Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

GDB2222

silvercar wrote: »

michaels, now would be a good time to hit gumtree or wherever to get your laural trimmed.

:T

Just been getting the succah bits out of the garage. It's going to be too cold to use, though, I fear.

chris_m

michaels wrote: »

From the 1st November Santander 1-2-3 becomes 1-2-1.5% costing us £900pa. Our other cash savings are now getting 2/2.25% compared to 3% a year ago costing us more than 2k pa - all changes since this time last year.
It is just depressing

Tell me about it.

NatWest wrote to me a while ago, advising that from this month they are going to be exceedingly generous and give me 0.01% on my accounts - so I emptied said accounts other than a working buffer and bunged it in my S&S ISA, to buy decent divvie paying stocks instead.

Not that I had intended to leave much in NatWest anyway, it's just where my flat sale proceeds had initially landed.

michaels

silvercar wrote: »

michaels, now would be a good time to hit gumtree or wherever to get your laural trimmed.

Amazing - at about that instant I got a text from he vry nce lady who trims my bush every year offering to ome and do it on Saturday.

I wonder if you or gdb know her?

Yorkie1

{{{Hugs}}} to Maggie, so sorry to hear about the latest bureaucratic hurdles

GDB2222 wrote: »

I, of course, would never admit to having written "This car needs a clean" in the dirt on someone's car when a child.

Or as an adult, of course ... *whistles innocently* [can't get smillies to work]

michaels wrote: »

stiff/clicking jaw

Are you aware of whether you might be grinding your teeth?

PasturesNew

PC playing up
. have been tryknh to get online for nrarlly 4 hours
Gailrf
Now facing to spell ony phone
Failing that says mo idea how to get cursor to correct it can't work out how to get this to post either

PasturesNew

Well that is a right mess

vivatifosi

Good luck PN.

ivyleaf

SingleSue wrote: »

Oh I know that one so well, should have heard the humphs when we went on the interview/audition days for Josh as we were holding everything up.

Only went on one open day for Josh and that was an applicant open day at the same uni James goes to, so he was our personal guide and we avoided the complaints from other parents.

If you're planning to go to Greenwich with youngest, perhaps you could ring in advance and explain the situation. They may be able to arrange for someone to show you round on your own, at your own speed, unless youngest would hate that.

michaels I bet you're either grinding your teeth, as Yorkie says, or else clenching them. If that's the case, your dentist can make you a guard to protect your teeth and jaw from damage (and pain!).

PN I hope your internet behaves better tomorrow!

PasturesNew

Well it's all very annoying. The PC was booting up, but then processes would seize control of it and wouldn't give it back. I did everything.... reboots, CCleaners, let the Avira thing run, tried to shut down processes before they kicked off ..... things were hanging, it'd take nearly half an hour to shut down at times.

I've got it working for now though .... I suspect there might be some hardware thingy that's about to fail catastrophically. I really should investigate buying a new PC, except I don't know how to choose one - and I've not used any modern OSs, so scared of them as I have tried to use my sibling's laptop in the past and failed catastrophically to understand how to use the darned thing.

Bring back XP .... there's nowt wrong with XP ....

EDIT: Managed to uninstall Avira and reinstall it. That seems to have been the root of the problem... but as it gets control of processes before you can it can be difficult to outwit it so you can uninstall it .... got it in the end though.

SingleSue

ivyleaf wrote: »

If you're planning to go to Greenwich with youngest, perhaps you could ring in advance and explain the situation. They may be able to arrange for someone to show you round on your own, at your own speed, unless youngest would hate that.

michaels I bet you're either grinding your teeth, as Yorkie says, or else clenching them. If that's the case, your dentist can make you a guard to protect your teeth and jaw from damage (and pain!).

PN I hope your internet behaves better tomorrow!

It would be more at the speed youngest would be able to push me in the wheelchair, which at times can be far too fast. Not sure he would stay away from walls or doors but he can generally keep up :rotfl:

And yes, he hates all kinds of special arrangements.