Awful weather - typical Brits talk

Farway

Sunny start, even more, so now I'm on the W11 'puter, finally got it sorted yesterday afternoon, not got all my old programmes moved over yet, you know, the ones with eye patches, hook hands, wooden legs & parrots 

Dustyevsky said:

 I see from following-up Farway's post, I'll soon be busy upgrading my 'puter to W11, as support for W10 stops next month. It might not cost anything, but I'll bet it doesn't go smoothly.  If I disappear, expect me back in January. 

My old one was declared decrepit and not suitable for posh W11, so I was intending to add my $30 to Mr Gates' cash pile for an extra year of updates, but the computer beat me to it and pulled its internet plug out

Hope yours goes well. I've found that locating all the passwords and installation key codes is the main PIA.

For some reason, I have a red dot with denied access permissions on some Office type programme   . One for another day

YoungBlueEyes said:

Edit - can't believe I forgot to tell yous this - Eco Worrier was sacked Apparently she was telling people that everything can be done by email now (it can't) and there's no need to actually sign and return paperwork (not true) because it's a waste of precious paper. They pulled her up on it but she persisted so BBM sacked her. And I missed it  

A bit of excitement and you missed it, shame, but I'd imagine in one certain place, written evidence is required is Law offices

I think it was only recently that Acts of Parliament were no longer required to be written on animal skin Vellum, your ex newbie would've loved filing rolls of dead animal skins 

I suppose you'll get another one to train up?

Gardening, I may have to get watering again, despite being cold, it's also dry & the pot plants are wilting again

YoungBlueEyes said:

I thought the 'rule' for planters was a big tall thing up the middle, some middley tall things for a bit of bulk, then some trailing things round the edge. Because I listen to rules and do that all the time  

  I've found a new toy, my AI mate lets me play about without using any plants. I think this would be ideal for anyone trying to design a garden, where to put a tree etc.

Take a garden photo, ask AI chum to plant, say, a Cox apple over there, behind the lupins, and show you it in summer

Here's my pots at the front, next April 

I tried with daffs but decided the alliums are better

The pots are not yet planted, but vine weevils & squirrels allowing, this is what I hope to see next spring

I've yet  to work out my curly writing on this PC

twopenny

Does AI include slugs and snails? 😁

Does it tell you how far away from the fence to plant it and how much sun etc? Curious to know how much it knows. 🤔

And yes, that wedding photo was beautiful. Much better than staged ones. It really shows the moment. 🙂

Sunny and blue skies with puffy little clouds but chilly. The grass is still very wet. It's going to need mowing again soon.

I've been jam making after a foray into the villages yesterday and some more flavoursome blackberries.
Got some walnuts too but don't know what they are like yet. It's been a bad year for them.
Also picked more tomatoes which because many are split will probably become soup. I've been a bit lax what with them ripening so late.

Re sacking of eco person, that should make your life easier? 
My friend at dancing says she's about to blow with the woman who thinks she knows it all.
I've told her to let me know when it's likely as I want to see that 😈

Farway

twopenny said:

Does AI include slugs and snails? 😁

Does it tell you how far away from the fence to plant it and how much sun etc? Curious to know how much it knows. 🤔

And yes, that wedding photo was beautiful. Much better than staged ones. It really shows the moment. 🙂

Yes, AI, Gemini 2.5 works from the instructions you give, so you could put a red X on your photos and say plant a tree there. 

If you specify, perhaps, East, or even better long & lat, which you could get from Google Earth, then you can tell it show at 1500 June 15

If you wanted, you could then ask for 1000 on Oct 23 etc

I just said show me April for my flower tubs, 'cos I knew flowers would be out

I'm going to tinker later, but first I need to set up my boring internet banking on new PC

BTW, the wedding photo, using a copy of the photo, the mobile phone could easily be swapped for a posy of posh flowers, or a cabbage. 

Just a thought

To demonstrate swapping, here's my mum during the war. Motorbike real but colourised, Fake background

twopenny

It is fascinating.
I could do with it for organising my furniture which I'm hopeless at. Give me a garden and I've lots of ideas. Houses and furniture bore me.
I don't have time for learning it but given if I have the op it's 6 weeks of no driving that may be the time.
My computer still runs on Windows 7 though and memory almost full of photos.
Still, a lot can happen in the meantime.

I've started planting stuff in pots to take with me if I move . Garlic chives for one as they are difficult to germinate from seed.

YoungBlueEyes

Morning all

Aww was that definitely the last swallow of summer then Dusty? That's it over then. I don't know that I've seen any here, but if yours are gone mine'll be long gone  

Did you get your holiday booked wort? Are yous all off somewhere nice? Booo to ice, it's too early for that yet. Come on over to this side and work with me, you'll never be cold again  

What will you do with all your marrows and squashes then Less? Are you a 'give it to neighbours' sort or a chutney lover?

Yep they were swallows on my sccarf/wrap thing pp   I read Memoirs of a Geisha years ago and it's stuck with me - celebrating the seasons with clothes and decorations

Muntjac is cheaper than cat food gb, how dear is cat food like?! Or do you live in an area with lots of wild muntjac, and you're a terrible driver   Hooray for AnonymousDog getting a bit of an airing, he'll be happy with that is he  

Aww I remember them abandoning the Vellum Farway, I was a bit sad about that. Say no more.  Oh aye we run on evidence at work. Apparently she was telling people to ignore their solicitor/conveyancer, but as all the calls are recorded it was a few seconds work to get proof to present to her, and as she was in the probation period she was out. I'm not sorry she's gone, but I am sorry I missed it   Anyway. I might be disappearing soon, depending on how the big computer update thing goes. I'm on an old laptop running W7 so I'm on borrowed time really, One More Thing and it might give up on me *sob* Your mum looks like some girl eh Your pots are a bit scary - if you hadn't mentioned they were AI I don't know that I would've spotted it. Bit of a worry is that...

I'm the same re furniture 2p - I know when things look right, but I can't work out how to make things right. That can be house or garden or anything really. Your new doctor moves fast :clapping: With 6 weeks downtime you've time to get learning about room design or whatever they call it. Get the place great looking for when you maybe move  

OT Slightly less cool out there this morning, it was 7’c and the Feels Like was the same. The outside of my windows are running cos the humidity is that high. Today is a rinse+repeat of yesterday - sunny and mild and calm. Which will be nice to look at now they’ve put the heating on at work - it’s only at 25’ as it’s not really needed yet Considering I work in a building full of supposedly clever people, there’s a remarkable disconnect when it comes to common sense

So has no-one elses colour scheme changed then? My background is now lilac, and the bar at the top and the preview + save draft buttons are definitely purple. It doesn't look like they've changed it for everyone...

greenbee

I’m sure more than one person has said that the problem with common sense is that it’s not actually that common YBE! 

Stinky is very happy that he’s getting walks, less happy that the doors are no longer open all day. And muntjac is sourced from people doing pest control - they can’t sell it, so I just pay for them to take it off the bone and shove it in a carrier bag. I think the cat food my cats will eat consistently works out at about £2.50/cat/day. Although Fatty would happily eat nothing else, she gets the commercial stuff as well to ensure a balanced diet. Stinky doesn’t care what he eats, but gets kibble, muntjac, yogurt, BNS, banana, apples, kiwis, broccoli etc. much of the fruit/veg/yogurt frozen into kongs and lick mats to keep him occupied.

cold this morning - cats fancied a lie-in which was nice. It does mean I need to sort out winter dog accommodation as it may be a bit cold and draughty where he is now without his crate to make nests in. 

Dustyevsky

YoungBlueEyes said:

Morning all
Aww was that definitely the last swallow of summer then Dusty? That's it over then. I don't know that I've seen any here, but if yours are gone mine'll be long gone  
Farway....Your mum looks like some girl eh Your pots are a bit scary - if you hadn't mentioned they were AI I don't know that I would've spotted it. Bit of a worry is that...
So has no-one elses colour scheme changed then? My background is now lilac, and the bar at the top and the preview + save draft buttons are definitely purple. It doesn't look like they've changed it for everyone...

According to Mrs Dusty, not the last swallow. She claims to have seen one yesterday! 

I agree, Farway's Mum looks splendid, even if the background's fake. Whatever happened to ladies after WW2? Why did they give up the girl power?  When I was a spotty yoof, at least 15 other yoofs owned scooters in our small town, and not one was a girl! Very few even rode pillion.  Admittedly, it was terrifying, but it wasn't until cars came along that the young ladies joined us lads, going anyway, anyhow anywhere we chose....mostly the seaside.   

I think the concerning thing about AI isn't Farway's allium and pansy mix; it's potentially not knowing what is real any more. Still, that may mean more people ignoring most of the manufactured nonsense designed to occupy us or wind us up. I can dream!   

On your 25c heating, Bluey, yesterday, I heard some chap on Auntie, describing his latest charity adventure and bemoaning the signs of climate change he witnessed in the nether regions. Oh, it was awful! I wonder how he got there? Bicycle, I expect.  Now, he's off to America to scope out his next challenge, on the bike again.  The presenters bemoaned the state of things, thanked him, then told listeners why they'd been absent for a week or two. It was their holibobs abroad.... on their bikes, naturally. 

The colours here seem to have changed for me too, but I guess the earth didn't move, so I didn't notice. They're  quite like the ones I have elsewhere in my browser thingy. 

I'm ashamed to say I did no gardening yesterday.  Mrs Dusty had a medical procedure in Exeter's Nightingale Hospital, which is one of the few that were actually used  and repurposed. Alas, being thrown-up built in a hurry, it has no parking, but I lurked in Dunelm, which is what everyone does.  Then, it was off to get some specialist footwear for Mrs D...which took hours...and hours.  I would have been slightly bored, but at the main place we visited, chatting with the assistant soon proved the 6 degrees of separation thing.  I know the farmhouse where she was born, and both of us know her Mum, who now lives on another farm many miles from the first. Not only that, but we all know someone else who lives in Australia. Weird!   The shoes were expensive, but I complied a list to look out for as preloved on the Bay at about 1/4 of the price, so it was still MSE. 

Anyway, after all that nonsense, and shopping in a Morries I don't like, I fell fast asleep, pm!  

I must stop rambling and do something useful, like visit the dum.. recycling facility. DD has volunteered to help me and I'm not turning the offer down! 

OT: Not quite a frost this morning, and more sunshine, so these will survive for a while yet if the slugs don't get them. I grew these after the fancy red ones, called 'Rubenza,' failed to impress.

twopenny

Oh what a lovely bright colour Dusty! Just right for this morning.

So hurrumph!! 8c here with blanket grey cloud here 😕
I've given in after an hour of shivering and put the heating on. And the fluorescent light. No sign of it changing while my barometer and the met say sunshine.

So onwards with the preserves. Probably the ironing too as both provide warmth.

Glad stinky is feeling better Greenbee, think I'm going to call him Handsome because he's gorgeous, is better. If he's too much trouble for you I'll have him 🙂

Farway are you as good looking as your mother? She looks quite the adventurer.

Bluey, no idea when I'll get some info on the op. Haven't made contact with the new surgery, 2 advanced physios have no further appointments with, two lovely pharmacies bought out and dismal. We have 3 left in a 50 mile radius.
But neighbour had hospital appointment by post with no time on it. Post arrives between 1 & 3pm. Told he had missed it so he did an emergency dash up and drove home one eyed.......
Bet you're glad you are where you are Dusty . Hope Mrs D likes her new shoes.

Dustyevsky

twopenny said:

Bluey, no idea when I'll get some info on the op. Haven't made contact with the new surgery, 2 advanced physics have no further appointments with, two lovely pharmacies bought out and dismal. We have 3 left in a 50 mile radius.
But neighbour had hospital appointment by post with no time on it. Post arrives between 1 & 3pm. Told he had missed it so he did an emergency dash up and drove home one eyed.......
Bet you're glad you are where you are Dusty . Hope Mrs D likes her new shoes.

We are. The NHS still works here, and that's thanks to staff being flexible and innovative, using the resources to the max. Mrs D was early for her appt yesterday, but was seen immediately a space became free. My time in Dunelm was mercifully short! 

However, availability does depend on one's ability to travel. I've totted them up, and since coming here, we've used 9 hospitals; one out of county and several others more than 25 miles distant. 

Just getting simple info on basics, like shoes, is so useful. We wouldn't have naturally chosen the kind that will be most suitable to use with ortho inserts. I can't get the same info for me....yet...but there are ways and means.  Meanwhile, I have 3 pairs to go on the Bay this winter! 

greenbee

I've been advised to keep going back to Hampshire for my specialist treatment (partly to do with continuity of care, and the risk of going on a waiting list compromising my treatment along with someone deciding they have a better idea). However, the GP service here (although the surgery is almost falling down, like the local hospital) is fantastic and flexible - much more so than where I was before in a much wealthier area with a much more modern and smarter surgery! However, the hospital in hampshire send all my correspondence electronically via the NHS app, which seems to be much more efficient than dictating-typing-signing-printing-posting. They still have to do the first three, obviously, so it still takes a while, but letters arrive, and appointment details appear within an hour of being made. 

Stinky has had a lovely walk, run around like a lunatic, and is now resting upside down in his bed. It was glorious outside in the sunshine. Sadly inside my north-facing kitchen it is cold and dark. Luckily the solar panels are working well, water is heating, battery is full and I have plenty of logs so can light the fire to warm the place up a bit. As I'm having a(nother) tree down tomorrow, I really should try to use up some of the stuff I bought when I moved in. I have a backlog!