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Percy1983

I have been looking at hive and other such devices and really don't see a need as we both work weekdays so the times we generally want it on work easily with the current timer (7 day setting etc).

With that arriving to a cold house doesn't bother us as we manual switch it off if we are going out for a good while. The current timer does seem cleaver enough as I can adjust the temperature up/down and it will do that until the next timed event. The only times the times are well off is school holidays but summer holidays are no problem and in winter it will still come on in the morning and the wife just puts it on during the day if needed, likewise if I have a day off work etc.

It does seem the images from the scan are burnt into my mind on constant replay to which I may seem a little crazy to the outside world as I just keep grinning randomly and ocasionally getting a little teary, I am sure this will pass but I am going to embrace this feeling while its here.

ivyleaf

HUUUUGE best wishes to you all for tomorrow, chewie

Nice to meet you percy, many congrats!

Vivatifosi Thanks for taking the trouble to post the link to the article about the ME research. As Maggie said, it's been done before, but sounds as if this is a bigger study. I gather you've had bad news, so my thoughts are with you xx

LydiaJ

PasturesNew wrote: »

For heating I'll just be leaving mine on very/super low so it only comes on just before hell freezes over if I am away/out for many hours.

It doesn't hurt to walk into a cold house and turn it on and just wait 2 hours for it to be warmed up.

This is fine if you remember to turn it off again when you go out. That is not the sort of thing my memory is good at. It's much better for me to have my heating turn itself off when I go out without my having to think about it.

Percy1983 wrote: »

It does seem the images from the scan are burnt into my mind on constant replay to which I may seem a little crazy to the outside world as I just keep grinning randomly and ocasionally getting a little teary, I am sure this will pass but I am going to embrace this feeling while its here.

It is a beautiful thing when a man is excited enough about his baby (or babies, chewy) to feel like that. I never had that from LNE, so I feel especially warm and happy when I hear about some other couple where it's how it should be.

Generali

@ Lydia:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mJWp1KKWak

(not trying to imply you have spots BTW!)

Generali

Best of luck chewherlegoff! Ditto Lady percy1983.

I've got my visit to the rheumatologist tomorrow. I have mixed feelings about that TBH.

lostinrates

silvercar wrote: »

Middle names: DS1 hates his and would like it removed by deed poll. "Messes up" all his certificates, he claims.

DS2 loves his and uses it with his first name more often than most.

Doozergirl wrote: »

My DS uses his all the time. DD's is French and she doesn't know how to spell it. I even forget she has one, sometimes. I must use it more 'in that tone of voice' when she's done something wrong.

Mine are spelt incorrectly all the time. The second one morphed into a a pseudo masculine spelling spelling somewhere along the line, which for simplicity I now stick with. I don't worry about it too much. Its civil service mistakes mainly. I suppose its one good thing about not getting confirmed, I didn't have the opportunity to add another little known and bizarrely named saint to my name list.:rotfl:

LydiaJ

Generali wrote: »

@ Lydia:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mJWp1KKWak

(not trying to imply you have spots BTW!)

:rotfl:

Thank you. I did wonder if anybody would notice.

Things have been slipping recently. I will go back to trying harder.

GDB2222

LydiaJ wrote: »

:rotfl:

Thank you. I did wonder if anybody would notice.

Things have been slipping recently. I will go back to trying harder.

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GDB2222

SingleSue wrote: »

After years of not doing his artwork/drawing, youngest has started drawing again...still a bit rusty but getting better each time.

I am ever so impressed by that. He seems to be a very skilled caricaturist. There are people earning a living from that. See http://www.caricaturist.co.uk/ and http://www.book-a-caricaturist.co.uk/search_caricaturists.php?location=Essex&searchfee=500

vivatifosi

Sue, I really like the drawings!

If that is something that he is interested in, libraries have books on drawing manga and so forth. Can't speak for your local authority, but chances are that if youngest is classed as disabled, he'll get reservations free.

One book that I really like is Drawn to Life by Walt Stanchfield:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Drawn-Life-Classes-Stanchfield-Lectures/dp/0240810961

He taught the animators at Disney, and the two volumes of this book are his lectures. The one thing I took away from it is that most traditional formal portraits stress the noun (the Duke of such and such or the princess of xxx), whereas animation stresses movement. So he says to focus on the action or the emotion. So when you are drawing animation, you are using verbs not nouns. When you've mastered verbs, you then move onto adverbs. So, for example, now you can draw running competently, how would running bravely look compared to running scared? How do posture and facial expressions differ.

I worked for an animation studio in my younger days (not as an animator - not talented!) and DH is ex Disney so its something we are both interested in.

So in the case of his characters, rather than focusing on Vegeta (the noun), you would focus on the action (eg Vegeta shouting, Vegeta running).