Nice people thread part 6 - thrice by twice as nice :)

chewmylegoff

ha ha - this is the pub i was in on saturday night. everyone i was on the stag do with was wearing a flat cap - you can just see one of them at the back right. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-19134882

PasturesNew

chewmylegoff wrote: »

i've got a GPS running app on my phone at the moment, but it's annoying having it strapped to my arm when i'm running and would prefer to have a tiny MP3 player and a GPS watch instead!

Is there something similar to a gun holster that you could wear? Or a miniature backpack? ... or maybe I just invented a brilliant piece of kit that could sell in the thousands....

chewmylegoff

PasturesNew wrote: »

Is there something similar to a gun holster that you could wear? Or a miniature backpack? ... or maybe I just invented a brilliant piece of kit that could sell in the thousands....

anything with straps means chafing, and chafing is bad.

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Doozergirl wrote: »

Thanks, but I don't know what div is!

An hour later, I did go into html because even though I don't know it, it somehow makes more sense to me?!

My problem now is that I have published the post, it exists on the website (facebook is showing correct link to it) but in categories, the blog category doesn't have a tick next to it. I have a page called blog, but it isn't in there because that is .com/blog. the blog post is in .com/categories/blog

Do I make any sense at all?

Right... quite a few things there.... I'll try to give brief overviews/opinions,

DIV: With html you are limited in your ability to lay items out on a page. Early developers simply created a table and bunged stuff in cells. Kinda worked. Later, it got a bit cleverer as tables are bad .. and people got the ability to place each piece of text/image into a DIV, which is really just a "big space for your stuff" - and with a whole collection of DIVs (set up correctly) you could end up with a whole page layout. But that's actually more complex to do that it seems ... and so a lot of people never bothered (especially as trying to get all DIV combinations to work across all browsers sometimes can make you lose the will to live). However... you can randomly chuck a DIV in here and there to make things line up.... e.g. if you want an image to appear to the left, or right, or your text and your text to go round it (not that it always does, but that's a different matter).

If I want to randomly chuck in an image into a post, I just go into the html and I surround the image code with the DIV code. Not sure how this will come out on here (if it cocks up I'll edit it)....

<div style="display: block; float: right; margin: 5px 5px 5px 5px;">

Then put your image code.

</div>

Where it says float:right, you can make it go in the left/right/center.
Where it has margin sizes, these are in pixels and can be any values you like (bigger the number, bigger the blank margin/border round the image between it and the text).

No idea re categories/blog ..... if I saw it it'd be obvious to me what you mean, what to do etc.... but I'm not good at visualising the problems of others when I've never had/seen the problem myself, IYSWIM.

CKhalvashi

lemonjelly wrote: »

I don't eat red meat & regularly have yorks puds with chicken...

York Puds?
What are they?

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chewmylegoff wrote: »

anything with straps means chafing, and chafing is bad.

Oh ... maybe you shouldn't be such a sweaty b4st4rd then ...
Could you strap it round your ankle?

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CKhalvashi wrote: »

York Puds?
What are they?

Only the best food EVER!!!

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Should I remember where michaels has disappeared to?

Doozergirl

PasturesNew wrote: »

Only the best food EVER!!!

Yorkshire Puddings. Something we might all agree on? :eek:

fc123

LydiaJ wrote: »

I love this kind of discussion. I find it fascinating how we all like such different things about houses. For a million quid I would want more than one reception room however enormous it was, and I wouldn't know what to do with a space that size anyway. It feels more like a car showroom than a living space to me. I would always want the master bedroom to be the biggest bedroom, too.

I love the street it is on as we lived a 3 doors down and great neighbours too. The ocation for my dream life perfect too.
IMO it is overpriced by about 200k. I think it sold for about 585k and was then 'done up'. Pics don't show how good the view is either.
I love the emptiness and car showroom feel to it too but then that's only because my workspace is huge and cluttered and full to the brim with confusion, colour and stuff.

I am also embracing not living amongst lots of kids clutter any longer as when they were growing up all their stuff dominated our living space.


I think my lottery house would be similar to the Sandbanks one PN posted up @ 3 millions....and something penthousey on Shad Thames

That street could be achievable in a few years time and further down (which is better with huge gardens) are several which will come up over the next few years as every one is lived in by octogenarians. We will keep our heads down, save and wait and see.:)

chewmylegoff wrote: »

Quite a strange night last night. On a stag do in the peak district, wandered into a pub about 8.30 to watch Ennis run, tried to order a round, landlord then threw us out because we changed the order (before he had even started pouring...) and so we then walked a mile to the next pub. Three of the guys wandered into a campsite on the way and ended up watching it in someone's caravan, the rest of us carried on walking and got to a pub which turned out to be owned by Ennis's great aunt or some such tenuous family connection. Whole place was completely decked out in Jess Ennis paraphernalia, and there was a local film crew there, and about a hundred people going a bit mental about it. Got some free champagne for the medal ceremony, and then had a strange impromptu group quiz about farming with the locals. In the taxi back to Sheffield some Dutch guy from the stag spent half an hour talking about quail farming, and going on about the quail's enemy "the rat".

Bizarre.

:rotfl::rotfl:

chewmylegoff wrote: »

i thought i was invincible when i was 31, but 32 saw my body start to fall to bits with constant injuries. i think i am finally going to have to start warming up and stretching down properly otherwise i'm going to do some real damage. i might need to get some sports physio and i probably also need knee realignment surgery, and replacement achilles, adductor, neck muscles and a couple of replacement vertebrae.

dear me , wait until your 49 like us...then it really does all start to fall apart. OH has dodgy knees, dodgy back.

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Thinking of you LIR at your appt tomo.

I actually watched some olympics today off and on. Saw 100m final, bit of tennis (but then I went for my swin so didn't see him win) and end of the marathon this morning.

Something sad to relate DD has a new friend via the new BF and her mother felt unwell one day, went to hospital and died of a brain haemourage (sp) the next morning. he has a 6 yr old brother so I am guessing she wasn't more than about 38 yo.
DD asked me what she should say or should she text etc and it's difficult to know......but the family are in total shock as it was out of the blue.