Hachette Partswork Dalek

Created by: Lester Caine, 9 March 2025
Last modified: 9 March 2025

Part 11 to 14

By Lester Caine
2 May 2025

Has 4 weeks really passed? e-mail popped up Friday that a parcel was due and so I had to wait in for it. Normally the postman delivers around 11:30 so I can then get out for may daily walk, but this time he was 13:30 and apologised as he had pre-12AM deliveries that messed up his route. So I was rather late getting out myself.

Time to work out what is going on with image upload ... Getting an error on hitting upload. That is what has been taking u…

Parts 7 to 10

By Lester Caine
7 April 2025

Now why has that stopped working? Tried to upload the pictures and this time it's given me an error screen while I've put other images up recently and I'm not aware of anything changing on the live server. Now perhaps is the time to get the new stuff moved over to the live server, but I'm not quite ready for that yet. Pictures will appear ASAP ... even if I have to fiddle it for now.

It only took about 45 minutes…

Third Delivery

By Lester Caine
5 April 2025

Has it really been 4 weeks? Had a message from Royal Mail on Friday saying parcel is being delivered Monday and I'm thinking 'I don't have anything due', but of cause it's the next 4 parts of the Dalek, so an hour or so's work once it arrives.

9 March 2025

By Lester Caine
9 March 2025
OK, had a session doing the first 6 parts of this project. Took a couple of hours in all, but some of that time was sorting out pictures and finding tools, although a little forward reading would have helped there. The gallery of images has been uploaded, and that in itself was helped by some development work in the new Plasma6 desktop. I actually updated the exif data on the pictures to include the…

28 February 2025

By Lester Caine
28 February 2025

Dalek-Size
I started collecting these magazines back in January, getting the first issue from the local W.H.Smiths and starting a subscription at Hachette Works a couple of weeks later.