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.