Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

ukmaggie45

zagubov wrote: »

I think Maggie uses flickr which is another possibility. It's part of the yahoo system.

I like Flickr. You can set it to public or private, also Friends, Family or Friends & Family.

Joined Flickr pretty soon after it started up, and have always had a Pro subscription, not sure if that's still available now other than to those who have one already and renew every year or couple of years. I've been trying to get OH to sign up for it now he's got a decent digital camera, but he seems to have a phobia for any website where a password is needed! (Roll eyes smiley)

If all your friends and rellies joined and uploaded their photos you can form a Group where they can add their photos to the Group. That would save you having to upload everything yourself.

Photobox is good too. Again you can set to Public or Private. I can't recall if you can set up a group account, I think when DD1 got married there was a password protected account that everyone was able to upload to, but I can't remember the details. Advantage of Photobox is you can order prints from them. I think Flickr only does that in US.

PasturesNew

I started to use Flickr, as private photos, as somewhere secure to save all my images. I struggled with it .... as I had a LOT. It was very slow to upload on my broadband - and I did have to set each new directory to private (pain in the butt to go through and select the options for each new directory as I was probably creating 200 albums.

I never did get round to finishing uploading as I'd set a directory to upload to a folder and it'd sometimes take an hour or so!

Wasn't too sure either how the photo tagging would work as I never got to the point where I could sort/view/go through the images to see how that worked.

oldandhappy

if that comes out its the start of the new car port.....

oldandhappy

it will get more interesting......

LydiaJ

Another beautiful day here. How's the weather where other NP are? Hope you're getting sunshine too. Well, if you like it, anyway. DS prefers it to be cold. Not sure how I managed to produce a son whose ideas about temperature are so different from mine!

oldandhappy wrote: »

if that comes out its the start of the new car port.....

Looks promising. Good luck with it.

vivatifosi

It's quite lovely here today. My favourite weather: blue skies and windy. I'm not keep on hot, still days. As long as there's blue skies and a bit of a breeze, I'm not too fussed what the temperature is providing it's not extreme.

PasturesNew

Heirhunters today, repeat, seen it before: only child died aged just 59. Parents already dead, lived alone.

Traced his parents - father turned out to have just one valid heir, a cousin of the deceased.

The show visited the heir and he hadn't had anything to do with his father for the last 20 years, he didn't even know he was dead. His father had died in 2001.

He'll get half a house in Hemel Hempstead, valued at the time about ~£250k.

But he's said he doesn't want the money - he wants to give it all to a charity as his own daughter's got some disability or other.

PasturesNew

Sunny here. But there's that perpetual annoying "sea breeze" which is always enough wind to blow your hair/clothes everywhere... but it's warm. Gauge says 78F.

SingleSue

Sunny here but no sitting out as next door are doing all manner of noisy DIY in the front garden.

Horrendous night for me, jumpy leg, couldn't sleep then tummy troubles which had me throwing up at 5 am this morning (too much wheat). All told I got about 2 and a half hours sleep and by goodness do I feel rough this morning.

PasturesNew

Current investigation:

1851 Census with sister
Disappears ....

Finally found a body that might be his, 250 miles away, frozen to death outside a pub.

Need to investigate it further .... but it looks likely to be the fella I was looking for. My GGG-grandmother's brother.

He'd walked Dover to Folkestone as he said his wife had taken a fancy to a dog and he'd offered to get it for her; she gave him 4d .... and he'd got to Folkestone and was so cold he went into the pub for a drink (or several).

Found the next morning, lying in the road, with a bloody nose; he could speak, but couldn't be understood. They called for help but he died.

They think he fell over and was too drunk to get up, so lay where he was - it was a freezing night, so he just died.

Official verdict: Frozen to death, while intoxicated.