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[MaxV6]

well, after much rather about , and a lot of hassle,  significant wads of folding stuff, and an immense amount of hardwork, we have ended up in a new residence,..


sunny(not) Berinsfield  , 

parking is an arse,  but when i get the garage sorted.... things will improve....   it's big enough to swallow my Mv6 estate whole.... and has a built in swimming pool,   which i think was supposed to be an inspection pit... 

our first "estate" house in 12 years...   so learning to cope with a denser population base....  (in more ways than one) and still fighting to be able to park outside my own house.....


it's frankly a dump, as locations go,  but the house is okay, with some potential for being quite nice.....


and now we've got internet ,  i'm back......     

did i miss much?

[symes]

Not bad as it was years ago mate-bit like were I live-Blackbird Leys-made national news years ago-joyriders-

[TheBoy]

Not bad as it was years ago mate-bit like were I live-Blackbird Leys-made national news years ago-joyriders-

I always found Blackbord Leys OK in the early 90s, just got the bad reputation because the TV caught those kids handbrake turning on film.

It was one of the few places that my Astra GTE never got touched by anyone overnight

[TheBoy]

Fixed a few phones in Berinsfield, back when the exchange was still a TXE2, other than that never been there, always bypass it.

It seems a strange place, as if the village didn't exist before the 60s, and they just built it in the middle of nowhere?

[Marks DTM Calib]

Fixed a few phones in Berinsfield, back when the exchange was still a TXE2, other than that never been there, always bypass it.

It seems a strange place, as if the village didn't exist before the 60s, and they just built it in the middle of nowhere?

Remind me again....how old are you 

[TheBoy]

Fixed a few phones in Berinsfield, back when the exchange was still a TXE2, other than that never been there, always bypass it.

It seems a strange place, as if the village didn't exist before the 60s, and they just built it in the middle of nowhere?

Remind me again....how old are you 

You ain't far behind, Master DTM

It least I didn't say strowger (I think Berinsfield got its first exchange when the village was built)


//TB runs and hides, as he knows he's on a loser with MDTM when he tries to deny every seeing any strowger

[Marks DTM Calib]

BT had some Strowger at a certain exchange until the 90's.....plus the old defence stuff.

And we all know you have worked on the old ticky switches!

[Jimbob]

I remember you being like a kid in a candy store at that 'exchange' we visited from Newent

[TheBoy]

BT had some Strowger at a certain exchange until the 90's.....plus the old defence stuff.

And we all know you have worked on the old ticky switches!

No, couldn't possibly be any strowger about beyond the 80s, TXEs and TXDs had taken over the world by then....   ....in the same way we were told there was no aluminium, let alond lead, in the ground

[TheBoy]

I remember you being like a kid in a candy store at that 'exchange' we visited from Newent

Ah, so you met my twin brother? Handsome chap, isn't he...

[MaxV6]

not to worry J,  i know some guys who took voluntary redundancy from BT jobs  back in the late 80's or early 90's ......   they're almost definitely older than you.....   hell they're older than me, by a few months....   

[STMO123]

I worked for BT when it was GPO telephones 

[TheBoy]

I worked for BT when it was GPO telephones 

Before automatic telephone exchanges and direct dialling were invented

[STMO123]

I worked for BT when it was GPO telephones 

Before automatic telephone exchanges and direct dialling were invented

Non-director exchanges were so much easier to fault-find on

[STMO123]

I got all flustered when they changed from, say SEF(Sefton park) to 733. There was just no need.