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We were supposed to get it but missed it and swapped it for a beautiful. warm, sunny Saturday. Walked ~ 3 miles along the coastal path, took our son a birthday card, spent a lovely afternoon and evening in our daughter’s beautiful garden, with the wall painting of a cherry tree that she did herself. Since the lockdown she has been concentrating on the garden big time. It’s a house that extends about 500 yards into farmland, with a view over empty countryside. Bees were buzzing around me as I sat in the corner of 3 bushes. A blackbird hopped around my feet, picking up mealworms for his babies as I drank my tea and ate chocolate cake slices.
Our son was engaged in rebuilding yet another stationary engine, in the hope that there may be Shows later this year. He has just finished building his SIXTH shed out of the remains of our old one from the bungalow. Both our kids are well tanned, but from very different activities!
In Mablethorpe, it was noticeable that almost everyone was keeping up social distances, except for one large family, most wearing Leicester City football shirts. They were just unbothered by it all, kids wandering about, screaming and shouting, right next to other people.
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I'm out.Looks like the East is getting the worst weather, big change, for months now the West has had the worst of it. Here it is either raining or misty, a downpour yesterday and not likely to get better for a while. Throughout the first weeks of May we were able to visit our quiet beaches.
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I'm out.Going to take a look at that one Steve. I love Hard SF.
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I'm out.Steve I just saved £84 a year by switching to Plusnet mobile. I got a good discount because I have Plusnet broadband. Not a huge amount, but it is better than nothing. What cracks me up is that I was with EE mobile before I changed to Plusnet, and Plusnet take their service from EE!
You could not make it up. Today I won £2.60 on the Euros. :yahoo: I wouldn’t give up my job, even if I wasn’t well retired. 🙂
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I'm out.Ryan I have the AV500, the earlier version of the one Dave links to. I have double power socket wall warts at both locations, so no need for an extension power cable, which is a no-no, does not work. All I did was plug in both AV 500’s to the sockets, leaving them switched off initially. Connected the router and first AV 500 by Ethernet, connected the second AV 500 by Ethernet, connected second to the desktop (2 rooms and a corridor away from the router location), switched on both AV’s. Pressed the top button on the first AV, then on the second: this pairs them and secures the network.
That’s it. I have a Plusnet Hub router which is not the canine’s jewels, but it all works fine for me. The one thing I have read about powerline adapters, is that they may not work with older houses with thick walls and old wiring. Our apartment is only a few years old and has modern, up to date electrics.
What I have started to do after the Nightmare, is check each one for heat before bootup and after shutdown. Told you, I am OCD! :wacko:
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I'm out.Oh my Gert is used to that Nolan! Lockdown has been good for Kindle here, she has the original version, still going strong, I read on the 8″ tablet because my eyesight is worse than hers. So is my hearing, which is good for excuses. 🙂 😉
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I'm out.I can see how the AV 600 has moved on from the AV 500, but these older 500’s (and gson’s input) have saved my sanity today Dave. Can’t believe the temp difference between two identical Netgear adapters. The one connected to the router was just slightly warm and the one to the desktop just became hotter. The TP Link 500’s are slightly warm, but you can bet I will be keeping a check on them. :scratch: :whistle:
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I'm out.Good link Ed and supported by my friend Rolf in Düsseldorf, who shares the abhorrence of all right thinking people against the lack of knowledge displayed by conspiracy theory and reactions such as this. This in particular, tells it like it is:
” These days, the coronavirus is bringing together two worlds, two systems that otherwise exist more or less independently of one another: science and politics. ”
Politicians usually pick out what suits them from any scientific or technical information. Or they take it completely to pieces and out of context.
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I'm out.Looking for a new Kindle book and that looks to fit the bill, thanks for that Nolan, a recommendation is always good.
I switch between Hard SF and History, to good true stories like that. Currently reading “The Hollow Crown” by Dan Jones, the story of the end of the Plantagenets and the rise of the Tudors. Jasper Tudor was a real character, even for a Welshman! He was a commoner who married the widow of a King after becoming her lover before and after the King’s death and the end result was Henry VII, first Welsh king of England. I had already read his “Wars of The Roses” and “The Plantagenets”, which demonstrates several tenuous (or non-existent) links in our monarchy’s ancestry.
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I'm out.Ed the f104 Lightning was used by many NATO countries. It was a very fast interceptor but a horribly dangerous ground attack aircraft. The Dutch made a success of it, by developing their own tactics and flight plans, according to a RNLAF (Netherlands Airforce) mate at Blomberg, when I was serving in BAOR. Coincidentally, I have just finished reading the latest issue of Flypast and there is a story about the return to airworthiness of a RNLAF F104. They initially intended to make a gate guard of it and store another one, but decided to use both to make an airworthy version and use it in Airshows. I hope they fly it high!
The p38 was unsuccessful as an escort fighter and was eventually replaced by the P51C Mustang, itself replaced by the P51D, with an all round vision canopy modelled on the Spitfire’s. Until early 1943, Spitfires were also used, flown by American and RAF pilots. The range of the Spitfire was not enough to provide escort into Germany, which was why the P38 was tried. The P47 Thunderbolt was also used in escort duties, but not in as many numbers as the P51. The P47 became a very successful ground attack aircraft and the Wehrmacht feared it.
The P38 was a big success in the Pacific War though. One of them shot down the “Betty” bomber carrying Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, who was the C-in-C of the combined Japanese Fleet, considered to be Japan’s greatest military tactician and hero.
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I'm out.That was an interesting read Dave, another take on the Flying Turkey situation.
The FT reminds me of the Luftwaffe’s view of the F104 Starfighter: Witwenmacher (Widowmaker). That was a Lockheed too….
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I'm out.You have to get me some of this then:
And a treadmill. :yahoo: :good: 🙂
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I'm out.Been looking for a less expensive automatic watch for ages, ordered one from the Link. I can’t wear a Quartz watch, something about my body breaks them, they always stop after a couple of days and never go again. So that was a great find. Best of luck with more sales! :good:
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I'm out.Hope your plans work out Lee. But I am more than a bit annoyed about you having to do this. Just FOUR subscribers? There are a lot more than that who visit Forumite. Quite a few who still visit, some of whom have benefited from help given on the site. I am happy to pay my DD, along with the other 3 guys and I don’t mind ads at all, if it helps you run the site economically: you cannot afford to do this for nowt.
Maybe that’s me on my soap box again, but that is how I feel. Come on guys, pitch in if you can.
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I'm out.The day is not far off when the growth of technology and the introduction of ever-smaller, ever-smarter devices, will destroy secrecy and topple tyrants. It is a race between private industry developments and military counter-efforts. Complicated by industrial espionage.
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I'm out.Why are those million not petitioning to have the 4 other MP’s who did the same, admonished or unseated?
Answer: because 3 are Labour and one is SNP. Media darlings.
One million people ignoring the worst cases, attacking one that is not as bad. Hypocrisy.
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I'm out.Yes Ryan, love them all, but the youngest has another pair of grandparents who she does not like, and it is rare for her to express negative comments about anyone, never mind grandparents. Once at a family party these two attended, I was rolling about on the play area grass with our youngest, after which her other grandma commented that I was acting like a child myself. I thought for a bit, then said “Well I got older, but still never really grew up. You just aged.” (with great emphasis on ‘aged’.) They are the sort who give grandchildren money when they (rarely) see them, but don’t know how to give them love. That’s reflected in their 3 offspring: two sons divorced, both twice. One daughter who lives down South and refuses to see them.
I heard a snort of laughter behind me, it was my daughter. Relations between her and her in laws never recovered. Today daughter lives in a lovely large house that she worked to build up from an old cottage, raised every penny herself. Gdaughter’s dad lives in a Winnebago RV on a pub car park, because he ‘can’t work, won’t work.’
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I'm out.Yes I will certainly buy another pair when the current ones die Dave. That is an encouraging story, btw. When I bought mine, the sales assistant advised me to keep the box and receipt, “Because Deichman always replace or refund if something goes wrong.” I must have walked hundreds of miles in these, on all kinds of surfaces.
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I'm out.My information in the previous post was incorrect. Only 3 MP’s were Labour. Naming and shaming the hypocritical Lockdown evaders: –
Ian Blackford, actually SNP. Travelled 618 miles from London to Skye. This is the man who also claimed £250K expenses. Yes you read that correctly. Two. Hundred. And. Fifty. Thousand. Pounds. His ‘excuse’ was that he wanted out of virus-ridden London.
Stephen Kinnock, Labour, son of Labour career politicians. 200 miles from South Wales to London.
Vaughan Gething, Labour and Co operative. After setting out lockdown rules for Wales in the Senedd Cymru, he ignored his own advice. Barring Welsh people from going to Parks, he then went to the chippy and gave the family a picnic. In the local park.
Tahir Ali, Labour. Attended a funeral which had almost 100 mourners. Meanwhile the Guardian’s hack Diane Nowel slams Dominic Cummings, saying “Lockdown meant I missed my brother’s funeral.” But not a word about the four MP’s above. Or about Jeremy Corbyn, who ignored advice that over 70’s should self isolate.
It is the sheer, blatant hypocrisy displayed by the Labour Party and their media support, which angers me. Yes, Cummings was absolutely wrong to do what he did, but why are none of these opposition MP’s not also named in those same media outlets? Because they are biased, and that includes the BBC. And that is why I say I am sick of the whole charade that has taken over our lives. Not the actual measures we have (almost) all had to take, but certain politicians, the media Talking Heads and others on Social Media who think it’s a Good Thing to insult and lie about people.
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I'm out.I have similar kidney problems Ryan, complicated by an enlarged prostate. I have a (fortunately benign) cyst on my left kidney that is almost as big as the kidney itself. Watching TV, the reclining swivel chair is a big help in raising my legs, that is until my calf muscles lock up and my feet cramp, a result of rheumatoid arthritis spreading to my legs and feet. One reason why I walk a lot, it helps to stop that, but my last year’s Deichman shoes are about ready to be replaced now.
Organ donation? – When I peg out, there will be nothing left in any state to transplant!
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