[Bob Williams]

Very humid here and 33ºC; we are a few miles inland, but at Sutton on Sea it was 31 and a lovely offshore breeze with an incoming tide. The sea was quite warm although cooler than the sand, which was very hot. We two enthusiastic paddlers cooled our baking feet and managed to get our shorts wet.

Then a lovely farm-produced ice cream at Farmer Brown’s van. Visited daughter and gdaughter, home for tea, smashing day.

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Thanks Dave, I understand that. Very good analogy.

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Yes I can understand that Nolan. You always have to decide on the choice of car with your sensible head, not your Petrol Head! The emissions problem I beat by using Shell V-power. Expensive, but as I “before and after” – before with ordinary 95 octane, after with 97/98 octane. It ups the sensors and chip to accept higher octane automatically, built into the electronics and engine by Hyundai.

Tested by the lad whose dad once owned the workshop I ran: I trained him. Must have made a good job of it, as he now owns his own performance motor business and has all the latest gear.

The higher octane does make a difference, although some will sneer because they have used it and it makes no difference if their motor does not have that built in. After the last service Read Hyundai asked me if I was using high octane fuel, as they had tested emissions. I carried out my own MPG checks over 3 tanks of 95 compared to 3 of 97. There was a small improvement, but the best part is smoother running and improved acceleration. I often get Boy Racers* tailgating me (Oldphart, small car) then watch my rear view mirror as their car disappears behind me.

*Older BMW’s and older VW Golf’s are the worst, with the occasional 1.2 Corsa. I wouldn’t argue with a Fiesta ST though.??

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I would also be impressed, but that’s about par for a 78 yo Potteries lad!

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This is the latest version of my own:

https://tinyurl.com/y6gkkwut

They have gone with the engine I have – 125 bhp, 16valve, twin cam. Mine was a one-off demo, sourced by a mate in Motability at Read Hyundai Grimsby, a 6-speed auto, but they have now installed that engine in all manuals now. Even the auto goes like manure sliding from a garden implement, I love it. Might be too thirsty and too much insurance as well for you, though. I often forget that all I have to do is put fuel in it. Everything else is covered.

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As in Dave’s last, but prostate woke me at around 0230 I think*, to thunder in the distance preceded by huge flashes across the big Lincolnshire skies. No rain accompanied it and it was stickily hot. Spent the night until an 0500 prostate alarm woke me again, in the nuddy on top of the bed. Atm it’s 27º and climbing, forecasted to be 30+ by 1400. Going for a paddle at Sutton on Sea later!

*I am not entirely conscious during these nocturnal loo visits, but my aim is still OK.? Any potential burglars would flee at the sight of me in the nuddy.?

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Thanks Dave. Just as I thought: the walls of our bungalow were Council-built in the early 1960’s. Externals are pretty solid walls, but internals are made of something approximating compacted brick dust. Fixing anything to an internal wall always requires expanding rawlplugs and paying close attention to the spirit level!

The Plusnet Hub One router is not as bad as some make out, certainly much better than the Sky one ever was. My phone pings when passing by the bungalow behind my own, coming home on the A157. There is good WiFi all over the house and outside, so when I get my new replacement shed later in the year. I may turn that into a Man Cave. With permission ??.

One question: can I fit a TP-Link SG-105 to a cat 5e in the lounge for 2 or 3 devices, and another here in the desktop room/spare bedroom? Both connected by a Cat 6 cable from the 5-port router.

Cheers, Bob.

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Don’t fancy one of these Nolan?

https://tinyurl.com/y6hj6fbf

Hyundai are making some great motors.

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Not a long walk to the sea from there Steve, is it? Have a swim.

I had a shower this morning, another a short while ago. P****d -off sweat, after following instructions from my Gert to fit a new fly screen to the back door, after 3 other jobs I did not recall saying I would do, but was firmly told that I had. Got fed up with the instructions, had a short sharp debate, Gert made tea, I fitted the fly screen. Without instructions, how did I manage???

Tonight here we are supposed to have heavy rain, starting at 0300 and tailing off at about 0700. My Gert has watered the garden, against my advice. Thinking of waking her at 0300 when the thunderstorms start, to tell her how right I was (again) then realised that even the loudest thunder does not wake me when I am in the land of Nod. In fact the only thing that does wake me is this bloody Prostate, fortunately I wake for a P***.

My Gert can’t swim and I have the shallow end of the bed … ?☺

And the fly screen will get wet, but I am not taking it down again!

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Thanks Graham, good info. More education!

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dwynnehugh wrote:

” …. that happening. 2015 is not that far away, BT a…..” Sorry to burst your bubble Bob but 2015 has been in North Wales – perhaps we’re not that far behind the times after all!!! LOL

Meant 2025 Dwynne, my fingers don’t always follow directions! Some very interesting information here from all you guys. I thought this thread would provoke a response and educate me a bit more! JCD, I am doing OK atm, after a long tussle between BT and my ISP Plusnet. BT crashed all phone and BB in the village, I posted some time ago about this. They put in a new ‘Superfast’ cabinet (hollow laugh) but did not research what fibre capacity they would need. Result: BT tells customers and other ISP’s here that we can all go to Superfast Heaven. Whole system crashed within days, some 90% of village without phones or BB, After a long battle, BT had Openreach build a cabinet 3x original size: the ‘join’ can still be seen. Now this is what Plusnet give me:

Which is not bad, I think you will agree.Just tested my phone: 16 Ping, 69.6 Down, 18.7 Up. After our holiday, I might look at my BB and WiFi again.

 

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28ºC in the car earlier when food shopping, 35ºC atm. Probably should go to the beach somewhere, as it is always cooler on our coast. But I cba to make the effort.

Anyone else having swarms of small hoverflies? I love them on my roses, they snap up all the smaller insects but looks like they have run out of aphids and whiteflies. Watching some eating the small black bugs that come with Rape seed crops. They are attracted to bright white/yellow colours and my roses were full of them until the hoverflies could not find any aphids. Now hoverflies are crunching these little buggas, which have very hard shells.

Just wiped out all the ants last week, now these. What next? Don’t mind wasps, they are pollinators. I leave them alone and they tolerate me. Driving is OK if I use the aircon and turn up the fan, but again I cba.

Yesterday SWMBO had an MRI scan at Boston, which is a good few miles away down the A16. Scan was booked for 1720 hours and there was an hour’s delay. On the way back, both starving, we found a great restaurant. Anyone travelling the A16 to and from Boston area, I recommend this:

https://tinyurl.com/yyam4pz9

Loads of ambionce, Rodney! Luvly jubbly!

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Anyway, have a very happy Birthday Les!

‘at ‘aveen some oatcakes?

Better than a cake!

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I’ll look for that Mark, thanks. Know what you mean about TV, my own SWMBO moans at me being here in the spare room/computer room/granddaughter’s Sleepover room all the time. I just find much more interesting stuff via t’internet, than there is on the Box. Mine doesn’t watch soaps, but does watch stuff like Casualty and hospital documentaries. When you have seen as much of the inside of as many hospitals as I have, it puts you off those.

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The only one who disappointed me when I met him, was Bobby Charlton. What a boring bugga he was! I’ve been told that his brother Jack is totally different by an old mate who met him on an Irish fishing trip. In Ireland they love Wor Jackie after he managed the national team in the World Cup. The most entertaining player I ever met, a really funny guy, was”Robbo” – John Robertson, the player Cloughie called “A little fat Genius”. Last year he was voted Best Ever Forest Player in a poll of thousands of supporters, old and younger. Robbo came to lots of Supporters Club ‘do’s’ in many places, I met him at two of them. He had us all in stitches. Never wore anything but jeans and T-shirt, drank vodka neat, smoked like a chimney and could turn defenders inside out. I’ll never forget the sight of Larry Lloyd carrying him on his shoulders after the Euro Cup win in Munich.

I can understand not wanting to meet your heroes, but for me I like to see what they are really made of. I once met Keith Richards behind a marquee at a Dortmund concert. The marquee was a massive toilet between the stage and backstage and it was full, with a big queue, so I went round the back for a leak and there was Keith, smoking some Waccy baccy. He was OK, just a normal guy and no Big Star krap to him. Had a good conversation, he asked me which songs I liked best. In the second spot, he dedicated the song to “A squaddy I met tonight called Bob – This is for you, fella!” Jagger was noticeably annoyed at that, but off they went with “The Last Time” which is one of my favourite Stones tracks. I was proper chuffed.

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Mark Turner wrote:

Bob Williams wrote:

Better than tiss tiss BOOM!!!

Bob have you been watching good omens

Never seen it Mark, I took this from Google Images. I have just started Amazon Prime though and am looking at a Fire Stick, well fed up with Freesat now. What do you recommend?

 

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I’ll let someone else (Dave?) comment on the setup JCD, but I have the TP-Link SG105 , in fact I have two of them and they have worked fine for some time now. The Netgear is obvs more expensive and I don’t see what benefit that gives over the SG105, although I will accept contradiction. As for putting drawings and/or images into Forumite: I have a procedure that works. I use Open Office drawing and Irfan View Image editing, but any photo/drawing software should handle it.

I turn a drawing into an image by copying into Irfan View, save it as an image in Documents and click the Insert/Edit Image in the Forumite bar above (Mountain icon) to Browse to the image saved, click Open. Wait a short while until the details fill the Source box, click OK and the image comes up. Click Image and resize as necessary.

Will you have a future need for more ports in the switch? If so, maybe the 8-port switch would be better for you. Difference between Managed and Unmanaged switches: I used a link something like this to guide me, and found that a managed switch was beyond what I needed.

https://tinyurl.com/y2g2bqfh

Not saying you won’t have a need for a Managed switch, I would expect someone with more knowledge than me to guide you there. Good luck mate!

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Be a long time before 5g gets anywhere near the sticks here, if ever. We would just like to begin with 2g, or any bloody signal! EE are currently working to rebuild the local mast, which is supposed to have been done “Within 8 to 10 working days.” They must work a 2 day week, that period of 5 day working days was up last week.

At least I have the EE Brightbox (cheers JCD!) but there is a stretch from just outside Louth for about 8 or 10 miles along the A157, where no signal is possible. I would like to lynch Kevin bloody Bacon from that inoperative mast!

 

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Better than tiss tiss BOOM!!!

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JayCeeDee wrote:

” Please tell me you haven’t clicked on it yet!! ”

JB hasn’t been back, I fear the worst. John, if you read this and your system is OK, put us out of our misery and tell us you didn’t click on it.

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