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God I'm confused. I have been using Carbonite for a few years to back stuff up, but I'm not happy with it any more. Fox, is your system foolproof ie everything is safe for ever? I have a load of stuff backed up on an external hard drive, but obviously that could fail. Is yours a sort of mixture between that and the Cloud? I'm not bothered about sharing stuff particularly, I just want to be able to retrieve it if the worst happens and my laptop crashes - documents, photos and music.

Had a small group (at least three) of smartly dressed people from ADT arrive at my door today saying they were doing "security surveys" of people's homes in order to "reduce the crime rate in the area." Not selling alarms, oh no, perish the thought. Just a warning, people. Assuming you don't want their obviously unbiassed advice, of course :)

The Minkey Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sue: I do have the the channels listed, the > problem is that they eithe return 'no signal' or > the picture is so broken up it's unwatchable. > > That's very interesting Bic Basher. What were > those of us with an HD Ready TV meant to do to > retune, do you know? xxxxxxx It has just come back to me that when I retuned mine, there were instructions to clear all the existing channels first and then start again from scratch. In case that's of any relevance! ETA: You also need to delete duplicates of the same channel, ie the ones without a strong signal. ETA: Yes, sorry, it's what Bic Basher said, you do it as a First Time Installation. But then still delete the ones without a good signal.

Perhaps this is some sort of ED collaboration between David Shrigley and Stik .....

James Barber Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > 30" gas mains leaking gas - emergency repairs. xxxxx When I passed - excruciatingly slowly - on a bus last night, there were four guys in yellow jackets just standing around staring at the repair site ... with traffic jammed in both directions apparently due (in the direction heading up to the library) to a police car parked outside The Bishop at a crucial point .....

Again probably a stupid question, but on my system the BBC etc channels came up as numbered in the thousands rather than at the beginning. I haven't been bothered to change them, although I could and probably should do, because it doesn't make much practical difference to the way I use my telly, but could it possibly be that you may find them right at the end of all the crap channels?

civilservant Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- omg I'm in danger of turning into a nice person! xxxxxx You are a nice person already! :) ETA: Sorry, just realised your post was probably ironic (?) or something, but I've had two large glasses of red (blush)

The Minkey Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It's been repositioned in every location its lead > will allow. No joy. I've retuned the TV many > times too. xxxxxx Silly question I know, and profuse apologies if you have, but have you retuned the television since the changeover? It needed to be done twice on different dates ..... I wouldn't have thought the aerial needed moving, mine certainly didn't.

civilservant Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I'm wondering if this is not all an elaborate > leg-pull. xxxxxx So am I :)

Whilst obviously hoping that the lady in question is OK, it is a basic common sense precaution to check that there are no cars coming before you step out into the road, surely? Or, if at a crossing of any kind, that any cars approaching appear to be slowing down for the crossing. Unless the car in this case came round a corner very fast and couldn't have been seen? I have several times been nearly knocked down by cyclists at crossings, who basically just ignore the red light, and once nearly by a car which again just went straight through the red light even though I was halfway across the crossing.

Robbie1 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I think the main problem at this > crossing is that there doesn't seem to be the > usual green/red man alert light. xxxxxx There is, but it is on the kerb where the pedestrian is standing, on the part where you press the button, rather than across the road. I had assumed that this was to make it easier to see for people who might have visual difficulties. However I agree that if you are used to the old design, it is hard to get used to looking in that place. It's probably a good idea to look for the lights to turn red for the cars, anyway (which happens before the pedestrian signal turns green in any case), and make sure nothing is speeding towards the crossing and likely to go through the red, before starting to cross. Shouldn't have to, but there are so many rubbish drivers these days :(

I'm sure it's no consolation whatsoever, but in a previous incarnation I used to work for Royal Mail (not as a postie!) and I still receive Courier, their staff newsletter. There have been several articles in it recently about various aspects of delivery staff not doing their jobs properly, plus details of posties who have been prosecuted/imprisoned for theft from the mail, presumably as a warning ......

Victoria Inn??

stephen509 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Phone apps are perfect for me, has never let me > down. > xxxxxxx Let me down once when it said the first 37 was in about twenty five minutes time .... luckily I didn't do as another person at the same stop did who'd also looked via the app and start walking, as one actually turned up in about two minutes .... But usually they're great. Bus time apps not the 37 obviously :)

Jenny1 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Bigalgray - why the need for unkindness? xxxxxx Because if you look at all his posts (click on his name) he's a total tosser.

I used to live in Bredenbury in Herefordshire, and there was one bus in and out a WEEK !!!

And the only other posts from the OP are about a "deadly virus" in East Dulwich. Yawn.

Sorry to hear this, but do you mean one of the zebra crossings? I don't know of any pelican crossing at the intersection of Goose Green and Lordship Lane? There are several now along Lordship Lane, but not right at the Goose Green end.

herrd Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > As for keeping warm in the winter/while smoking, I > suspect a gaggle of disgruntled former regulars > may well go and torch the place when they hear of > the ?4 scotch eggs... xxxxxxx Well they can go to some cheap shop, pay - what? under a pound probably? - and get some vile egg covered in mainly rusk with a tiny bit of pork hidden somewhere in it, or they can pay four quid and get a gourmet egg covered in black pudding ..... Or they can go to a chippie and get a pickled egg .... They'll probably complain that the beer doesn't have a strange off taste, as well .....

I'd deffo be up for ping pong tables in parks round here. Presume you have to carry around your own bats and balls though?

I recently went to a flea circus at a festival. I was devastated to realise that they don't actually use real fleas. For very many years I have been labouring under the delusion that it was actually fleas I saw walking a tightrope and riding a bicyle when I was about five :( But hey, at least no cruelty to fleas involved!

KidKruger Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Lowlander I think by cruel Sue means the insects > get stuck on the glue and slowly dehydrate and die > an agonising death. xxxxxxxx More or less, I had in mind more that in trying to get off the glue they tear their wings off. When I first had a moth problem I spent about fifty quid on non-chemical stuff I bought from John Lewis - lavender, sandalwood etc.. None of it worked. The only thing I found that worked (and so have many other people judging from reviews on Amazon etc) was odourless chemical strips of paper you put amongst your clothes, combined with hanging chemical things for the wardrobe. I also had to spray wall hangings and things initially. I still very occasionally see a moth - recently lately amongst stored towels where I hadn't put paper strips - and I either squish it or spray it with a Rentokil spray, but touch wood the fairly major problem I once had has gone.

Glue traps won't catch all the moths and are very cruel. If you have read the previous threads I'm not sure what is confusing you, but the chemicals I recommended there worked for my moth problem. Nothing else did. Moth eggs are visible, but it would take you a very long time to check every item of clothing you possess, I imagine!

I live in a road off North Cross Road, and I very rarely have any significant problems parking. It can be bad for a couple of hours on Fridays which is the main day of worship at the mosque in NCR, and sometimes on Saturdays because of the market, but even then I can almost always park in my road, just not always right outside my house.

Just bringing this to the top in case some people haven't seen the date of the meeting.