Hamster fed

[STEMO]

Pez machines.

Don't remember those 
I remember the machines that gave you 5 park drive. In fact, if you hit them hard enough with a bat, they'd give you enough for everyone in the street, including adults. 

I well remember the old cigarette machines. They used to give you free fags at 3 A.M......

Security wasn't their strong point. 

[dave the builder]

Pez machines.

available at lidl  relaunched

yes, I sometimes shop at Lidl , I'm poor now i have to put petrol in a 26MPG omega ,used to get 33+ in my old, polluting ,inefficient Carlton 
Plus, it's the nearest supermarket too me .

[STEMO]

Pez machines.

available at lidl  relaunched

yes, I sometimes shop at Lidl , I'm poor now i have to put petrol in a 26MPG omega ,used to get 33+ in my old, polluting ,inefficient Carlton 
Plus, it's the nearest supermarket too me .

Nowt wrong with Lidl, or Aldi, although I can never find everything I want to do a big shop.

[Lizzie Zoom]

I don't ever remember using farthings. Pennies and hapennies are my earliest memory. You could have 24 quite large copper coins in your pocket and only have the equivalent of today's 5p tiddler.

Yes. Before my time.

I remember the old ten bob note. A type of salmon pink colour if memory serves.

Yeah, sure Opti!!

Who are you trying to kid?

If you have really forgotten, they were the coins with a cute robin on the reverse.

[Sir Tigger KC]

Pez machines.

available at lidl  relaunched

yes, I sometimes shop at Lidl , I'm poor now i have to put petrol in a 26MPG omega ,used to get 33+ in my old, polluting ,inefficient Carlton 
Plus, it's the nearest supermarket too me .

Nowt wrong with Lidl, or Aldi, although I can never find everything I want to do a big shop.

Trouble is you go in for a bag of apples and come out with a bench grinder, a wet and dry vac and a set of new screwdrivers.   

Then on your way home you think " Oh FFS I forgot the apples! " 

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

I don't ever remember using farthings. Pennies and hapennies are my earliest memory. You could have 24 quite large copper coins in your pocket and only have the equivalent of today's 5p tiddler.

Yes. Before my time.

I remember the old ten bob note. A type of salmon pink colour if memory serves.

Yeah, sure Opti!!

Who are you trying to kid?

If you have really forgotten, they were the coins with a cute robin on the reverse.

I know they were about the size of the decimal 'half pee' Lizzie......but they were not about when I was a nipper.

[Lizzie Zoom]

I don't ever remember using farthings. Pennies and hapennies are my earliest memory. You could have 24 quite large copper coins in your pocket and only have the equivalent of today's 5p tiddler.

Yes. Before my time.

I remember the old ten bob note. A type of salmon pink colour if memory serves.

Yeah, sure Opti!!

Who are you trying to kid?

If you have really forgotten, they were the coins with a cute robin on the reverse.

I know they were about the size of the decimal 'half pee' Lizzie......but they were not about when I was a nipper.

I have a Third of a Farthing and if you think the farthing was small you should see that!!   .....................and NO!, I do not remember those being in circulation!

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

I don't ever remember using farthings. Pennies and hapennies are my earliest memory. You could have 24 quite large copper coins in your pocket and only have the equivalent of today's 5p tiddler.

Yes. Before my time.

I remember the old ten bob note. A type of salmon pink colour if memory serves.

Yeah, sure Opti!!

Who are you trying to kid?

If you have really forgotten, they were the coins with a cute robin on the reverse.

I know they were about the size of the decimal 'half pee' Lizzie......but they were not about when I was a nipper.

I have a Third of a Farthing and if you think the farthing was small you should see that!!   .....................and NO!, I do not remember those being in circulation!

.....and what of the groat?

[TheBoy]

Apologies.

Primary DB server is proper fsck'd.  It corrupted the database on the secondary when it went.

We restored from a backup from 8pm last night (which is the last one that looks not to contain the corruption), so there may be some missing posts made after that time.


Because we are running from the secondary, which is normally responsible for backups, the entire site will be unusable when backups are taken.  This is likely to be early morning, between 6 and 7am, give or take. This is due to the way the database has to be locked for the period of the backup.

It will be a few days before a pair of new database servers can be stood up, and normality returns.

I hear there is this newfangled "Cloud" thing, apparently you just throw everything into the cloud and it takes care of itself by magic. Sounds like it would save you loads of time and money. You should look into it 



(At least I assume that's how the conversations go at Board level in companies these days...)

Its sorta nearly on a cloud, depending on definition...

But MySQL sucks, as you well know, and is perfectly happy to replicate its corruption everywhere.

That's why we (normally) back it up hourly, and have a server dedicate to this single task.


Did I mention MySQL sucks.

[Rods2]

iirc 1/2d had a picture of a sailing ship on them? Farthings were before my time. As a child I won a battered old 1846 1d in a game of nearest the wall (before our headmaster banned the game) and the size and thickness of that compared to contemporary 1ds, is like 1p compared to 1d. I've still got it in the attic somewhere. It is like this but a bit more battered.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1846-Penny/312347253477?hash=item48b958dae5:g:WTQAAOSwfX9cAbGG

[dave the builder]

Pez machines.

available at lidl  relaunched

yes, I sometimes shop at Lidl , I'm poor now i have to put petrol in a 26MPG omega ,used to get 33+ in my old, polluting ,inefficient Carlton 
Plus, it's the nearest supermarket too me .

Nowt wrong with Lidl, or Aldi, although I can never find everything I want to do a big shop.

Trouble is you go in for a bag of apples and come out with a bench grinder, a wet and dry vac and a set of new screwdrivers.   

Then on your way home you think " Oh FFS I forgot the apples! " 

you been spying on me 
Mrs Builder can get the apples 

[BazaJT]

ISTR getting 10 black jacks/fruit salad for 1d a jubbly was 3d Saturday matinee was 7d[cheap seats]or 10d[posh seats.Ha'penny did have a depiction of a sailing ship while the thrupenny bit had a portcullis.Don't really remember the farthing but they must have been around.The groat[I don't know when that went out of circulation]was a silver coin worth the equivalent of 4d.

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

ISTR getting 10 black jacks/fruit salad for 1d a jubbly was 3d Saturday matinee was 7d[cheap seats]or 10d[posh seats.Ha'penny did have a depiction of a sailing ship while the thrupenny bit had a portcullis.Don't really remember the farthing but they must have been around.The groat[I don't know when that went out of circulation]was a silver coin worth the equivalent of 4d.

In the 14th century when Lizzie was no more than 'a slip of a girl'.......

[BazaJT]

You're a braver man than me Opti.I wouldn't want a late night visit from an angry Lizzie

[Lizzie Zoom]

ISTR getting 10 black jacks/fruit salad for 1d a jubbly was 3d Saturday matinee was 7d[cheap seats]or 10d[posh seats.Ha'penny did have a depiction of a sailing ship while the thrupenny bit had a portcullis.Don't really remember the farthing but they must have been around.The groat[I don't know when that went out of circulation]was a silver coin worth the equivalent of 4d.

In the 14th century when Lizzie was no more than 'a slip of a girl'.......

Funnily enough I have always thought / had a very strange feeling that I lived in Elizabethan times, so maybe the 16th century!!