walkingthedog Posted January 2, 2015 Share Posted January 2, 2015 Visited Oxford today and popped into a department store with a Hornby franchise. They had at least 10 possibly 15 models of the P2 which seems to be out of stock everywhere. Incredibly expensive place though, don't think I've ever bought anything there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2e0dtoeric Posted January 2, 2015 Share Posted January 2, 2015 Well - Oxford is where all the posh people live! - - Fancy calling a town after the place a funny cow paddled across a river, though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walkingthedog Posted January 2, 2015 Author Share Posted January 2, 2015 No it's where posh people go to University. Most of the people in the town centre were, well odd. We mainly visited Blackwells book shop. Nice. My daughter added 5 more books to her Great Way library. SWMBO disappeared into M&S afterwards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Postman Prat Posted January 2, 2015 Share Posted January 2, 2015 Hi WTD Quote " Most of the people in the town centre were, well odd." Pots and kettles come to mind !! Quote " My daughter added 5 more books to her Great Way library. SWMBO disappeared into M&S afterwards" Can't you control the women in your life ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walkingthedog Posted January 2, 2015 Author Share Posted January 2, 2015 Didn't know you were in Oxford PP. 'Can't you control the women in your life?' Well PP hands up all the men on here who can do that. I know for sure you can't as you made very clear when I got into your car. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Postman Prat Posted January 2, 2015 Share Posted January 2, 2015 I'll ignore the first comment and totally agree with the second!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graskie Posted January 2, 2015 Share Posted January 2, 2015 I think High Wycombe to Oxford must be like going from home to home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walkingthedog Posted January 2, 2015 Author Share Posted January 2, 2015 Very similar Graskie. They both have a High Street but Oxfords HMV closed a month or two ago but Wycombes is still open. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fishmanoz Posted January 2, 2015 Share Posted January 2, 2015 My local Rhodes shopping centre has an HMV and a Hobbyco selling Hornby at high prices. It has a bookshop too but no department store. Many of the people are posh, as are lots of the shops. Have no idea if Hobbyco have P2s, haven't been in for ages. Do I have you all riveted now? Good, then answer me, is Rhodes like Oxford or High Wycombe? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Postman Prat Posted January 2, 2015 Share Posted January 2, 2015 Don't know, but I doubt it. After all, Rhodes had a 'Colosus' and I've never heard of one in High Wycombe or Oxford Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walkingthedog Posted January 2, 2015 Author Share Posted January 2, 2015 They have a Colossus at Bletchley. I should think neither Oxford or High Wycombe are like Rhodes as I gather it's somewhere in OZ and the oldest thing in OZ is the weather. Ah it's a suburb of Sydney. Far too modern to be compared to Oxford or High Wycombe. Wycombe has a Brunel goods shed. Needs a bit of work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Postman Prat Posted January 2, 2015 Share Posted January 2, 2015 He didn't specify, or give us much to go on. I was thinking of the Rhodes, nr Greece. The Colossus of Bletchley doesn't sound much like one of the 7 ancient wonders of the world. Mind you, I'll say with confidence I wonder how Bletchley hasn't fallen down, like the Colossus of Rhodes. I've been to Bletchley - it should be knocked down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walkingthedog Posted January 2, 2015 Author Share Posted January 2, 2015 The one at Bletchley is definitely a wonder of the world. A wartime wonder of the world. Fishy did say his local Rhodes shopping centre. It's stretching the imagination quite a lot to say Greece is local to Australia. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Postman Prat Posted January 2, 2015 Share Posted January 2, 2015 OK, fussy, but I wouldn't want to walk to either Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walkingthedog Posted January 2, 2015 Author Share Posted January 2, 2015 Certainly wouldn't want to walk to Bletchley. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Postman Prat Posted January 2, 2015 Share Posted January 2, 2015 Nobody would willingly walk to Bletchley ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2e0dtoeric Posted January 2, 2015 Share Posted January 2, 2015 Apart from the Greek one, the only Rhodes I know has red chickens! (Oh, there's the M6 Rhode, as well as a few others). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Postman Prat Posted January 2, 2015 Share Posted January 2, 2015 Apart from the Greek one, the only Rhodes I know has red chickens! (Oh, there's the M6 Rhode, as well as a few others). Hi 2e0dDo you mean Roade, 2 miles south of Junction 15 on the M1? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fishmanoz Posted January 3, 2015 Share Posted January 3, 2015 The only Colossus at my Rhodes is called IKEA. Used to be the largest in the Southern Hemisphere but that's no recommendation. Will have been overtaken many times by now but has yet to fall down or be pushed. And while I could walk there and back in a day, I choose not to. I have ridden my bike there and beyond though. Haven't made it to Oxford, Wycombe or Bletchley, on my bike that is. PS. I can probably keep up this drivel as long as you lot can, even if you have me outnumbered, which means I'll go numb before you do. Especially around the bit sitting on the bike. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walkingthedog Posted January 3, 2015 Author Share Posted January 3, 2015 We know you're good at drivel Fishy you don't need to remind us. By by the Fishy are you aware what the Colossus at Bletchley is? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2e0dtoeric Posted January 3, 2015 Share Posted January 3, 2015 Fishy was probably too busy Turing on his bike, called Alan?Postie, - the Rhodes I was referring to was the kind you find in street-guides, such as the A - Z, or those 'clever' electronic thngs that tell you that the Rhodes you are driving on are in the middle of an open field, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fishmanoz Posted January 3, 2015 Share Posted January 3, 2015 We know you're good at drivel Fishy you don't need to remind us. By by the Fishy are you aware what the Colossus at Bletchley is? No nothing of Bletchley except in a WWII SIGINT context. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walkingthedog Posted January 3, 2015 Author Share Posted January 3, 2015 It's where they cracked the enemy messages. Colossus was one of the computers used to break the Enigma codes. The very first computer was built there years before the yanks decided to be the country that discovered computers. I spent months there as a trainee telephone engineer. Bleak. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graskie Posted January 3, 2015 Share Posted January 3, 2015 I've actually seen the Colossus of Rhodes. It's quite big. PP, when you refer sarcarstically to Bletchley, do you actually mean Milton Keynes? I remember when there was no Milton Keynes, only Bletchley. The whole area is an enigma to me, though, because Northampton is very fearful of losing its town shoppers to that MK "City" which is in fact still a town. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walkingthedog Posted January 3, 2015 Author Share Posted January 3, 2015 Bletchley is just and old version of Milton Keynes. Both 'orrible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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