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Most printers come with fax emulation software, but I’ve never installed it. Give me 10 minutes and I’ll see if it’s straightforward or a pita.
Edit – Thinking about it, my answerphone etc will probably get in the way, but I’ll give it a try.
@bdthree – it’s telling me I need a fax modem and I don’t have one installed. Sorry.It’s maybe also true that, if you have childhood problems with a parent, it can make you more determined to treat your own kids and grandkids, as you would have wished to be treated. Certainly true for me, after the abuse I suffered from my mam. I tried to show the kids what life should be like and I hope it worked: certainly we are a very close family.
It’s most definitely true, Bob. My wife is a classic example. She jokes with me that the only thing she shared with her mother was her temper. Her Mother was disabled latter years so instead of reaching for a broom to hit her with, as she had done before that, she always had a walking stick to hand. Her step-father was weak and played favourites with every other child of his six children. Wife was the eldest and basically brought the others up. She says the only reason she survived as a child was that her grandfather lived on the other side of the street and her Mum was scared of him.
She hardly ever went to school as she had duties at home to perform. She laughs when she makes mistakes and says she’s thick, but I tell her no, she’s just un-educated, there’s a difference. She held a business together for 20 odd years and you don’t do that if you’re thick.
It made her determined never to hit our son, she would say “If I’m mad enough to hit him, I’m mad enough to hurt him.” so that fell to me to discipline. That worked well for years, even though he and I butted heads over everything.
The only time the wife ever hit him, he was sixteen, taller than her, and had answered me back badly. He’d just telephoned the boy on the other side of the street ( if he had been outside our front door he could have talked to him direct!! ) and I asked him how often he did that when we weren’t here? This was in the days before phone call packages.
His answer was ” I don’t recall – I’m not so petty as to count!!” at which point the wife slapped his face and his jaw , so to speak, hit the floor in amazement.
I think if you get crap as a child, it makes you determined to do a better job with your own. He and I now get on really well, since he left for uni, we just couldn’t be under the same roof!!
We only had the one child, and that was a conscious decision as that was all we could afford at first. She is scathing at those that, as she puts it ” Knock kids out like shelling peas, without a thought as to whether they can cope with them.” When we took over the business, our lifestyle dictated the size of our family, but we were content.
Not having been educated made her determined that our son would never be in that position and his leg had to be hanging off before he could miss a day ay school!!
I don’t think that the ‘spoil the grandkids scenario’ will be relevant to us – no sign yet or likely it seems.
I also did block release at City College, as it was then, back in my Apprentice days, 1968 – 71. Basic Telecommunications Principles and Elementary Telecommunications Practices. After that it was night classes at Southgate College for a year or two.
Where were you based, back then?? I started out in North Central Area, headquartered at Euston/Kings Cross. That was before it became amalgamated into City Area to become City of London District.
I did my apprenticeship all around that area, then went into Circuit Provision Control at Shoreditch until we moved to Fleet Building, Farringdon Road in 1980. Left with Release’93.
I’ll check first – thanks for the heads up!!??
Man and Van could well do the trick, although I might need to let the tip know in advance to open the barrier, as they don’t allow vans in any more.
There is a much bigger tip that does allow vans, but it’s much further away!!
I won’t bury it – too much like hard work all that digging!!
I’ve disposed of an old section of asbestos soil pipe before to the tip. They are quite efficient in taking name, address etc and it goes straight into a padlocked container via a locked hatch. HazMat warnings, the works.
Similar to yourself, I’m lucky too. I worked down in the Kingsway Tunnel for a few months, before transferring on to other duties. Any longer ( more than 6 ) and I’d have been on the Asbestos Register and all that entailed.
@EdP – your link refers to Industrial situations. See our local guidelines for disposal of Domestic Asbestos HERE.
@sgb101 – our garage roof ( asbestos or otherwise ) was installed with screws or pins through a curved square metal washer on top of a rubber washer, so a grinder to remove the head and the panels will lift off.Bury it Steve??? – that’s an awful lot of digging!!??
@sawboman – our local regs ( link above to EdP ) are much more lax and suggest a competent DIY’er with an assistant ( in my case that would be a builder friend and I would be the assistant ) and at £50+ per sq metre that would be £900+ for my 6m x 3m roof. That money will pay for my new roof including flashings and fixings and still leave more than enough spare for a couple of day’s labour for my friend.Quote from KCC site – “It must be double wrapped in heavy gauge plastic and sealed closed. It can be disposed of by private occupiers at a Kent County Council Recycling Centre (tip).”
A couple of rolls or packs of DPC polythene and some parcel tape should do nicely.
My garage is a workshop/utility room but needs a fair bit of work to get it how we want it.
My current plan is to remove the asbestos roof and replace it with THIS – once that is done, the garage door will be screwed into the frame and the inside space will be ( rockwool ?) insulated and plasterboarded over and skimmed. Either the side window or the single door will be replaced with patio doors.
I shouldn’t lose any wall/floor space as the door is almost always kept clear, so I would gain that wall, plus extra wall space that is covered by the slider channels.
All the ( manual ) opening gear will be placed behind the plasterboard, so that should anyone wish to reverse the procedure, they will be able to do just that. From the outside nothing will look different, it will look like an up-and-over door, but it just won’t open.
Edit – Richard – our freezer has the opposite problem to your fridge – it’s in the conservatory/dog room, so even when the doors and windows are wide open and the dogs come and go at will, the temps can get quite high, close maybe to the upper end of the working environment.
I remember that pink stuff from when I had chicken pox as a child. It was a bit like a pink Milk of Magnesia and applied with cotton wool swabs.
I was looking for something from MM on my computer and thought to use Cortana – one of the links was Moderation Management which describes itself as being :-
“…. a lay-led non-profit dedicated to reducing the harm caused by the abuse of alcohol. (If your life is challenged by alcohol, you have arrived at the right place.)
Looks like some things never change and we’d fit in there very nicely!!
…I still get small reactions now, but not since I have been on Erythromycin (2 tab’s twice a day for the rest of my life) as a result of the pancreatic cancer Op.
I call those the ” Shingles Tingles” it’s like someone stuck a couple of wires on your back and you get a low current shock!! Still takes my breath away sometimes and I’ve still got the pattern of the sores across my back and round my side, 5 months later.
All because they tried to get away with the cheap aciclovir cream instead of the expensive tablets!!
If you get a chance, there’s a film out at the moment – American Made, with Tom Cruise. It’s a hoot. Take it with a pinch of salt – even the director is quoted in Wiki as saying “Liman has described the film as : a fun lie based on a true story.”
Mine was real but the company recently stopped free accounts. When I came to trying to change it I never received the email when doing it and now I no longer have access to the old email account. If you are able to unlock it I will update it. Based on what happened to me I don’t think you can update it unless it is a working email address?
Check my answer to Richard above. Iirc I edited my email addy and a link was sent to the new email for confirmation, so access to the old email is not necessary.
There’s been a huge increase in wasp prescense and activity over the last few days. What with the wife being allergic to wasp stings that’s been a right royal PITA. ?It falls on me to gently persuade them to exit via the window they came in by, or if that fails the hand held Dyson pulls them in gently and can then be opened outside for them to escape once that dizzy feeling has gone!!?
Damp can be a problem for any building no matter how small or tall. The solution is available to all house-builders – DPC’s of all varieties – they just need to be installed properly, along with guttering and pipes to take rainwater away. They then need to be maintained and respected ie. not broken or interfered with or negated by subsequent work. ( I had a friend who had a patio built by some idiots who didn’t set the upper level below the DPC!! )
I have a relative who rented a bungalow that had terrible damp problems – even interior walls needed anti-mould painting every year – they had a few damp “experts” in to find the problem and one reckoned that whoever built it had run heating and water pipes in the concrete base and had been compromised by either movement or chemical interaction.
I think mine is as well, but I cannot see how to find or check it at the moment.
Richard – On a PC – click on sidebar, Settings ( 3 cogs ), General, General, click on email address to edit it if needed, Save Changes.
Lee – Updated mine from an old ( OK ) addresss to my current fave.
My yearly asthma review, when I was cycling, amazed everyone. lung capacity of an Olympic athlete, allegedly. My next one is due in a few months. I’ll be happy if it’s as good as the last.
The wife has COPD and has been on regular checks with the GP. She stopped smoking in May 2015, but substituted it with vaping.
Her last Spirometry ( puff-power ) reading was a 10% improvement on the last. I think that shows the difference between the evils of smoking and ( the lesser evil ) vaping.
Personally, I hated being in the van when she smoked, as I inevitably did too. I don’t have that problem with vaping, ( and yes, she has had some sickly sweet flavours as well, everything from Banana Nut Bread to Apple Pie to Almond Amaretto!! ) I still get the cloud passing in front of my face, but instead of choking , as before, I just try to guess the flavour, and that’s all it is, flavouring.
Please don’t think that I’m trying to convert anybody, I’m just stating it as I see it.
For the standard 85mm x 55mm business card, I let VistaPrint do all the hard work for mine. It’s currently 500 for just under £17 or 1000 for just over £27 and you can claim either the vat back ( if reg’d ) or offset it as a business expense.
The old adage of “Time is Money” applies.
The security settings are what’s important – that’s what ticked me off with Sony ( and EE ) – I’m still on 6.01, although that doesn’t matter too much, but I’m still on the May 2016 security patch, and that does!!
Still looking to upgrade some time soon and the Moto G5 is still favourite atm.
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