Travelling On

themadvix

Village fete sounds lovely!

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How lovely that your trip coincided with a village fete, KC:j Our strung-out group of hamlets has a joint one every year and it's always great fun and a rare chance to meet the people who live relatively near to us:T. They usually included a Dog Show but one year they had a Cat Show instead and my cat won the Most Handsome/Beautiful Cat catagory:j. There were only 7 entrants:rotfl: but he was far and away the most handsome and would have won from a field of 100 IMO;). The prize was a voucher for a local pet store so I treated him to a new carrier for when I had to take him to the vet:eek:

Karmacat

carbootcrazy wrote: »

... one year they had a Cat Show instead and my cat won the Most Handsome/Beautiful Cat catagory:j. There were only 7 entrants:rotfl: but he was far and away the most handsome and would have won from a field of 100 IMO;). The prize was a voucher for a local pet store so I treated him to a new carrier for when I had to take him to the vet:eek:

That's brilliant :j


I was out again yesterday, to see the place where my niece goes horseriding, that was fun too, and way out in the wilds.



Seriously getting my act together now: train ticket for the London segment of the journey, tidying up my phone and kindle and camera ready to take, putting everything in sight into the washing machine, you know the drill

themadvix

Exciting stuff Karma! We're going away pretty much the same time again.... it's beginning to get real now!

Love the Cat show CBC - ours would definitely win too, wish we had something so community-minded around here.

beanielou

carbootcrazy wrote: »

How lovely that your trip coincided with a village fete, KC:j Our strung-out group of hamlets has a joint one every year and it's always great fun and a rare chance to meet the people who live relatively near to us:T. They usually included a Dog Show but one year they had a Cat Show instead and my cat won the Most Handsome/Beautiful Cat catagory:j. There were only 7 entrants:rotfl: but he was far and away the most handsome and would have won from a field of 100 IMO;). The prize was a voucher for a local pet store so I treated him to a new carrier for when I had to take him to the vet:eek:

:j :j :j :j

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KC, although I'm not going on holiday myself I'm getting excited for you now as I love Norway:T and would love a cruise there. We went backpacking and youth hostelling when I holidayed there in my youth. The Norwegians are so friendly and all we met spoke very good English. They love the Brits because they saw us as saviours in WW2:j


I've really come on here to pick your brains about computer storage. I know you scan loads of documents and photos and assume you either use an external hard drive or USB flashdrives. Maybe you use The Cloud (which I have to admit I haven't a clue about:o). I keep getting a message on my laptop that I'm low on memory:eek: and that's just in general use. I haven't downloaded much at all. I needed a laptop urgently when my old one died and bought all I could afford at the time which was a very low-end basic machine without much storage/memory:eek:. I can't afford a new laptop so need to upgrade the current one. Any advice would be very much appreciated:A

Karmacat

madvix I noticed our holiday dates are pretty much identical I haven't been away on a proper holiday for I don't know how long - I do know, actually, I stayed in Bordeaux for 5 days after a family wedding. Thats it. So I'm ridiculously excited and also concerned about the complete novelty of all this palaver.


CBC - yep, I went in my last student year, just Bergen and Oslo, and loved it. It's included in that new kindle book I haven't yet published, where we squatted on a campsite that was closed (it was September) and then when we hung out with some young Norwegian conscripts on their base in Oslo, they were discovered by the high-ups and arrested even Norway has military discipline, I guess.


Thinking about your computer issue right now ...

Karmacat

carbootcrazy wrote: »

I've really come on here to pick your brains about computer storage. I know you scan loads of documents and photos and assume you either use an external hard drive or USB flashdrives. Maybe you use The Cloud (which I have to admit I haven't a clue about:o).

I use quite a bit: I back up onto an external hard drive; I transfer that to a very old laptop as a partial backup (the old laptop doesn't have enough memory, and its not worth fully upgrading, but its useful to have some things *extra* backed up).



My genealogy files are indeed backed up onto the Cloud - just the free storage that comes when you have a gmail account.


If I've done a lot of scanning at a time, but haven't got time to update the external hard drive, I copy the scans onto a flash drive.

I keep getting a message on my laptop that I'm low on memory:eek: and that's just in general use. I haven't downloaded much at all. I needed a laptop urgently when my old one died and bought all I could afford at the time which was a very low-end basic machine without much storage/memory:eek:. I can't afford a new laptop so need to upgrade the current one. Any advice would be very much appreciated:A

I don't know a huge amount, CBC, honestly, but I *think* that memory is one of the easiest things to buy more of. I don't even know the name of the piece of hardware that you'll need to buy I'd just call it "more memory" as opposed to "more processing power".



I'm pretty sure its sold by ordinary shops like Currys, or Maplins if they're still open. Here we go, I found it on the Currys website, its just called an internal hard drive: https://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/computing-accessories/components-upgrades/internal-hard-drives/324_3086_30163_xx_xx/xx-criteria.html


Things look like they're way cheaper on Amazon, but some of them are used, reconditioned discs.


Just seen something else on Currys - some of those are 2.5", some are 3.5", and I don't know what my laptop, let alone yours, uses :eek:


I've read a lot recently about flash drives not being dependable enough for long term storage - mine is good, but its only 16GB - its quite sturdy, and always temporary.


Does your laptop need a tuneup? Defragging, compression, "refreshing" the browser (google refresh firefox, thats what I use) or CC Cleaner, which really helps wizz things up.


Go to System Tools/Accessories - a lot of this stuff will be on your computer already, basic though it be. Make a System Restore Point first though (thats in the same Accessories folder).



HTH - let me know how it goes.

Karmacat

I came on here to whine



I have my rail tickets to London - but the new/new timetables are creating even more chaos, and no train has even the pretence of a guaranteed timetable

I ordered my currency from the Post Office - but they're having IT glitches, and it probably didn't go through. I'll go and try to collect it tomorrow, but I think the **third** assistant I spoke to was correct when he told me this. The others put the phone down on me.

My plumber has let me down - turned up with a hose, but it doesn't have the right connection. Takes a week to order, from a local shop. He could have found the connection specialism on Friday when he was here.


Unhappy faces above are just counting the problems all of which are actually quite minor, but you know how I love phoning organisations like the Post Office :rotfl:

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Karmacat wrote: »

I use quite a bit: I back up onto an external hard drive; I transfer that to a very old laptop as a partial backup (the old laptop doesn't have enough memory, and its not worth fully upgrading, but its useful to have some things *extra* backed up).



My genealogy files are indeed backed up onto the Cloud - just the free storage that comes when you have a gmail account.


If I've done a lot of scanning at a time, but haven't got time to update the external hard drive, I copy the scans onto a flash drive.






I don't know a huge amount, CBC, honestly, but I *think* that memory is one of the easiest things to buy more of. I don't even know the name of the piece of hardware that you'll need to buy I'd just call it "more memory" as opposed to "more processing power".



I'm pretty sure its sold by ordinary shops like Currys, or Maplins if they're still open. Here we go, I found it on the Currys website, its just called an internal hard drive: https://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/computing-accessories/components-upgrades/internal-hard-drives/324_3086_30163_xx_xx/xx-criteria.html


Things look like they're way cheaper on Amazon, but some of them are used, reconditioned discs.


Just seen something else on Currys - some of those are 2.5", some are 3.5", and I don't know what my laptop, let alone yours, uses :eek:


I've read a lot recently about flash drives not being dependable enough for long term storage - mine is good, but its only 16GB - its quite sturdy, and always temporary.


Does your laptop need a tuneup? Defragging, compression, "refreshing" the browser (google refresh firefox, thats what I use) or CC Cleaner, which really helps wizz things up.


Go to System Tools/Accessories - a lot of this stuff will be on your computer already, basic though it be. Make a System Restore Point first though (thats in the same Accessories folder).



HTH - let me know how it goes.

Thank you so much for all the trouble you've gone to on my behalf especially as you have such a lot to get sorted ready for your holiday. It's lovely people like you who make MSE forums a joy to be part of:A


I don't think there's anything else to do with speeding up/refreshing/tuning up my laptop that I can do myself with my settings as I do all I can very regularly. Too regularly, I seem to be doing it all the time:(


Right. going to check out the internal hard drive on the Currys website. Thanks very much for the link:T. If it needs any sort of technical skills to fit it though and I have to take it in for someone to do it for me I suspect the cost will be high:(