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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!

JohnL Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Amazing I remember when all this was brand new. > Makes me feel ancient. > Looking back, this must have been about twenty years ago. Putting together a website from scratch. Bloody hell. Twenty years!!! 😮😮😮

Not software, but I've found TSO Host cheap and reliable for hosting a website. No idea if it's a similar system for forums, though!

JohnL Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Oh - I found a little tutorial site. > > https://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp I think that was where I learned html what seems like zillions of years ago. Over a very intensive weekend. Then I spent the next weekend learning CSS. It was very useful at the time 😶

This is getting boring, Trolley Snatcha.

Following the phone call from their rheumatology department, when I told them I'd already had the jab at St Thomas's, I've just now had a text from Kings, saying they are inviting "specified patients" to have the jab there, and to ignore the text if an appointment is already booked with my GP or another hospital. They then give an email address to which you have to respond with your details - which include your KCH hospital number (if known) but not your NHS number. This all seems like a terrible waste of admin resources. Surely there must be/should be a central database? No? I'm waiting for a call from my GP now ... 🙄

There's no stopping you now, KK 🤣

Spartacus Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Okay > I did send it to kid > But > And admin don't shoot me for this > > Type the following without spaces > > your text > > Which results in > > your text > > Please pay ?2 to my PayPal account > Name SpartacusWantsAComedyShowcase Ah! I hadn't thought of doing it with spaces! But I use b, not strong .

Spartacus Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > KidKruger Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > That's really cool, how do you make the letters > go > > bold like that ? > > Magic > > I could show you but when I type the commands in > it makes the text bold so it doesn't help ... > > Lol I tried to do that by putting "close bracket" in the first command and "open bracket" in the second command, instead of the actual (well, the other way round) but that didn't work either!

KidKruger Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > That's really cool, how do you make the letters go > bold like that ? You do it as you would in html. You will have to Google it as I can't work out a way to do it unless I do a screenshot of what I type.

Trolley Snatcha Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sue Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > 🙄🙄🙄 > > > > I don't do "important community work". > > > > My partner and I run music gigs (or did) and > have > > organised music stages at some community > events. > > > > Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit, BTW. > > > Wow! your partner and you run music gigs? I bet > they were proper raucous affairs! And what of > these music stages you speak of- im most > intrigued, since Glastonbury is off ive been > looking for an altenative. > > whatever would the good folk of ED do without you? You're a real asset to this forum, aren't you? (That was sarcastic, BTW)

ken78 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > wordsworth Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Sue Wrote: > > > -------------------------------------------------- > > > ----- > > > 🙄🙄🙄 > > > > > > I don't do "important community work". > > > > > > My partner and I run music gigs (or did) and > > have > > > organised music stages at some community > > events. > > > > > > Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit, BTW. > > > > > > No it isn't necessarily > > sue who had a go at you for you to say this " > Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit" was it me ????? No.