Sylvester

Yes but didn't she use magic? (And i don't mean Timmy Mallet's cockerteil). So you're not a professional athlete, but are you registered to do magic? Or are you a muggle?

What i think you've got there is a coronation commemorative piece. George VI succeeded to the throne in December 1936 and was crowned the following year. I can't tell you more than that i'm afriad. Although someone else may know more.

I was just signing out of yahoo a few moments ago when i saw the headline. There's been a series of bombs going off in London. Kings Cross, Russell Square, Tavistock, Liverpool Street. Several undergound stations have had these explosions and at least one bus has been bombed having the upstairs removed. There are two dead so far and reports of more dead on a tube train stuck somewhere out of King's Cross station.

...or survived?

Supergran... by heck going back a bit here aren't we! I must admit i think i have sen the odd episode many, many years ago but i can't remember any of them. As for flying bicycles, it's possible. You'd have to have enough lift though to get off of the ground and maintain the suspension in the air. Going on those gliders i should think you'd need pretty big wings and a lightweight aluminium bike. Have you ever seen that film the Young Sherlock Holmes? I should think it'd be a pretty cumbersom thing, kinda like the Wright brothers had, but with a bike.

Anyhow i'm off to watch T. Bag

I dunno i fluctuate between 6 and 32. I don't feel like a teenager at all, i didn't when i was one. I either felt younger, or older.

Death toll is now 12. Ten people were killed at King's Cross Station. Many more are seriously wounded.

All this lot is quite near to where they hold the London Coinfair, i was thinking. Russell Square in particular, only last month i was sat in there thinking this place is rather tranquil to say it's slap bang in the middle of a city. Less than one month on and they've got terrorists blowing up buses there. It a truly mad world. Innocent people are paying the price again because of a bunch of religious fundamentalists. Let's hope no more people are hurt, injured or killed by these morons.

Yet another birthday!

No it's actually three buses that have been bombed not one... http://news.bbc.co.uk/

I'm not that keen on the rupees, the dress is different and not quite as nice as the one on the Gothic design. Gothics are my thing, but that's because they're florins and i like florins. But there's a denomination i've never tried to collect. Maybe one day i should.

And the Angles! There were also some Middle Eastern/Persians that joined the Roman army and were sent to Hadrian's Wall. We know this because of the evidence of the Cult of Mithras up at Hadrian's Wall. So the mixing pot just got bigger... Don't forget the Danes either, which were slightly different to Norsemen.

Did we win at Crecy? I forget. I hate to point it out to you though they've got one over on us... 1066, oh and 1154.

Oh they've won it then. I'd forgot they were even bidding for it. Oh well i won't affect me. Why's everyone having a go at the French all of a sudden?

Happy Birthday! (There's another one due shortly, well in 22 days anyhow)

Are you sure you don't mean Myfanwy? Myfanwy, hey i used to know someone called Myfanwy. But we used to call her Myf, and she was frequently. Miffed that is!

Elizabeth became queen in 1558, november.

I generally do that. I find that I can consentrate better in the morning as there is usually no one else online (on msn) to distract me, and I am not waiting for other people to come online to talk to myself. Our school is rubbish at time management. Last week, my english group was set a 1500 word essay on tuesday to be completed for wednesday! That would worry me a little. I'd start that tuesday night and hope to get about half to 1000 words done that night. And then finish it on the day. I can't type more than 1000 words at a sitting because i lose concentration then i start waffling instead of answering the question. Although when i was at school/college i must confess i hand wrote most of my essays which saved alot of time because i'm alot quicker with a pen than i am with he typing finger, note use of the singular there.

I didn't think it was that bad if homework was addressed early. If one left it to the day before (as I did on occasion), it was far more stressful. Time management, I found, is the key. I did all of my year 11 homework the morning it was due in. And that generally went for A Level work too. I remember AS levels, i had a 3 hour geology lesson on monday morning with an half hour break in it. During that half hour break i'd be doing my history homework for that afternoon. If i didn't finish it then, i'd do it through lunch. Always got it done and correct.

Looking at it another way Geoff. Time of war, gold stadard dropped, top silver denominations hoarded. The remaining demoninations have to make up for the shortage. Thus they see more circulation. At this time most coin collectors would have been those with disposable income, lower middle classes and above. Of which if some have gone to war there'll be less collectors around, and any collectors that are around will probably have been going after the top denominations to protect their assets in silver.

If you think year 11's bad then there's two other years you should really watch out for. A2 and the third year of degree.

Kenneth Williams you mean? Kenneth Moore was the one that was in 'A Night to Remember'. Some coins are just rarer, i wonder if the war had a part to play. Most collectors at that time would have been men, men had other things on their mind at that particular time. The middle classes surely would have been called up as well as the working classes. Since most of the working class were physically unfit to go fighting. Most of them under-fed. Well it's a thought?

I thought i'd seen Melvin Hayes before! (and here was me thinking it was Carry On England, oh well...)

Happy Birthday!