Early Risers.

[iL Dottore]

I just googled and found out that the No. 1 pop song on my 7th birthday was "When Will You Say I Love You?" by Billy Fury (could have been worse, it could have been "Deck of Cards" by Wink Martindale)

[NGT6 1315]

1 hour ago, Tony_S said:

We thought of you last night, especially when we saw some trams while watching a TV programme about railway architecture. Leipzig was one of the stations featured. It also showed the underground stations. 

You mean the tunnel stations on the suburban trunk line? They caught quite a bit of attention when the modernised suburban network went operational in 2013. I’d been quite familiar with the suburban tunnel routes in Frankfurt and also those in Munich and Stuttgart to some extent, so it wasn’t terra incognita for me.

[laurenceb]

I have not got a clue what was no 1 when I was 7!

Covid jab been administered, all well organised, asked at least 3 time if I was feeling well. The nurse went trough all the possible side effects then administered the jab. Told to sit down for 15 minutes (they put a sticky lable on with thime of departure on)

A vast different experience to the one a friend reported. He was given the jab then got the speil about what it might do. Then told he could go, no wait 15mins or indeed no place to sit

[Coombe Barton]

1 hour ago, petethemole said:

"A Tweet appeared on my Twitter timeline asking people what was number one in the “Top Ten” on your 7th birthday. Clearly many people who responded were a lot younger than I . Mine was Cliff Richard and The Drifters performing “Living Doll”."

A variant of this appeared on Facebook, saying that was number one in the top ten on your seventh birthday would describe your 2021.

 

In the UK it was Paralysed, by Elvis

Just about right

 

[Coombe Barton]

2 minutes ago, laurenceb said:

I have not got a clue what was no 1 when I was 7!

I had to find out by consulting Wikipedia

[Andrew P]

5 minutes ago, laurenceb said:

I have not got a clue what was no 1 when I was 7!

Covid jab been administered, all well organised, asked at least 3 time if I was feeling well. The nurse went trough all the possible side effects then administered the jab. Told to sit down for 15 minutes (they put a sticky lable on with thime of departure on)

A vast different experience to the one a friend reported. He was given the jab then got the speil about what it might do. Then told he could go, no wait 15mins or indeed no place to sit

My Wife had to sit for 15 minutes after the Phizer Jab But I was told it wasn't required with the Oxford AZ one.

[laurenceb]

Thats the one I had

Sunny here

[Barry O]

It's all over now by the Rolling stones.. luckily Jim Reeves was at Number 3(!).

 

Neighbours have had a man in van to give a cost for new Fencing.. the one in the back will be 8feet high apparently... They intend building a mini wall between our front garden and theirs.. then put the dog "6ft" high fence up in our garden.. erm.. nope....

 

 

Baz

[leopardml2341]

11 minutes ago, Barry O said:

It's all over now by the Rolling stones.. luckily Jim Reeves was at Number 3(!).

 

Neighbours have had a man in van to give a cost for new Fencing.. the one in the back will be 8feet high apparently... They intend building a mini wall between our front garden and theirs.. then put the dog "6ft" high fence up in our garden.. erm.. nope....

 

 

Baz

IIRC, that's another planning permission reqt; any 'fence' taller than 6' needs it

[Simon G]

No 1 on my 7th birthday was Elvis with Little Sister!

Edited February 17, 2021 by Simon G

[Coombe Barton]

27 minutes ago, laurenceb said:

I have not got a clue what was no 1 when I was 7!

But the way I feel at the moment it was probably Wolfgang's Cosi fan Tutte


 

Edited February 17, 2021 by Coombe Barton

[Tony_S]

28 minutes ago, laurenceb said:

Then told he could go, no wait 15mins or indeed no place to sit

That is normal for the Oxford Zeneca vaccine, no wait after required. 

[chrisf]

29 minutes ago, iL Dottore said:

I just googled and found out that the No. 1 pop song on my 7th birthday was "When Will You Say I Love You?" by Billy Fury (could have been worse, it could have been "Deck of Cards" by Wink Martindale)

 

I'm not at all sure that Deck of Cards was ever No. 1.  It was, however, one of the very few singles to spend a whole year - mostly 1963 - in the charts.

 

Chris

[Tony_S]

31 minutes ago, NGT6 1315 said:

You mean the tunnel stations on the suburban trunk line?

Yes. All very impressive. 

[Danemouth]

15 minutes ago, Barry O said:

It's all over now by the Rolling stones.. luckily Jim Reeves was at Number 3(!).

 

Neighbours have had a man in van to give a cost for new Fencing.. the one in the back will be 8feet high apparently... They intend building a mini wall between our front garden and theirs.. then put the dog "6ft" high fence up in our garden.. erm.. nope....

 

 

Baz

 

I don't know about your part of the world Baz but in Cardiff there is a limit to the height of a fence you can erect at the front of your property - 1 metre

 

https://wezaggle.com/what-is-the-maximum-fence-height-for-the-front-garden/

Hedges can be higher.

 

Somebody locally put up a higher fence and was forced to lower it.

 

Dave

[The Stationmaster]

18 minutes ago, iL Dottore said:

I just googled and found out that the No. 1 pop song on my 7th birthday was "When Will You Say I Love You?" by Billy Fury (could have been worse, it could have been "Deck of Cards" by Wink Martindale)

In my case it was possibly  worse  'Let's Have Another Party' by Winifred Atwell.  But at least I get a choice of songs as it was a medley and there are some nice ones in there (for a 7 year old).

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7_FSuz04Es

 

It appears that the vaccinators are now alive to a wider range of medical conditions - I wonder if they are now working off the flu vaccine list as the lad has to have one of those and this afternoon he has been contacted by the surgery to arrange a Covid jab.  He suffered pericardial effusion several years back so it looks like that might have been added or checked out against the rather vague 'a heart problem' listed as one of the medical conditions that will lead to a COvid vaccination being offered.   Perhaps it also indicates locally reaching down to Priority group 6 as well unless they are being pushed ahead of the Group 5 65-70 group for some reason?

 

The pest control man was very clearly an enthusiast for his work, very knowldgeable and (the wrong kind of) a warfarin based substance has been deposited in a number of places underneath the kitchen units.

 

[PeterBB]

No charts in my day but can remember Violet Carson singing on BBC Childrens' Hour ... she became Ena Sharples in a new soap a while later!

 

Completely off-topic but the last episode of Dick Barton Special Agent has just come to mind - lousy reception and replaced by The Archers - an everyday story of country folk - the week after.

 

[chrisf]

A word of caution about the charts.  Back in the day each of the music papers had its own chart - NME, Melody Maker, Disc and Record Mirror.  The BBC took an average of all four to produce the chart used on Pick of the Pops, Top of the Pops and Radio 1.  In about 1968 the British Market Research Bureau began to compile its own chart which came to be used by the BBC.  Usually, but not always, the music papers agreed on what was no.1 but not on much else.  On top of this Big L, aka Wonderful Radio London, had its own chart - the Fab Forty - which claimed to be a couple of weeks ahead of the others and probably bore little relation to sales.

 

Chris116 might like to draw on his inside knowledge to verify this, or not as the case may be!

 

Chris  

Edited February 17, 2021 by chrisf
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[Ian Abel]

@trisonic Welcome back, hope you're recovering OK...

 

HUMP day, and momentarily caught up in the RMWeb "fix/update" as I was about to post 

Little to report yesterday, although the Long Island client is starting to ramp up their Year-End/Audit panic, easing into it now.

 

In a new twist on an old adage, let's try "Poor planning on OUR part, DOES INDEED constitute an emergency on everyone else's part"... courtesy the Texas energy commission!!

Apparently they DELIBERATELY PLANNED;
1) To be energy independent from neighboring states - how's THAT working out 
2) Decided to NOT have secondary/backup sources or alternative energy for their power stations, deeming them a waste of money.
3) Also decided to not WASTE money on heating/de-icing add-ons for their wind based generators, since there's not a REGULAR NEED for them!

Enter the ever changing CLIMATE/WEATHER with a resounding "HOLD MY BEER"!

 

Most of Texas now with severe power problems, requesting urgent supply of generators from FEMA, and generally confused that "WEATHER" has caused a nightmare for most of the state.

Wonder if those wanting to secede will see the irony, probably not 

 

-19 here and cloudy first thing, supposed to get an inch of snow today, high around -10

Carry on.

Edited February 17, 2021 by Ian Abel

[iL Dottore]

1 hour ago, chrisf said:

 

I'm not at all sure that Deck of Cards was ever No. 1.  It was, however, one of the very few singles to spend a whole year - mostly 1963 - in the charts.

 

Chris

It got to number 5

This is why I'm glad it didn't make Number 1 at any time in 1963

It's hard to believe that this was actually considered "popular" music (i.e. Pop Music).

It's hard to see what genre it would fit into. Pop, soul, gospel wouldn't fit (and it's as far away as you can get from heavy metal, rock, jazz blues or C&W)

 

Now for those of you wishing for a decent tune to rid your memory of the above, may I offer Merle and Willie:

Currently one of my "songs under construction"

 

Cheers

 

F

[NGT6 1315]

@trisonic, deffo glad to see you’re still around, Pete. Best wishes to you and yours and I’m certainly not alone in hoping to be reading from you more regularly!

 

Something seems to have upset my stomach, but I’m getting hungry anyway. Quite possibly due to the break from my accustomed working hours and lack of sleep. At least I’m having the weekend off entirely.

[Gwiwer]

3 hours ago, polybear said:

Bear was surprised to learn that Malta had a railway too - now long gone, sadly.

Even Guernsey and Mull are among smaller islands which have (or have had) railways.  

 

Larger islands which are sometimes thought not to have any railways include Tasmania.  There is in fact a modest freight-only network in use there and upon which passenger specials operate on very rare occasions.  Moves to reopen the passenger service between Hobart, Devonport and Launceston continue to fall on deaf ears.  There is also the remote and spectacular West Coast Wilderness Railway which uses the Abt rack and pinion system to get heritage passenger trains through the mountains and includes the delightfully-named station of Dubbil Barril  

[polybear]

3 hours ago, iL Dottore said:

 (I also suspect that even the most caustic of posters would NOT want to return to a medieval system of punishment)

 

Is a selective one an option?

[PhilJ W]

Afternoon all from Estuary-Land. Two pages of ER's since lunchtime, thats why I'm a bit late.

4 hours ago, polybear said:

 

Bear was surprised to learn that Malta had a railway too - now long gone, sadly.

 

They are going to have a metro system including an undersea tunnel between Malta and Gozo

3 hours ago, iL Dottore said:

I just googled and found out that the No. 1 pop song on my 7th birthday was "When Will You Say I Love You?" by Billy Fury (could have been worse, it could have been "Deck of Cards" by Wink Martindale)

On my 7th birthday it was 'Unchained melody' by Jimmy Young.

[jonny777]

5 hours ago, petethemole said:

 

 

"A Tweet appeared on my Twitter timeline asking people what was number one in the “Top Ten” on your 7th birthday. Clearly many people who responded were a lot younger than I . Mine was Cliff Richard and The Drifters performing “Living Doll”."

 

Preferable to mine, Jimmy Young's  'Unchained Melody' on its original release.

 

The extreme cynic within me would suggest that someone unknown has unlawfully obtained a large list of usernames and passwords for certain online accounts, and is trying to obtain this kind of information in order to get around the extra security questions. 

 

However, I am sure I am wrong on this.