Recent content by Doghouse Riley

Two hedgehogs visit our garden for the food I leave out. Sometimes there's a bit of a confrontation. Lowering your head is an ideal defence tactic. At other times, one tries to push in, but has to wait for the other one to finish, before it reaches the head of the queue for dinner.

You know what they say... I liked them so much I bought two. Both were around £50, one about fifteen years ago, this one a few years ago. "My Office." Our box bedroom.

I've got round to making this video. I'm using a Lumix DMC LX15. I went on YouTube, to find the best setting for videos. There was no end of adjustments suggested in one "instructional video." The end result was rubbish, It produced "camera shake" by constantly re-focussing. So I went into it...

I wonder if any of the younger contributors have any idea as to what this is?

Thanks for the interest. There you go.

I'd had this Sharp cassette deck for fifty years, it's always played well, I put this video of it on YouTube. But lately I've noticed a bit of noise from the left-hand channel when I turn it on. I hardly ever play it, but it was "there" if I wanted to. I like all my stuff to be working. But it...

Bonfire of the Vanities.

This was on YouTube but got taken down a few years ago, but not before I'd ripped it. I e-mailed the artist, who thanked me for my interest, but said it was a decision of her management company. I think she has a remarkable vocal range. https://app.box.com/s/5l79efdis3t4w9gxnap6ig6rmwhpq4nj...

These days, unless I recognise the senders e-mail address, I never read them, let alone, answer them I've had two e-mails recently telling me my TV licence was due for renewal, one address was in Canada, the other in China. They must think we're daft, sadly some people are.

I was watching this great little sixteen year-old mover. She'll be 52 this year. I couldn't play my sax if I wore gloves. The make-up? Not allowable now. Apparently not a problem in the 80s

"We need to order some kit for the ball kids at the WTA Open San Diego Tournament." "Right! What sizes should I order?" "Sizes?" Katie Boulter won this, against the 2nd seed, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4. She's...

I like the Mills Brothers. I've both "Paper Doll. " And "Till Then," as well as an mp3 in one of the wall box iPods. I re-did the graphics some time after this, as I had them in the wrong order. I had about three goes at it in the end. "It has to be right, doesn't it?"

Yes you see lots of jukeboxes and wall boxes at the end of diner booths in film noir, A classic is a Wurlitzer 1015, in a diner, in the Robert Mitchum film, "Out of the Past." it would have been brand new back then . My favourite would be a 1941, the 850, Peacock, they were huge...

I see a lot of jukeboxes advertised on eBay, but often they have hand-written title cards. So unprofessional , but as they say, "each to their own." These can be typed up in a variety of styles, fonts and colours, free on a proforma kindly provided by a jukebox parts supplier and downloaded as...

We were told she was a ventriloquist and he, her manager. It was his jukebox and the "restoration" was supposed to be a surprise. How they got a near 300lb jukebox out of his home without him knowing, "could only happen on television."