Travelling On

Karmacat

A Regular Saver was due to expire on 5 October - I've renewed it, it went down from 1.5% to 1%, but I'll survive that.  Need to work on my NatWest Reg Saver when I get back, its a larger one and not giving me the returns of the £50 a month one.

And tomorrow morning, I have to log in to my pretend current account to get the rewards payment fulfilled.  If it isn't there then, I'll have to take my laptop with me, so I can do it in the evening.  Ha!

badmemory

Savings rates are dire now aren't they.  A few years ago my interest on savings would have paid my energy bill & now even though I have more I'm not sure the interest would even pay 2 months.  When you are past being able to do anything to increase your income it starts to become a bit of a worry.

greent

The Envy software was a download - it 'found the printer wirelessly and asked if we wanted to download the relevant software ) x

Suffolk_lass

greent said:

The Envy software was a download - it 'found the printer wirelessly and asked if we wanted to download the relevant software ) x

That is what ours did too

When we went to Beaulieu many years ago, DH got a real shock - going up the escalator in the motorcycle hall he was faced with a BMW bike for which he had contributed to the design of the part they were featuring (it was accredited to the German Chief Designer but it was made to work by British Engineers working for them as contractors). It was the Steering Head on the R1100 RS model. His first comment was "I'm not old enough to see my stuff in a museum!" - we moved into the car hall and he had a repeat experience on one of the Ford cars, but that was either trim or bumpers he worked on (as part of a team)

Karmacat

badmemory said:

Savings rates are dire now aren't they.  A few years ago my interest on savings would have paid my energy bill & now even though I have more I'm not sure the interest would even pay 2 months.  When you are past being able to do anything to increase your income it starts to become a bit of a worry.

They really are!  I'd forgotten, since I did the financial work around the new financial year.

greent said:

The Envy software was a download - it 'found the printer wirelessly and asked if we wanted to download the relevant software ) x

Excellent, thank you!  My brain is completely dissociated from the printer at the moment, but come Monday, I'll make a list of all the admin and finance issues I want to complete this month.

SL - good to know it's a normal thing, in fact, it jogged my memory - the printer I used at my mum's to copy her photos for everyone, it could connect via bluetooth - and, um, I gave it away ... sigh ... 

Karmacat

Suffolk_lass said:

When we went to Beaulieu many years ago, DH got a real shock - going up the escalator in the motorcycle hall he was faced with a BMW bike for which he had contributed to the design of the part they were featuring (it was accredited to the German Chief Designer but it was made to work by British Engineers working for them as contractors). It was the Steering Head on the R1100 RS model. His first comment was "I'm not old enough to see my stuff in a museum!" - we moved into the car hall and he had a repeat experience on one of the Ford cars, but that was either trim or bumpers he worked on (as part of a team)

Beaulieu was fantastic we actually left the motor bit till last  we were all over the historic homes, the exhibition of Russian art, the abbey, the lovely kitchen garden, and the monorail  we went round twice.  I got chatting to the motorbike people, though, because both sets of my grandparents had severe motorbike crashes in the 1920s and 1930s (unconscious, in a hospital for weeks, facial injuries, bad stuff).  I've now got a personal phone number for somebody that can help me find more information about the bikes, potentially.

We were **incredibly** lucky with the weather - per day, and within each day.  Did you know that the Needles lighthouse gives off a red light from some viewpoints?  Did you know that lighthouses have their own signatures?  I had no clue   

I'm back home, I'm dry, two sets of washing through the machine, mostly unpacked, ready to go: garden weeding tomorrow, when the rain has stopped, and then, as I say, the finance and admin tasks on Monday  

Going to catch up with peeps now  

badmemory

Karmacat said:

 Did you know that the Needles lighthouse gives off a red light from some viewpoints?  Did you know that lighthouses have their own signatures?  I had no clue   

To my surprise I actually did know this.  It is so that any ship coming "home" can tell if they are home or are at John O'Groats or Lands End.  Quite clever really.

Karmacat

Exactly, badmemory, it's so that mariners can identify which lighthouse it is by the sequence of flashes and the colour.  As you say, it's very clever.

beanielou

Love lighthouses so it was something I knew

Karmacat

I've really missed out on this, then!  I'm a bit shocked at myself - the dormitory suburb of Liverpool where i grew up actually *had* a lighthouse!  Still does.  I love finding corners of the planet that I know nothing about