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dunelm said:
Good morning everyone on a sea fret of a start to the day here in the dark and dangerous north. 5.7 this am. Admin day yesterday. My pal from LA wanted his fancy watch strap adjusted and was pleasantly surprised that our local jeweler only charged him £4. It’s evidently an arm and a leg in the USA or at least a rib. Received a email from ‘DVLA’ about a refund - yeh, right. Forwarded it to their phishing email address and got an acknowledgement back - Arn’t they lovely . Good news yesterday as Mrs Miggins’ sister finally home from hospital six weeks after having a stroke. A few changed had to be made in their house first. Art bit, the beginning of some rocks. Need to think about some background later, or not. Undecided. Have a pleasant day if you can. Koffy is now needed.


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Like the artwork reminds me of the Lady of the North.
 
dunelm said:
Good morning everyone on a sea fret of a start to the day here in the dark and dangerous north. 5.7 this am. Admin day yesterday. My pal from LA wanted his fancy watch strap adjusted and was pleasantly surprised that our local jeweler only charged him £4. It’s evidently an arm and a leg in the USA or at least a rib. Received a email from ‘DVLA’ about a refund - yeh, right. Forwarded it to their phishing email address and got an acknowledgement back - Arn’t they lovely . Good news yesterday as Mrs Miggins’ sister finally home from hospital six weeks after having a stroke. A few changed had to be made in their house first. Art bit, the beginning of some rocks. Need to think about some background later, or not. Undecided. Have a pleasant day if you can. Koffy is now needed.


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Thank you for sharing the latest art and good news on your SIL being home. @JohnEGreen I had to google the Lady of the North - I am terribly parochial. Hummed and hawed about sharing this wonderful piece but it echoes my guilt at being so parochial and I think @lindisfel @Annb and @JohnEGreen at least will find it agreeable. It does contextualise in a properly Christian way what I wrote yesterday about us living "in silos" these days and why I'm anti everything some desperately want 2016 to normalise here and in the land of the free and home of the brave. While I'm here a bijou reverse ferretette on pseudo-scientific diet. I guess I must acknowledge LC/Keto must have been God's way of helping. To be fair I've seen no double blind studies;). Also for the really, really woke I discovered the word Godself when reading an excellent piece on the discordant line in Oh come all ye faithful and the Te Deum about abhorring not the virgin's womb. Turns out wokeness has a sound pedigree. :D
 
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gennepher said:
I can't do it...
I am wary of writing too much on here...

I said I mentioned that the council lady said that my CD letter addressed to me was information on free postage for the blind and articles for blind people. There was nothing in the envelope or on the CD about anything to do with blind people, the CD letter was all about my personal private confidential information and highly sensitive details about my pension, bank account and much more.

Now, google Articles for the Blind which was on the printed label on the envelope

Free postal service - Articles for the Blind scheme

If you're affected by sight loss, we're here for you
www.rnib.org.uk www.rnib.org.uk

2 bits:

"Royal Mail operate a scheme called Articles for the Blind (AFB) which allows blind and partially sighted people to send certain items of post free of charge."

"Royal Mail recommends that you do not send personal, sensitive or confidential correspondence such as health or financial information using the scheme."

So the DWP are using a free post service most inappropriately....

And this was why it went First Class at the expense of the Royal Mail. And was disguised as a CD so that no one would know the DWP were using this free service inappropriately....

My jaw has just dropped through the floor...
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Just shocking! Sneaky and no other words apart from sweary ones :bored:
 
I've just spent an hour and 40 minutes "chatting" to the BT helpline to try to get my phone to work. (It's not that I can't afford the time, I just find it difficult to dig deep enough for the patience). It seems it won't work without an extra thing to convert the analogue to digital signal. The engineer said we wouldn't need that yet - only when we get fast fibre. Anyhow, they will send out the little box of tricks and I guess Neil will set it up. That will only work for the one phone though. However, if it works we can get another one for the 2nd phone. I am assuming the little extension hand held phone that connects to the main one, will work off its "mother-phone". I guess, if all else fails, I'll just have to give up on the landline and get a mobile. Have to find someone else to get it going for me though.

I think I need something stronger than tea to recover from this session. However, since I don't drink alcohol at all or coffee more than once in a blue moon, it will have to be a stronger than usual cup of tea.
 
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ianpspurs said:
Thank you for sharing the latest art and good news on your SIL being home. @JohnEGreen I had to google the Lady of the North - I am terribly parochial. Hummed and hawed about sharing this wonderful piece but it echoes my guilt at being so parochial and I think @lindisfel @Annb and @JohnEGreen at least will find it agreeable. It does contextualise in a properly Christian way what I wrote yesterday about us living "in silos" these days and why I'm anti everything some desperately want 2016 to normalise here and in the land of the free and home of the brave. While I'm here a bijou reverse ferretette on pseudo-scientific diet. I guess I must acknowledge LC/Keto must have been God's way of helping. To be fair I've seen no double blind studies;). Also for the really, really woke I discovered the word Godself when reading an excellent piece on the discordant line in Oh come all ye faithful and the Te Deum about abhorring not the virgin's womb. Turns out wokeness has a sound pedigree. :D
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So they are arguing about what Gods pronoun should be and many are arguing that it should be they, the world has truly gone mad.
 
dunelm said:
Good morning everyone on a sea fret of a start to the day here in the dark and dangerous north. 5.7 this am. Admin day yesterday. My pal from LA wanted his fancy watch strap adjusted and was pleasantly surprised that our local jeweler only charged him £4. It’s evidently an arm and a leg in the USA or at least a rib. Received a email from ‘DVLA’ about a refund - yeh, right. Forwarded it to their phishing email address and got an acknowledgement back - Arn’t they lovely . Good news yesterday as Mrs Miggins’ sister finally home from hospital six weeks after having a stroke. A few changed had to be made in their house first. Art bit, the beginning of some rocks. Need to think about some background later, or not. Undecided. Have a pleasant day if you can. Koffy is now needed.


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Glad to hear Mrs M's sister is well enough to get home. I hope she wasn't too disabled by her stroke although, if alternations are needed to her house, there must be some measure of disability. Sorry about that. Promising group of rocks there.
 
JohnEGreen said:
So they are arguing about what Gods pronoun should be and many are arguing that it should be they, the world has truly gone mad.
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Agree on the world going mad but that symptom vexes me less than many others. I can see why women would be discombobulated since the context of beliefs at the time is key and I've never heard a Nativity service explain that. There's also never a dragon in most Nativty sets - that's for another day unless anyone wants to google there's a dragon in my Nativty - and it (sadly)ain't called Donald ;)
 
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ianpspurs said:
Thank you for sharing the latest art and good news on your SIL being home. @JohnEGreen I had to google the Lady of the North - I am terribly parochial. Hummed and hawed about sharing this wonderful piece but it echoes my guilt at being so parochial and I think @lindisfel @Annb and @JohnEGreen at least will find it agreeable. It does contextualise in a properly Christian way what I wrote yesterday about us living "in silos" these days and why I'm anti everything some desperately want 2016 to normalise here and in the land of the free and home of the brave. While I'm here a bijou reverse ferretette on pseudo-scientific diet. I guess I must acknowledge LC/Keto must have been God's way of helping. To be fair I've seen no double blind studies;). Also for the really, really woke I discovered the word Godself when reading an excellent piece on the discordant line in Oh come all ye faithful and the Te Deum about abhorring not the virgin's womb. Turns out wokeness has a sound pedigree. :D
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Godself is a new one on me. Not entirely clear about its meaning or usage. Brain dead after my spell online with BT.
 
ianpspurs said:
Agree on the world going mad but that symptom vexes me less than many others. I can see why women would be discombobulated since the context of beliefs at the time is key and I've never heard a Nativity service explain that. There's also never a dragon in most Nativty sets - that's for another day unless anyone wants to google there's a dragon in my Nativty - and it (sadly)ain't called Donald ;)
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I remember being quite put out when my cousin (aged about 19 at the time) explained that, having just had her first child, she was considered "unclean" by her Anglican church, until she attended a service to "cleanse" her. Wasn't acceptable to me when I was 18 - nor now 60 years later.
 
Annb said:
I've just spent an hour and 40 minutes "chatting" to the BT helpline to try to get my phone to work. (It's not that I can't afford the time, I just find it difficult to dig deep enough for the patience). It seems it won't work without an extra thing to convert the analogue to digital signal. The engineer said we wouldn't need that yet - only when we get fast fibre. Anyhow, they will send out the little box of tricks and I guess Neil will set it up. That will only work for the one phone though. However, if it works we can get another one for the 2nd phone. I am assuming the little extension hand held phone that connects to the main one, will work off its "mother-phone". I guess, if all else fails, I'll just have to give up on the landline and get a mobile. Have to find someone else to get it going for me though.

I think I need something stronger than tea to recover from this session. However, since I don't drink alcohol at all or coffee more than once in a blue moon, it will have to be a stronger than usual cup of tea.
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Mostly in areas like ours there is broadband and analogue speech on the same line, you just need a quite bog standard separating filter. A two output filter that we all had to use before fibre.

Its quite often incorporated in BT terminals coming into the house and feeds out a phone and separate internet signal.
You will need internet phones when they ditch the system, many in towns have needed new phones already.

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lindisfel said:
Mostly in areas like ours there is broadband and analogue speech on the same line, you just need quite bog standard filter two output filter that we all have use.

Its quite often incorporated in your BT terminal coming into the house.
You will need internet phones when they ditch the system, many in towns have needed new phones already

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The engineer who came to install it all said we would be able to use our phones but the BT help says we need it to converted to a digital signal. I don't know which one is right. Also not at all sure that the "box" they are sending will prove to be the right fix. We can only wait and see - a couple of days, if the mail doesn't get held up by the weather, or by the mail plane breaking down.
 
gennepher said:
Me too!
I was still at school when a guy came round enlisting us!
It was better than the last two weeks or so before Xmas working instead of studying.
I caused havoc. They made the mistake of letting me use the franking machine....hundreds of ripped up letters/Xmas cards spewed into the air. I was banned to lost letter items after that episode...
I feel guilty now of all that unreceived mail...
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I did hear and don't have reference that Post Office do not have Christmas workers now!

6.5 today.
grey and cloudy with the chance of drizzle later.
I'm feeling grey today.
Been turned down by council, my private pension is too much for grant for bathroom modification.
I will explain more when I know more.
If we between us had a means tested benefit (not P.I.P) we would have got it! My pension just disqualifies us for any benefit.
We cannot afford the changes, just so angry!
my next step could be to my MP.
Still waiting for emails.

My best wishes to you all as always.
 
ianpspurs said:
Thank you for sharing the latest art and good news on your SIL being home. @JohnEGreen I had to google the Lady of the North - I am terribly parochial. Hummed and hawed about sharing this wonderful piece but it echoes my guilt at being so parochial and I think @lindisfel @Annb and @JohnEGreen at least will find it agreeable. It does contextualise in a properly Christian way what I wrote yesterday about us living "in silos" these days and why I'm anti everything some desperately want 2016 to normalise here and in the land of the free and home of the brave. While I'm here a bijou reverse ferretette on pseudo-scientific diet. I guess I must acknowledge LC/Keto must have been God's way of helping. To be fair I've seen no double blind studies;). Also for the really, really woke I discovered the word Godself when reading an excellent piece on the discordant line in Oh come all ye faithful and the Te Deum about abhorring not the virgin's womb. Turns out wokeness has a sound pedigree. :D
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I found this in a book of George Herbert's poems and was struck and really touched by the last 3 lines.
 
Annb said:
I found this in a book of George Herbert's poems and was struck and really touched by the last 3 lines.
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If there a scriptural precedent it is in Genesis 1 where God said, " Let US make man!" A similar thought is carried by the Greek at John 1.
Where in creation the Father and the Logos are face to face and create through them.
 
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Lainie71 said:
Exactly the same for me, I used to cry when I was at work and when I got home. It was destroying me as a person so I quit. Much happier hairdressing now!
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I also worked for them briefly. It was horrible and I had to leave because I hated their attitude and I was scared that I might become like them if I stayed there. I actually felt that I was an alien who didn't belong there when I walked into the building.
 
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