Ah the dressing table... Coincidentally, I brought that up yesterday, whilst waiting for the mid day news and catching the end of one of those auction programmes. There was a collection of Dinkey range models of 2CVs. SWMBO was impressing me with the fact that they were valuable and, as does every house, we have a couple of James Bond Aston models in a loft box. Through gritted teeth I explained that we should have had an even more valuable collection. When I was called up into the RAF I had a particularly good Dinkey collection of post war saloon cars. A range that included the Riley 1.5, the MG Magnette saloon that resembled it, 8HP Morris, police Wolseley etc etc. When I came home on leave, at the end of square bashing, the dressing table in my bedroom, on which they were all parked, was clean and dusted. My mother happilly confessed to having got rid of them. They were only toys so she'd given them to local children. A nice way of getting brownie points for generosity; at my expense!
Grrrrr!Alerted by the auction progs, I now have a collection of boxes stored away. The ones that contained the Corgi Hunter, Lightning, Buccaneer, plus the 00 railway engines, that come with a death penalty for anyone touching them! They're worth more with the boxes, apparently.
Gerry Winskill bones wrote:
I have a whole raft of extra SD cards so it's only a moment to drag hundreds of images onto a few of these and plug the camera into the TV. It really is that simple. OTOH SWMBO here thought the bedroom needed tidying the other day. She has 497 items on the dressing table and I have one. Guess what got moved? <g> bones -----Original Message----- From: jhb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jhb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Gerry Winskill Sent: 19 January 2008 18:42 To: jhb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [jhb] Re: Something Different It's a D80 but the images I want to look at have long since moved from SD cards to PC hard drive. The ref to plugging direct from camera to TV was just to show how simple SWMBO thinks it is. My fault for finally getting her to access the net via the laptop. The kitchen was safer! Gerry Winskill bones wrote:I must admit that all my digital cameras (and camcorder) plug directly into the TV so I've never tried a PC link. I can just burn images onto an SD card and then stick the card into any camera to view on TV. I just have to change input to AV3 or AV4 and it works. Surely your D50 can do the same? bones -----Original Message----- From: jhb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jhb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Gerry Winskill Sent: 19 January 2008 16:06 To: jhb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [jhb] Something Different Totally unconnected with FS, I've just finished what seems like a multiweek job, in using Photoshop Elements to optimise hundreds of digital photos, taken whilst gadding about, expensively, over the past four years. Having completed the job, I've copied them to DVDs, as backup. To see them in their full tawdryness, I'd like to view them on our JVC LCD TV, via my laptop. How do I connect PC to TV and do I need to change any TV settings, select specific channel, etc etc? We have friends who, says SWMBO, simply plug their Canon into the set and away it goes. Why isn't life that simple for me? I wonder whether wife swapping might be the answer? Gerry Winskill
