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ianpspurs said:
So you won't be needing this helpful guide? Rather dramatic and very much of a certain vintage. No mention of which variety of turkey (black, bronze, Narangassett, the perfect wines for each course, whose brine recipe is best, the proper tools for Julienne carrots, pancetta or chorizo with the sprouts - there must be chestnuts obs. What kind of deranged pyromaniac has candles with small children and those batwhatsit crazy crackers around? Not to mention the utter rudeness of plating up someone's Christmas dinner - that;s all you're getting mate, That's what serving dishes are for and why people invented the attached - I got tired of cold Christmas dinner so we some. Of course there's an Ocado just for Christmas anyhow - other providers are available. Aldi's wing rin Waygu looks a goer for one day.
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And don’t, whatever you do, invite Anyone
 
Odd things happening today. I wrote a long post about difficulties connecting to the internet now that we have switched to BT. At the start, I thought it was working, which is why I was rattling on about it (speed 10 times better at least). By the time I had finished, the whole of our communications system had gone on strike. I couldn't post to the thread so left my post to await developments. As far as it is concerned the development was that it disappeared into the ether, so there is nothing to post, now that the engineer has been and gone and fixed it all.

Poor man - he came out to do a quick connection job at 0930 and he has just left at 1630. There were 2 faults on the line that he found right away (nobody had told him that we had reported a fault). One was on the telegraph pole across the road from us and the last link in the chain. The second was on the penultimate pole but it had been declared as unsafe for an engineer to climb so he had to go to town and borrow a "cherry picker" from a local electrical firm so that he could get to fix the fault. Then he found that there was another fault and had to fix that.

It's no surprise really. That line was put in in 1976 and, as far as I am aware, has never had work done on it.

I thought he had said that, because it is an old copper wire, we wouldn't be able to get the phone working, or we wouldn't be able to have broadband. I got that wrong somehow and by tomorrow we should have the phone working again as well as the broadband. Not sure what the speed is that we are getting, but it seems to me to be immediate response as opposed to the 3 or 4 minute wait to get anywhere that we did have. This seems to be a kind of bodged measure because of the copper wire and it is a way of getting it to work until we get fibre - maybe in ten years' time. Then it will be much faster. It's fast enough right now!

So, with great pleasure, and forgetting that this was supposed to be about FBG (because I've forgotten what it was) I am about to press the button. :happy:
 
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dunelm said:
I love a good expletive and sometimes make up my own, especially if I am driving through the Northumbrian village of Shillbottle while doing that long drive from Shitterton to Twatt.
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Me too.

Fluent anglo Saxon here too.

Sometimes Lauren says I should be tested for tourettes....mmhh

"******** to that" .
 
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ianpspurs said:
Morning all from a dry and mild L.A. Hive thermostat showed 18C (+2 from target) at 6.40 this morning and 21 (+3) last evening with no heating on all day. Today is both the Feast day of St Edmund King of the East Angles and our grandson's 11th birthday. By chance yesterday's family meal offered the opportunity to celebrate both.11 years ago I was still working, both my parents were alive and living in Breckland wasn't even my wildest fever dream. Within 6 months both parents died and things changed - gives one pause (I've never heard anyone say that) The O/T passage for today from Isaiah does resonate in terms of the pooh show all 7 grandchildren have been born into. Very similar rupture between the ways of God and running of this nation (and the City on a hill one) - awful mess as a consequence both times. The family meal yesterday was wonderful so the tag line from Isaiah (Izaayer round here) but his hand is stretched out still is so apt personally. (There is a theme here) Turkeys are on the shelves here since Thursday is Thanksgiving - interestingly so much more sensibly priced than they will be next month. We have a wreath on the front door so we blend in but I'm not about to wear fatiques. @lindisfel take it easy. @SlimLizzy don't be too Nike and that French phrase is so accurate. @Krystyna23040 that phrase for raining is very NFN in my experience - although hosing down (whoseing) is also popular. @dunelm yesterday sounds just the ticket for all of you. Thanks for sharing the art. Not sure this finds you as it left me but what's done is done and cannot be undone eh Lady M?
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Oh no - I am NFN now
 
Annb said:
Odd things happening today. I wrote a long post about difficulties connecting to the internet now that we have switched to BT. At the start, I thought it was working, which is why I was rattling on about it (speed 10 times better at least). By the time I had finished, the whole of our communications system had gone on strike. I couldn't post to the thread so left my post to await developments. As far as it is concerned the development was that it disappeared into the ether, so there is nothing ot post, now that the engineer has been and gone and fixed it all.

Poor man - he came out to do a quick connection job at 0930 and he has just left at 1630. There were 2 faults on the line that he found right away (nobody had told him that we had reported a fault). One was on the telegraph pole across the road from us and the last link in the chain. The second was on the penultimate pole but it had been declared as unsafe for an engineer to climb so he had to go to town and borrow a "cherry picker" from a local electrical firm so that he could get to fix the fault. Then he found that there was another fault and had to fix that.

It's no surprise really. That line was put in in 1976 and, as far as I am aware, has never had work done on it.

I thought he had said that, because it is an old copper wire, we wouldn't be able to get the phone working, or we wouldn't be able to have broadband. I got that wrong somehow and by tomorrow we should have the phone working again as well as the broadband. Not sure what the speed is that we are getting, but it seems to me to be immediate response as opposed to the 3 or 4 minute wait to get anywhere that we did have. This seems to be a kind of bodged measure because of the copper wire and it is a way of getting it to work until we get fibre - maybe in ten years' time. Then it will be much faster. It's fast enough right now!

So, with great pleasure, and forgetting that this was supposed to be about FBG (because I've forgotten what it was) I am about to press the button. :happy:
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1976! That copper wire would be like ambergris and better suited to the manufacturing of posh perfume. Although the copper should last, faults cause a db loss and three would probably sound like Norman Collier’s microphone gag over a telephone.
 
dunelm said:
1976! That copper wire would be like ambergris and better suited to the manufacturing of posh perfume. Although the copper should last, faults cause a db loss and three would probably sound like Norman Collier’s microphone gag over a telephone.
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At times, quite like that, but most of the time it was like eggs hard frying in a lot of oil. Crackling and hissing so that the voice couldn't be heard at all. Zoom would cut out every 2 or 3 minutes. Logging in would take several minutes and sometimes just wouldn't do it at all. Much better now. Just hope it keeps up the good work.
 
I drove down to the library. But they said they couldn't help with this CD from the DWP because the CD was a government letter. I said all I wanted was access to a computer and I would try and read this letter. No they said, you have to go to the council...

I was in a blue funk by now. i wanted to know what was on the darn CD. So off I go haring off to the council with very little time to spare...

It was getting dark.

The council had no idea. It didn't make sense because there was no braille on the envelope nor the CD, because how would a blind person know what it was. Or if it was for them. So other people came to add their two pennyworth. Ring the government, DWP, was the "helpful" suggestion. I am deaf, I am lipreading you, I cannot lipread a phone I explained to them for the 3rd time. Oh, they said. Can't you contact someone for me I asked. No, you have to do it, you have to phone personally yourself, I was told. No one had a clue...

And by the way there was no contact info on the CD only the PO Box in Belfast, nor any contact info on the CD, just my name.

Finally I said to them, can you find me an email address I can use. So one of them wrote down an email address for me...but how useful it is, I have no idea at this point.

I left and drove home, not in a good mood. I have been useless all day.

I came home and looked at the dark chocolate digestives that have been staring at me all day. No, I have not opened the packet. It is still intact...

So, I still don't know what the CD letter is from the DWP, but the council thought it was an audio. I am thinking, would it play in my CD player. I still wouldn't be able to tell what it was saying but I might get an indication and see if my Android software can pick up some words. But there again it might not play in my CD Player. This CD might not be an audio. I can't remember how to use it the CD player. I used to have a mini mic in an old cochlear processor, but since I have had this nucleus 7 processor, the mini mic became old technology and I didn't use the CD Player, but streamed direct from phone to my head...

AAAGGGHHHHH.....
 
dunelm said:
Lovely gel print. Wonder if you can email DWP and give them some advice about spurious mailings.
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Thank you @dunelm

I went to the library but they wouldn't let me use a computer to read it because it was a government letter. Said I had to go to the council, who were worse than useless. There was no info on who to email, or what department. There was only a PO Box number for Belfast on the envelope, and just my name on the CD itself. No other contact information.
 
gennepher said:
I drove down to the library. But they said they couldn't help with this CD from the DWP because the CD was a government letter. I said all I wanted was access to a computer and I would try and read this letter. No they said, you have to go to the council...

I was in a blue funk by now. i wanted to know what was on the darn CD. So off I go haring off to the council with very little time to spare...

It was getting dark.

The council had no idea. It didn't make sense because there was no braille on the envelope nor the CD, because how would a blind person know what it was. Or if it was for them. So other people came to add their two pennyworth. Ring the government, DWP, was the "helpful" suggestion. I am deaf, I am lipreading you, I cannot lipread a phone I explained to them for the 3rd time. Oh, they said. Can't you contact someone for me I asked. No, you have to do it, you have to phone personally yourself, I was told. No one had a clue...

And by the way there was no contact info on the CD only the PO Box in Belfast, nor any contact info on the CD, just my name.

Finally I said to them, can you find me an email address I can use. So one of them wrote down an email address for me...but how useful it is, I have no idea at this point.

I left and drove home, not in a good mood. I have been useless all day.

I came home and looked at the dark chocolate digestives that have been staring at me all day. No, I have not opened the packet. It is still intact...

So, I still don't know what the CD letter is from the DWP, but the council thought it was an audio. I am thinking, would it play in my CD player. I still wouldn't be able to tell what it was saying but I might get an indication and see if my Android software can pick up some words. But there again it might not play in my CD Player. This CD might not be an audio. I can't remember how to use it the CD player. I used to have a mini mic in an old cochlear processor, but since I have had this nucleus 7 processor, the mini mic became old technology and I didn't use the CD Player, but streamed direct from phone to my head...

AAAGGGHHHHH.....
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Nightmare. Forgot to thank you for the creative and video earlier.
 
gennepher said:
I drove down to the library. But they said they couldn't help with this CD from the DWP because the CD was a government letter. I said all I wanted was access to a computer and I would try and read this letter. No they said, you have to go to the council...

I was in a blue funk by now. i wanted to know what was on the darn CD. So off I go haring off to the council with very little time to spare...

It was getting dark.

The council had no idea. It didn't make sense because there was no braille on the envelope nor the CD, because how would a blind person know what it was. Or if it was for them. So other people came to add their two pennyworth. Ring the government, DWP, was the "helpful" suggestion. I am deaf, I am lipreading you, I cannot lipread a phone I explained to them for the 3rd time. Oh, they said. Can't you contact someone for me I asked. No, you have to do it, you have to phone personally yourself, I was told. No one had a clue...

And by the way there was no contact info on the CD only the PO Box in Belfast, nor any contact info on the CD, just my name.

Finally I said to them, can you find me an email address I can use. So one of them wrote down an email address for me...but how useful it is, I have no idea at this point.

I left and drove home, not in a good mood. I have been useless all day.

I came home and looked at the dark chocolate digestives that have been staring at me all day. No, I have not opened the packet. It is still intact...

So, I still don't know what the CD letter is from the DWP, but the council thought it was an audio. I am thinking, would it play in my CD player. I still wouldn't be able to tell what it was saying but I might get an indication and see if my Android software can pick up some words. But there again it might not play in my CD Player. This CD might not be an audio. I can't remember how to use it the CD player. I used to have a mini mic in an old cochlear processor, but since I have had this nucleus 7 processor, the mini mic became old technology and I didn't use the CD Player, but streamed direct from phone to my head...

AAAGGGHHHHH.....
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I gave a hug but that doesn't seem to be enough. It's very odd. Does the government send out CD's to people? Why? It doesn't make sense to me. Especially just to arrive with no explanation. There are some idiotic people around and many of them seem to work in government departments. If you don't get any help from the Belfast address, could CIB help?
 
Krystyna23040 said:
I love my new car. It has got turbo
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Well, I'm not one to worry you, but
If your salesman looked like this man, I'd be careful going over 88mph

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I did hear a rumour due to Brexit issues, turbos were often out of stock, & some unscrupulous dealers had the flux capacitor fitted instead of a genuine 'turbo'., hoping no one would notice....might not be true, tho'...mmhh.

Ps. If you do go over the speed limit, do let me know the lotto numbers for next week :cool:
 
Annb said:
I gave a hug but that doesn't seem to be enough. It's very odd. Does the government send out CD's to people? Why? It doesn't make sense to me. Especially just to arrive with no explanation. There are some idiotic people around and many of them seem to work in government departments. If you don't get any help from the Belfast address, could CIB help?
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It seems very strange to me. I would have thought in these days where tablets are used in the main, no one would have the technology to play a CD, or very few people.
CIB? Do you mean Citizens Advice Bureau? Before Covid and Lockdowns, I could have walked into their office and asked for help, but since covid and lockdowns, their offices are shut to the public and their help is now all online, which does not help me with a CD which has no info as to which or what department in the DWP sent this.

The council should have helped me, it is their department, but they were clueless.
 
gennepher said:
It seems very strange to me. I would have thought in these days where tablets are used in the main, no one would have the technology to play a CD, or very few people.
CIB? Do you mean Citizens Advice Bureau? Before Covid and Lockdowns, I could have walked into their office and asked for help, but since covid and lockdowns, their offices are shut to the public and their help is now all online, which does not help me with a CD which has no info as to which or what department in the DWP sent this.

The council should have helped me, it is their department, but they were clueless.
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Yes, I meant CAB. Didn't notice the typo. Sorry. I thought all CAB's had reopened - our has. Do you have anyone you could send it to and ask them to tell you what it is about? If you want, or are willing to, you could send it to me. I have a CD slot on this laptop. Anything on it would remain completely confidential. I'm not trying to persuade you, it's just a possibility, failing all else.
 
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