Good morning all on this beautiful sunny day. 
I will be spending it at the dentist later with two consecutive appointments, one with the hygienist and the second straight after in another room with the dentist for a general check.
Hope to get out in the garden this afternoon pottering around.
Enjoy your day folks.
Good Morning All,
Iām glad yesterday was a good one for you, Buttercup, hope today is even better. What app challenge are you doing?
Enjoy the sunshine and the Tai chi Zuludog and susiejaeger and Meg, happy dongling real speed and good luck at the dentist Mag
Me, I have a project. I found a very ancient dirty rotary washing line at the top of mumās garden and Iām going to clean it up, oil it and restring it and then put it back up.
I may be some time
Have a smashing day everyone who comes in xx
Morning all.
At caravan just waiting for Susie and OH to visit, then I might take Holly to Gorleston beach for the afternoon. Checked bus times.
Sis is popping in tom before work.
Double bed hard as a rock so we ended up on a twin single that had a softer mattress. Poor dog, couldnt settle.
Morning everyone!
A lovely sunny day here in Sussex 
No work today and this spring weather has got me motivated to have a bit of a spring clean and attend to some green fingered type stuff .
The jade plants need repotting and I need to remember to rotate them in future, theyāre leaning in the same direction.
The scruffy looking tradescantia in the window is going to be replaced with some fresh cuttings 
Is that red phone real? I had a toy phone that looked exactly like that when I was a child. I saw it in a toy store and cried until my aunt bought it for me. My mom hassled me about it for life.
It is Butterscotchā¦a real vintage phone with real bells, a 1979 model.
I bought it for a tenner just over a decade ago from a charity shop, itās been converted so it does actually work.
By todayās standards dialling a number seems to take forever 
Hi
Sorry about your guppies Susie.
A dull start but rapidly warming.
Filet steak today, a rare treat.
Have a good day all.
Good morning!
Wow, itās a beauty! :: jealous::
Thanks for sharing. 
You are more than welcome, itās surprising how many people mention it when they visit.
that phone is a 746 model it should have a red plug lead to the socket outlet,the thousands I must have fitted over 20+ years. they did 7 different colours . the prevous model was the 706 version. to get to the label just tap the blank part of the plastic dial. Later on came the push button version. uinfortunately that conversion has devalued it to next to nothing. Originals are fetching a good price now
Thatās interesting, I think that they were manufactured in batches and the final digit indicates that this unit was from batch two 1979.
Iād recommend starting a thread on this. Not everyone reads this thread, and it only lasts a day. More people will see a new thread. Give a holler if I can help with thread starting.
And maybe ask in the Scotland thread also?
I donāt understand why it was converted it should have still worked on the dial up system and possibly the fibre optic as well
Iāve always assumed it was converted, perhaps not.
Itās pretty useless if you have to select / dial an option but Iām sure youāre aware of that.
Iād ask you to bear with we realspeedā¦I donāt have a great deal of empathy with technology Iām afraid.
Done dear @butterscotch . Iāve moved it to forum Over 50s Scotland.
Thanks for your suggestion, much appreciated.
Cheers!
We have an 1950s phone, which we can use if we wanted to.
that is the old 300 type phased out by 1972 when I joined BT. That is when there was the House exchange system (HES ) and house telephone system (HTS). never actually installed them but did recover quite a few.
The HES was an internal house system mainly used in very big houses , The HTS actully did the same but with an exchange line added
later replace with the plan 105 and 107 system which had the main phone with extns, ie secretary and boss type of thing. for house use was the plan IA that could have up to 6 phones ( depending on distance from exchange) on the same line or the plan 4 which was sockets mainly and the phone could be plugged into any
Thank you Realspeed, it was my MILās phone, we just inherited it.
My B.I.L was a BT Manager, he is now 73 years old, his name was Michael Jaeger.
Love those phones press hashā¦ 
I had a trim phone in 2 tone grey very smart .
Super day for a Mr Whippy ice cream ā¦was delicious
