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by paddy
Mon Jun 23, 2008 12:12 pm
Forum: Stories, Reminiscing & Teacher/Pupil Memories
Topic: So, the underground tunnels...
Replies: 242
Views: 104217

Re: clipboard man

anyone remember the clipboard man ? He used to wander the grounds (with clipboard) randomly talking to people. Don't think he ever managed any kind of crime but we were warned against talking to anyone answering his description... Interesting....We also had a "clipboard man" or similar in...
by paddy
Thu May 08, 2008 6:33 pm
Forum: Overseas and Travelling
Topic: MOSCOW - small work opportunity
Replies: 5
Views: 4513

Re: MOSCOW - small work opportunity

heh - maybe just the once...
by paddy
Fri May 02, 2008 4:23 pm
Forum: Jobs/work experience - wanted/available
Topic: MOSCOW - small work opportunity
Replies: 2
Views: 3587

Re: MOSCOW - small work opportunity

kerrensimmonds wrote:My former boss' son's girlfriend is Russian and lives in Moscow. I've sent them the post and your e mail address.
That would be great - much appreciated.
by paddy
Thu May 01, 2008 10:56 pm
Forum: Overseas and Travelling
Topic: MOSCOW - small work opportunity
Replies: 5
Views: 4513

Re: MOSCOW - small work opportunity

J.R. wrote:Not working for M.I.6 by any chance ??
Shhh!

Nope - the film industry! ;)
by paddy
Thu May 01, 2008 4:13 pm
Forum: Jobs/work experience - wanted/available
Topic: MOSCOW - small work opportunity
Replies: 2
Views: 3587

MOSCOW - small work opportunity

Hi there Does anyone have any contacts in Moscow? I need some photographs to be taken of a particular building in Red Square, for reference material for a film. If someone knows a person in Moscow, with a decent digital camera and rudimentary photographic skills, please put me in touch. We will pay ...
by paddy
Thu May 01, 2008 4:10 pm
Forum: Overseas and Travelling
Topic: MOSCOW - small work opportunity
Replies: 5
Views: 4513

MOSCOW - small work opportunity

Hi there Does anyone have any contacts in Moscow? I need some photographs to be taken of a particular building in Red Square, for reference material for a film. If someone knows a person in Moscow, with a decent digital camera and rudimentary photographic skills, please put me in touch. We will pay ...
by paddy
Sun Feb 04, 2007 8:49 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Quite Interesting
Replies: 11
Views: 3502

Ok - several lunch breaks, then! :wink:
by paddy
Sun Feb 04, 2007 11:06 am
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Quite Interesting
Replies: 11
Views: 3502

Working, and extensive! That's one to put aside and read during the lunch break... ;)
by paddy
Sun Jan 21, 2007 11:00 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Old Blues who have worked at CH
Replies: 188
Views: 37076

I did a week or so in the Art Dept, during my time at Shefflield Poly studying for a Degree in Fine Art. I came down to CH to do some Super-8 film projects with the CH kids as part of my thesis. Was a bit of nonsense really. And I was only a few years older than the CH boys and girls, so it was all ...
by paddy
Sun Jan 21, 2007 10:56 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Magnus Magnusson
Replies: 19
Views: 5884

Oh - it can't have been 86/87 because I had left by then. Unless they came more than once, of course. Oh - I see someone has already said 1980 - yes, that's about right.
by paddy
Sun Jan 21, 2007 10:55 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Magnus Magnusson
Replies: 19
Views: 5884

Remember it well. I remember chatting with some of the BBC technicians, and being told that I shouldn't point the lens of my camera (I was a bit of a photography nerd) at the lenses of theirs, or something awful would happen to the equipment. Obviously he was winding me up! And I remember being in t...
by paddy
Sun Jan 21, 2007 10:48 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: The infamous car park bogs
Replies: 31
Views: 8205

back on-topic... I remember the outside of those bogs, but not the inside at all. So I doubt I ever went in. But I do remember that someone had done some entirely pointless graffiti, to change the word "GENTLEMEN" on the door into "GENTEEMEN". So - wierdly, whenever I see a loo d...
by paddy
Sun Jan 21, 2007 10:40 pm
Forum: Looking for....
Topic: Lead guitarist required for Old Blues rock band
Replies: 34
Views: 11873

Don't know if it's the same person, but then again - how many Sidonia Porteouses can there be?

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1666732/
by paddy
Fri Jan 19, 2007 9:40 am
Forum: Looking for....
Topic: Lead guitarist required for Old Blues rock band
Replies: 34
Views: 11873

Sidonia!
by paddy
Thu Jan 18, 2007 11:27 pm
Forum: Looking for....
Topic: Lead guitarist required for Old Blues rock band
Replies: 34
Views: 11873

Aye - Rev Porteous was a bit of a hero of mine. A very fine man.