[dwynnehugh]

Hi, Not really certain what you mean – you can increase the column width in both LO and Excel simply by placing the mouse pointer on the join between two columns and then move the desired column width to the R or to the L as necessary.

I am assuming that this is not quite what you are after but having looked at both s/sheets I cannot find anywhere where it specifies column width either in No. of Characters or in cm/ins.

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[dwynnehugh]

I think that before you start a ‘home business’ you need to consider exactly what you intend to do and how much time you will be involved with it. I am currently 70 years of age have my OAP and Police Pensions so in very many ways and compared to others, I am extremely fortunate – that said though we did pay 11.75% ‘superan’ towards the final police pension – so we didn’t get it for free! I do my work as ‘pin money’ as I can easily live without it – but to many it will be an important source of income.

Unless you know your intended market well enough at the outset and have confidence that work will come flooding in, I would advice a slow approach and build up your customer base – making certain that the quality of your work is to a professional standard – but without the need to go OTT on the fringes – paperwork, invoices and business cards etc. – these can be upgraded as the business becomes established.

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[dwynnehugh]

Hi Tip,

I run a small business (private investigation and process serving) from my H/A – I started off with a bog standard PC (not a lover of l/top k/boards), made my own stationery, business cards etc. etc.  A spreadsheet that allows me to calculate travelling and working times, tel call costs and disbursements – the relevant details can then be linked to invoices in the same workbook etc.

I have no need for VAT registration, I do use an accountant (they will certainly know what you are entitled to claim for – heating, lighting in your office, re-decoration, wear and tear, mobile and landline etc. etc – worth the investment!)

Half the fun has been designing my own invoices and account docs – you may have seen me asking silly questions re Excel recently! Also be aware that you have to declare this to your house insurance and also on your car insurance. If you intend to invite clients to your home on business, you might find it v difficult to get suitable insurance.  Also you may need Pub Lia ins.

Good luck.

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[dwynnehugh]

Hi Bob,

Don’t think there is – it’s a Garmin matter.   I started off with Tom Tom and then went to Garmin – I had 2 Garmin jobbies in succession (about £130 odd apiece) and they both did the same exact thing.  Halfords replaced both and eventually they offered an upgrade and I now have a 7″ model, it’s really is v good and beats Tom Tom hands down.

On each Garmin I have had they ALL had the same problem – they shut down after an hour even when attached to the car battery charger system (cig cig lighter with their adaptor and lead) and then it was re-enter details time – this was and still is v bl**dy annoying. Apparently if you shut off the majority of the Garmin features – sound etc. etc. the top us system will just about keep the sat nav charged up during a journey.

I did take this up with Garmin C/Servs and they have told me that the supplied charger is not designed to re-charge the battery (as my Tom Tom did) but merely to top up the sat nav battery. This is why I went to the daisy chain system with a battery pack – at least that did resolve the problem – charger  > bat pack > sat nav.

I might have another chat with Garmin – the last time I found their C/Services pretty lousy whereas Tom Tom was brilliant – I changed to Garmin because the new Tom Toms did not allow you to put in house numbers with the postcodes!! (How bl**dy daft can you get!!)  I remember telling one of their C/S guys that this unit (Tom Tom) was absolutely fantastic – it monitored my heart rate as it shot up simply because their new sat navs had removed this ‘house number’ facility but I would know when I was due a heart attack because of it!! I checked Garmin before I purchased and they did allow house numbers – I think now that Tom Tom may also have re-inserted this OBVIOUS capability / requirement into their current models.

In other words 6 of one and half dozen of the other!!!

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[dwynnehugh]

Thanks to you all, it seems that the chargers supplied with sat navs are possibly not that stable – I will be buying one of those shown on some replies here.

Thanks one and all,  Dave.

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[dwynnehugh]

OK and many thanks folks.  I would think that the Garmin supplied charger would give out 5v from the 12v car lighter supply (I have not actually been able to put a voltmeter across the output – far too small.

My Garmin is a 7″ jobbie, brilliant screen but even Garmion say it will only last on battery about 1 hour, but even when fed off the lighter supply with the Garmin charger it still shows up a ‘battery low’ indicator and then re-sets. When it re-sets the route is lost so you have to enter it again.  I’m very surprised that Garmin seem to think that this is OK – but they do.  The supplied charger does not charge the sat nav but supplies a sufficient trickle current to keep the bl**dy thing on – if you want it to go the whole hog – you have to stop many processes and also screen brightness etc to the very lowest setting – it’ll work but you can’t read the damn thing!!

I decided to get the Duracell bank and for many months all was OK, but recently I have noticed that when the daisy chain is set up, the USB plug from the charger gets quite hot, but nowhere else. It does seem that the bank > sat nav  system does extend the sat nav battery life, I’m just wondering if I’ve cooked the battery bank!!  I’ll do a check in the next few days -the small charge indicator lights on the Duracell bank no longer work either.

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The Garmin was supplied, as all sat navs do, with a cig lighter socket with a  USB connector then a mini USB to the rear of the sat nav, perhaps naively I assumed that this was a 5v supply via the supplied plug. Anyway whatever the output voltage it does not seem to have harmed the sat nav – so I assume that the sat nav is designed for v > 5v when charging.

The battery specifies an input charging voltage of 5v with a micro input connector and a standard USB plug output – I daisy chained the system – car charger plug – battery bank – sat nav removing the charger input when not in use.

Seems I may have over ‘voltaged’ the battery bank. Is there a suitable plug whereby you can actually measure the output of the ‘USB’ connector on the car charger to see what it actually is.  I always assumed (that word again!!) that it was 5v by the very nature of the fact there was a USB socket on it!

The more you meet people the more you understand why Noah took animals instead of humans

[dwynnehugh]

Good luck and best wishes to you both.

The more you meet people the more you understand why Noah took animals instead of humans

[dwynnehugh]

 

” …. 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  ????????????

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[dwynnehugh]

I may have done it – I looked at the password Forumite was suggesting I was using and found same in my Saved Passwords in FF, so I removed it.

Booted back into FF/Forumite and it was still there but now there was another opinion on the ‘Update’  which when opened allowed me to request ‘never to save a password’.

Bingo, I think its gone!!

Thank you all for the suggestions.

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[dwynnehugh]

Hi D-Dan,

I might have but I don’t really know why now.  For a while now each time I open any specific post in Forumite this bl**dy message came up – so I tried both options – Update and Don’t Update the password – they didn’t work – the thing just kept on coming back each time – hence my post.

Just now the same message and I opted for ‘Update’ and now it’s gone – why now, I’ve done this before and it didn’t work.  Whether I switch off and come back on and it stays off I will see later but it is a bl**dy nuisance.

THAT WAS SHORT LIVED – IT’S BACK ??

The more you meet people the more you understand why Noah took animals instead of humans

[dwynnehugh]

I am using Firefox and in the below image – this is what I have.

When I ask it to show the password ‘used’ it displays something which I don’t recognise as any password I would use.

The more you meet people the more you understand why Noah took animals instead of humans

[dwynnehugh]

FOUND IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Many thanks,  Dave

The more you meet people the more you understand why Noah took animals instead of humans

[dwynnehugh]

Less than a year ago my youngest daughter gave me 4 tickets for the Jacobite Express – on the West Highland Line starting from Fort William – roughly about 400 miles from my H/A.

Checked with BR for train fares – 9+months ago now  –  max number of months in advance – £1400 for the four of us return from Bangor, North Wales.

£800 from Birmingham – I can get the 4 of us to B’ham for £50 return in diesel. In fact B’ham is further south than Bangor – why £1400 or even £800???

The more you meet people the more you understand why Noah took animals instead of humans

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A neighbour of mine has just found out that BR pay staff who need to go to certain destinations to fly there  than go by train!!!!!!!!!!!!!  I suppose in a way they are being careful with cash – but ……..!!

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[dwynnehugh]

” …. bigoted, political cesspit it is …”

Unfortunately this comment is equally valid about HoP in London and probably just as true for Cardiff and Edinburgh as well.

At the end of the day, a person actually working in a real cesspit would come home smelling far sweeter and having done a far more useful day’s work to boot!! ?

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[dwynnehugh]

‘Someone asked “Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?”

Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England, wrote this magnificent response:
“A few things spring to mind.

Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem.

For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed.

So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.

Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever.

I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman.

But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty.

Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers.

And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness.

There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface.

Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront.

Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul.

And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist.

Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that.

He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat.

He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.

And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully.

That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead.

There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless – and he kicks them when they are down.

So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think ‘Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:

* Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are.

* You don’t need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.

This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss.

After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum.

God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid.

He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart.

In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump.

And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish:

‘My God… what… have… I… created?

If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set.”‘

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[dwynnehugh]

Based on personal experience one of the worst professions for breaching the GDPR are solicitors.  When I work for them and submit my invoice which inc my H/A, home tel no., my bank account details very often they are simply passed onto their clients for payment!!

I had one particular ‘rectal cavity’ of a solicitor who informed me that that was my problem and they / he intended to continue as he had done before.

A quick complaint to the ICO soon stopped that.

I have found the ICO very helpful at all times.

The more you meet people the more you understand why Noah took animals instead of humans

[dwynnehugh]

Dave – please when you reply to my posts – PLEASE speak English!!!  You lost me v quickly!!  Many thanks though.?????

The more you meet people the more you understand why Noah took animals instead of humans

[dwynnehugh]

I think I may now have resolved the matter, my PC eventually ‘saw’ the new printer as ‘Copy 1’ and I have now renamed both to ‘old’ & ‘new’ – they seem to work.

Thanks, Dave

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