out of home

DED - 29-10-2006 at 15:42

I will be out of home for a few days due to some redecorating job at BBP's Grandma.
I hope that I can rely on tons and tons of postings during my absence. :lol:

BBP - 29-10-2006 at 16:26

Sure! I'll see what I can do!

DED - 12-11-2006 at 10:41

Well that was not very much, actually.
Fortenately You and me were in Belgium yesterday and I bought 2 tube radio's one Philips, now I have the same radio as we had in the early sixties. It has a minor problem, so I need to do some reparation. The other one was a working Telefunken Radio in such a peace of furniture combined with a record player and a fifties speakerbox that almost looks like a radio, but isn't. At 2 we had everything complete and we went for the beautiful city of Gent to visit the exposition of life and work of Stanley Kubrick. It was nice to see the milkbar out of Clockwork an de knifes, dresses, axes and typewriter of "the Shining". The expo lasts upto JAnuary so if you have the possibility to go. Be advised.

BBP - 12-11-2006 at 14:28

yep. Was quite a miniature Tour de Flanders, all the way past Genk and Leuven to Mechelen, then Brussels, Brugge to Lichtervoorde, and back the same way with the stop in Gent.

scallopino - 12-11-2006 at 14:41

Sounds like a great day out. I must say DED your last post featured some exquisite English! It's great that you have so many old radios and things but it's a shame that they would be forced to play shithouse music nowdays! What a waste!

scallopino - 12-11-2006 at 14:41

And how did the redecoration go? Was Grandma pleased?

DED - 12-11-2006 at 15:24

Yes thanks. She was very pleased with it. Actually it is quite a upgrade. When we moved in some 34 years ago the original decoration was something we call "concrete enamel" it is normal paint used in the still wet cement. The standard colour is Green. We used it as is for quit a time and after 2 or 3 years I repainted it but with a light green paint that was overwhelming on such large walls. After that my mother did the decoration herself with water resistant wall paper. But after 10 years it was fallen off and large black spots on it. Now I used the color "steam" a sort of mixture between light blue and grey. I bought 5 250ml cans of paint and used only 2. I bought them in a sort of outlet for 1.5 Euros per can. So it was very cheap as well. Then she told me that she wants to use new glass curtains between the hall and the living room. Unfortenately the folded measuring stick was disappeared between the pillows of the cough and you could not put you hand in. But at the back sid i could and with my long arms i recovered the stick and feeling around inside I found coins for a value of over 8 Euros. Enough to pay the redecoration. That was funny.

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DED - 12-11-2006 at 15:28

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Originally posted by scallopino
Sounds like a great day out. I must say DED your last post featured some exquisite English! It's great that you have so many old radios and things but it's a shame that they would be forced to play shithouse music nowdays! What a waste!

What was wrong :mad:
I am planning to build a small inhouse AM transmitter, just beacause of the shitty music and the very few stations left on AM.

aha
Peace of Furniture ha ha,
shi....
Piece of furniture radios, knives
sorry

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BBP - 12-11-2006 at 17:50

I didn't do the editing here folks... Dad did that whilst using my account...

scallopino - 13-11-2006 at 02:58

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No no, i was serious!

scallopino - 13-11-2006 at 03:01

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Originally posted by DED
Yes thanks. She was very pleased with it. Actually it is quite a upgrade. When we moved in some 34 years ago the original decoration was something we call "concrete enamel" it is normal paint used in the still wet cement. The standard colour is Green. We used it as is for quit a time and after 2 or 3 years I repainted it but with a light green paint that was overwhelming on such large walls. After that my mother did the decoration herself with water resistant wall paper. But after 10 years it was fallen off and large black spots on it. Now I used the color "steam" a sort of mixture between light blue and grey. I bought 5 250ml cans of paint and used only 2. I bought them in a sort of outlet for 1.5 Euros per can. So it was very cheap as well. Then she told me that she wants to use new glass curtains between the hall and the living room. Unfortenately the folded measuring stick was disappeared between the pillows of the cough and you could not put you hand in. But at the back sid i could and with my long arms i recovered the stick and feeling around inside I found coins for a value of over 8 Euros. Enough to pay the redecoration. That was funny.

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"Go go gadget arms". What are glass curtains? Never heard of them.

DED - 13-11-2006 at 13:05

Something we call "vitrage" or "glasgordijnen"
Dictionary says; lace curtain,net curtain, glass curtain.

Hope this will help you

scallopino - 14-11-2006 at 04:47

Ok. So they're not made out of glass then?

DED - 14-11-2006 at 08:52

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Ok. So they're not made out of glass then?

No, maybe this will help you to get the picture.

scallopino - 15-11-2006 at 09:09

Oakily Doakily.

DED - 15-11-2006 at 22:06

The question remaining is how such curtains are called in Australia.

scallopino - 17-11-2006 at 06:04

:grin: They just look like regular curtains! I don't really know what the official name is.

DED - 17-11-2006 at 09:39

Do you use curtains in Australia, They don't have neighbours in the first thirty miles was my opinion?

The usage is completely diffent from curtains.
We use curtains in the evening when it is dark outside and the lights are on. Without curtains everyone can see the mess Bonny makes :grin:

Glass curtains are hanging around trough the day. It gaves a diffuse lighting and stil it is not possible to look in from the outside while it is possible to look outside from the inside. at last it is a warmer feeling than such a open hole a window can be.

BTW and completely different.
I understand that there is a company in Australia by the name of ZONAL that still makes 1/4" reel to reel audiotape. When I google on Zonal I end up only in the UK where you can buy Zonal tape but they don't produce.

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BBP - 17-11-2006 at 20:52

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Without curtains everyone can see the mess Bonny makes :grin:

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:pissed:

scallopino - 18-11-2006 at 03:36

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Originally posted by DED
Do you use curtains in Australia, They don't have neighbours in the first thirty miles was my opinion?

The usage is completely diffent from curtains.
We use curtains in the evening when it is dark outside and the lights are on. Without curtains everyone can see the mess Bonny makes :grin:

Glass curtains are hanging around trough the day. It gaves a diffuse lighting and stil it is not possible to look in from the outside while it is possible to look outside from the inside. at last it is a warmer feeling than such a open hole a window can be.

BTW and completely different.
I understand that there is a company in Australia by the name of ZONAL that still makes 1/4" reel to reel audiotape. When I google on Zonal I end up only in the UK where you can buy Zonal tape but they don't produce.

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Everybody has curtains. We have vertical blinds instead. One of our cats, Suzy Creamcheese (who has one arm) has trouble manouvreing around the window ledges and often falls through the string that holds the blinds together.

Actually, the vast majority of our population live in the cities or in large towns. It's a really big problem because we are currently running out of water. If everyone was nicely spread around we could make much better use of water resources and wouldn't have a problem.

But we live in the "country" and there are only 3 houses down our road, all with about 200 metres in between them. We shut the blinds only to keep out the sun when it's hot outside or at night to stop all the gigantic moths from banging into the windows.

DED - 18-11-2006 at 10:56

Apart from the water problem, it looks familiair to Holland and maybe the rest of Europe.
The west coast known as North an south Holland are very crowded. Where it was an exeption to build apartmentbuildings of 16 floors they now build them over 30 floors high. They Stack people. New residents from esp. Africa and Arabia mostly ends up there in the old parts. where black and white is about 40:1.
At our parth in the south you have some space to live outside the city center where they also build 30 floors high.
We live in a so called Vinex part. That is a name for new urban parts mainly build on agricultural fields. All family houses with small gardens, no parking places apart from your drive and streets formed as mazes. It's our luck that after our house there are only three houses and a smal 3 floor apartment building and than freedom. A national park starts and only two motorways, 1 between Germany and Anvers and one between Amsterdam and Maastricht are seperating us from the Belgian border. It is fun bicycling there in the woods and haze.
I know those vertical things we had them when we lived for a year in a nearby village. Ours were from lastic with little wholes.
What we didn't knew was that when the lights are on you could see trough from the outside. Our bathroom was on the streetside. Fortunaly someone told us with a big grin aftre our first "shows"

scallopino - 20-11-2006 at 09:05

Australia is in the middle of its "worst drought in 1000 years". It's not that we are running out of natural water resources, just that the reservoirs in the cities are getting empty. The rest of the country has no problem. We don't have any problem because we live in the country about an hour from Melbourne and have a gigantic water tank that never goes below half.

There aren't that many apartment buildings here even near the cities as far as i know. There ARE apartment buildings but they are only right in the middle of the cities (where a lot of people live) and overlooking the harbours (which the really rich high classes live).

How long would it take to drive to germany or belgium?

DED - 20-11-2006 at 16:15

The German border (Duisnurg) aprox. 60 km say, half an hour drive. About an hour to Koln and Dusseldorf (Dweezildorf)
The Belgian border on the motor way 20 minutes. But there is nothing so make it 30 min. to world famous Turnhout. Never heard of it? Possible, but look on your playing cards. Most cards in the world are fabricated here. On bicycle it's is aprox 1/2 hour to the border but there is only a monestry wich brews his own beer.
With the car on the secunary road it is aprox. 20 minutes to Lommel. To my place of birth in Holland (The Hague it is 148 km, and a 2 hour drive (normally 11/2) but I am "shitting 7 colours of shit" from fear in a tunnel so I need to take the long road over a bridge. To ZAZ in Amsterdam it is 123 km, normally a 90 minute quarters drive. We go a lot of times to Belgium and almost never to Germany.

BBP - 20-11-2006 at 20:29

Last time we went to Germany was a few years ago, when we went to a fun fair for a day in Aachen. That was fun! Sooooo many food tents!

DED - 20-11-2006 at 21:16

Yes, and before that I was for business a few times in the north and the middle of Germany. And we went for Rust a few years ago to see the europapark (www.europapark.de).
I do not know why we are going so little to Germany.

DED - 20-11-2006 at 21:33

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Last time we went to Germany was a few years ago, when we went to a fun fair for a day in Aachen. That was fun! Sooooo many food tents!

Erst kommt das Fressen...

DED - 20-11-2006 at 21:36

Drinkwater problem
In summer we had the same problem in July.
But than it is good to live here. Since we have made that long dike in the North the Southsee has become Lake Ijssel. Some rivers ends there and it is enough to keep more water in than usual to prevent shortages.

BBP - 20-11-2006 at 23:29

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Originally posted by DED
Yes, and before that I was for business a few times in the north and the middle of Germany. And we went for Rust a few years ago to see the europapark (www.europapark.de).
I do not know why we are going so little to Germany.

Because our car runs on gas and is hard to park because of that?

DED - 21-11-2006 at 20:02

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Because our car runs on gas and is hard to park because of that?

Thats a nice one yes.
every car drives on gas but ours drive on Liquified petrol gas or LPG. That mean an extra tank in the car with an explosive content. In fact it is saver than petrol but nevertheless they refuse to park cars like mine to use a roofed parking. Standing out in the open is okay with me but there is kess of that available. And I do not like the guy's from Germany, maybe they are too Dutch, even more as we. :freak:

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BBP - 22-11-2006 at 12:08

Remember those lovely Germans that were camping next to us in Aix-en-Provence? The ones with 5 kids and number 6 on the way?

DED - 22-11-2006 at 21:21

If you mean the family with the HUUUUUGE caravan wich they bump into a tree when the leave. I remember them.
But one thing more It was not Aix my favourite city.
I do not know wich camping it was, still thinking.