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Do I have to change any money and will my mobile work
Mobiles work nicely here ( just 5 miles outside Margate ) and they still accept coins and folding stuff, but we are also up to date with lots of new ways of parting tourists from their hard-earned!!???
Joking aside, hope you enjoy the sights – we take them all for granted. Where are you hoping to look at, Turner Contemporary, Dreamland, or just cruise the beach. There are some much nicer beaches other than the Main Sands – Minnis Bay is one of those – in Birchington, you turn left for Minnis and right for Margate.
Take the opportunity for some Fish and Chips – they’re great round here.??
I only use my aol account to check the junk mail folder once a month for any accidental diverts. I gave up on it when oath took over and I didn’t like the look of their terms .
I’ve just accessed my account and could read the inbox ok and forwarded them to my gmail account, ( that’s normally automatically done, so something is up there, ) and deleted 128 junk emails.
Give it a try now – it may have just been fixed – if not, it may be something from your (and your Missus’s end ) although affecting both separately makes that unlikely!!
Good luck.
Plus he doesn’t give a monkey’s if some seats are lost to the Brexit Party because Labour will lose at least as many.
Forget the LibDems. If Labour go all out as Remain then Labour will recapture quite a few voters from them.
If the second comes about, ( both are actually likely scenarios ) he’ll need to give a monkey’s about the first.
I’ll be off there for BH weekend ?
Take your wet weather gear – you just know it’s gonna rain – Welsh Postcode and a BH weekend!!!??
….but I really do only have Word 2000 ?
Maybe the “backwards compatibility” they espouse, qualifies you with regards to updates, ie, anything to update W2007 gets sent to users of 2000!!
and may be an accountant within travelling distance from Newport, Gwent by the end of the year.
Glad to see the relationship is going well!!???
I’d say it’s more of a con than that- does anyone else think that “James Smith, Aberdeen, Scotland” has got a twin brother called “Thomas Jones, Northern Ireland” with a younger brother that’s in the main picture??
Best of luck with your endeavour!! ??
Have you checked out the Business Wales website??
https://businesswales.gov.wales/starting-up/
https://www.careerswales.com/en/jobs-and-training/working-for-yourself/starting-your-own-business/
There could be all sorts of help from those departments, not necessarily financial but certainly a good information resource.
When mulling over starting a business we were on benefits. The wife was very ill and we’d had to close the Flower stall down. She couldn’t work or be left alone. We’d used up all our cash on selling up and moving ( in 2009 in the middle of the worst part of the banking crisis ) so that we could be mortgage free.
The basic benefits were a joke but we survived. We were told about Working Tax Credits and they were a life-saver. We needed to be ‘working’ 30 hours a week to qualify, but that included time spent setting up, poster design, leafleting, fencing the garden to secure it etc, any time spent doing something towards setting it up ( for you – office and desk building, software courses, promoting the business ) could be allocated to the hours so that you qualified. This made a huge difference to the previous benefits, but entailed a LOT of form filling!!
If you can build a desk using second hand 2 or 3-drawer cabinets and a piece of kitchen worktop, then go that way ( assuming your office is in a separate room from your living area ). If it’s in the same area then the wife’s requirements and baby’s needs have to be taken into account.
As you’re starting out from scratch and working from home, ( assuming no customer facing ) other than appliances that you need for work, don’t spend too much money on things to start with, upgrade as the business allows.
Spend as little as you actually need to while you’re starting off so if things so awry, you’re in less of a financial hole afterwards. When we started off the Dog Boarding business it was with a couple of crates, beds, bowls etc we got from the charity that we had been helping the previous year, to foster and re-home rescue dogs. It’s very easy to buy big on the back of ambitious goals and aspirations, but that can bite your ass later down the line.
For example – When we were doing the flower stall, we helped a guy that wanted to re-create what we had in town, locally to him ( and us – he was a neighbour ). We told him to start off using milk crates to build his display ( in a pub car park ) but he went out and paid £800+ pounds for a collapsible steel framed display with tarpaulins over. When it didn’t work he just closed it down and gave us the display, which we couldn’t use and has been in my shed ever since, only ever used for a car boot sale or two that we did.
These days it’s easier to use card pay machines or accounting software, but we started with a receipt book from Rymans and a cash box.
It’s hard work, but very satisfying, especially when you reach the point that you don’t need the benefits and have become self-sufficient. Go for it!! – but always have a Plan B.
………….. but some folk seem to manage the process better than others.
Of those that do, in my experience and opinion, most seem to be in the smaller stature spectrum. Whether this is due to power/weight/stress factors I don’t know. But I’ve been 6′ since I was 12 and from age 21 I’ve ranged from 13 stone to 18 stone and it isn’t easy these days.
In the 90’a an older ( by 25 years ) friend told me ” Old age doesn’t come alone – it brings along more than a few unwanted friends!!” I found it amusing at the time – less so these days!!!
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…..so hopefully they’ll be on summer holidays and it can at least stay where it is.
Never mind discussing ‘Prorogueing’ Parliament, with the stumbling block being getting anything through Parliament, I’d have cancelled the Summer break and told the b*stards they weren’t going on holiday till something got through!! That might have focused a few minds!! A few overnight emergency sessions, with their families ready to go off to the sun without them, might have made them more ready to compromise and start fighting for the country instead of in-fighting themselves and each other.
That’s impressive for 78 Les. At 67 I could still do it, but the body would be bent on ( or by ) revenge over the following week for over-doing it!!
One word of caution – some of those logs made it down the inspection pit. Be careful, it might easily become a fire-pit!!??
Made some offers on Swift Sports this week, dealers want to much IMO. Nobody will budge.
Leave it a month and they’ll be looking to clear stock for the ’69 plates.??
Well the money markets seem to like the Boris win. Pound climbing against the euro and the USD.
After going down! It’s back where it was when I went on holiday.
Reminds me of the Dixons sales of yesteryear ( and recently still ) where they put the price up on the qt, then slashed it in a sale a few months later!!!
That’s interesting, Dave. My head is still back in the hardwired game. I didn’t realise that priority ( QoS ) had more influence than bandwidth.
Setting that up will be interesting, due to , as you show, assumed facts creating errors that knowledge of networking would avoid. Maybe that will be an interesting business model ( ie less physical/easier life ) for you as you head toward retirement !!??
Having read the overview in the first link, I thought that less Urban areas might pose a greater problem to this as for it to work it would almost need fibre to the premises ( FTTP ) to all premises for any reliable VOIP to compete with the quality of copper wired telephony. We can all remember the quality of Skype calls.
However some research turned THIS ( Download link ) up.
Interestingly, it seems that FTTC with cable TV lines ( fibre optic ) from the cabinet to the premises could give you 200Mb down with 70+ average down and 5+ up. Speeds some rural premises ( Bob?? ) would salivate over.
What’s needed for that is commercial interest in the DPA network ( page 7 on the document ) that is actually open to OR’s competitors, if they were only minded to take it up.
It’s going to be wait and see time for some years to come, but it was interesting to see that it’s possible to be done, providing the commercial will is there. Perhaps the VOIP will make it more appealing to the ISP’s or is that Line Rental ( approx £20 per month ) proving too tempting to forego??
Glad you’re back up and running, John.
Thanks Dave. I see now what unmanaged/managed means. That’s facilities I won’t be needing. It’s just to feed a direct access for streaming rather than the wifi links I use atm.
Thinking about it our front room ( other side of a wall from where the Master Socket, router and switch will be ) is a spare room with a TV in it, so a spare port or two for that might come in handy, so I’ll go for the 8-port TP.
Bob, the biggest problem I had was from Forumite – I was clicking the Insert/Edit Image button and showing it where the file was located on my PC, but it would Import the image and display it, then the screen did a refresh and the whole damn lot disappeared, together with Forum choice and Topic Title. That occurred for pdf’s, jpg’s etc. In fact, prior to that, I’d written out the post ( luckily pasted in from a Word document ) and when I hit the Insert/Edit Image button the dialogue box came up, it refreshed and the box and text then disappeared, leaving me with the empty Reply box!!
Please tell me you haven’t clicked on it yet!!
It’s a classic scare and sell scam! Find the safest way to get rid of it after scanning with Malwarebytes or similar. Your Anti-Virus may offer you a chance to quarantine it – again after scanning!!
…….but what a funny guy in his heyday.
Totally BLUE but I really liked Richard Pryor in his heyday. “Was It Something I Said” was brilliant, irreverent, pornographic Black humour. But a Black man taking the p*ss out of black idiosyncrasies ( because he was one of the only ones that could!! ).
Only example I could repeat here –
Two black males crossing a bridge in New York get caught short and decide to take a leak over the side.
First male – ” Damn, this waters cold!!!”
Second Male – ” Aha – and deep too!!!”
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