- 261. Re: '78 music (score: 1)
- Author: Michael Hargreave Mawson <OC@46thFoot.com>
- Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 20:40:09 +0100
- Wasn't that '77 or even '76? I'm not complaining - the whole LP is a frequent visitor to my car cassette-player. and almost everything else off the "Jazz" LP. Yawn That was definitely '77 - and defin
- /html/spitfires/2002-04/msg00309.html (10,606 bytes)
- 262. Re: '78 music (score: 1)
- Author: Michael Hargreave Mawson <OC@46thFoot.com>
- Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 20:54:19 +0100
- <snip> I just did a quick websearch. You won't *believe* what Americans were listening to in 1978: http://musicradio.computer.net/Top1978.html Another reason to bless the great good fortune that led
- /html/spitfires/2002-04/msg00310.html (8,679 bytes)
- 263. Re: '78 music (score: 1)
- Author: Michael Hargreave Mawson <OC@46thFoot.com>
- Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 09:19:36 +0100
- My fault - I double-checked that one in the Guinness Book of British Hit Singles, and it *charted* in '80, although you are, of course, perfectly correct in saying that it was first released as an al
- /html/spitfires/2002-04/msg00317.html (10,023 bytes)
- 264. Re: '78 music (score: 1)
- Author: Michael Hargreave Mawson <OC@46thFoot.com>
- Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 09:12:25 +0100
- British: Bee Gees Andy Gibb Rolling Stones Wings Queen Bonnie Tyler (Welsh) Eric Clapton Rod Stewart (Scottish) I think the other fifty or so artists are American (or Australian, in Olivia Newton-Joh
- /html/spitfires/2002-04/msg00318.html (8,457 bytes)
- 265. Re: '78 music (score: 1)
- Author: Michael Hargreave Mawson <OC@46thFoot.com>
- Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 18:46:32 +0100
- Further to the idea of creating a 1977-1978 (+/-1) Punk/New Wave/Heavy Rock compilation to be played in Carly and Daffy, can anyone help with a decent copy of the following: Leighton Buzzards - Satur
- /html/spitfires/2002-04/msg00323.html (8,730 bytes)
- 266. Re: '78 music (score: 1)
- Author: Michael Hargreave Mawson <OC@46thFoot.com>
- Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 21:37:32 +0100
- Most New Wave bands were already recording in '77, but didn't make it big until the following year - Blondie and the Boomtown Rats spring immediately to mind. <g> Something tells me that Al Stewart i
- /html/spitfires/2002-04/msg00329.html (10,902 bytes)
- 267. Re: '78 music (score: 1)
- Author: Michael Hargreave Mawson <OC@46thFoot.com>
- Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 23:02:58 +0100
- <snip> In case anyone else is interested in what eventually ended up on the tape, here's the playlist (remember that this is designed to be used in '77 and '78 Spits): SIDE ONE X-Ray Spex - Germ Free
- /html/spitfires/2002-04/msg00345.html (9,975 bytes)
- 268. Re: '78 music (score: 1)
- Author: Michael Hargreave Mawson <OC@46thFoot.com>
- Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2002 09:31:44 +0100
- I hadn't forgotten about him - but 77-78 was a really lean time for him. I can't remember a single decent track that he cut at that time. In fact I can't remember a single Bowie track after about 197
- /html/spitfires/2002-04/msg00348.html (8,039 bytes)
- 269. The Thieves are Back (score: 1)
- Author: Michael Hargreave Mawson <OC@46thFoot.com>
- Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2002 20:00:47 +0100
- Dear All, I don't know whether to feel angry or smug. My tax disc was stolen again last night (angry), but I had left the top down and only had the tonneau cover on the car, so I don't need to replac
- /html/spitfires/2002-04/msg00354.html (8,021 bytes)
- 270. Re: The Thieves are Back (score: 1)
- Author: Michael Hargreave Mawson <OC@46thFoot.com>
- Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 10:13:33 +0100
- Yes. :-( Yes, but also illegal (a tax disc must be displayed at all times when the vehicle is on a public road). I'll see if I can find one in Halfords today. If I get nicked, I can always try to arg
- /html/spitfires/2002-04/msg00364.html (9,991 bytes)
- 271. Re: The Thieves are Back (score: 1)
- Author: Michael Hargreave Mawson <OC@46thFoot.com>
- Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 17:39:27 +0100
- I've done some investigation myself, and have just purchased a bolt-together cast aluminium tax-disc holder, sold for use on motorbikes. This cost me GBP9.99. The only way the disc can be removed is
- /html/spitfires/2002-04/msg00382.html (10,446 bytes)
- 272. Re: taxes (score: 1)
- Author: Michael Hargreave Mawson <OC@46thFoot.com>
- Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 19:49:41 +0100
- Does this only apply to cars, or is it to all personal property? If the latter, I'd *hate* to own a house in Virginia... ATB -- Mike Michael Hargreave Mawson, author of "Eyewitness in the Crimea" htt
- /html/spitfires/2002-04/msg00387.html (7,050 bytes)
- 273. Re: The Thieves are Back (score: 1)
- Author: Michael Hargreave Mawson <OC@46thFoot.com>
- Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 19:50:12 +0100
- <snip> ROFL! ATB -- Mike Michael Hargreave Mawson, author of "Eyewitness in the Crimea" http://www.greenhillbooks.com/booksheets/eyewitness_in_the_crimea.html /// spitfires@autox.team.net mailing lis
- /html/spitfires/2002-04/msg00388.html (8,468 bytes)
- 274. Re: The Thieves are Back (score: 1)
- Author: Michael Hargreave Mawson <OC@46thFoot.com>
- Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 19:52:35 +0100
- Funnily enough, I was thinking of writing to my MP, and asking (a) that charges for stolen tax discs should be waived (on quoting the relevant crime number), and (b) that the tax discs for convertibl
- /html/spitfires/2002-04/msg00389.html (9,040 bytes)
- 275. Re: Tax Disc . Now Bad Roads, Now Self Serve Gas! (score: 1)
- Author: Michael Hargreave Mawson <OC@46thFoot.com>
- Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 09:12:11 +0100
- There are still a few places in UK where there are petrol pump attendants. I remember calling in on a petrol station a year or so ago, and being gobsmacked when someone came out to operate the pump f
- /html/spitfires/2002-04/msg00453.html (10,063 bytes)
- 276. Re: The wild ride (score: 1)
- Author: Michael Hargreave Mawson <OC@46thFoot.com>
- Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 18:43:11 +0100
- <snip> Dear Liv, Wonderful experience, wonderful account! I'm so pleased for you (but I really sympathise with poor Wilf...). You really ought to submit this write-up to a club magazine. :-) ATB -- M
- /html/spitfires/2002-04/msg00521.html (7,171 bytes)
- 277. Re: veering to the left... (score: 1)
- Author: Michael Hargreave Mawson <OC@46thFoot.com>
- Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 18:42:05 +0100
- You've probably got a brake jammed partially on, on the right front wheel. ATB -- Mike Michael Hargreave Mawson, author of "Eyewitness in the Crimea" http://www.greenhillbooks.com/booksheets/eyewitne
- /html/spitfires/2002-04/msg00594.html (8,062 bytes)
- 278. Re: Crazy Canadian! (score: 1)
- Author: Michael Hargreave Mawson <OC@46thFoot.com>
- Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 18:01:26 +0100
- No bonnet either. <g> ATB -- Mike Michael Hargreave Mawson, author of "Eyewitness in the Crimea" http://www.greenhillbooks.com/booksheets/eyewitness_in_the_crimea.html /// spitfires@autox.team.net ma
- /html/spitfires/2002-04/msg00654.html (7,136 bytes)
- 279. Re: head gaskets (score: 1)
- Author: Michael Hargreave Mawson <OC@46thFoot.com>
- Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 21:03:04 +0000
- From bitter experience, yes, when a head gasket goes, an engine does not run smoothly! To give you some idea, Carly blew her head gasket no more than 8000 miles after it had been fitted by a DPO (and
- /html/spitfires/2002-03/msg00100.html (7,944 bytes)
- 280. Re: honesty (score: 1)
- Author: Michael Hargreave Mawson <OC@46thFoot.com>
- Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 19:02:58 +0000
- Fred, It is the norm for eBay purchases not to be despatched until payment is received (which came as a surprise to me when I first started buying on eBay). You may well feel that you have reason to
- /html/spitfires/2002-03/msg00181.html (8,941 bytes)
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