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Fbg 6.7

Wildlife nighttime camera.
30 second short...
Badger rocks swing & gets smack on nose..

Merlin was eating cat biscuits on the swing
Badger KissyKissy, sniffs Merlin's tail. Merlin objects and runs away (Merlin will get his own back on the Badger another day).
KissyKissy, goes in for a kiss from Midnight. Midnight gives the most panther-like ferocious hiss and baring of teeth I have seen yet, and smacks KissyKissy hard on the nose.

A few of my more recent night-time videos have been very long (because it was an action packed night), and most of us don't have the time to sit and look through the whole lot. So I am going to make shorts of maybe 30 seconds of various highlights of those videos. But I can't do that until I have published the original video to make the short from. They will be up to the maximum of 60 seconds long.
Just to let you know.

Creative is a digital painting of a sheep in Procreate

Been out in front garden...to try and garden.
But neighbour's, from a few doors down, yappy dog, and her 'arguments' with it, drove me in...so now on warm side of front garden window, and I will just let my front garden grow and grow...

Birds will be happy, they are thinking of nesting...

Have your best day.

I am going to have a late breakfast, a cuppa and a snooze, and Midnight is still in my bed!!!


Enjoy your day...

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gennepher said:
Fbg 6.7

Wildlife nighttime camera.
30 second short...
Badger rocks swing & gets smack on nose..

Merlin was eating cat biscuits on the swing
Badger KissyKissy, sniffs Merlin's tail. Merlin objects and runs away (Merlin will get his own back on the Badger another day).
KissyKissy, goes in for a kiss from Midnight. Midnight gives the most panther-like ferocious hiss and baring of teeth I have seen yet, and smacks KissyKissy hard on the nose.

A few of my more recent night-time videos have been very long (because it was an action packed night), and most of us don't have the time to sit and look through the whole lot. So I am going to make shorts of maybe 30 seconds of various highlights of those videos. But I can't do that until I have published the original video to make the short from. They will be up to the maximum of 60 seconds long.
Just to let you know.

Creative is a digital painting of a sheep in Procreate

Been out in front garden...to try and garden.
But neighbour's, from a few doors down, yappy dog, and her 'arguments' with it, drove me in...so now on warm side of front garden window, and I will just let my front garden grow and grow...

Birds will be happy, they are thinking of nesting...

Have your best day.

I am going to have a late breakfast, a cuppa and a snooze, and Midnight is still in my bed!!!


Enjoy your day...

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Thank you for the video and another splendid sheep creative. Don't tell the sheep I will be eating its friends and family over the next few days. Can't resist a baargain. Shame about the noisy neighbours but enjoy your breakfast.
 
Annb said:
Thinking back to a topic a few days ago about mobile phones. Neil bought me a £10 voucher yesterday to put into my mobile phone but the instructions were too quiet for me to follow so I asked Alistair to do it for me today. He successfully put the money in - it was accepted - and then he was told that the SIM card had been deregistered again and I would have to get a new one! So now they have my money and are not giving me the service. Why could that message have been given before they accepted the money?

Question now is, do I get a new card, a new phone or just not bother and try to get in touch with the NHS website that sent me a code to access my account with them and see if they can use some other system to contact me and just forget about *!*!*! mobile phones?
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I have no idea what the answer is to your problem @Annb

I typed into Google "why does my phone keep getting de registered ", meaning for you obviously.
I came up with this link.

And by the way that would drive me mad trying to go through all that. I couldn't do it.

But, if you are constantly being told to get a new sim, then it is going to be a new number, which is absolutely useless for your nhs contact number.

You need someone tech savvy to help you through this.

How good is the mobile signal on your island?

I only have a mobile wi fi, I don't have landline internet (no phone), and that can be iffy quite often. This then affects my internet connection, and I get messages saying you do not have permission to connect to this wi fi (it's my blinking wi fi and I pay for it) and other inappropriate irrelevant messages telling me to go into the settings and do this that and the other.

I ignore them. I end up rebooting my device, etc etc, with a few choice words...

And it is all connected up again.

With me it is something to do with the signal dropping and upsetting my device, and my device not liking this, and comes up with something that is not correct.

I am not technical, as you can tell from my explanation.
 
gennepher said:
Fbg 6.7

Wildlife nighttime camera.
30 second short...
Badger rocks swing & gets smack on nose..

Merlin was eating cat biscuits on the swing
Badger KissyKissy, sniffs Merlin's tail. Merlin objects and runs away (Merlin will get his own back on the Badger another day).
KissyKissy, goes in for a kiss from Midnight. Midnight gives the most panther-like ferocious hiss and baring of teeth I have seen yet, and smacks KissyKissy hard on the nose.

A few of my more recent night-time videos have been very long (because it was an action packed night), and most of us don't have the time to sit and look through the whole lot. So I am going to make shorts of maybe 30 seconds of various highlights of those videos. But I can't do that until I have published the original video to make the short from. They will be up to the maximum of 60 seconds long.
Just to let you know.

Creative is a digital painting of a sheep in Procreate

Been out in front garden...to try and garden.
But neighbour's, from a few doors down, yappy dog, and her 'arguments' with it, drove me in...so now on warm side of front garden window, and I will just let my front garden grow and grow...

Birds will be happy, they are thinking of nesting...

Have your best day.

I am going to have a late breakfast, a cuppa and a snooze, and Midnight is still in my bed!!!


Enjoy your day...

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Another friendly looking sheep. The sheep that you know don't seem to be related to our evil minded blackfaced ones - most of them with horns. The ewes all seem to think they are rams - or maybe it's just female emancipation. At least the horns make it easier for their sheep-herds to catch them. The one thing that scared our (collie) dog and our cats was a gang of blackfaced sheep approaching them.

The collie, because she got caught in the barn door by one particularly feisty ewe with wide, sharp horns (and she knew how to use them). She was a great dog, as a pet, but could never be used to round up sheep. The cats, especially the big, older one weren't afraid of dogs, but sheep ...!
 
ianpspurs said:
Thank you for the video and another splendid sheep creative. Don't tell the sheep I will be eating its friends and family over the next few days. Can't resist a baargain. Shame about the noisy neighbours but enjoy your breakfast.
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Thank you @ianpspurs but...
Oh dear, you have just wiped the smile off that sheep's face...

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gennepher said:
I have no idea what the answer is to your problem @Annb

I typed into Google "why does my phone keep getting de registered ", meaning for you obviously.
I came up with this link.

And by the way that would drive me mad trying to go through all that. I couldn't do it.

But, if you are constantly being told to get a new sim, then it is going to be a new number, which is absolutely useless for your nhs contact number.

You need someone tech savvy to help you through this.

How good is the mobile signal on your island?

I only have a mobile wi fi, I don't have landline internet (no phone), and that can be iffy quite often. This then affects my internet connection, and I get messages saying you do not have permission to connect to this wi fi (it's my blinking wi fi and I pay for it) and other inappropriate irrelevant messages telling me to go into the settings and do this that and the other.

I ignore them. I end up rebooting my device, etc etc, with a few choice words...

And it is all connected up again.

With me it is something to do with the signal dropping and upsetting my device, and my device not liking this, and comes up with something that is not correct.

I am not technical, as you can tell from my explanation.
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Thanks for finding that site. Unfortunately, like you, I am not capable of following what they are talking about - except the word "android". I don't really know what that is, but I know that my phone isn't an android one.

I am coming to the conclusion that I'll just give up on mobile phones - even landlines are too complicated for me. And I really don't need one. It was only ever for emergencies and what's the use if, when you have an emergency, the phone doesn't work?

In this part of the Island we have good mobile connection to the Vodaphone network, but not to any other. However, half a mile away from us, Alistair has no signal. There are large parts of the Highlands and Islands that have no signal even for Vodaphone. Too few masts, too many hills and valleys. There is even an area on the west side of the Island where the villagers had to put up their own mast to get a TV signal.
 
Annb said:
Thanks for finding that site. Unfortunately, like you, I am not capable of following what they are talking about - except the word "android". I don't really know what that is, but I know that my phone isn't and android one.

I am coming to the conclusion that I'll just give up on mobile phones - even landlines are too complicated for me. And I really don't need one. It was only ever for emergencies and what's the use if, when you have an emergency, the phone doesn't work?

In this part of the Island we have good mobile connection to the Vodaphone network, but not to any other. However, half a mile away from us, Alistair has no signal. There are large parts of the Highlands and Islands that have no signal even for Vodaphone. Too few masts, too many hills and valleys. There is even an area on the west side of the Island where the villagers had to put up their own mast to get a TV signal.
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In areas like the Highlands, and the hilly parts of Wales mobile phones are worse than useless.

Sorry I couldn't help xx
 
gennepher said:
In areas like the Highlands, and the hilly parts of Wales mobile phones are worse than useless.

Sorry I couldn't help xx
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No worries. I guess it does me no harm to have the even tenor of my days shaken up a little by frustrating technology. If possible I will get some other means of communicating with NHS Patient Access and then I shall just give up on mobile phones.
 
gennepher said:
TCFI have no idea what the answer is to your problem @Annb

I typed into Google "why does my phone keep getting de registered ", meaning for you obviously.
I came up with this link.

And by the way that would drive me mad trying to go through all that. I couldn't do it.

But, if you are constantly being told to get a new sim, then it is going to be a new number, which is absolutely useless for your nhs contact number.

You need someone tech savvy to help you through this.

How good is the mobile signal on your island?

I only have a mobile wi fi, I don't have landline internet (no phone), and that can be iffy quite often. This then affects my internet connection, and I get messages saying you do not have permission to connect to this wi fi (it's my blinking wi fi and I pay for it) and other inappropriate irrelevant messages telling me to go into the settings and do this that and the other.

I ignore them. I end up rebooting my device, etc etc, with a few choice words...

And it is all connected up again.

With me it is something to do with the signal dropping and upsetting my device, and my device not liking this, and comes up with something that is not correct.

I am not technical, as you can tell from my explanation.
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You can port your number to another network.
 
We have no mobile phone coverage in the house but have a landline and WiFi hub for most of the house but the thick walls mean we have use an WiFi extender. In the downstairs bedrooms.
We can use our Android 12 phones in the house by using WiFi for getting into the networks for texts and phone communication.
The networks are poor here in Cumbria I have to walk up a hill at the back of the house with my old phone so I can get into the network.
Derek
 
lindisfel said:
You can port your number to another network.
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Alistair told me that this can be done but he can't remember how he did it (it was some time ago). I could go to a techie shop that we have in Stornoway, but I don't think it's worth the bother. Since I don't have many outdoor emergencies these days, a landline is sufficient and the same thing would happen again with any mobile. I know I'm a dinosaur, but I can't turn back the clock now.
 
Annb said:
Alistair told me that this can be done but he can't remember how he did it (it was some time ago). I could go to a techie shop that we have in Stornoway, but I don't think it's worth the bother. Since I don't have many outdoor emergencies these days, a landline is sufficient and the same thing would happen again with any mobile. I know I'm a dinosaur, but I can't turn back the clock now.
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BT are eventually going to stop using landlines.
The hubs will be run from mobile networks.
D.
 
lindisfel said:
BT are eventually going to stop using landlines.
The hubs will be run from mobile networks.
D.
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So I gather, but there are still so many places in the country that have no signal, so I imagine it will take a long time for that to happen. I know I'm an ignoramus but, don't we need the landlines for our broadband?

I don't suppose it will happen in my lifetime. Neil will have to make his own decisions on what to do after I'm gone.

Same issue with cars - eventually petrol and diesel cars will be obsolete because the fuel is no longer available so, what people do who can't afford to buy an electric car, I don't know. Maybe Neil will have to buy a horse, or get his old push bike out of the shed.
 
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Good morning everyone and welcome to the quite that is the morning of the day after the grandchildren went back home. Their mum and dad were supposed to be here for the weekend but dad had some emergency treatment on a tooth on Friday and is not really able to drive without some strong pain killers - such as a carpenters mallet across the back of the head. So, we took them home so that they won’t miss out on school tomorrow - yippee! Packing today, for a road trip. Mrs Miggins and her sister are off to Anglesay tomorrow for a few days so I am heading south to visit with some pals for a catch up and to shoot the breeze with nonsense - punt guns at the ready. There was talk of visiting Oxford but as the Pitt Rivers have removed their only exhibits of interest, shrunken heads in a fit of wokeness, I don’t feel the need to dig out my brogues and give them a wipe over. Art bit, an old, damp building. Well, the start of one. Have the best Sunday that you can have, it’s probably got a special name somewhere in the world but don’t let that influence your decision not to be jolly and to have a fry up. Koffy, must find some koffy.


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