Speaking clock
May 26th 2012 | 9:16 pm
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Re: Speaking clock
There was no email, no internet, and newspapers were about 4 days old when we got them. I shared a villa with two older guys, and on the table in the kitchen was a shortwave radio locked into the BBC World Service. We would listen to the news every night, and of course the football results.
I can still close my eyes and hear the crackle and hiss, the drifting signal, the dulcet tones.
Such good memories.
May 26th 2012 | 9:19 pm
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Re: Speaking clock
According to Wikipedia Australia does have one. I dialled it from Brisbane and it said "The time is 1972" 
May 26th 2012 | 10:53 pm
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May 26th 2012 | 11:17 pm
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Re: Speaking clock
The news then seemed like news. Great events happened in those years.
I remember listening to the news of the fall of the Shah of Iran, just 90 miles away across a disputed Gulf. For a kid living abroad for the first time it was heady stuff. Old hands on the site reassured me, but they listened to every word on the BBC too.
I still listen from time to time. I could get it via the Internet, but it's nicer when I get it on shortwave, thr crackle and hiss, the missed words, the fading....
May 26th 2012 | 11:32 pm
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Re: Speaking clock
I've been watching reruns of the classic As Time Goes By with Dame Judi Dench and the wonderfully dry Geoffrey Palmer. Their housekeeper in their country house was always quoting the shipping forecast.
May 26th 2012 | 11:34 pm
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Re: Speaking clock
Sometimes in life we hear a song, or smell something and we go straight back to earlier times. The fading in and out of the BBC announcer, the hiss and warble of a signal coming from home, takes me back to Jebel Ali.
The news then seemed like news. Great events happened in those years.
I remember listening to the news of the fall of the Shah of Iran, just 90 miles away across a disputed Gulf. For a kid living abroad for the first time it was heady stuff. Old hands on the site reassured me, but they listened to every word on the BBC too.
I still listen from time to time. I could get it via the Internet, but it's nicer when I get it on shortwave, thr crackle and hiss, the missed words, the fading....
The news then seemed like news. Great events happened in those years.
I remember listening to the news of the fall of the Shah of Iran, just 90 miles away across a disputed Gulf. For a kid living abroad for the first time it was heady stuff. Old hands on the site reassured me, but they listened to every word on the BBC too.
I still listen from time to time. I could get it via the Internet, but it's nicer when I get it on shortwave, thr crackle and hiss, the missed words, the fading....
May 27th 2012 | 12:11 am
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May 27th 2012 | 12:20 am
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Re: Speaking clock
May 27th 2012 | 7:17 am
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Re: Speaking clock
My kids asked me for the time this morning ( I was in a beautiful slumber!) and my watch loses a lot of time these days.
Does 'Straya have a speaking clock?
Beep...beep....BEEP!!!
(That should keep us happy for a while. I'm rather hoping Australia doesn't so that we can pour scorn and vitriol.
)
Does 'Straya have a speaking clock?
Beep...beep....BEEP!!!
(That should keep us happy for a while. I'm rather hoping Australia doesn't so that we can pour scorn and vitriol.
)
May 27th 2012 | 12:29 pm
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Re: Speaking clock
In the late 70s I worked in Dubai. It seems like a couple of years ago, but it was nearly 35.
There was no email, no internet, and newspapers were about 4 days old when we got them. I shared a villa with two older guys, and on the table in the kitchen was a shortwave radio locked into the BBC World Service. We would listen to the news every night, and of course the football results.
I can still close my eyes and hear the crackle and hiss, the drifting signal, the dulcet tones.
Such good memories.
There was no email, no internet, and newspapers were about 4 days old when we got them. I shared a villa with two older guys, and on the table in the kitchen was a shortwave radio locked into the BBC World Service. We would listen to the news every night, and of course the football results.
I can still close my eyes and hear the crackle and hiss, the drifting signal, the dulcet tones.
Such good memories.
May 27th 2012 | 3:31 pm
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Re: Speaking clock
It's going to be interesting having a close relation in Perth.
May 27th 2012 | 3:54 pm
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Re: Speaking clock
It's annoying...not easy to remember. (I hate this country etc etc and am working myself up to a state of frenzy....etc )
I believe a name that once belonged to my family comes up in one of them. Lol.
My old man would listen to it - then turn off the radio - pronto.
I am a c**k and so is my wife.
My old man would listen to it - then turn off the radio - pronto.
I am a c**k and so is my wife.
