“There are invisible rulers who control the destinies of millions. It is not generally realized to what extent the words and actions of our most influential public men are dictated by shrewd persons operating behind the scenes.”
If you look up Thomas Hampson, I think you'll agree he did it best, and without any camp.
And who knew the Last Night of the Proms was carried live on German TV?
It's a cracker of an anthem, perhaps never exceeded, but the cheering mob need to translate their enthusiasm into something more sober and determined the other 364 days of the year for it to have a chance of being any kind of reality.
Now more than ever.
Last edited by Surpmil; 04-11-2020 at 09:37 PM.
“There are invisible rulers who control the destinies of millions. It is not generally realized to what extent the words and actions of our most influential public men are dictated by shrewd persons operating behind the scenes.”
Well, I've been trying to make the most of this enforced period of confinement - it's also that long awaited opportunity to get all those jobs done that we've been meaning to do for years, & I've been doing a few of them. We've seen one or two other people's projects, but I can't believe there's not lots more good work going on in garages & garden sheds worldwide.
I've been using the time to do the final finishing on some of the remaining stock of my last batch of No32 scope brackets, have rebuilt a rusty broken ex-Indian service Kodak No32 Mk1, & am now working an a very nice late Mk2 from the collection we recently bought. It's a lovely scope but had a broken cross hair & a bent vertical pointer. They've now been replaced & the scope is nearly back together. The 4T belongs to a friend & fellow forummer who bought it dressed in the orange stained beech. He wanted it returned to something a little closer to how it would have looked during late WW2. It also had a non-military fitted non-BSA bolt body in it, which has been carefully changed to a BSA example. It'll never be exactly like the day it left the factory, but I think it looks better now, & should shoot ok. Incidentally, the garish wood that came off was not fitted in service so I had no qualms about changing it.......
Anybody else finally 'got around to it'?
Last edited by Roger Payne; 04-21-2020 at 08:30 AM.
Well... truth be told, I had a "go" at an LE commercial carbine stock. Short story is I got this last year, from a friend. The left side of the stock had fire damage or an attempt at branding (it was like this when my friend acquired it). Last Saturday, I started picking at it and found the damage had been filled with an old wood filler. Also found a few drilled holes. Very bizarre...
So I decided to cut out the damaged portion and patch in a new piece of walnut. Matching the finish is always difficult, but at least the damaged portion is gone, and the carbine got some TLC after many years.
After staining and several coats of RLO, the wood surrounding the patch is slowly starting to darken. At least it killed two days of quarantine.
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