Friday 9 June. We've seen single-handed watches which have only one hand which rotates once every 12 or 24 hours; the point being that while the displayed time might be precise enough to portray a reference for major events during the day (lunch, The Archers, bedtime, taking your meds etc), you're n...

Stolen from the Sunday Times-

“Toast Toppers — which consisted entirely of salt embedded in a kind of greyish, lumpen mucus, like the expectoration of a very ill tramp, and was unspeakably delicious.”

^^ Gawd, Flight Deck! I had that and loved it!... though I kept breaking the fishing line!

For anyone who doesn't know what we're on about...

How about View-master? We never had one, but I'd be stuck in Debenhams toy department clicking through all the disks I could find.

625 lines

Balancing the coins in the phone slot and ready to push them in when the other end answered.

The choke lever
Cassette head demagnetiser
Green shield stamps
Vol-au-vents
Artex
FM

Friday 2 June Meterorite dials. We've seen them on expensive luxury watches down to small microbrands- the distinctive and unique grey crystalline pattern usually engulfed in shovelfuls of 'out of this world' marketing hyperbole. But how are they made and what gives them the distinctive look? A Mete...

Good idea to use a hot knife. I’d use a scalpel which I’d heat up with a flame. Also worth sandwiching the strap onto a board with a guide of suitable profile (a pound coin?) which you can cut around with the hot knife.

Cheers Guy! The Mod Squad are moving at lightning pace as usual! Thanks again!

Is anyone else seeing poor latency interacting with the forum currently? I've got good ping times to www.christopherwardforum.com but fetching pages feels a lot slower over recent days- and variable depending on time of day. Other fora, websites, speed test sites are fine.

This new quartz fad might just catch on.

Frocester Hill, looking out over the Severn Estuary.

^^ First glance I thought that was the reflecting pool and Washington monument

Do like the Trophy colours!