Steve D

Golden Temple

The Golden Temple, Kyoto Japan

Yet "if you die in a game, you feel sad in real life". Go figure.

Yeah, same here. Annoying you have to actually go into the post to mute/block and I really hope that's not feeding the algorithm!!!

I remember the first video player we had was rented from Radio Rentals. It had a wired remote control. They published a small brochure with movies you could rent too. My sister and I went through and circled all the ones we wanted to watch including Texas Chaim Saw Massacre - but weren't allowed!

Same here tbh 🤣 Luckily my friend group was in that "middle" tier - "friends" with both nut-jobs and nerds. I remember spending most of one PE lesson running around because I'd been stupid enough to rugby-tackle one of the hard-nuts, just chasing me 🤣 Garth - wow, that brings back some memories!

I went to E.P. (lower school over at Birch Hill, then upper & 6th form near Gt. Holland's 😱) so we'd have probably been sworn enemies at the time 😂😂

Not too far away, in Bracknell - we were neighbours!

Haha cool. There was always a lookout placed at the top of the road as well to shout "CAR!!" 😂

I lived in Berkshire. I think every kid back then must have had the same childhood!

Kids these days don't know they're born! Riding in the middle of the street & jumps in the woods, climbing up (& falling out of) trees, seeing how horizontal you could get the swings in the park, how far across the lake you could fling the plummet weight attached to your fishing line and so on.

My shins hurt just watching this.

I always wanted a cool BMX like a Silver Fox, Kuwahara, Mongoose, Redline etc. but only had a crap one that was seemingly made of dark matter it was so heavy.

Really enjoying watching "Japan's Master of Restoration" on BBC iPlayer.

Totally fascinating and incredibly skillful seeing them in action working with priceless artefacts; their colour matching skills are truly sublime.

Typical traditional house in Kyoto

Street scene, Kyoto

Golden Temple in Kyoto, seen across the lake

Golden Temple, Kyoto

That, and trying to work out what to have for dinner

I verified mine just via my Gmail account that I'd had for years and years. Didn't require camera access at all, and to be honest not sure I'd have done it if it did.

Bee covered in pollen on a pink flower

Hard at work!

Speccy and ZX81

Share this if this is how you spent Sunday afternoons when you should have been doing homework. #GenZX

Pink wild flowers in the garden

#flowers

Pink flowers

Flowers

Pigeon sitting on a fence

#pigeon

Pink flowers against a dark fence

Yeah I saw it 3 years from now. Loved it.

News report saying that scientists are racing to discover why the Universe exists

To annoy me, ... that's why it exists.

Clematis and fly

Top-down view of an Acorn Electron, a classic 1980s British home computer, featuring its beige case and full QWERTY keyboard, sat on a wooden table

It is my opinion that computer design peaked with this and nothing will ever look better

Orchid, close up

Photo of a small daisy

Sure were. I think as I've got older though I've found my eyes prefer black text on a white background.

Same for me - I've never been able to use dark mode in any IDE to be honest. I think it must be an age thing (my first computer was an Acorn Electron for Christmas so that dates me!)