Nice People Thread Number 10 -the official residence of Nice People

LydiaJ

lostinrates wrote: »

Who chooses between cats and dogs anyway. Its like choosing between your son or your daughter, your brother or your sister, your husband and your lover......

I do. Dog every time. Being allergic to cats might have something to do with it, though.

sss555s wrote: »

I have all my mail account going to Gmail and use google calendar which auto syncs to my mobile.

It all works very well and you can get your info where ever you are.

I also print off an A4 month calendar for my desk just in case something happened to my google calendar.

Google has so many good aids that it's criminal not to take advantage of them.


Edit: I did try to use google docs instead of the word, but found trouble with text boxes and no mail merge.

Thanks for the suggestion. People have suggested google calendar before. Unfortunately, I have got used to being able to assign categories to calendar items so that I can see from the colour coding which members of the family they apply to, and whether I'm ready for them or need to do something before they happen (usually but not quite always this is booking a babysitter). Having all calendar items in the same colour and having to read them before knowing who's going to them would feel like a very retrograde step to me. If google calendar ever introduces anything like that, I'll consider switching. (And no, having separate calendars for the different categories won't work. It's been suggested before.)

I might manage with google docs for word processing, although I'd much rather not. And I absolutely must have proper excel for spreadsheets. I need my vba code to work!

Nikkster

Wheezy wrote: »

It's very educational also.
Yesterday I learned about Mornington Crescent, the game. Hadn't heard about it before. :embarasse

I wonder what I will learn today.



Geordie for me also.

I had no idea what the whole Mornington Crescent thing was until I googled it. I'm not cultured enough to listed to Radio 4

Yorkie1

Nikkster wrote: »

I had no idea what the whole Mornington Crescent thing was until I googled it. I'm not cultured enough to listed to Radio 4

My parents are R4 people, so I have heard it for years.

It was only a few years ago that I said, somewhat musingly, to Dad "you know, I don't think there are actually any real rules to Mornington Crescent". He looked at me as though I'd just stepped off the last shower

I also said, "you know, I don't think there's a real 'Samantha' there either". I got the same look again!!

lemonjelly

I got manchester.

In other news, I planted loads of daffs bulbs in autumn. Some have started sprouting!

lostinrates

lemonjelly wrote: »

I got manchester.

In other news, I planted loads of daffs bulbs in autumn. Some have started sprouting!

Congratulations. :j. Exciting isn't it!


We have lots sprouted but didn't plant any new ones last year.

Our snow drops are incredible. We I inherited them and I am so glad we did. Each year I rescue some on the green from an area I know they won't be safe in in the future, this year there are only two small chums still to move and instead of enlarging the one big clump I think I might put them further down and start a new patch of the 'snow drop drift'.

Shop drops in late winter really lift the mood. Such clean, simple little things.




I've also decided I like white muscari.. I put a few in last year. I'd like to get lots and hope they naturalise a bit. Funny, I used to really dislike muscari.

PasturesNew

sss555s wrote: »

I have all my mail account going to Gmail and use google calendar which auto syncs to my mobile.

I should investigate that maybe. Not that I am using my mobile much except as a camera as it's all so tiny

sss555s wrote: »

Google has so many good aids that it's criminal not to take advantage of them.

Sometimes their products are useful, sometimes too limited and sometimes annoying.... I do like them overall though. But sometimes trying to get answers to questions is a dead end search.

e.g. I have many Analytics sites registered, but I can only link one to Adsense income reporting..... this is a bit annoying, but maybe I should have set up just one and run all my sites' incomes through one GA account ... but I don't know ..... and then am frightened to try in case changing it all loses me the historical reporting I've got

sss555s wrote: »

Edit: I did try to use google docs instead of the word, but found trouble with text boxes and no mail merge.

I do find Google docs very annoying and limited, clunky and just pretty awful

sss555s

LydiaJ wrote: »

I do. Dog every time. Being allergic to cats might have something to do with it, though.



Thanks for the suggestion. People have suggested google calendar before. Unfortunately, I have got used to being able to assign categories to calendar items so that I can see from the colour coding which members of the family they apply to, and whether I'm ready for them or need to do something before they happen (usually but not quite always this is booking a babysitter). Having all calendar items in the same colour and having to read them before knowing who's going to them would feel like a very retrograde step to me. If google calendar ever introduces anything like that, I'll consider switching. (And no, having separate calendars for the different categories won't work. It's been suggested before.)

Google does seem to update software, but also do have the odd frustrating problem.

You can colour tag your events.

PasturesNew

LOL/Come Dine With Me. Host cooked Dexter Beef.... and he said "I think people appreciated that I'd found a rare breed to cook..."

Two of the guests said:
"Dexter's beef - I don't know/care whose beef it is...."
"Dexter beef - I've no idea what that is...."

People live in different worlds don't they. I'd have thought it was some bloke called Dexter's recipe for beef, or similar.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

LOL/Come Dine With Me. Host cooked Dexter Beer.... and he said "I think people appreciated that I'd found a rare breed to cook..."

Two of the guests said:
"Dexter's beef - I don't know/care whose beef it is...."
"Dexter beef - I've no idea what that is...."

People live in different worlds don't they. I'd have thought it was some bloke called Dexter's recipe for beef, or similar.

I don't see any value in beef that's rare breed just because its rare breed.

If some one explained to me that it was a good eating beef because it laid fat down well, had particular flavour qualities etc is where its interesting.

Often modern breeds are selected for 'productivity' over taste.

Dexters are 'little' like miniature cows. I am not certain but I though the meat was rather lean. I was quite interested in dexters at one point because they are a good smallholders cow because they are small and dual purpose. Dual purpose often, but not always means not supreme at either milk or meat. I have no recollection which dexters are better for I'm afraid.

PasturesNew

The Severn Bore - if you've not heard of it, look it up on youtube - is coming - and the river's already high/roads flooded... they are worried people there to watch the bore come through might be washed away in extreme circumstances.

Edit: Big bore tonight, even bigger bore tomorrow. 9pm and 9am.