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  • Re: London Show, Saturday 26th October 2024

    From Stuart@21:1/5 to ROUGOL on Sat Oct 12 16:45:02 2024
    In article <[email protected]>,
    ROUGOL <[email protected]> wrote:

    After a couple of years away the RISC OS London Show returns in a few
    weeks in a swanky new venue!

    Saturday 26th October 2024, open 11am - 4pm

    Harrow District Masonic Centre
    Northwick Circle
    Kenton
    Harrow
    HA3 0EL

    Whilst the new venue looks more accessible, and I would be pleased to give
    it a go, it unfortunately clashes with the "Great British model railway
    show" at Gaydon, at which I will be manning the stand of the LNWR society.

    If you can avoid this clash next year, I will certainly try to make it.

    Good luck

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    Stuart Winsor

    Tools With A Mission
    sending tools across the world
    http://www.twam.co.uk/

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  • From Harriet Bazley@21:1/5 to ROUGOL on Thu Oct 24 10:38:42 2024
    On 12 Oct 2024 as I do recall,
    ROUGOL wrote:

    [snip]


    As this is the first London Show for a while, the first properly
    post-covid, and at a new venue, this is all a bit of an experiment to see
    if enough people still have the appetite for a physical show. So if you
    want to see shows continue, do come along and support it. This is your opportunity to chat with developers and fellow enthusiasts, hear the
    latest news, catch up with old friends, and maybe make some new ones :-)


    If I bring along my (now even older) box of spare software and hardware
    bits, will there be a second-hand stall interested in it as a donation?


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    Profanity is the one language all programmers know best.

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  • From Folderol@21:1/5 to Stuart on Thu Oct 24 15:31:43 2024
    On Sat, 12 Oct 24 16:45:02 UTC
    Stuart <[email protected]> wrote:

    In article <[email protected]>,
    ROUGOL <[email protected]> wrote:

    After a couple of years away the RISC OS London Show returns in a few
    weeks in a swanky new venue!

    Saturday 26th October 2024, open 11am - 4pm

    Harrow District Masonic Centre
    Northwick Circle
    Kenton
    Harrow
    HA3 0EL

    Whilst the new venue looks more accessible, and I would be pleased to give
    it a go, it unfortunately clashes with the "Great British model railway
    show" at Gaydon, at which I will be manning the stand of the LNWR society.

    If you can avoid this clash next year, I will certainly try to make it.

    Good luck


    Right up till Tuesday I was intending to go to this, but then got some horrible bug - that seems like it intends to hang around. This is most frustrating :(

    Will Any of the show be put online?

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    Basic

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  • From Folderol@21:1/5 to Folderol on Sun Oct 27 19:59:13 2024
    On Thu, 24 Oct 2024 15:31:43 +0100
    Folderol <[email protected]> wrote:

    On Sat, 12 Oct 24 16:45:02 UTC
    Stuart <[email protected]> wrote:

    In article <[email protected]>,
    ROUGOL <[email protected]> wrote:

    Right up till Tuesday I was intending to go to this, but then got some horrible
    bug - that seems like it intends to hang around. This is most frustrating :(

    Will Any of the show be put online?


    ... and just to make it worse, I've just seen the news on c.s.a.announce. I'm not sure if I'd have been able to put my hand in my pocket, but I certainly would have been *very* interested in this :(

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    Basic

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  • From Harriet Bazley@21:1/5 to ROUGOL on Sun Oct 27 23:03:26 2024
    On 12 Oct 2024 as I do recall,
    ROUGOL wrote:

    [snip]


    The new venue is even better connected than before. It has plenty of free parking and Kenton station is only 5 minutes walk away.

    ...if you walk in the right direction! :-(

    I made the mistake of not bringing my A-Z, because I had a heavy box to
    carry, and also made the mistake of assuming that the venue would be as
    obvious as it appeared to be from the map (that imposing wide circle is actually hidden down some small residential sidestreets) and that the Underground station would have the customary street map of the vicinity displayed outside, usually a safe bet. On this occasion the display
    was empty....

    As a result it took me over half an hour to find the venue while walking
    in circles around Kenton and Northwick Park looking for the right
    'ring road'; even a A4 piece of paper on the railings outside the
    station indicating whether to turn left or right would have saved a lot
    of time. When I did find the place, which turned out to be a *Masonic
    Centre* and not, as I had remembered it, a Methodist Centre, I then
    spent five minutes or so wandering through the extensive car park trying
    to locate the entrance door.

    Fortunately I encountered several other prospective attendees engaged in
    the same exercise, because when we did find what appeared to be the main entrance on the opposite side of the circle, it opened into a grand
    lobby full of Masons going about their business with no sign of anything
    RISC OS related - if I had been on my own, I might well have turned tail
    at that point. The actual exhibition was unsignposted and around a
    corner in an inner room.

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    You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.

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  • From Chris Newman@21:1/5 to Harriet Bazley on Mon Oct 28 09:11:38 2024
    In article <[email protected]>,
    Harriet Bazley <[email protected]> wrote:

    Fortunately I encountered several other prospective attendees engaged in
    the same exercise, because when we did find what appeared to be the main entrance on the opposite side of the circle, it opened into a grand
    lobby full of Masons going about their business with no sign of anything
    RISC OS related - if I had been on my own, I might well have turned tail
    at that point. The actual exhibition was unsignposted and around a
    corner in an inner room.

    I'd used !RiscOSM to plan the route carefully so the journey, if tedious traffic wise, was straightforward.

    However, similar to Harriet's experience, I drove round the circle twice.

    The Masonic Centre does not seem to have a sign at the road entrance so I
    had to guess which was he correct way in. As Harriet said, no clues about
    RISC OS. In the lobby, they had a big screen showing events but only
    Masonic ones were listed, not us. Perhaps you could SQUARE this up next
    time and enCOMPASS these remarks. ;-)

    Apart from that, brilliant show.

    --
    Chris

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  • From John@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Mon Oct 28 09:46:37 2024
    In article <[email protected]>, Chris Newman
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    I'd used !RiscOSM to plan the route carefully so the
    journey, if tedious traffic wise, was straightforward.

    However, similar to Harriet's experience, I drove round
    the circle twice.

    Expecting to arrive on foot, I'd used Street View to find
    my way from the Underground to the show, so I had no
    difficulty in recognising the entrance. What a shame that
    it was only that last step which was of use to me. By next
    year, I'll have forgotten where to go and have to do it all
    over again. :-(

    John

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    John
    [email protected]
    j dot mccartney atte blueyonder dot co dot uk

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  • From John@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Mon Oct 28 09:57:32 2024
    In article <[email protected]>, John <[email protected]> wrote:

    At the last minute my wife and I had to change our travel
    plans.

    Every cloud and all that...

    The train tickets cost us �69 but we were able to cancel
    them and get a refund.

    My car (a 2020 1 litre Ford Focus with a smidgen over
    18,000 miles on the clock) showed 63.2 mpg for the return
    trip of 280 miles. That works out at 4.43 gallons or just
    over 20 litres. I filled up yesterday at 129.9 pence/litre
    to discover that it had cost only just over �21 for the
    round trip - a saving of more than two thirds of the cost
    of the train tickets. Oh, I forgot to mention the �70 it
    cost me to renew my wrinkly's Railcard.

    What price public transport?

    John

    --
    John
    [email protected]
    j dot mccartney atte blueyonder dot co dot uk

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  • From John@21:1/5 to Bazley on Mon Oct 28 09:41:05 2024
    In article <[email protected]>, Harriet
    Bazley <[email protected]> wrote:

    <snip>

    I made the mistake of not bringing my A-Z...

    At the last minute my wife and I had to change our travel
    plans. After getting up at 5.00 to catch a train at 6.40,
    my wife found a text informing her that the return journey
    would end at Birmingham rather than in the wilds of east
    Shropshire. We decided that we could cope; there would be
    other, later, trains.

    A short while later, she received another missive which
    carried the wonderful news that the train (on which we were
    due to depart) had been cancelled.

    Oh, joy!

    So we (by which I mean *I*) said I would drive.

    Our last major road junction was where we left the A40 at
    Northolt. No problem until I noticed that the car's satnav
    wanted me to continue along the A40 (to where, I have no
    idea). I took the exit, assuming that it recalculate the
    route. I was wrong. I then made the fundamental error of
    listening to my wife's instructions (via Google Maps) *and*
    trying to follow the turn indications from the satnav.

    Where we ended up, I have no idea. However, I opted for a
    single source of instructions from then on (guess what that
    source was - you married blokes will have no difficulty in
    working that one out). We arrive only 5 minutes later than
    expected at 10.35 and with only just enough time to make it
    to the loo!!

    We^H^H I enjoyed the show (except that I didn't dare buy
    what I wanted, being under the eagle eye of my financial
    director) but didn't spend enough time visiting the stands
    on account of sitting in 3 of the talks and visiting
    Sainsburys for a bite to eat.

    We came home via the M1 rather than try the reverse journey
    to to the A40.

    I must look on Google Maps and try to make out where the
    satnav wanted to go.

    Next year, we'll probably stay with our son and his family
    in Lightwater and catch the train into London from Ascot.

    John

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    John
    [email protected]
    j dot mccartney atte blueyonder dot co dot uk

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  • From John Williams (News)@21:1/5 to John on Mon Oct 28 10:07:29 2024
    In article <[email protected]>,
    John <[email protected]> wrote:

    Expecting to arrive on foot

    This thread is rather like the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

    No-one is talking about the production!

    John

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  • From Harriet Bazley@21:1/5 to John on Mon Oct 28 14:53:18 2024
    On 28 Oct 2024 as I do recall,
    John wrote:

    [snip]


    What price public transport?

    The price of public transport is that other people do the navigating for
    you!

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    Harriet Bazley == Loyaulte me lie ==

    Dawn: The time when men of reason go to bed.

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  • From Chris Newman@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Mon Oct 28 22:55:44 2024
    In article <671f62f9$0$28076$[email protected]>,
    John Williams (News) <[email protected]> wrote:
    In article <[email protected]>,
    John <[email protected]> wrote:

    Expecting to arrive on foot

    This thread is rather like the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

    No-one is talking about the production!

    I did. I said it was brilliant.

    I learnt things, spent money and got goodies. What more is there to life?
    I was able to do this of course becaus She Who Must Be Obeyed was not
    with me. Tee, hee.

    --
    Chris

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