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<\/a>Ages ago, Terry gave me a cable with an HDMI plug on one end and a USB plug on the other. And both the laptop and the 12-volt DVD player with its impressive 18-inch screen have the aforementioned. <\/p>\nBut no matter which way round I plugged the cable in, it wouldn’t carry the signal from the laptop to the screen. Even jury-rigging an ad-hoc USB cable didn’t work either.<\/p>\n
However, when I was at Montlucon this afternoon, I purchased the correct cable and – wha-hey! Not only do I have a most-impressive computer screen, I have the most astonishing stereo sound coming out of the speakers of the DVD player.<\/p>\n
This is an exciting discovery and I’ll be actively pursuing this avenue in the future.
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I took Caliburn into the Ford main agents for his annual service, but here’s a thing. They don’t have a rolling road there so they can’t balance out the brakes. That surely must be a first. <\/p>\n
I had to walk into town afterwards and it’s been quite a while since I’ve done that journey.<\/p>\n
This last 5 years or so, they’ve built over the bed of the canal and as I keep on saying, I woder how long it will be before they regret doing that. Liz was working until 18:30 and so that gave me plenty of opportunity to go for a wander around and see what was going on, as well as grabbing something to eat There are several other old buildings in the immediate vicinity, noe of which is as old as this but well-worth a look all the same. It’s not clear whether it was the Mayor or the RAF that was responsible for the demolition in the immediate vicinity, but it’s far enough away from any major centre of any military importance to have been the RAF. But I really cannot think what must have gone through the minds of the mayor and the town council to have rebuilt thiese dreadful concrete monstrosities.<\/a>My route took me past the site of the old Canal du Berry. Montlucon used to have a huge steel industry and in the days before the arrival, everything came in and out by canal.<\/p>\n
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\t<\/p>\n<\/a>Montlucon is a old Medieval walled city, although you might not think so if you have only ever see the outskirts of the place.<\/p>\n
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\t<\/p>\n<\/a>This is believed to be one of the oldest buildings in the town, dating from the 14th Century, and it certainly looks it too.<\/p>\n
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\t<\/p>\n<\/a>This though is my favourite building in Montlucon, but what lets it down is its immediate surroudings. Everything has been “redeveloped” with modern concrete slab construction.<\/p>\n
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\t<\/p>\n<\/a>At least when they rebuilt the city, they had the good sense to leave a large open space all the way from the railway station to the chateau so that there’s this most impressive view, and the fountain sets it all off nicely.<\/p>\n
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