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Lynne Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Am i the only one who thinks spying on your > neighbours is creepy? > Which part of the house next? Peepholes to the > bathroom? > And no, to adverse possession, but a possible yes > to trespass and harassment It's a joke!

JohnL Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Reading the instructions on anything used to be > easy LOL. Now I need to put it under the kitchen > cooker light (thats the one I find easiest to help > read things) Don't know how old you are, but I started having trouble in dim light and when I went to the optician found it was the start of cataracts. Not bad enough to treat yet, but will only get worse. Oh happy happy days 🙂

Why don't you trolls crawl back under your bridge? It's pathetic.

malumbu Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Cheers all. My hour counting birds yielded > nothing particularly unusual and of course the > second I look out of the window now I see far more > activity. Didn't feel like cheating though! We had 8 sparrows, two wood pigeons and three mice. Two what might have been great tits in a tree overlooking my garden, don't think that counts. One crow flew over, don't think that counts either. The peacock didn't show up this year 🤣 ETA: Interested in the info about binoculars, thanks.

JickieC Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > HI > My landlord keeps sending me a workman who won't > wear a mask, wash his hands or socially distance > and keeps insisting on cups of tea. > I need some work done but do i really have to put > up with this? > He's says he's exempt but i don't believe him. > I've asked to see the exemption and it's not > forthcoming. But even with an exemption surely a > workman who can't wear a mask isn't the right > workman to be sent into people's homes at this > time? > I would really appreciate some advice > Thank you! Silly question sorry, but have you spoken to your landlord?

wordsworth Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sue Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > An optician once told me those very expensive > > reading lamps you see advertised are a waste of > > money. > > > > He told me what to get, which I have a note of > > somewhere, but it was just something ordinary. > > > > I use an IKEA floorstanding Anglepoise-type > lamp, > > and it's fine. > > > Phew Wordsworth, are you in some way connected with the other trolls on here? Just wondering 🙄

Hamletter Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sue Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > I have a Scottish parent. > > > > Does that mean if Scotland gains independence I > > can have a Scottish passport? > > > Most probably, because you can get an Irish PP if > you have one Irish grand parent from either the > North or South. Yes that was what brought it to mind.

Whoeveritis Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I hate these lofts, they completely ruin the > Victorian houses. Ugly doesn?t even come in to it. I think there are worse things than lofts which ruin the Victorian style of the houses. At least you generally only see the hideous lofts from the back. Inappropriate double glazed windows at the front which aren't sash windows are worse, I think, and also plantation (I think they're called) shutters, though I can see from a functional point of view they are good. ETA: Anyway, I think Bob is probably referring to the original loft, not some carbuncle stuck onto it. ETA: As you were, sorry 😂

An optician once told me those very expensive reading lamps you see advertised are a waste of money. He told me what to get, which I have a note of somewhere, but it was just something ordinary. I use an IKEA floorstanding Anglepoise-type lamp, and it's fine.

niall Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > it was revealed that it had to be administered > through the eyeball to have the required > protection? Yes. I'm more squeamish about having cataracts removed, which is not far off according to my optician ....

I have a Scottish parent. Does that mean if Scotland gains independence I can have a Scottish passport? And if it joins the EU, an EU passport? Assuming I live that long, of course 😂

Bony Fido Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I seem to recall it was a Sainsbury's Freezer > Centre when we moved to SE22 in 1979 and possibly > even an International for a while - memory's > somewhat hazy these days. I still feel like an > outsider in some ways (moved here from Sussex) Could that have been Bejam, which I think Iceland used to be? Iceland was where M&S now is. But I may have got this completely wrong, in those days I only visited Lordship Lane to go to the Dulwich Tandoori on a Saturday night 😂

redjam Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Wonder what the rationale is for clearing out all > the vegetation. I imagine it's so that the water can run away more easily, and not be left to make the surrounding ground waterlogged. We have work parties twice a year on our allotment site, and among the things done are clearing any vegetation blocking the ditches/drains which take away water. Like everywhere else the site is very waterlogged in places at the moment though. One of the oldest plotholders says it's the wettest winter he can remember, and he thinks it's due to climate change 😥

Thanks for that explanation, JRJ.

Lynne Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Post today! > Wrong address!! 😭😂

johnqadams Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- I saw signs up about joining the > Coop; I thought I needed to be a member to shop > there. 🙈 In the fifties everybody had a Co-op number to get their divvi 🙂 I think I may have got that wrong 😂

SpringTime Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > pinkladybird Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Just wondering how long people have to wait for > > their second jab of the Pfizer vaccine? > > > Just had my first jab and they didn't tell me. I thought they were supposed to book the second jab when you had the first one?

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Penguin68 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I just hope you can cut-over the history into the > new site - being able to search and reference what > went on before is often useful as things do tend > to come around again in one guise or another. Agreed. It was a pity a lot of threads disappeared last time, though understandable. And it would be great to have some warning if our PMs are going to disappear!

JohnL Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- I remember the recovery started with the > iMac - a big bright colourful thing that cheered > you up :) > > This thing - the G3 > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMac_G3 It's lovely! I want one! ❤️

Crikey!

Spartacus Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Let it all out Kid, free your mind as its put "a > hex on you" > You will feel a whole dos better once you can get > back to basic86 I once tried to learn Fortran. I went to classes, in the seventies it must have been. I can still recall sitting in a room and realising I had reached a point (not long into the course, lol) where I just couldn't get my head around whatever was being taught at that session. I never went back. I was gobsmacked when somebody told me recently that Fortran is still used - surely this can't be true?

Spartacus Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sue > A diagonal line in marker pen across the top of > the punched cards helped get them back in order if > you dropped them. > I think somebody once told me that! It was more finding the error/s that was the problem. I used to go running off to somebody who knew more about it all than me :))

Spartacus Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Dial up ? Wow that was posh. I used punch cards > and mounted tapes to get a computer the size of a > room to send a message to another computer > (equally the same size) in the next building > In the seventies, to do a straightforward statistical analysis for some research, I had to punch out a card for each piece of data, and a load of cards for the actual statistical thing (it had some long name, can't remember what). Then all the cards were put in a box and had to be in exactly the right order. If you dropped the box, God help you. Then you took them to the computer lab (as you say, computer the size of a room) and left them there for a day or so. Then when you collected them, generally there was a long scroll of paper saying error error error and you had to go through all the cards to find the error, and then take them back to the lab again. Oh happy days. I've just remembered the name of the statistical test, it was the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test 😶 You can probably do it these days by pressing a button on a calculator on your mobile (once you've input the data) 😶

JohnL Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------ > > His visit to Scotland was important though - he's > developed a new vaccine - Borovax. Chance would be a fine thing!