G'day folks, On 01/05/2010, at 7:47 PM, Hedgie & Pat wrote: ----- Original Message ----- > > I think first an apology is called for to those who are not interested > in this particular thread. But if they have never ever heard Radio > Ceylon/SLBC, they wouldn't understand this nostalgia. When I said that the Bianca Hit Parade was on a Sunday evening, I did't tell the full story. Some kind benefactor donated a fine short wave radio to the school. The HM decided that ti needed t be put inside a wooden box, with strategic holes for cooling purposes. He also decreed that it have lock so that its use could be controlled. The box was duly made by the school chippy. A large hasp with a huge hinge and a very solid lock was the final product. It didn't take us boys to work out how to get around the problem of no key. So, on Sunday nights we would creep out of the senior dormitory taking a small hammer and drift. The pin holding the hinge together we knocked out and the program began. After a while the hinge pin became so slack that it could be pulled out by hand. ooroo