{"id":2818,"date":"2015-04-27T05:23:14","date_gmt":"2015-04-27T05:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/?p=2818"},"modified":"2015-05-04T07:13:00","modified_gmt":"2015-05-04T07:13:00","slug":"desmond-digby-google-mobile-test-childhoods-end-and-a-flier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/2015\/04\/27\/desmond-digby-google-mobile-test-childhoods-end-and-a-flier\/","title":{"rendered":"Desmond Digby, Google Mobile Test, ‘Childhood’s End’ and a Flier!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Gumbles2\"<\/a>I was sorry to hear of the death of Desmond Digby last week in Australia. He was on my list of ‘to contact’ book\u00a0artists probably best known for illustrating the ‘Bottersnikes and Gumbles’ series by Sidney A Wakefield. I will put a page together to show the Piccolo editions in a later blog.<\/span><\/p>\n

There was an advert for our local brew, Bank’s Beer, which said ‘Unspoilt By Progress’ and I’m pleased to say that applies to my PAN website.\u00a0Because it doesn’t use anything fancy it\u00a0passes the Google mobile friendly test, unlike my other two, as it is the same as it was in 1999. Back then it was at the cutting edge of technology using frames and a screen resolution of 800×600 when the standard was 640×480. I seem to remember having\u00a0the amazing amount of hosting space of\u00a010gb(!) so every image counted hence the small size of the oldest ones.
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\"CE8\"<\/a>Just sorting books on the shelves and I started\u00a0to realise\u00a0how many copies of Arthur C Clarke titles I have. I’ll be putting together a few pages of them over the next months and todays is “Childhood’s End”<\/span><\/a>\u00a0written in\u00a0August 1953. Still looking to identify some of the artists. Why couldn’t PAN be more like US publishers and acknowledge them which is why I’ve included the Ballantine as it lists Dean Ellis as the cover artist.<\/span><\/p>\n

On a completely different note my son thinks\u00a0my wife and I\u00a0need to get out more so he is signing us up for interesting experiences such as aerial walkways, Segway riding, tobogganing and last\u00a0Monday\u00a0sky diving\u00a0in a wind tunnel. I don’t think I was quite a supple as I needed to be. This was about as high as I got where as my wife and son went up over twenty feet!\u00a0<\/span>\"airkix\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was sorry to hear of the death of Desmond Digby last week in Australia. He was on my list of ‘to contact’ book\u00a0artists probably best known for illustrating the ‘Bottersnikes and Gumbles’ series by Sidney A Wakefield. I will put a page together to show the Piccolo editions in a later blog. There was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2818"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}