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Thread ID: 117620	2011-04-26 23:26:00	Taupo power out	lakewoodlady (103)	PC World Chat

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1197424	2011-04-26 23:26:00	No power here ysterday from 2.30 pm till 9.30 pm yesterday. We had cold chicken, cheese sarnies and wine for tea by candlelight. Put extra clothes on for warmth and sat around telling jokes and thinking about what it must have been like in the very old days. No computers, TV, or PS3 of course! :eek::crying LL	lakewoodlady (103)
1197425	2011-04-26 23:42:00	Must of been hell.	DeSade (984)
1197426	2011-04-26 23:59:00	Not quite certain why you would say, "the very old days." Television, in NZ, started about 1962. Home computers about 1980s. It's not that long ago! Before we had television and computers, etc, we had the radio as our evening entertainment. There were quite a few radio programmes that we listened to regularly. My favourite was "Life With Dexter," a comedy show. There were daily soap operas for the housewives. It was much of what television is today, without pictures. And if there was nothing much on the radio you would play board games or cards - or even go to bed early.:wub	Ulsterman (12815)
1197427	2011-04-27 01:46:00	Life with Dexter. Now your showing your age. Yep i remember it as well when i was at school and have a tape around here somewhere of one of the episodes which I recorded back in the mid 1970s from a program called Serials, Soap Operas and Stars..	paulw (1826)
1197428	2011-04-27 02:47:00	Not quite certain why you would say, "the very old days . " Television, in NZ, started about 1962 . Home computers about 1980s . It's not that long ago! Before we had television and computers, etc, we had the radio as our evening entertainment . There were quite a few radio programmes that we listened to regularly . My favourite was "Life With Dexter," a comedy show . There were daily soap operas for the housewives . It was much of what television is today, without pictures . And if there was nothing much on the radio you would play board games or cards - or even go to bed early . :wub I use to listen too Life With Dexter as will . :)	Trev (427)
1197429	2011-04-27 03:43:00	Not quite certain why you would say, "the very old days . " Television, in NZ, started about 1962 . Home computers about 1980s . It's not that long ago! Before we had television and computers, etc, we had the radio as our evening entertainment . There were quite a few radio programmes that we listened to regularly . My favourite was "Life With Dexter," a comedy show . There were daily soap operas for the housewives . It was much of what television is today, without pictures . And if there was nothing much on the radio you would play board games or cards - or even go to bed early . :wub By the very old days, I meant the very old days before Electricity and how people did things then . Yes, in the not so long ago days of the 40s and 50s we had radio and played cards and games etc . But there were power cuts then too and we didn't miss what we didn't have . LL	lakewoodlady (103)
1197430	2011-04-27 05:25:00	By the very old days, I meant the very old days before Electricity and how people did things then . Yes, in the not so long ago days of the 40s and 50s we had radio and played cards and games etc . But there were power cuts then too and we didn't miss what we didn't have . LL In the 1950s there used to be power cuts most Sunday afternoons so they could conserve the water in the lakes . That would never be tolerated these days . If you were fortunate enough to have a battery radio you could still have your entertainment, but I'm not certain if many people had battery radios . Not in the city I would suppose, but out in the country where there was no power they would have been popular . Does anyone here remember battery radios? They were valve radios and had two batteries - one long and slim and had about six connections for different voltages, I think we used 9v, and a large cylindrical 1 . 5v battery . The latter was known as a telephone battery because it was commonly used as a speech battery in the manual telephones . How well do you remember?	Ulsterman (12815)
1197431	2011-04-27 07:24:00	Ah, the old days. At 5pm every night. Rocky Star or the Air Adventures of Biggles or Believe it or Not. And if not Life with Dexter then The Glums or There a Weird mob.	tut (12033)
1197432	2011-04-27 08:07:00	Ah, the old days. At 5pm every night. Rocky Star or the Air Adventures of Biggles or Believe it or Not. And if not Life with Dexter then The Glums or There a Weird mob. Remember The Nth Planet??	paulw (1826)
1197433	2011-04-27 09:17:00	During the Sept quake power was out here for three days. Couldn't help but look on the bright side, it was sort of a forced break from the usual TV, computers, internet, work, etc etc. Had a BBQ, a few beers (couldn't let them get warm!), wasn't so bad.	ubergeek85 (131)
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