Sue

Really sorry to hear this. I've been in similar situations but yours sounds worse. Look at the positive - would you rather be you, a lovely trusting person, or him? Imagine what that must be like.

That's very heartwarming, thanks for posting it. I hope your partner got sorted out quickly at A&E and is mobile again and not in pain. Sounds horrible.

I just always tell people I don't give money at the door to anyone, but can they leave me information. They never have any information. They go away.

twister Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > we would be happy to put into a community pub. Say > that the Magdala/Mag/Patch...... Would be a better > option for a community pub. Don't understand, it's probably my fault, but could you explain what you mean?

Jeremy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Erm... it's ebay... it's an auction. ?11.50 is > currently the highest bid. :)) :)) :)) Oh sorry, I hadn't clicked on the link, and I buy quite a lot of stuff at a set "buy it now" price on eBay, had forgotten those heady days when I made bids and won an auction :)) Hadn't realised it must be second hand.

Surely they can't bring in people on a wage of ?2.73 an hour? That must be illegal, surely. Have I missed something?

KidKruger Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Looks like you've already got access to > understairs for storage ? > Or you just want access from the side ? I have a door at one end. Whenever I want to retrieve anything from the other end, I have to take everything out. When my kitchen is done (and whilst it's being done) I have a small freezer which I intend to keep under the stairs, however I also need access to stuff beyond it, plus access to my coal hole via an existing trap door, as the stopcock is down there (ooh missus). I'm going to (hopefully!) remove all the T&G and battens so that I can put the freezer there plus a load of kitchen stuff while the new kitchen is in progress, then when the kitchen is complete I'm going to have the cupboard fitted out with shelves etc for storage, plus several T&G doors for easy access, rather than just one as at present. Does that make sense?! I wanted to remove the T&G now so that I could start putting stuff there before the builders started ....

RosieH Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I really thought this was going to be the opening > line to a joke. Oh dear, sorry!

KidKruger Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sue I can pop round for 10 mins at weekend and > tell you what you've got there. > It's no biggy trust me. KK you're a star! I'll text you :)

Blimey, ?11.50 is ridiculously cheap!! Must be a fake surely??!

Nah not age, I'm doing the 5:2 having realised I was resembling an elephant, and I've lost around half a stone in three weeks. Probably a large percentage of water, but still, I'm quite chuffed. Haven't completely given up alcohol, but drinking a lot less than I was :)

rodneybewes Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I'd second right-clicking's suggestion of the > sansa clip. Will do what you want and cheaply. I had a look at that and if memory serves it was aimed at people exercising and jogging etc ??

Yes, thanks, going to have a look at those.

*Bob*'s pic looks like something by Escher when he was just learning to draw :))

Thanks all. I'll try to attach some rather poor pics of the inside of the cupboard. So you reckon if I remove not just the T&G but also all the wooden strutty things it's nailed on to, the stairs will not fall down, as they're miraculously held up by stuff above them ?? Oh **** I've had to make them all smaller :( Hope they're now big enough to see .... One is very blurry but life is too short .... I expect you get the gist .... ETA: More bad words, I've cleverly repeated one and omitted another, oh well, senility proceeds apace ....

Yes, thanks, it's a good idea, we've both DJed from a laptop in the past and have all the necessary software installed on both our laptops, but laptops are even more of a pain to carry around than a CD player. And if I had to carry round an external hard drive as well, that would increase the pain even more : Plus I wrecked Nygel's laptop by spilling a full glass of wine on it when I was DJing, which was one of the more traumatic experiences of my life (packed bar, evening before Christmas Eve, big flash and bang, no music). I woke up in horror for weeks afterwards :)) But we're not so much wanting something now to DJ from (can't do that easily from a CD player anyway!) as to be able to play prepared playlists before and after gigs and at the interval. My phone has a data card which I presently use just for photos, but even if I put music on there I'm not sure it would be sufficiently sophisticated to be able to make playlists etc.. It's a good phone but at the cheap end (Motorola Moto G 4G I think) and I can't get any more apps on there as the storage has run out. I've already had to delete some. I don't think I can put apps onto the data card. ETA: Sorry, realise the above sounds rather negative, I'm truly grateful for the suggestions!

Alex K Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Hawks pluck away the breast plumage (small, white, > fluffy) and eat the pectoral muscle as well as, > from below, the liver, heart, and lights under the > eaves of the ribs and breastbone. The tail- and > wingfeathers, recognisably "pigeon", may be with > the rest of the corpse in a neighbour's back > garden. :(

Hmmm, OK, clearly I don't understand modern technology ..... not that I actually thought that I did ..... The car stereo won't play FLAC files from a USB stick, and the instruction book gives a list of file types it supports, which doesn't include FLAC. My head hurts now :)

*Bob* Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Get at it with a lump hammer, Sue.. What's the > worst that can happen EH? > The whole house collapses, taking with it me, my sister and her parrot (both currently staying), and then the whole terrace collapses on both sides of it like dominoes :)) Then my insurance company won't pay up for any of it :)) though I suppose that probably wouldn't be my problem as I'd be buried under a pile of rubble :)) OK more stupidity. How can something on the floor above hold up stairs going from that floor to the bottom floor?

Thanks right-clicking, I don't think my phone is up to it but I suppose I could try. Not sure I'd be able to easily access tracks I needed, as I would have to keep them on a data card. But then I've never used my phone for music storage, so maybe I'm wrong. My car player definitely does not play FLAC files. Jeremy, you're probably right that it's preferable to get a dedicated audio player.

Stupid question I know, but if I remove the tongue and groove panelling and the laths it's nailed onto from my understairs cupboard, the stairs won't fall down, will they? I want to store stuff under there temporarily but still be able to get at it without having to take everything else out first, and the cupboard is being rebuilt at some point anyway. Not being an engineer - and my school physics teacher having omitted to teach me any mechanics because "girls don't like mechanics" (thanks Mrs Garnett, it was a compulsory section of the A level paper :)) ) I have no idea what may be holding the stairs up apart from a few flimsy bits of wood :))

Hadn't thought of that option! Thanks. I want a tablet anyway ..... Most of my music files are stored as FLAC on my main music system for the same reason you give, but I can't play FLAC files on my car player, so I wouldn't want to store a load of FLAC files on a portable player.

We are looking for an mp3 player to play tracks at gigs instead of carting round a CD player and compilation CDs (still in the twentieth century or before, we are) Don't particularly use itunes etc, most of the tracks would probably come from existing CDs, memory sticks etc.. Reviews I've seen mainly seem to be for ipods and other Apple products. Can anybody point me in the direction of something decent other than Apple? Needs to be quite big capacity preferably. The only five star reviewed one I can see on Amazon (yes, I know, and they don't even give Nectar points any more) is ?170 :( Which as just about every device I possess is breaking down at the moment, I'd rather not spend :))

Excellent! It probably was a blackcap, then! Sadly on the same day though, there appeared a large amount of what look like pigeon feathers in the garden - anybody seen any birds of prey around? Seems maybe more likely than a cat?? I've only seen one in my garden once, and that was a few years back now. May have been a youngish pigeon as most of the feathers are small, white and fluffy, with a few larger pigeon-ish ones. Or would a bird of prey have just flown off with the whole pigeon, so there wouldn't be any feathers left? Sad topic, sorry :(

Yes, I thought she must have seen a Great Tit or a Coal Tit, but she looked at photos on a bird ID app she has and says it didn't look like either of those and deffo had no bib.... Also very distinctive format (?) of cap.