Thread: Happy 60th Birthday to Mendip!

^^ That does look nice. If we manage to visit this summer I must rescue a few, at least the local (Somerset) ones.

I love maps... I was lucky enough to start in my industry when there were still proper cartographers... many trained at The Admiralty in Taunton. The guy I meet up with in Bangkok (now retired) was trained as a cartographer at the Ordnance Survey in Southampton. Making maps of the seabed isn't so different to making maps of the land, we just use soundings instead of elevations. It's all digital now of course and many of the old skills are disappearing.

As my mother ages she has been gradually clearing out the house and loft and I worry I'll arrive back and all the maps will have been given to a charity shop.

A few years ago all my vinyl went into landfill... loads of Bowie and Lou Reed albums along with a huge selection of Eighties stuff... probably a couple of hundred albums in all. I don't want that to happen again.

Originally Posted by Mendip

A few years ago all my vinyl went into landfill... loads of Bowie and Lou Reed albums along with a huge selection of Eighties stuff... probably a couple of hundred albums in all. I don't want that to happen again.

Vinyl has be back in fashion for over a decade now, record shops everywhere and original vinyl fetching silly money. Sorry not what you want to hear.

Yeah, so I hear.

Still, at least it wasn't as bad as what happened to this guy, the other side of the Bristol Channel...

Bitcoin: Newport man says binned hard drive now worth PS569m

Originally Posted by Mendip

^^ That does look nice. If we manage to visit this summer I must rescue a few, at least the local (Somerset) ones.

I love maps... I was lucky enough to start in my industry when there were still proper cartographers... many trained at The Admiralty in Taunton. The guy I meet up with in Bangkok (now retired) was trained as a cartographer at the Ordnance Survey in Southampton. Making maps of the seabed isn't so different to making maps of the land, we just use soundings instead of elevations. It's all digital now of course and many of the old skills are disappearing.

As my mother ages she has been gradually clearing out the house and loft and I worry I'll arrive back and all the maps will have been given to a charity shop.

A few years ago all my vinyl went into landfill... loads of Bowie and Lou Reed albums along with a huge selection of Eighties stuff... probably a couple of hundred albums in all. I don't want that to happen again.

60 years of age and still storing stuff at mom’s house like a 22 year old…

Originally Posted by Joe 90

Vinyl has be back in fashion for over a decade now, record shops everywhere and original vinyl fetching silly money. Sorry not what you want to hear.

How is teletext doing?

Can Mike Yarwood do a good Kier Starmer?

Please keep us updated.

^ Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit