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Patches and lozenges were my method, I don’t think I could have done cold turkey. I don’t miss it at all but also have no issues with people still smoking around me – outside. I’m not sure I could deal with a smokey pub like they used to be.

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Looks like the best ones this year are at night https://www.severn-bore.co.uk/2019_times.html

29th September is a Sunday, probably be busy! October 1st looks good time wise.

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IIRC there’s a geological step up in the bed too, plus of course the 2nd highest tides in the world. It’s always on the local news when it’s a good one but it’s nothing compared to the Pororoca on the Amazon. 4 metres high and up to 800km inland. The record surf was 37 minutes apparently.

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Well done John. The last fag I had was the one before my heart attack, thankfully it wasn’t my last fag ever.

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Same here. I can watch planes going down the runway if I zoom in.

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You’d have seen my Grandparents house in Saul I expect, about 6 miles NE. Mind you my Grandfather would probably have been in the Drum & Monkey drinking Bass and playing his accordion.

Amazingly I’ve never seen the Bore, just never got around to it. I remember searching for Devils Toenails at the Hock though. It’s a mud shale cliff on the first bend upstream from Sharpness and gets scoured by the river.

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No argument over PR.

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Looking at moving the Legion to 4G as their exchange was upgraded to FTTC a year+ ago but still no timescale on the green cabinet being upgraded. There’s plenty of domestic around, including new build estates so no commercial reason not to.

They renewed the BT contract about a year ago as FTTC was looking to be any day, but they couldn’t remember exactly when nor the length of contract. Phoned BT and they couldn’t tell them! They promised to phone back but never did.

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A bit further down the Severn than that Ed. Elvers are Gloucestershire where it’s a river, albeit a wide one. We’re talking past Minehead where the water turns back to blue from brown.

It’s Porlock and Bossington Beach (a shingle bank like the Chesil). Following a major breach in 96 it was decided that an intervention was necessary. 20 years on:

“It represents one of the best UK examples of how managed ‘stabilized’ barriers are non-sustainable at the decade-timescale. It also exemplifies the likely mode of barrier failure, if coastal gravel-dominated barriers are not allowed to adjust freely to changing relative sea level.”

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What I generally find is that it isn’t the process that’s being objected to it’s the result. If the head of whatever is of the same thinking the objections as to how they got there disappear, as do any protestations about being able to remove them.

Once in power a major policy goal is to change the rules so that you increase your chances of staying there. All in the name of more democracy of course.

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I don’t know why we didn’t involve the Dutch earlier.

There are some areas of North Somerset where I used to fish where they’ve realised the artificial barriers aren’t the answer and they’re letting the sea encroach again to create salt marshes etc.

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Talking to some Americans after our guided tour of the Basilica and Doge’s Palace in Venice. They were interested in going to London next year and they wondered if there was anything as old there?

We had an interesting chat ? and didn’t even need to get around to Stonehenge, Westminster Abbey was enough. I explained London was London and not the UK and they were amazed to learn that even though we’re only 100 miles away, we go on holiday there too. Also explained that Scotland was quite a way away and probably warranted a trip of it’s own.

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Never mind John, it’s a PITA but a good excuse to have a bit more of a walk whilst you’re up. I know the feeling ?

Whilst my prints will usually appear without intervention, the printers are either upstairs or downstairs from my comfortable seat!

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I’ve never had this problem with *most* printers, I just leave them turned on and they print when asked but they seem to be asleep when I look at their control panels. I get the occasional problem with my Samsung laser if there is an unexpected power loss. The charity I look after uses Epson Workforce printers (WiFi and Ethernet) and they don’t exhibit this problem and the only thing I’ve changed on them is the IP address and default page size.

Looking at an online manual for your printer:

Saving Power – Windows

1. Access the printer driver window.

2. Click Printer and Option Information on the Maintenance tab

3. Select the time period before the printer enters sleep mode as the Sleep Timer setting, and click Send. To make the printer turn off automatically, select the time period as the Power Off Timer setting, and click Send.

4. Click OK.

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Just found out what I’d always suspected from your posts, you can use a phone sim in a dongle / router. Ofcom got written confirmation from Three.

This brings Smarty into play with their current unlimited offer of £18.75 and a rolling 1 month contract. Looking at the D-Link DWR-953 Wireless AC1200 for son’s house. Already checked my Draytek with a Huawei Unlocked E3372– LTE/4G 150 Mbps USB Dongle.

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That analogy only works for you who live in London. Until BMI went through the hoop I could fly to Brussels cheaper than the train to London. What about people who live in the North? How much do you think it costs them to get to Westminster and probably an overnight stay? Do you have any idea just how expensive train travel is in this country if you want to travel at a decent hour?

Another “fact” that seems to make sense in the pub but doesn’t stand up to any scrutiny.

Has any demonstration since the poll tax actually stopped anything? The anti Iraq War and anti Brexit made no difference to anything at all. Neither do the online petitions signed by millions of people. Farage’s flotilla didn’t seem to achieve much, apart from some comedic value.

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Still worth a go if you have no backups ?

It’s like saying put petrol in a diesel car as it’s all fuel, it won’t work. Even if you’ve mounted an NFS drive in Windows – which is an arcane art in itself –  as the filing structure is totally different. Recuva has nothing to work with.

Dan, can you make use of the snapshot function of NFS? Not something I’ve played with myself. At this level I chicken out and let Synology do it for me.

My latest NAS allows me to set up a Windows Domain (not of interest to you) but that also means it has the CPU power to use BTRFS which allows pooling, snapshots and checksums (self healing, no bit rot).  It also de-duplicates automatically, mine is running at about 2:1

The Active Backup Suite can deal with just about anything client wise and Hyper Backup (to backup the NAS) can be done to a local USB disk or the Synology C2 Cloud service – 1TB is £70 a year (you can get bigger and smaller plans).

All of my important data is now on a Synology NAS and I can just let it get on with it knowing that of there any glitches it will let me know. This doesn’t mean I’ve stopped using or experimenting with Linux, but having been in your situation more than once I decided that I couldn’t be any more.

EDIT – My mobile devices all have DS Photo installed to automatically backup photos when they see some WiFi (think your own personal Google Photos). Although they’re set up correctly, last week I had warning emails from my NAS that someone claiming to be me was logging in from Switzerland and then Italy. Nothing was blocked as the authorisations were correct but it’s reassuring to know that the NAS is always on the lookout for unusual activity. The email had a link to take me straight to my login, nice.  I could have set that warning up as an SMS via Clickatell too.

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The specialist wine booths are out in the gardens, plenty of seating but of the park bench variety and the odd pagoda. The local weiner gemischter satz (a blend of grapes grown in the city limits) is very good. A Kaiser Spritzer (it has elderflower added) is nice on a hot day. Gotta take a hint from the locals ?

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EasyJet use flighradar (JCD link) on their app.

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LOL. Printing via the network quickly gives you a way to make a printer unique by its very nature, an IP address.

Network printer will have an internal Web server which allows you to log into the printer and directly alter settings you can’t via USB.

You could name one Arthur and other Merlin, making it even easier to distinguish them.

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