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Thank you all for your comments, sadly the peace and quiet will be shattered here in about an hour when Jacob and his sister Sophia arrive and stay overnight ;) Roast beef dinner later :)

Xmas is hard on (young) men and beasts alike, about an hour after lunch

23:30 and I've closed the kitchen and escaped up to radio shack to see who's on air :) Had a great day, our son is staying for a few days so at home this morning we all took a covid test, all clear and went to see the grandchildren for a couple of hours. Same deal Monday but they are coming to...

My wife did her Registered Mental Health Nurse training at All Saints and nursed for 40 years (twenty here in Wales), retired and a couple of months later when covid arrived she had a phone call and she's back working Crisis Intervention. I was a general nurse and the wife and I have often...

In the past I've had a batch of compatible cartridges rejected by the printer but they are so cheap and its so easy to buy from a different supplier I just dumped them and gone with a new batch which solves the issue. Not convinced taking the printer off line makes any difference mines wired to...

Lets all have a great 2022, all the best from an ex-brummie in Wales

You can get away with one USB port, keyboards, mice, external speakers etc can all be had running via blue tooth so no cables to mess with plus obviously you can use an expansion block for extra ports. To be honest all my DVD based software I've moved onto USB sticks (and back up sticks)...

My wife had a year between Drama School (Birmingham school of speech training and dramatic art) and starting her nurse training and worked in the cost office there in Hockley. She's often said it was the best job she ever had in many ways, the staff were wonderful and the woman who ran the...

Late reply but here goes. The Rippingille stoves were wick powered and not pressurised like Primus type stove. Perfect in a small household or extended base camp camping and also popular on canal barges. I had a No3 in my stove collection for a time but traded it. Powered by 2 twin wick...

A school friend of mine lived in Gough Rd Edgbaston, big old Georgian pile (in need of work as they say) but I loved going there, living in Balfour House flat going to a 19 roomed house was amazing but anyway, in the garden three stone slabs covered a well and friends father would water the...

Pictures like that put life in perspective for me, we really don't know how lucky we are today even with covid. A few days ago a woman in Tesco erupted at a member of staff because there was no Bavarian Smoked Ham, "You tell me, go on tell me what my children will take to school tomorrow, they...

I've one friend from pre teen school years and we are in very regular contact, a couple of friends from senior school days but thats about it; the bulk of my long term friends were formed after school for me. That said, social media has put me back in touch with a lot of 'mates' these last few...

My mom was a nurse and obsessed with regular bowel movement so Friday night before bed it was senna granules to get things moving the next morning needed or not. Right up until her death when I phoned the first question she'd ask is 'are you regular'. I don't remember the word 'purge' being...

Windows 10 has full support for another three years so if your machines can't run it don't worry about it. There are work arounds to install it on non compatible machines but I won't be bothering plus I'd be surprised if MS don't change the goalposts on requirements given the are billions of...

I use a Xiegu G90 in the shed. 1 - 20w, SDR, perfect for digital, happy running off a 7Ah gel battery so ideal for portable use and its ATU could tune a damp lettuce leaf, its excellent. I had hoped to have a full attic conversion done before xmas but that won't happen till next year when...

Brew in the mancave tonight

Are you sure Microsoft have not given you the free upgrade to Windows 11?

Thread revival, hope its OK. Al Stevens ran the doormen at the Kings Head when I ran it back in the 80s, he was just starting out on his own then IIRC, his brother Bobby worked the door (very good at their job), another doorman he employed was Dennis Baker (no relation to me). Steve did have a...

I have trained a little in Tai Chi but these days I do Karate Kata but slowly, in a Tai Chi Set sort of way if that makes sense and it keeps my limbs loose. Watch the sheer focus on this wonderful young woman

More than likely that we shared the dojo at the same time somewhere along the way. I trained there (and these are guesses) 73 to about76 then moved from brum for while then moved back and trained again for a while and this went on until around 1980 (work kept moving me around). My wife used to...