Recent content by cliffpatte

Thank you everyone for your kind words about Cliff, if there are any photos you have of him I'd really appreciate if you posted them as although there are many photos of us, there are not many of him. Best wishes, Sally-Anne.

[removed TL] On behalf of Sally-Anne and the children

Message from the family, as it was a heart attack, donations to the British Heart Foundation please. Thanks On behalf of Sally-Anne and the children

We regret to inform everyone who knew Cliff through this website but he unexpectedly died from a heart attack on Thursday. Best wishes, from his family.

http://games.usvsth3m.com/how-leftie-are-you/ 76% apparently!

I'm not convinced by this argument. I've seen recent GCSE papers, and yes they seem easier than 1976 O Levels to me, but are you really saying that a Manchester Uni Computer Science First could be obtained by someone who got a 2:2 in 1981?

@Ragaman according to whatfi "does miss a step when it comes to the bass" I use PMC DB1+ speakers in my AV system, and they are a similar size and budget but have a mini transmission line built in so they have good bass extension, and also being PMC they have very clear midrange and huge...

I went in 1978. The grant back then was means tested and my dad was on a reasonable salary as a senior engineer in a power station so I just got the minimum which he topped up to the full £1400 (if I recall correctly) out of which I had to pay for accomodation, food, books and local...

I bought one of these new fangled macbooks for a few reasons: i) it fits in the pocket of my Hadley Pro ii) it weighs a lot less than my macbook pro 15" iii) It has enough horsepower** for my daily workload - ie internet browsing, email and the odd excel and word doc However, I now find that...

Personally I blame the Lib Dems and the Scottish Nationalists. The Scottish Nationalists made sure that Scottish degrees were fully funded for Scottish students, presumably at the expense of British taxpayers, and the Lib Dems failed to protect the English students from the increasing cost of...

no probs :)

One of the reasons that I bought the Nikon DF is that it gives me access to many Nikon lenses from the 1960s and 1970s that would be hard to use on any other Nikon camera. Rayqual do some decent adapters to use these lenses on cameras like the Nex 7 and the Fuji X-Pro1, there are probably other...

indeed I was assuming that you were from Yorkshire but living in London. I'm from a bit further north and occasionally visit my home town of Newcastle. Doesn't make me a londoner per se.

They have an excellent shop on Wardour street so you can look at most of the range in the flesh so to speak.