Originally Posted by garinda (Post 962851)

Letters are more exciting than emails.

As long as they don't come in brown envelopes.

:D

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington (Post 963007)

Here are two pics edited in Picnik.

Originally Posted by garinda (Post 962851)

Letters are more exciting than emails.

As long as they don't come in brown envelopes.

:D

Originally Posted by Eric (Post 963010)

Agreed ... come to think of it, I think I'll start writing letters again. I'm off today to buy myself a new fountain pen.

Maybe it's time to start questioning "progress" ... not just the developing and refining of technology, but whether or not we are progressing as a species. I believe that one can marshall arguments that we haven't changed fudamentally, only in the superficials. Given that we are a curious, clever, and inventive animal, all the miracles of science and technology that we ooh and aah over are, when you come to think of it, inevitable. As Bernard of Chartres put it, we are dwarfs standing on the shoulders of giants. Most of us, those in the first world anyway, smell better, live longer (although with 7 billion of us on the planet this might not be a good idea), and have better toys; but we are still intolerant, violent, warlike, and territorial. And I question whether developing the ability to make ourselves and millions of other species extinct, is "progress".

Originally Posted by entwisi (Post 963237)

now I'm a tad younger than most of the posters on this thread but I take a slightly different view. I'm a full on techy as most of you know, a comment further up about how you can share pictures around the world once you have downloaded them on the computer yet my smartphone will automagically upload my picture seconds after it was taken with full geo-tags so anyone viewing knows exactly where it was taken etc.

However I also take pride in using old technology with new technology where it can enhance things. The best pictures I've taken on my Digital SLR were through classic lenses that are older than me. For a long time I used a Valve amplifier as the sound side of my then bleeding edge PC.

I love classic cars for their looks and lack of computers/power steering/stuff that gets in the way of the driving experience but I'd love to take an old car and replace some the engine/drivetrain with a nice modern reliable, ecoconomical unit. A nice 63 Zodiac with a BMW M5 drivetrain please!!!!

So I guess I'm saying dont look to dismiss "old stuff" when you can use it to enhance something new and shiny!

and Margaret, I reckon you should rent/buy a tin bath and re-enact your memory even if its just for one last time. then again the hassle of filling/emptying it etc might diminish your rose-viewed memory of the event.... :D

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington (Post 963239)

entwisi, if it is me to whom you are referring.......then I think that you have misread or misunderstood my post. I know exactly what it was like to fill that tin bath....and I do not view it through rose tinted spectacles. It was something that I experienced because that was how life was at the time....the alternative was going down to the slipper baths......

Yes Margaret,you are right,once a week get scrubbed in the tin bath (under the laundry drying above)