Baby boomer

The soapy water effect

Name tag

Dent. I'm calling this one Arthur.

Midway through hair removal - not too much dandruff

A smile, or is it just wind? Interesting currency keys

Adnams

Black Sheep

Erratum:

One of the benefits of a Network Blogs feed is that posts on this site also appear on the facebook, whence Julie W makes the following correction:

 "After recently touring the brewery I can't help but correct you on the history of the name. It was in fact after Scottish and Newcastle had bought out Theakston brewery and he set to go against the grain* and start up a small local brewery rather than being part of a multi-national. He was in fact a black sheep of the brewery business, not his family. So I was led to believe."

Fortyniner

The Golden Fleece

End of an I.T.A.M.

Upper crust

Brown bread

The staff of life

Bread of Heaven

Listen to Bread of Heaven (Cwm Rhondda)

Arglwydd, arwain trwy'r anialwch,
Fi, bererin gwael ei wedd,
Nad oes ynof nerth na bywyd
Fel yn gorwedd yn y bedd:
Hollalluog, Hollalluog,
Ydyw'r Un a'm cwyd i'r lan.
Ydyw'r Un a'm cwyd i'r lan

Agor y ffynhonnau melus
'N tarddu i maes o'r Graig y sydd;
Colofn dân rho'r nos i'm harwain,
A rho golofn niwl y dydd;
Rho i mi fanna, Rho i mi fanna,
Fel na bwyf yn llwfwrhau.
Fel na bwyf yn llwfwrhau.

Pan yn troedio glan Iorddonen,
Par i'm hofnau suddo i gyd;
Dwg fi drwy y tonnau geirwon
Draw i Ganaan -- gartref clyd:
Mawl diderfyn. Mawl diderfyn
Fydd i'th enw byth am hyn.
Fydd i'th enw byth am hyn.

Thy daily bread #1

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Hermes knob - a solution

Impatient for a machined aluminium replacement, I tried a softer, more easily worked material. Ready-made shapes sprung to mind: draughtsmen (like you play draughts with),  a wheel from a wooden toy (which I didn't have) or some kind of turnery for cabinet makers. The drawer pull won the day for having a centre guide and I got them from the same shop I get replacement bushes for my Olympia SMs. Wonder if I could get them stock ribbons?

Vinyl connection

Top image courtesy of Mr Bobz

Hermes 3000 1969 - Achilles

Last typewriter

A typewriter, which its makers say is the last to be built in the UK, has been produced at a north Wales factory.

Manufacturer Brother, which says it has made 5.9 million typewriters since its factory in Wrexham opened in 1985, has donated the last machine to London's Science Museum.

The museum said the piece represented the end of a technology which had been "important to so many lives".

Edward Bryan, a worker at the factory since 1989, made the last typewriter.

"If people ever ask me, I can always say now, as a strange question, that I've made the last typewriter in the UK," he told BBC Breakfast's Colin Paterson.

He said he had previously "tried and succeeded to make one with my eyes closed".

Read more on the BBC News website... 

I know that some overseas readers aren't able to access the BBC News domestic website so I'll upload a video to this page shortly.

Techno

Photo

PS: Mutant 66 didn't sell. I'll watch out for it relisted.

Result!

Patience, luck and Auction Sniper (thanks for the tip, Richard and the encouragement, Bill).

Now to work out the logistics...

Wizard of Oz

Legendary Robert Messenger's Typewriters: "From A to Z" opens at Canberra Museum and Gallery on 14 July and runs to 16 September.

Canberra museum exhibition page

 Robert's blog "Oz Typewriter"

Video courtesy of the Brisbane Times

In confidence

Blink