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From: David Pike
Date: 2023 Dec 16, 02:53 -0800
I suppose 80’s a bit old for skip diving, but sometimes you just can’t resist it, especially when it’s something you’ve had your eyes on for years. Checking that the little Doranne was still safely on her moorings yesterday, I chanced to open the Club’s rubbish skip and noticed that one off the Officers had been tidying up and decided to throw away the Club’s Phillip’s 19" dia Globe, common to almost every British school at least until the 1950s. There was just enough room on the back seat of the car to fit it in. The temptation is to have a go with a planishing hammer at the odd bump and scratch that it’s acquired over the years although you must be careful with planishing hammers as Father Ted found: https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?q=Father+Ted+destroys+car+You+Tube&mid=F92D8BEBED1D619A0B58F92D8BEBED1D619A0B58&FORM=VIRE
Then it’s getting top and bottom together again so that it doesn't keep springing apart and ensuring that North America lines up with South America and not South Africa. After that, maybe some on-globe spherical trig attempts. DaveP
