Sue

Sue Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Could you tell me whether old threads are saved > anywhere "off the forum"? > > Obviously they have to be deleted from the forum > to make space for new ones, I just wonder whether > they are cached somewhere please? Not sure if > that's the correct technical term. xxxxxxx Any answers? Just yes or no would be fine :)

I find texting extremely useful. Like email, people can pick a text up and answer it in their own time, and you don't have to worry about missed calls and having to return a call after a voicemail. Obviously if something was urgent you'd go through every channel possible to reach somebody, with a phone call being the first option. It does annoy me when people text and wake me up though :)) Once at four in the morning - which was a minor crisis but could have waited till eight ...... Runs away quickly.

Just received this email so thought I would share this extract. I know it isn't just this charity who collects stamps, but I don't have the details of the others to hand. We would be very grateful if you could continue to send in stamps from Christmas cards etc on a regular basis. Do you realise that more stamps will be used over the Christmas period than the rest of the year. If you can, please save them up and send them to: Hearing Dogs For Deaf People P.O Box 6198 Leighton Buzzard Beds LU7 9XT. UK. With your help in 2010 we raised the fantastic sum of ?11,563.93 through used postage stamps alone. Hearing Dog 'Marti' is the sixth dog to be supported by funds raised from stamp recycling helping us to provide complete partnership support throughout Marti's whole working life. Marti is a cheeky Cocker Spaniel x Poodle who lives with Janice. The previous dogs fully supported by stamps alone were Becks, Penny, Womble, Flynn and Woody. All correspondence (membership renewal, monetary donations etc) should be sent to our headquarters. For economical reasons we cannot reply to all donations of stamps but please continue to send them on a regular basis. Please cut/ tear the stamps from the envelope leaving approximately 1/2 cm of paper around the stamp. Foreign stamps can be sent separately and marked clearly on the front of the package ?Foreign Stamps Only? as these generate a greater revenue.

katie1997 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sue Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > katie1997 Wrote: > > > -------------------------------------------------- > > > ----- > > > vry fckg (6) wen sm1 snds a txt nsted of > rnging > > > 1st bt bbm is (tu) > > > > > > eta: m nt tkg t pss m bing srs!! > > > > xxxxx > > > > Predictive text always useful ..... > > Really? I hate texting. Much prefer to pick up the > phone and er, leave voicemail :)) xxxxxxx I meant, so that if you are going to text, you get whole sensible words for the same amount of clicking as small stupid "words" with non-predictive text :)

flapjackdavey Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I saw a flat in the next block to me with full on > christmas lights up and on and this was three > weeks ago .... crazy.:)) xxxxxx So when are the lights going on at Packett Mansions, then, FJD?? Will there be reindeers? You could hang an illuminated crow over the balcony :)) :)) ETA: Reindeer? Reindeers?

As an update, don't get one of those tap aerating things fitted on your bath tap unless you want to wait twice as long as usual for your bath to run .... or have one half the depth you usually have it (maybe that's the idea, come to think of it) :-$

Moos Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sorry Sue, I think this is going to sound really > harsh but if someone sent me an e-Christmas card > I'd think they were either lazy as hell or didn't > like me very much. > > I do struggle to find the time myself and I know > you're really busy but I try to put aside a couple > of evenings with a large glass of wine and write > cards. Probably only manage a couple of dozen so > if you have a lot of friends I guess it might not > be possible. Before we had kids I even made cards > myself... yeah, that's gone for a Burton. > xxxxxxxxx Fair enough, but I have over sixty people to send cards to. For years I made my own cards, but I have too much else to do at the moment. And stamps for that many cards cost a lot, let alone the cost of buying decent cards. I appreciate the cost and effort made by people who still send physical cards, but I'm no longer working and don't have the money I used to for things like that. ETA: I would only buy charity cards, and even the very cheapest ones are not particularly cheap. Personally I'd rather receive a nice e-card than a "real" card that's clearly come out of a box from a remainder bin.

Moos Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I'll have to remember to post my brother's card by > Monday. But everyone else's will probably get put > in the post some time around Christmas Eve. :-$ > xxxxxxxxx A couple of years ago someone sent me a Jacquie Lawson animated Christmas card. Since then, I have mostly sent their e-cards. Once you've put all the email addresses in, you just have to write a general message and one click and it's done. Or you can do individual messages but that takes longer :-$ And you've got all the email addresses saved then for the future. This year, they've got a Christmas letter blank template that you can write a Christmas letter, personalise it for each person as you want and again, one click blah blah. OK you can't hang them on the back of the door or put them on the mantelpiece, but hey it's environmentally friendly (well that's my excuse :-$ ) Has saved me a fortune in cards and stamps :-$ Only thing is, they are a bit twee and most of the accompanying music is truly abysmal. But as e-cards go they're quite sweet - they're not so bad I'm ashamed to send them :)) You get unlimited cards for a year, so with birthdays etc as well it's pretty good value. And people seem to like getting them, or maybe they're just polite .....

Homebase have got all their Christmas lights "half price" (so surely must have doubled the price first?)

red devil Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > For Sue - > http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51wi3wnjNiL. > _SL500_AA300_.jpg xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx :)) :)-D

DulwichFox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It was posted last Xmas... > > Post Office only just got round to delivering > it.. :)) > > Foxy xxxxxxxxx :))

katie1997 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > vry fckg (6) wen sm1 snds a txt nsted of rnging > 1st bt bbm is (tu) > > eta: m nt tkg t pss m bing srs!! xxxxx Predictive text always useful .....

I can't decide whether the senders (a couple) are extremely well organised, orwhether they just want to make sure that they get sent cards themselves :)) ETA: Theirs is always the first card I get, but really, 1 December is a bit over the top, isn't it!

joom Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- I can only hope that he slips up enough on one of > these occasions to finally put him away. xxxxxx Let's hope so, and hope also that would help you get closure on this. Would the CPS (or police) tell you if that was the case?

minder Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > Interesting, as my two teenage daughters (and > myself) think the stuff is really nice. > xxxxxx As an old hippy, I'd love to agree - maybe I've just seen too much of it at markets and festivals over my lifetime :)) But seriously, if you are looking for that kind of thing, you'd get a much better choice elsewhere eg Camden Market. and probably pay less for it. Though somewhat less convenient than Lordship Lane, I agree.

You're welcome, glad it was useful. Just to add, Dennis actually came back today specially to bring me a spray gun for my hosepipe which he hadn't had with him yesterday. What a star.

david_carnell Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Don't play dumb Sue - you know as well as I do > what Huguenot was referring to because we know why > you want to go mining on years old threads. > > Maybe just let it go eh? xxxxxx Actually you have absolutely no idea why I have asked the question I did. I know what you are both referring to, and I can assure you that that is not the reason. OK? ETA: And I am not interested in "years old posts", nor am I interested in threads which were deleted as one-offs by Admin for good reason. So please try not to attempt to read my mind, thanks.

Well this is interesting, because what seems like years ago but probably isn't I responded to requests to volunteer for a Neighbourhood Watch scheme in my road (Ulverscroft Road) and despite chasing them nothing ever seems to have been done re such a scheme here. You would have thought if it's true that burglaries have increased in this area, they'd be wanting to do everything possible to deter thieves, wouldn't you? Maybe I'll try chasing them again .....

David A Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- The artists' supplies place and the kids' clothes shop both > folded pretty quickly xxxxx I don't recall the kids' clothes shop, which probably proves your point, but IIRC the "artists' supplies place" was not so much that as a rather downmarket craft supplies shop (the sort of craft where somebody else produces the stencils, stamps, stickers or whatever, and you just use them, rather than actually creating much yourself). I may be wrong, as I only went in a couple of times, and once was their closing down sale (didn't buy anything) but that's the general impression I got.

Huguenot Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Is it really worth it? xxxxx Eh?

Could you tell me whether old threads are saved anywhere "off the forum"? Obviously they have to be deleted from the forum to make space for new ones, I just wonder whether they are cached somewhere please? Not sure if that's the correct technical term.

Sorry, edited for total stupidity and not reading previous posts :-$

Loz Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I used to have tintinitus. I got the urge to dye > my hair blonde, buy a small dog and go on > adventures. xxxxxxxx (tu)

Thomas Micklewright Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > However, the people they are interviewing seem > very tragic - thousands of pounds in debt for > going to costly courses about making money? > xxxxxxx The way to make money is clearly to charge people enormous amounts of money to tell them how to make money. Bit like those adverts for home working, where what you got was a pack telling you how to make money by sending out packs telling you how to make money by sending out packs etc etc

Otta Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Do you have tinitus? > > Either that, or it's the tortured souls of battery > hens screaming in your ears. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx :))