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Again on Thunderbird on W10 – I use that a fair bit, usually on Customer service emails – I copy and paste their promises from their emails and let them know it hasn’t happened!!
Last tried a couple of days ago. No problem. Works OK today too.
I took the Latest replies box into account, but rarely actually used it. Like Bob, the “Who’s Online” is more relevant.
Left sliding sidebar isn’t a problem for me, the only time I see it is when I scroll the mouse pointer across to my left hand monitor and if I’m slow, it pops out, but by that time the pointer is on my email page along with my attention.
Pleasant colour blue, doesn’t hurt the eyes or distract you from the printed word.
Cheers for the tinker – hope all is well.
John
We’ve got a 29 due here tomorrow ( later today ) and already the wife’s COPD is running amok. She’s had difficulty deep breathing this afternoon. We’ll see how it plays out later, but I envisage an easy day ( no chasing for bits and pieces,) but she’ll need a fair bit of my time!!
Blankety blank !!#* password nag that appears whenever I send input to the Forum on my PC using Firefox. “Would you like to update this password?” — no I bloody wouldn’t!
Ed, I think you’ll find that’s a Firefox thing. I mainly use Chrome, but I just went into Firefox to check ( as I remember seeing it occasionally before ) and some sites logged in OK ( including Forumite ) but others asked the above.
I think it’s down to how you have FF set to deal/remember passwords.
Edit – just re-read your post and see you said “…send input ” but maybe worth a check.
Looking very smart!! I thought there were some scuff marks on the bonnet and front panel, but it’s clouds, reflected in the nice shine!!
Have fun!!
John – I Google’d “video collage to music” and THIS one looks simple enough. Not one I’ve tried, but someone on here may have given it a go.
Though at 60(ish)bhp and no torque, it may not live up to my memories. Lol
Through the eyes of a fresh young driver at the time, that was still magical!! ?? You’re right though – it didn’t last, and the race for more bhp began!!
May have to by some form of faux or real 4×4 next (I feel sick).
Didn’t you start out with an old escort van?? Maybe life has gone full circle and you now need a van as well as the family car?? Can you write a van off ( tax-wise ) against the pub??
When we started out on the stall we had an old Nissan Prairie with the back bench seat removed – there wasn’t much we couldn’t carry!! Or have you considered a trailer??
This is a bit of a necro thread, but that sanction has existed since 2002! The problem is repatriate them to where? Many destroy their documentation before appearing in the UK, and it then becomes difficult to repatriate them as their likely origin disowns them.
Hi Ed, – yeah, that was in the back of my mind when I wrote that, and I’ve seen the UK Border Patrol programmes on TV where the suspects have destroyed their passports in order to make it difficult to remove them, I’ve also seen the documentaries that state refugees have rights in the first country they reach – well my question is “How come vast numbers of them ended up in the camps @ Calais, looking to get into the furthest country away from their arrival point.
The answer is easy – we are seen as a soft touch for benefits, qualification and more importantly, following on from citizenship comes familial qualification. So if one arrives and gets to stay, their families get to come too. That’s a numbers game everybody will lose.
We have to get tough. When our own ‘home-grown’ poor, elderly, infirm, homeless or whatever, who find themselves in need of financial aid and support, get that aid and support, if there is any left over for incoming refugees then they’re welcome to it.
By the same token, the pot available for benefits cannot be diminished by scroungers and scavengers and thieves, local or imported. We have to tighten up on those falsely claiming, thereby depriving those rightfully entitled.
It’s a can of worms, but at some point, somebody needs to deal with it, or risk anarchy and chaos.
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I’ve been catching up on a load of small DIY jobs while the number of dogs has been quiet.
Hanging a few pictures on walls, bamboo blinds in the conservatory ** to keep it cooler over the heatwave, re-wiring a ceiling fan in the bedroom taking it out of the lighting loop it had been in and running it directly off a junction box, fitting a 13A socket in the loft as a spur off the ring main, tidying up the wiring in the garage, replacing an LED outdoor security light that had failed ( well the PIR had failed, so I re-wired it as a directly powered floodlight ) which I’ll wire up and use as a garden light now the nights are closing in.
Next thing in the garage is to board up the big up and over door. It’s not used for access at all now and the track runners and springs just get in the way, and the space isn’t used as such, so I’m putting in a 2 x 4 frame, upvc cladding it but storing the springs and track behind so if someone wants to re-instate it later, they can. The door will be screwed to the frame and waterproofed and insulated.
Although the bench was originally oak I could only get a pressure treated pine plank from my local B&Q so I used that.
I gave up on getting wood from B&Q some time ago – have you got a local wood-yard, or one that delivers to your area?? I’m putting up a couple of floating shelves and got some 3/4″ oak board 7 1/2″ x 28 1/2″ for a tenner a piece. Going to chamfer the front and side edges or route a small rounded edge depending on which is chosen as best by SWMBO.
I’m part through doing the media re-wire, switch is in situ and wired in to TV, Sky and NOW TV boxes, just the drilling and wiring up the telephone and broadband and AP to go.
**If anybody has a conservatory with either a glass or polycarbonate roof that gets too hot for comfort, we used a space-age insulation and upvc cladding to cover the inside of it and it has worked a treat. For a flat roofed 4m x 3m lean to style conservatory, it cost us £300 for materials and £160 for the guys to install it. They were the guys that installed the windows in the conservatory in the first place and were happy to do it as a trial run for them.
Edit – the odd slip is inevitable and I sliced my finger with a Stanley knife a couple of months ago, but a tetanus shot wasn’t needed as I was current on mine from a dog-bite a year or so ago!!
Coming up on Tuesday next week, on ITV, a documentary with cameras following pilots being trained to fly the F35 Lightning in Wales and America.
Should be interesting as to whether they recognise/admit to its’ shortcomings or go off on a promotional blurb about how wonderful it is!!
I totally agree with you, the solution cannot be 3 squares, a bed and an XBox. It’s also not how prisons generally are, but how they’re presented in certain parts of the press; glorified hotels.
It was intended to summarise the fact that everything is provided for you, and whilst, not being nice, compares favourably to prisons in some foreign parts, Turkey, Mexico, Romania, possibly Russia et al.
These same arguments have been going on for a long time. The favoured solution swings between the hang ’em high and a societal one depending on the public mood at the time and how much the press whip things up.
The press is the press is the press it seems and has been for some time now.
It does seem that the solution swings from one extreme to the other, but ” the societal solution” is patently not working and hasn’t been for decades, even before the police were shackled by cuts and other impediments to do their job as they would want.
The solution cannot be 3 squares, a bed and an XBox. So long as criminals put the odds of getting away with whatever crime is their choice, as greater than those of being caught, a shackled police force will not be able to keep up.
They have my support, but they also have my sympathy, as they are forced to do the job they love with one hand tied behind their back, and sometimes two.
Look at what we used to hang or transport people for, it didn’t stop the crimes happening did it? These people used to be killed in public so there was no doubt how nasty your end would be. They still went ahead.
Not disagreeing, but adding context, Dave, the last public hangings were in 1868 – in those days you either stole food or starved. A life of crime wasn’t a lifestyle choice for the lazy b*stards like it is today. You didn’t steal to support a drug habit ( well heroin was around, but not to the same extent across all classes, ) you stole to survive.
I err on the side of bringing back the death penalty, but if and when mistakes were made, were they not honestly made, then the liars, hiders of evidence, concealers of DNA that would exonerate the charged, would face the same penalty as the wrongly accused. That would give you a focused legal system that was a disincentive to crime.
I would also lose the soft touch prison system the do-gooders have installed – you break the law, you suffer the consequences and would not want to return.
I realise that is a harsh standpoint, but something needs to be done, the system just ain’t fit for purpose.
Conditional to UK Citizenship, incoming migrants would also need to understand that they are welcome here so long as they continue to be law-abiding citizens ( and would sign up accordingly ) because the UK is preferable to back home. If they break the law ( no I’m not talking speeding here, but rape and murder, paedophile, groomer, sex/people trafficker style law breaking, ) they are sent home to suffer the unwelcome consequences.
I just wish that every Prime Minister or Chancellor that fanfares the amount they are giving to the NHS, Education and Policing would stop the Christmas present style fanfare announcements and say that they’re restoring the amount they’ve withheld over the last 10 years and they’re sorry they got it wrong!!!
I shan’t hold my breath.
The case Dave quoted there was this statement “was in a manic state, out of his mind and ranting”. Why was he even on the street and not in some more secure location where he could have had the care he very clearly needed?
“Care in the community” was the catchphrase at the time – the bones of a good idea ( for some, not all ) to deal with mental health.
Unfortunately, the lunatic asylums were a prime target for ( supporters of the government at the time ) developers, and when they were closed, the grounds and buildings became housing estates and apartments. Huge fortunes were made.Unfortunately, the inmates were released into the community at a time when it was ill-prepared to help due to lack of infrastructure and funding for the staff needed to make it work. Chaos ensued.
A lot of the old cottage hospitals were also closed down and re-developed at the same time. It’s amazing how things go round and come back again, the cottage hospitals have a new identity as Minor Injury Units and are coming back into popularity, and even being built, to ease the pressure on A&E.
The EU themselves aren’t devoid of blame in this situation. Had they been more accommodating over the years when the UK needed either a concession or a relaxation of something, as opposed to just an agreement, then the outcome of the referendum may have been different.
The last PM to come back from Brussels with anything meaningful was Maggie. All others have come back with their tails between their legs after hearing a “NON” from them. Blair got nothing, others tried and failed, Cameron got nothing like what the UK needed, the only difference was that he came back, tried to bluff, got called on it and then threw his toys out of the pram.
The one exception to that was Major, who went there with what they were happy with – Maastricht – and came back calling it a victory, setting off the whole federal problem we now find ourselves in.
It’s a club we should have been an associate member of, for ( minimally ) trade and security. The Common Market/European Free Trade Association/whatever other name it took was viable and benefited both sides, the Federal/United States of Europe gave us nothing we needed and took away more than we were ultimately prepared to sacrifice.
WoF be prepared to barter! ?
We might be out East, but we’re not in Souk country!!!
,,,,, flight to Budapest at daft o’clock. Cruise down the Danube through Hungary, Slovakia and Austria, back to Budapest along the other bank, staying at different river ports each day. Big Anniversary on the 5th, boat apparently has a big night set up for us. I may be offline for a while.
Hope it’s a great one, Bob. Happy Anniversary for the 5th.??
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