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Can’t forget my gran’s birthday, it’s the same day of September as her son’s: my dad, and I still miss them both. Gran went in 1967, dad in July 1988. I last saw gran a couple of days before she passed, got a quick trip from Aden courtesy of the RAF. She was 89, had a hard life after 13 kids and coping with granddad, who led strikes against the Pottery owners but forgot to keep the family fed. Gran was in a Sanatorium in Stoke, lying in bed with dad sitting one side, me the other. When dad made a risky joke to cheer her up, she raised up and slapped him hard upside the head. Dad, in his 50’s, was shocked, I was hysterical.
Gran was born in a Romany caravan and spent her younger days in the West Country. “Oi told ‘ee afore, you’m never too old fer a good ‘idin!” She was something special, I know how you must be feeling Lee.
Should have been nicked for the unofficial AWOL trip, but we were short handed and it never happened.
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I'm out.Careful Nolan, this is not strictly true:
” Also having the tracking checked as they reckon that’s why only the one tyre is worn. ”
If tracking was out, you would have wear on both front tyres. Wear on both fronts, outer edge of tread = “Toeing-in.” Inner edge – “Toeing-out.”
One front tyre probably means a suspension or steering part has wear on that side, possibly a ball joint or a bush. If they find and repair the worn component, I would always advise that steering alignment (tracking) is done anyway. After my recent first service on the iX20, Read Hyundai sent me a video with a warning to watch the front tyres, as mine were beginning to wear on the inner edges: both tyres are evenly worn. I will make an appointment at Kwikfit soon, Motability has a contract with them and I get along well with the Grimsby workshop. One tip, wherever you go for tyres and work: look at your tyres, note the size and make and tell them when you book, to make sure they have at least one of the right spec in stock.
Our roads around here are absolutely awful, like driving through a Third World country. No wonder my steering is out, Lincolnshire Highways (well, their civil contractors) patch the roads and often the patches are worse than the potholes were!
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I'm out.I just caught this Lee, so sorry about your nan and I think we all realised how much she meant to you. The Forum is a great service you created and run well, but it is not life. Whatever you need to do with it, you have at least my blessing and I bet the blessing and encouragement of everyone here. You are NOT letting anyone down: you rebuilt something from the ground up that was dead and made it so different and better than it was. Now you need to look after yourself and take stock about the rest of your life mate.
Whatever you need to get off your chest, we are all here for you. Just don’t sit home moping, that doesn’t do any good, I’ve been there in that dark place, over 30 years ago. Have a good long think and make a plan for whatever you want to do next. Stay as cool as our cat:
Misty has Life cracked!
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I'm out.90+ grumpy neighbour is the bane of our Close, I have had so many problems with his stuff. He had a perfectly good TV until 5 years ago, a Toshiba HD 32″ and he was OK until he messed up the Tuning. Bugga’d up all the channel settings by trying to get what next door had: next door has Sky, he has Freeview! He begged at my doorstep, I went down and set the TV to Auto tune, after trying hard to explain that his neighbour had Sky. I showed him neighbour’s dish and his own aerial, explained difference. He asked me how much for Sky and decided it was too much even for the basics. Then he went off at a tangent, complaining that it was the government’s fault and somehow connected that to the Digital Switchover a few years ago. I had a Frustration Head by then, so left him moaning and went home. Week after, he turns up with a clock that had stopped working. Battery was dead! A few months later, he messes up the TV tuning again, I reset it and told him not to touch it again.
Next thing I know, he buys a new LG 50″ TV! Brilliant picture, but he was sitting about 3 feet away from it. He had gone back to believing that he could get Sky again. I asked for his son’s number, as he was the idiot who got the new TV. Told him that he was now responsible for his own mistake and I would not be helping his dad again: if his dad turned up on my doorstep, I would direct him to son. Told dad he will get no more help from me, but I would help if he was ill. The old git never seems to get ill!
There is only so much that you can stand: being a cheery, happy optimist I cannot stand moaners.
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I'm out.March 18, 2019 at 4:18 pm in reply to: Read First if flying on a Boeing 737 Max–or maybe not! #31857Nolan & JCD, yes I love Creedence. John Fogerty is still touring AFAIK, still making great music. “Run Through The Jungle” is all about the US Gun Lobby; “#200 million guns are loading, Satan cries ‘Take Aim!’# ” No one else has a voice like John Fogerty’s! ‘Like singing through a bucket of gravel’ is one quote I recall. “Lodi” the town venue in the song, is about the equivalent of a Northern English club scene in the ’60’s and ’70’s.
A happier song is “Lookin’ Out My Back Door”. John is said to have written that after watching Monty Python for the first time.
Ed, that is a sobering link. Penny pinching that is going to cost them $billions, I believe.
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I'm out.Looking at the news just now, I was concerned whether Steve had managed to keep his feet dry!! Luckily iirc he’s halfway up a mountain so should have a good view of the big puddles!!
No, BL, he’s actually halfway down. Hehe. ??
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I'm out.Thanks BL.
JB, sorry to hear about your wife’s heart problems but glad she is clear of cancer. “We have good news and bad news.” Hope the Heart tablets keep her well. Along with other daily medication, I am on 2x Erythromycin twice a day to replace the work of my missing spleen, so I know how she must feel. Our meds drawer is chock full!
Update on the Close GCH workers: they took the sand (after an hour of sweeping it back together) but they piled the fencing into a corner. Yes, that’s for another team to collect. Remember the company name: Gallagher. I would not employ them to fill a hole in the road.
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I'm out.Well I was well wrong twice! The Scots fought like tigers in that second half and really deserved to win, but fair play to England for forcing a late draw.
Nolan I may have put the mockers on Swansea but I don’t think you care too much about Swansea or the round ball game anyway, do you?
Comeback Day in both games, now Man United have just been knocked out of the FA cup by a much better team. Only one set of Manc’s to deal with now.
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I'm out.In 1995 when I was registered disabled and ended my work as a workshop foreman, I attended a Disability College for a 13 month NVQ course in Business Admin/Accounting. I also attended a local technical college at weekends for NVQ in IT. I very soon was doing more IT within the BusAd course and found it more interesting, but the Accounting came in useful later*. I was a computing virgin before I went to these colleges, had never used one.
I passed NVQ Level 3 in the BusAd course within 11 of the 13 months and the tutor typed out the results from my course work and final exam, showed me how to use the printer to print it all out. It was a long list! I realise now that was all done on a dot matrix printer, one continuous banner roll of paper. This was backed up by certificates, which I still have somewhere. Everything in this world of computers was completely new to me, but I learned quickly and realised that I was seeing the future that had begun to roll without my participation until this late stage. Less said about the County Council job I eventually found, the better, but they gave me a payout after ill health caused them to retire me and I used it to start a printing business from home: when the kids left, I had two bedrooms to work with! My first printer was a Canon, can’t recall which model but a cheap inkjet. Then an HP Deskjet 890C; http://tinyurl.com/y57raern
*I managed my own accounts and tax when I ran the printing business, so successfully that I actually paid very little tax after the wrinkles taught me by my old tutor. (“Learn what is illegal, pass on most of what is immoral, but remember that profit is not a dirty word”) RIP David Gratton.
This printer was fine until the business began to gradually take off and I saw an opening for supplying entertainers, businesses and independent schools with brochures, leaflets, books, and posters. I needed an A3 wide carriage and I bought the HP CP 1700: http://tinyurl.com/ybzcnm5c This gave me great service, but was expensive to run: 4 big printheads and separate ink tanks. It was so big, it came in its own crate, which I kept in the loft and used to transport it when I finally retired and sold it to a mate. That old 1700 earned me a good few retirement vouchers, it just kept going as I threw loads of different work at it for over 7 years. It was still going in 2008, last time I saw this particular mate before he vacated his perch. It earned its keep with me and I still got about 50% of the original price when it went.
I loved HP printers which is why I bought the Photosmart C5380, but HP did not have anything similar to replace it, which is why I now own a Canon TS 6150.
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I'm out.Nolan, looks like (might be) a double Welsh celebration: Swansea 2-0 up vs. Man City in the round ball game!
Long way to go yet though.
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I'm out.I have been very pleased with the new printer I bought, the Canon TS6150:
I had to give my old HP Photosmart C5380 away: had it on sale in several places for months, no takers and it was gradually giving up in a couple of areas. (I showed faults in the ads) Eventually Freecycle saw it go locally, I told the bloke about the problems but I don’t think he was listening. 2 days after he took it, an email – “Why did you want to get rid of this, it’s fantastic!” 3 weeks later he was complaining about it in another email: “What can I do?” I reminded him that it was free and recommended Freecycle. He has not been back…
The Canon is exactly what I wanted to replace the HP, who do not produce anything half as good, or even half as good as the old C5380 would have been, had they upgraded it with some of the Canon’s spec’s and removed old carp such as DVD label printing. Photos are just as good or better than the 5380, which printed brilliant photos, many still showing perfect colours without fading today, after 8 or 9 years.
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I'm out.Great win for Wales and winning the Grand Slam will boost them for the World Cup. I will have bragging rights over my Scots great nephew, looks like. England buldozing them into the Twickers turf.
Might have cause to regret these words, later.
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I'm out.Much like a maternal cousin I had found some years ago, in my first Family history attempts. He had some information that would go in a an ordinary DL envelope as letter post. I asked him on phone if he would send it. He asked for a stamp, which would of course cost me 2 stamps!
We are no longer in contact, I found the info via another much older cousin, who told me that an uncle I hardly knew was just like that. Then I remembered some of the penny-pinching by my mam.
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I'm out.I’m just wondering if this Topic will make 100 pages before the whole thing goes TU, one way or another.
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I'm out.I’ll just get a new feather for one of my old hats, Steve. I’m a pensioner, you know… ☺?
Now, which hat?…
Well done Dan, result! Hope it ends well for you both.
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I'm out.Best part of your last is this Mark: –
” He has already bought a new printer… ” – bet you’re relieved!
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I'm out.“Marian” gave me the same message. It would be good to respond to ‘her’ in a pidgin, garbled version of ‘her’ own language. See how that feels, idiot!
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I'm out.Thanks Ed.
Very few crowded places where I live: the only activity in our Close recently was supplied by the clowns who came to fit GCH. They left the hazard fencing up yesterday: it was protecting nothing because they had finished the work. No one pointed out the weather forecast for last night to them, consequently the hazard fencing was spread all over the opposite bungalows’ frontage. Removal van drivers bringing in a new neighbour’s furniture, had to pick it all up before they could get in.
The clowns came later and removed most of it, but left a few pieces ‘protecting’ a small pile of sand, which they industriously gathered into a pile. Sample conversation between said clowns and myself:
“Why are you leaving that fencing? It protects nothing but sand.”
“Well it’s our sand and the fencing keeps it in.”
“The fencing is open, there are only two horizontal bars. If it’s your fencing you can use that shovel in your truck to load it into the truck. Take it away, the winds are forecast to be stronger tonight than last night and the sand will be all over the Close, how can the fencing possibly retain the sand?”
“We can’t take it, that’s for another team.”
You couldn’t make it up….
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I'm out.In regards to the farmers and the EU subs, I think they have had it to good for too long. The whole subsidiary should of been on a sliding scale to help them with any transition. 40 years is long enough. I can imagine we now have 3rd gen farmers, picking cheques up for the most minamal effort. I bet there is a large percentage of them, that have no idea how to farm properly and economically. That’s a sweeping statment, but I bet there is some truth it. Why would I invest time, effort and money learning new skills that I thought I’d never need. I half expect if we do drop out, they couldn’t produce half of what would be expected of them. They would all be knocking on the pms door for massive grants to modernise. Farming equipment isn’t cheap. Million qiud harvesters etc.. A bit of a rant, sorry.
The majority of Lincolnshire (and I suspect all East Anglian) farmers have large farms and have formed combines over the years. The majority are profitable due to economies of scale: they also help out other farmers all over England and Wales when they can, such as during the Cumbrian and Somerset floods, when many farmers here cooperated to supply and transport hay and Kale to those who had no winter feed. They also share agricultural machinery costs by buying the big stuff between several farms. They are going to be mostly unaffected by the loss of EU subs, and in any event the government has committed to replacing it with a British government equivalent. A lot of Lincolnshire & East Anglian grain goes to Europe, but they are also negotiating with other countries to find other exports. Probably why 90% of Lincs farmers voted Leave?
Remember where your food comes from! Lincs & E. Anglia could support the whole country.
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I'm out.Thanks guys, as always your words give me heart and cheer me up.
JCD: you are far too correct! ?☹ SWMBO is waiting for me to shower and dress (had a lazy morning) before (a) fitting the two birthday pressies from lovely gdaughter* and (b) due to collapsed fence, have to go see my mate Andy down the road at his shed/fencing works.
*Clock/Thermometer/hanging basket and another hanging basket. Time to get out the stepladders. Sun is persisting to shine too. Bugga!
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