side of the road, when passing. They had a morbid fear of the place, despite it being twenty or so years since the National Insurance scheme had started. Isn't it weird how one can drag up these old memories, as if it were yesterday ?

Dixon of Dock Green, another of my Dad's favourites, was a must see in our house, Saturday was the Wrestling, followed by tea, then all tidied up in time for Dixon. It's available on DVD now !

Wasn't that followed by the Black & White Minstrel show ?

Wasn't the wrestling on Sunday?

How about: The Magic Roundabout?

The MagicRoundabout was Tops, but the Clangers has to be the Absolute Number One Excellent Tops.

Probably the best kds ' serial ever n the best ever science fiction serial, without doubt it knocked Star Trek or the Star Wars trilogy into a cocked hat

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What about Dr Who ? I'm currently downloading all the old ones from the 60s, I thought they'd all been lost by the BBC, but they're on Th'Internet.

Dixon of Dock Green, another of my Dad's favourites, was a must see in our house, Saturday was the Wrestling, followed by tea, then all tidied up in time for Dixon. It's available on DVD now !

Wasn't that followed by the Black & White Minstrel show ?

Wasn't the wrestling on Sunday?

How about: The Magic Roundabout?

It may have changed later, but as far as I remember it was on at 4 o'clock, Saturday, on ITV, and finished in time for the football results.

1 Man City

2 Chelsea

3 Man Utd

4 Newcastle U

18 Norwich C

19 West Ham

20 Reading

Scottish Division Three

Champions New, Improved, Rangers !

I thought it ridiculous that Giggs was included in the first place, given his off field 'activities", and his attempt to stifle media reporting of his lifestyle. For me, Beckham was a far better choice, I am sure he would have picked up his game for the tournament, and he would have been a far better choice as Captain, someone the younger players could look up to, and who's experience of tournament play would have been invaluable, something Giggs has no experience of. He would also have sung the National Anthem, it was disgraceful that Giggs, and others, did not.

Pearce stated that he had picked the team on form, obviously Giggs was exempt from this criteria, his club form was abysmal, otherwise why did Scholes have to come out of retirement?

As to last night's game, for me Senegal played much the better football, their finishing was admittedly poor, but GB were lucky not to get a hiding. Possibly GB should have had a penalty, but overall their play was poor, and they were tactically inept, which didn't surprise me, having viewed Pearce's coaching "skills" with the U-21 team, who were simply awful in their last tournament outing.

In the press today, Giggs has been complaining of the tackling employed by Senegal, which was crude, but Giggs seemed to take every opportunity to try and manipulate the referee into giving out cards to Senegal players, every time a free kick was awarded, not the actions I want to see of a Great Britain Captain. There was also an incident in the first half, where Giggs pushed over a Senegal player, and motioned to the referee that the player had dived. It seems Giggs is not content to cheat in his personal life, he also does the same on the pitch.

I wouldn't have picked Richards either, picks up too many niggling little injuries in club play, perhaps the reason why England managers don't pick him.

BTW I am not a Man Utd fan, but perhaps you'd guessed that already.

From a neutral point of view seems rangers need to understand the difference between consequences and punishment,

Everything that has happened 2 them so far has been a consequence of what they have done, officially the SFA, although labeling rangers behavior as not far behind match fixing, barring a fine dont seem to have officially dished a punishment out as yet. Although the consequences already seem/are horrible , the SFA will have to act, how? cant see they've any option but to strip Rangers of the titles the club won under the guilty regime, harsh? Cant really see any other option.

That's the way it worked in Italy, Juventus were stripped of a couple of titles.

My wife was watching new improved True Visions tonight, and she lost both picture and sound, due to a mild shower of rain ! I had satellite TV in the UK, almost thirty years ago, and with a similar amount of rain and had no problems. What a shower !

Sonchai Jitpleecheep - Bangkok 8 by John Burdett, really enjoyed it.

A man goes to the Doctors, complaining about an itch and pains in his genital area.

The Doctor tells him to drop his trousers, and underwear, and then examines the affected area.

"Oh dear", says the Doctor, "I'm sorry to tell you that you've got GASH".

"I should explain, GASH is short for Gonorrhea, Aids, Syphillis, and Herpes, I'm afraid you've got them all"

"Oh my God", says the patient, "is there a cure?"

"Well", says the Doctor, "We'll have to put you in quarantine, and feed you Ryvita,and Kraft cheese slices"

"That's the cure?" says the astonished patient.

"No, it's the only food that will slide under the door".

As a Rangers fan, and a fan of Scottish football in general, the solution I would like to see is Rangers start in Division Three, which I think is fair punishment for sins of the past.

If and when, Rangers climb their way back to the SPL, then and only then, should a decision be made on a 2 Division league in Scotland. I believe that a two division system, along with the Financial Fair Play system that UEFA are bringing in, is the best way forward for Scottish football.

This all depends of course, on the other clubs in Scotland, managing to keep their financial heads above water, while Rangers are otherwise engaged.

As an aside, I would like to see all Scottish premier league clubs being forced to field a minimum of four players, who they have brought through their youth systems, and I do mean field, not have them sitting on the bench. Scottish football is in a truly awful state, and every measure that can be taken should be taken, to try to increase competitiveness between the clubs, by ridding Scottish football of the two club monopoly it has become, since the SPL came into being.

Quite funny !

This started as talk about what the pirates have to do now !!

And now it is all about the shit the "good guys" pay for from True !

It is only problem problems problems !*

And if i had paid 2000 Baht for such service i would be sure there was some broken furnitures down at the local True office !

But there is not and i am just laughing all the way to the bank !

Have a nice weekend with your "so good TrueVision" systems !

That's True Vision for you, annoy the people who actually pay good money for the truly awful "service" that True provide, while pirates get rich solving problems True staff can't fix. The worst company I've ever dealt with, bar none.

Thanks for the help / replies, not sure if Phetchabun is a tourist area, , but we'll give it a go early next week.

I brought my Gibson Les Paul over as hand luggage several years ago, the stewardesses put it in safe locker in flight, no problems at all. No questions from customs when I went through. I wouldn't advise anyone to get anything valuable shipped here, too much to go wrong, and as regular reader of this website knows, accountability and Thailand, aren't words used in the same sentence very often!

Is this available to foreigners ? The savings accounts I've looked at on the TMB website all ask for photo ID card. There seems to be no further details on this offer, though it is listed on the site as "Quick 12 month".

Thank you for the welcome MrMuddle

Did you know that Davy Crocket had three ears?

A left ear, a right ear, and a wild frontier.

Greetings from over the Silver Sea

You're welcome - keep 'em coming, as the mamasan said to the bargirl.

I once met Vincent Van Gogh in a pub.

"Can I get you a drink", I asked him.

"No thanks, I've got one 'ere", he replied.

Man walks into a pub with a newt on his shoulder.

The barman says:"What do you call him?"

The man says: "Tiny."

The barman looks surprised and says: "Tiny? Why Tiny?"

"Because he's my newt."

Greetings from over the Silver Sea

You're VERY welcome to the forum, with jokes like that. More of the same please.