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When our time is right we should be able to ‘go silently in the night’, our affairs in as much order as possible and so far as it is possible with our mind at rest.
Apologies for amending/personalising your quote, but it’s exactly how the wife and I feel. Having seen a few examples of the opposite while getting treatment at the Marsden that’s not a road I’d ever want to tread.
Find the right balance Steve – ie don’t wait too long. Fingers that could manipulate and thump a keyboard, game controller or micro-switch pre-retirement, slow right down post-retirement.
My Dad was two things – a very keen gardener and a cage-bird enthusiast. He bred canaries and won cups and certificates for several best of breeds/best of show at the shows at Earls Court.
He learned at a very early stage that they loved chickweed, and even had a patch behind his “shed” for it to thrive without spreading to the garden borders. The shed was in reality, a home built 15′ x 10′ aviary. Happy days??.
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Richard – you’ve managed to split the link – it’s playing up.
The wife’s is a 2002Ka and at 6’/16 stone it’s a tight squeeze for me – much more comfortable in mine!!
Go 2 sizes down on the underwear for tomorrow – those AMG’s are wickedly fast. I keep getting offered cheap AMG track days at Mercedes World. They’re a bit concerned about my blood pressure at the GP’s currently, so maybe bank that one for another year!!
But after every long ish run id forget to clutch at round a bout.
After 5 1/2 years with an automatic, only driving a manual when the wife’s car needed petrol and air, on approaching a junction with a clear road, or even sometimes a fast, tight bend, the left hand moves over to drop a gear!! Old habits, long ingrained, die hard.?
We had an interesting time once on a cheap all inclusive holiday. We got a great deal, staying in the Hilton Hotel at Nuweiba, about 50 miles or so to the north of Sharm El-Sheikh. Problem was, the only flights option left was to Ovda airport ( dual passenger and military ) in Israel. We would then be ferried by coach across the border to the resort.
Everything would probably have been fine, ( it was for everyone else on the flight ) had we not, the previous year, flown to Thailand with Emirates!! Boy, did we get the third degree once they checked the passports and discovered the Dubai Airport stamps. It took a full hour of explaining we never visited there, it was a transit stop en route to Bangkok, but was further complicated by an overnight stay coming back home, when the flight to Heathrow was cancelled due to reports of someone seen with a gun at the airport. Being a Military airport it wasn’t particularly pleasant being carted off and grilled about our travel choices by gun toting “officials”. The return home was actually a little easier, or would have seemed so, had we not been anticipating the same cr*p all over again!!
Just went through reasonably straightforward – slight hang on “updating personalised desktop” but left for a minute it all came through OK.
Looked earlier and there were 2 updates sitting on the update screen awaiting re-start, told it to re-start and I’m up on to 192 atm.?
Now I’m finally on 1709 I can sort out ( or it may well do that by itself as Alan says ) the smaller revisions. Happy to have got to this stage.?
Sorry for double post but…………………………………..
Well, it’s an over-used expression, but you could have knocked me down with a feather today. I checked the computer first thing this morning and was greeted with the “Downloading Windows 10” screen at 11%. Thought, make yourself some breakfast, watch a bit of TV and check it out later.
Got a bit busy and have just come back to it now. Turned it on and I was greeted with an MS Edge window titled “Welcome to the Fall Creators Update”. Checked Winver and it’s showing 1709 Build 16299.125.
Seems it didn’t like what I was threatening to do and decided to do what was required of it after all!! Yeah right!!! I’m not sure whether to put it down to perseverance or good fortune, but I’m glad it got there in the end.
Cheers all.
Cheers Graham, – yes, I’ve been trying that already with a USB stick and a DVD, both bootable, from the UEFI Bios. Having real grief. Got it to install once, but no Internet connection, despite being ethernet connected to the router and my phone able to access the internet by WiFi, also the screen res was awful with no suitable adjustments available.
In the end I formatted the SSD and tried again, but just end up with a re-boot/Uefi screen loop or offering recovery mode which also goes nowhere. Tried removing various options quoted as problematic, such as second screen, USB external drives, internet access etc, but still no joy. Hence the attempt through windows with the iso copied to the SSD.
Cheers for the info anyway.
As I’ve said before, W10 has been giving me grief because I’m still on 1607 Anniversary Edition and it seriously wants me to upgrade to 1709 Fall Creators Edition, it keeps trying and my download so far this month is currently running at 20gig.
This in itself doesn’t bother me, I’ve been trying – unsuccessfully – to update to it along the way, but it keeps failing. Current setup is, in itself, working fine.
I’ve put an SSD in and connected it up, and copied from the 1709 iso all folders and files, so the SSD is sitting with boot, efi, sources, and support folders plus autorun.inf, bootmgr, bootmgr.efi and setup.exe files.
My aim is to load 1709 onto the SSD, so…. whilst in my current W10 environment, if I click on setup.exe ( on the SSD drive ), will it be installing ( or failing ) onto the SSD or my C drive??
Sorry if it’s a daft question, but I’ve been in and out of this rabbit hole so much, it’s driving me mad (der?)!!
My main annoyance in films/series is mobile phone use. The screen always stays on when it’s held against the head (ambient light sensor anyone?), sensitive texts/messages/updates are always visible on the lockscreen, they can track someone to within a mm using their phone signal but can’t stop their phones making daft noises for no apparent reason-the ‘boop’ sound when answering a call for example. I’ll leave it there for now.
It always makes me laugh when the subtitles call dial tone “ringing tone” and vice versa, also when they show a mobile phone calling out or hanging up you hear dial tone. Didn’t anyone tell the writers and sub-titlers mobiles don’t have a dial tone.
My father used to say that it is only blunt tools that cut. Blunt ones tend to ‘stick’ and jerk where you least expect.
Very true?.
I regularly use a butcher’s steel on all our knives. I worked for 2 years as Saturday delivery boy at a butchers while still at school. That was one of my jobs ( in those days before Health and Safety ) where you were told to pay attention while sharpening knives and don’t do anything stupid. It’s second nature to me now and people are often amazed when I do a carving knife before cutting into a joint. It’s basically muscle memory and awareness and Ed’s right, almost Zen-like.
I even, every so often, sharpen our table knives, to the extent that we don’t need steak knives.
Razor’s are something that I don’t bother with these days. Years ago I used them to keep the cheeks and throat tidy, but with male grooming products like THESE I find they keep the beard that I’ve had since I was 21 in fine fettle.?
Link3 and the wiki brought on a surge of nostalgia. I’ve just been on an hour long trip, clicking links and bringing back lots of memories and a few names from the past, as well.
I was based down in the Kingsway Tunnels for about 3 months during my apprenticeship for the GPO, back in 1968 – 1971. It was a really odd place to work in. There was a nondescript entrance in High Holborn, with a doorman/”security”, behind which was a single lift. ( There were also 2 more lifts, a goods lift and another passenger one ). That took you down – there are conflicts in the reports, some say 100 feet and some say 200 feet ( 60m ). I’d go with the 60m as we could hear the Central line trains above us.
The doorman was a very popular chap because if you were going out at lunchtime, you’d call him to ask if it was raining or if you needed an extra coat. On many winter days, you’d start work in the dark at 7.30 or 8am and if you didn’t go out for lunch you’d finish at 5pm ( or 8pm if on overtime ) without seeing daytime daylight.
One irony was a quote from the Post Office Courier magazine :-
Kingsway, built to withstand a siege, protects its citizens better than the walls of Troy. There have been no fatal accidents at Kingsway, nor in the cable tubes, no fires, no floods, no suffocation. Kingsway underground men live a healthier and a safer life than their colleagues 100 feet above their heads in choc-a-bloc London.
One thing that came out from working down Kingsway for any length of time was lung disease. Asbestos had been used in the construction for lagging and fire-proofing and it was the nasty variety ( blue or white, I can’t recall ) and anybody working down there for 6 months or more was placed on a register. There were quite a few fatalities from people who succumbed to that.
Well, it was a thought!!:) I did try to find a “cheeky whistle, tongue in cheek Emoji” but I couldn’t find one!!
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