VT137

I have taken a picture of one of the valves that arrived last week. Cool eh? The were actually manufactured towards the end of the war (if you look closely you can see the date as Feb 1944). They were surplus stock and cost the princely sum of $3 each! Unfortunately the shipping was $10!!

Two years on

Well it was two years today that the plane crash killed Harry. It is always so sad to think about it all and when we went to the pub to comiserate today we had the extra reminder of Malcolm, one of the other passengers in the plane, coming along. It was great to talk to him as the old laconic Mal is still there. It is hard to envisage what he has been through over the last two years and will probably have to put up with for the rest of his life. The weather was lovely, as it was two years ago.

The day also marked the bottling of brew number six! A Little Creatures Rogers clone. It also marked the arivial of 4 VT137 vacume tubes from the US which are soon to form the basis of the new valve amplifier. The boys were quite intreguied by them.

Last night we went to see the CirqueDeSoleil performance of Quidam. We took the boys and Ben in particular was entranced. It was a very slick show and some of the performances were really quite spectactular. Very enjoyable. If you are in Perth you will have to be quick, but well worth checking out.

Termite Infested Legs

Well that should have got you interested! During the weekend we shortened the legs on which the boys Cubby house sits. I built the cubby about four and a half years ago and it has towered over the garden. While I was building it the neighbour suggested that it was actually better built than the house we live in... Unfortunately i didn't use steel stirups to keep it off the ground and the timber that was in contact with the ground became a meal for a lot of termites. I had known about it for a while but hadn't done anything about it till the weekend when we found out how heavy it all really is as we jacked the entire thing up and then lowered it back down on the ground, it now sits only a foot off the ground instead of about four feet. Unfortunately in the enthusisim for the engineering conquest of the cubby house we forgot to go to a concert by the WASO that my mother had bought us all tickets to... I feel so bad!

On a different note: you can actually listen to Clotilde on a link from her website... Nice pictures...