What are you all up to
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Corners, I must have missed out, looking at your collection I never had a Flip up phone.
In fact I've never had many phones, I was late getting a smart phone too. But I love having this mini computer in my hands. 
Just had an Xmas card from my cousin in NZ wondering how long they can barricade themselves off from Covid. Cousin in Canada in another lock down. Must remember to dig out some more cheerful news when putting notes in cards!!
Helen, nice news about your neighbours expected arrival and your son's new home.
OH is out fencing, we lost the dog through a gap this morning, panic stricken calling and running round the neighbourhood, we later found her back by the gap, at least she knew her way home. She's inside the house with me now! 🐕
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Just showed the phone pic CS and yes we have some the same and he remembers the other one although did not have one, also he has just had a newer to him I phone due to a bargain deal on the Orange mobile phone system heyho always the gadget man but as I have said before always been into Electronics from an early age born with a soldering iron in his left hand.
A nice day today although quite breezy and much cooler out of the sun got upto 20C on the weather station.
Overdid moving stuff about yesterday so a sore back today so having a rest until next week but the lounge area looks better and more cosy for the wintertime, will have to move the bird feeders tomorrow so I can see them from the lounge.
More shops open today here but no bars or restaurants at least until 20th January 2021 and from 15th December will have night time curfew from 9pm to 7am except for Christmas eve and New years eve a bit different to the UK.
Take care and stay safe folks.
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That’s a pod type music player. I bought my OH a much more up-to date version called a Zen. Download music onto it from our Mac Book via cable. Even that seems old fashioned now in this “Cloud” era.😂
We have three Blackberry phones (how good were they👍), and around four old Nokia’s of various types. Plus an IPhone 4s, two IPhone 5s. I gave my sister an old iPhone 6, she limps along happily with this. I got a new phone every year via work, usually Nokia. Recall first one was huge, a real handbag brick of a phone. But we loved the novelty😂 Better than a pager.......we had those as well!
Bleep, bleep...... x swimming pool has just emptied itself🤣🤣🤣 Usually got that message a day too late.
I never had a clam shell phone either.
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It's the forerunner or alternative to an ipod, it played digital music
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Thanks for all the replies Bakers, TSA, brue and Redkite.
Here are some more gems I found today in my tidy up of my boxes in various cupboards but I should say the telly was in the loft and sadly it's now time to get rid of it
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We have a couple of Pentax 110 SLR mini’s tucked away somewhere. With winder, flash unit and different lenses. Just took a look on eBay........huge range of prices. One full kit in Germany got 12 watching and price is at £400 plus!🤩 (Can’t be right.....🤷♀️)
We need to offload some gear. Saddles, bridles, an Edwardian bed, OH is doing up my old Claud Butler mountain bike for a niece, that will be one less bike!😂
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Brue, just seen about your little escapee!😱 Frightening. Glad she found her way home, so worrying. Little ones are a lot harder to fence in, they can get through the tiniest of gaps.
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It's almost a year since we last went to a real live gig, but we've still enjoyed "live" music from artists on Facebook, You Tube and other streaming channels I'd never heard off. Some free (with options to pay in the Tip Jar via Paypal), some ticketed (with a link when paid). Some on Zoom - where you can see the others in the audience (have to do my hair for those). And I've bought a lot more CD's than usual (though I always try to support the merch stall at gigs).
This weekend has been a good one for music.
Friday night https://thedivinecomedy.com/ at The Barbican. Recorded in front of a small audience in October.
And last night https://showofhands.co.uk/home - also recorded in front of a small audience earlier this month.
Both from the comfort of our settee, watching on our smart TV. Good sound, cheap drinks, and no queue for the loos.
There's more to come next weekend - Megson, Chris Difford and the big one - Bellowhead reunion.
Life could be worse. There's a lot to be said for staying at home.
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Family news and a bit of hope on the horizon, the person in our family who is a medic and will be working through the rather unfestive period this year is hoping to have the Covid Vac before Christmas.
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We need to offload some gear. Saddles, bridles, an Edwardian bed, OH is doing up my old Claud Butler mountain bike for a niece, that will be one less bike!😂
We bought our first bikes from a Claude Butler shop that used to be in Chester many moons ago. I sincerely hope the saddles, bridles and bed were not all used at the same time.😱 You're already in enough bother with misinterpretations.😃
A dreich, with apologies to the Scots for pinching their word but it fits the bill exactly, couple of days so we tackled a couple of old cupboards that have really needed sorting and I hate to say this but we've given away, yes given, full bottles of Vodka, Whisky, and Rum as well as a partial bottle of Limoncello and Pernod, the last two were used for cooking. All gone to a good home. I've never been a spirit lover but we had them because we had friends over who liked them but those days are gone now as friends moved away. Gone to a neighbour who has done us a good favour every now and then.
Got the caravan prepared for its trip to workshop on Wednesday. Mrs WN off to the dentist tomorrow but her norma dentist is having the day off to take her daughter for treatment at the hospital so she is seeing someone else who we've never heard of. Needs must.
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(Just taking time out at half-time on BBC red button 👍👍👍👍)
Good news and hope on the horizon indeed.
Just have to hope that the Christmas free for all won't put us back to square 1.
Like WN, we're looking for a cottage for February when our site in Cornwall is closed, but will leave it till the last minute - it'd be you-know-who's law that we'd get called for a vaccine just when we were away!
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Ho ho, we have a large selection of whips as well.........and then there’s all that rubber Fire Service gear!🤣🤣🤣 Old cork helmets might look good as hanging baskets......
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Gosh all this horse equipment being sorted out haha. We have just been for a longer walk today around the eastern edge of the village very nice to and on the subject of horse theme our neighbour breeds Arab horses have got 5 mares and their this years foals now growing up and on the walk saw 8 more horses in 3 different fields plus the ones I see down the road from us certainly keeps him busy every day, he usually does 2 horse events a year but only had 1 this year due to corvid long distance events 10km all the way up to 60/80km and riders can qualify for national events quite a sight for the earlier one in the year when you see about 100/150 horses and all the kit to go with it.
Whilst on the walk we had a chat to somebody we know his family used to run the local nursery until 2 years ago and he has just been mowing around a walnut tree field which he planted about 3 years ago and saying that he has got a well in the one corner with a watering system to each tree and said the trees have been planted with his grandchildren in mind as the trees will be a few years before they fruit and should last about 50/60 years and then will be used for wood for the log burners that is planning for the future.
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Your post reminded me of a stay we had on a small site in The Netherlands a few years ago RK. It was run by a husband and wife who bred horses for Equestrian Events. They also took part in competitions and their wall in the office was full of rosettes. We sat outside our caravan having a drink or two and watched the horses being put through their training. Stunningly beautiful horses and a lovely small CL type site with about 15 units. They had Cherry trees instead of Walnut ones.
If anyone intends to be near Arnhem then let me know and I'll dig out the name of it from my notes.
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We came across The Devil’s Horsemen many years ago, exercising on a beach. Stunt and film riders par excellence, including Game of Thrones. There’s another diversified Farm in East Yorks that got into film work and events, they have done all the Poldark and Peaky Blinders, and Victoria Series I think, Lovely animals and incredibly well trained. Our old lad only responded to “charge” and “jump”😱. And the so and so would dump you miles from home.....😡
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Wherenext, in particular, and other users in general I have discovered the thread where I said you could go to different page numbers without going one by one!
HERE also this actual thread 😯
I am using my android tablet in landscape but if I turn it to portrait I can't 🤪
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Been a grey weekend. I've downloaded the Jacqueline Lawson advent calendar again this year and am enjoying myself in my Nordic cottage, decorating Christmas trees and playing games as well as lighting lamps, fire and candles 😀
I should be making pies, well a few and a cake not to mention writing cards!
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Whoops
That should read Jacquie Lawson advent calendar. LINK
The cards are nice too, but not bought them. You dont have to subscribe, I just buy advent calendar. Haven't bought one for granddaughters this year yet as you have choose device type this year, daughter ignored my question - but spoke to her tonight/her morning and poorly granddaughter 😢, told her to buy and I'll cover the cost.
Wherenext you're welcome, probably not your tablet, we know how good the forum IT is 😱. I can't, certainly not tech minded but thought I had a good grasp of use 😂, understand why it's available when landscape but not portrait. I wouldn't trouble my grey cell and wear it out............
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Our area is being cabled for fibre optics so yet again we started the day with machinery digging in all directions. What none of us know properly yet is the cost of connecting to it! However it's a welcome move, I can remember friends in London going through the disruption in what seems like an age ago. Meantime our TV couldn't get a good BBC signal last night so I watched it via Wales.
PS does this mean I can connect to CT faster but not be able to use it any quicker?!
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Phew! Bakers2 these calendars are hard to work out aren’t they? Or more likely it’s our lack of knowledge!! Trying to order 3 on 2 different formats for our Hong Kong grandchildren, thought we’d cracked it then Apple says ‘redeemable in UK App store only’. I thought it would be a lovely surprise for them and simple thing to do - it’s not!!! 🤪😫
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Heddlo I confess to only looking this year and buying one for my tablet.
Last year I did it for our granddaughters in NZ and it was simple, also bought for UK users. I thought it was painless. But I looked at FAQ and that alerted me to user tech, hence question - which still remains unclearly answered 😤 as to which tech it will be used on.
From what you say I'm glad I opted for her to sort and I'll transfer cost to her. I think the price is slightly less this year, but the aggro seems more! Hopefully you can get it sussed without too much grief and your grandchildren enjoy it.
Very grey and what my mum used to call crafty cold today. Dog walk was marginally drier than of late. Off to the loft to drag out Christmas decs, very early for us usually the weekend before Christmas, but I'm going to 'off load' probably via social media our surplus bits. Wont do more than front window(s) as yet.
Got to start clearing, however little and slowly, our loft. No point doing more than decs at the mo, too early for latest grandchild, who will be UK based 😉. All the bits we kept to hand down need sorting plus who knows what else remains up there?
Our road are decorating front of houses, ours I can assure you will be very modest, minimalist, and having social distanced switch on, drinks and minces pies for that read supply your own!, on the doorstep on Saturday in an effort to brighten our evenings and cheer our spirits. Several roads are doing the same, add in the church organised community advent windows and walks after dark should have some interest.
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Brue
They started laying superfast fibre optics here a couple of years ago. We had it installed and charges vary depending on the speed you go for. We have the choice of 100,500 and 900 mbps. We chose the 100 mb and that costs us £28 a month. That does include a VOIP telephone connection but it is extra for a call package. I am still sitting on the fence and still have our old Plusnet internet and landline. Plusnet give us a speed of 35 mbps which is more than fast enough for most things. The superfast fibre was installed by a company called City Fibre but administered by Vodafone. Vodafone were meant to be able to port our old phone number (which we are keen to keep) over to the new system but last time I contacted them there seemed to be an issue hence the reason we have kept our old broadband. I am now wondering whether to get rid of the superfast fibre. Rumour has it that City Fibre will open up the use of the fibre to other ISP's in the near future but whether that will include Plusnet (BT) I don't know. Not sure I would build up your hopes of CT being faster
David
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Not wishing to upset anyone - this is our speed just now. I especially like the fast upload - as soon as I walk in the house with my phone, the photos upload to iCloud.
This is via an ethernet cable on a desktop PC. Wifi is slower (partly because of very thick interior stone walls).
We pay £30 a month.
All through B4RN (Broadband for the Rural North) - so not available everywhere. All the infrastructure digging, mole ploughing, cable laying and garden crossing was done by by volunteers. And the local landowners all gave the wayleaves for free.
Service and support is brilliant. If there's a problem, the system automatically switches to a backup route.
We've ditched BT and use Vonage as a VOIP.
PS - CT is still rubbish!
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Thanks David, we'll no doubt have to read up a lot of small print soon. Due to lengthy delays to faster internet connections in the SW Gigaclear are taking on the task. We can see their price structures but can't work out the best deals. I was hoping we would have a choice of providers. Will have to get out brains into gear soon.
Goldie it looks like our cheapest deal will be £39 pm, haven't got into the details yet.
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Heddlo I confess to only looking this year and buying one for my tablet.
Last year I did it for our granddaughters in NZ and it was simple, also bought for UK users. I thought it was painless. But I looked at FAQ and that alerted me to user tech, hence question - which still remains unclearly answered 😤 as to which tech it will be used on.
From what you say I'm glad I opted for her to sort and I'll transfer cost to her. I think the price is slightly less this year, but the aggro seems more! Hopefully you can get it sussed without too much grief and your grandchildren enjoy it.
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Re the Jacquie Lawson Advent Calendars Bakers2 - well, that’s a morning of our lives that we won’t get back!!! What a palaver that was! After ploughing through FAQ’s, and more FAQ’s, we have eventually found this little sentence’ - ‘’’ Please note that Apple do not permit gifts - Apps or Gift Cards - to be sent to countries other than your own’’’. 🤦 Best laid plans, oh well!
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Oh well Heddlo the thought was there! I suppose it's an American site so has limits for us here.
B2 We are supposed to be having a grand Xmas lights switch on with the neighbours. If the road is still dug up it will be fun! We're into the second week with that now, about half way. I did wonder about the street "social gathering" versus 2000 being allowed in a stadium but we'll all be well apart.
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