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Well I can add to that - I've never seen The X Factor, Britain's Got Talent, The Voice, The Masked Singer or any number of other celebrity/talent shows but I'm pretty certain that I wouldn't like them anyway!
Oh, one episode of I'm a Celebrity when we were staying with friends who were addicts (the final, I think, but no clue who won.)
"And there's more" .... (whose catchphrase was that?) .... I can proudly say that I've never once been to Cribb's Causeway shopping mall. 👏👏
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Milliehull add me to your list for the tour please. Added Bakers2
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We are just back from our second vaccinations. So glad it’s done (for now!), I seem to have been waiting since January for the 23rd April and our second one. Now looking forward to our week in the Lakes next month. As our storage has no power or water we took the caravan out to a local CL for a few days this week to sort, sterilise and check over. It all works, phew!!👏🏻
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We are just back from our second vaccinations. So glad it’s done (for now!), I seem to have been waiting since January for the 23rd April and our second one. Now looking forward to our week in the Lakes next month. As our storage has no power or water we took the caravan out to a local CL for a few days this week to sort, sterilise and check over. It all works, phew!!👏🏻. Another to add to the non-GOT watchers and like you Moulsey we have never seen any of those programmes either, can’t stand that sort of thing, our granddaughter on the other hand knows them all. Perhaps it’s a generation thing? What is going on with this site this afternoon?? I went to edit my first post and it has now appeared twice!!
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Had a day out walking and nature watching on the west coast of the Wirral today.
A lot of people out and about either on foot or sur le velo but none on the broken boardwalk and muddy marshy bits we were on.
Had a fantastic day and enjoyed the ice cream at Parkgate when we got there. It was a great days birdwatching for us and the first we had done on the Wirral in over a year.I have a lot in common with Moulesy. I know the shows but wouldn't want to watch them. The trailers are enough to put me off and I tend to read about them in the newspaper's TV section which reinforces my selection preferences mostly. We often get second hand accounts from MiL and I do know about the Masked Singer as Mrs WN joins MiL in her room to watch it. She says it's to keep her mum company but I think she enjoys it as I can usually hear her singing away.
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We've had a good two site break and managed to overcome a leaking shower tap and thermostat problem with the heating, not the best of starts.
We managed to get to Buryas Bridge near Penzance today to visit Trewidden Gardens (Gardener's World 2 for 1 ticket.) A bit tricky to enter and exit, a long narrow drive with no passing places so be warned if you try this yourself.
What I didn't know in advance was the site is on the oldest surface tin mining "bals" and probably goes back into pre-history. So the famous tree fern pit is actually sitting on a very ancient spot. The Bolitho family who live here have been around a long time too!
Beautiful spring garden to visit and can recommend the cafe and plant sales too.
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A day of wall to wall sunshine and even topped 18C. A ride up to South Shields, a hot-dog and ice cream then a ride down the coast and back home. One of those fantastic days that just happens.
The first two are South Shields, the third and fourth are the Seaburn Hotel today and during construction in 1936 (my time machine is now working btw) and the structure and houses behind it still largely there. Last one is Roker beach before heading home.
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Going through my MIL's paper and found this. My daughters couldn't understand why you had to call the operator to make a call?
Actually I couldn't explain it either!
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Any chance it could have either been a Reverse Charge call but only accessed through an Operator or maybe she was having a problem with a number and just needed assistance? Nice momento of times gone by though.
I never had access to a telephone in the house until I got married! Same with a car. Beginning to sound like a Monty Python sketch.😁
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Ah, I remember them well!
At one time every single call had to be connected by an operator who plugged cables into the switchboard to connect the calls. Gradually the exchanges became automated with calls being recorded on a meter in the form of units rather like electricity. The meters were read by staff visiting the exchanges who physically read and wrote down the meter readings. That gave rise to the number of metered units charged on the bill after the maths was done back in the office. Later, photography was used to record the meter readings.
Each operator connected call generated a hand written ticket and the tickets were sent to a centre and somehow used to manually produce the 'trunk statements' associated with each bill. The tickets were then forwarded to the area offices around the country - millions of them!
Local calls via the operator became metered and, eventually, we had Subscriber Trunk Dialling which gave us the freedom to dial all our calls directly. It's only within the last 20 years or so that metered calls charged in units were replaced by charging by time.
Incidentally, those old bills were collated, folded, enveloped and sealed by hand.
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Had a wonderful day out yesterday, took the MH over to Fife.
Started out at Tentsmuir forest and beach, great place, can't believe we've not been before.
After lunch we headed down the coast to Crail, then on to Anstruther and finally ended up at Leven. Weather was fantastic, blue skies and quite warm only needed a T shirt.
Back to reality today and more prepping and stocking the caravan.
Grass cutting, front and back grass, then gave it a hoe, ground very dry. A number of bushes have been had new buds caught by frost, they will recover but now it will be a later display.
Good to hear others have trips out and still getting nice weather.
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Sweltering day here today, house was way too hot when we got home.
We never watch these so called reality shows, rather we watch repeats of Morse, Lewis, Poirot, Judge John Deed etc etc.
Down at DD's today to do a few things and look after Nathan while she sorted out problems at her tenanted flat. Not so much at her flat as problems caused by neighbouring shops who have broken into her storage room, which is nothing to do with them! And have disposed of her stuff she stored there. I can see this taking a long time to sort out!
OH had her second vaccination today, so we are all set to head off in June as planned
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In Norway, we were well behind the phone system in UK, certainly in more remote areas.
Where I lived, in the far north of Norway, our phone number was "6" and all calls were connected by the local operator, that was in force up till the early 70s.
In 1967, after graduating, I went to work in Trondheim and could not afford a phone line, so to phone my prospective OH I had to go to the central phone exchange and order up a call to UK at great expense. We could only afford to talk for about 5 minutes.
How times have changed!!
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Busy day today. Drove to Wellingborough to pick up the motorhome from it's second service. Dropped off the loan car which was a lot cleaner than when we picked it up. Unfortunately the motorhome was filthy, covered in dust. This afternoon went to pick up Margaret's medication and later still treated ourselves to fish and chips from the chippy. I don't know whether its months of lockdown but the roads today seemed totally mannic, everywhere we went!!! Now just have to empty the conservatory back into the motorhome!
David
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We are home😁 Lovely first trip out, couldn’t have had a nicer break to be honest. Weather gorgeous, site very nice, lots of things we love doing and seeing, and then we finished up with a very enjoyable visit to a very interesting garden. And spent £70 on stuff for my garden, so some treasured mementoes. So a very big thank you to Milliehull for mentioning Easton Walled Garden, we even got to have a nice chat with the Head Gardener, and Lord Cholmondley👍(Lovely gardens, a lot to see, and some fantastic ideas I haven’t seen before, we are planning to go back later in year to see roses and sweet peas. Great place for a picnic, and a good break for anyone travelling on A1, as it’s a few minutes away.)
Can’t believe the frost damage to plants here at home though, nothing I could do about it, but it must have been very very cold overnight. Hopefully most things will just try again though.
Second jabs booked for me and Sister on Sunday, hopefully we will get no reactions same as with first.👍
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I don't know whether its months of lockdown but the roads today seemed totally mannic, everywhere we went!!!
David, I think part of it is that we have become accustomed to quieter roads during various lockdowns. We noticed a significant increase in the volume of traffic just after the 12th.April but the roads around here in North Wales were still quiet even after the Welsh lockdown finished late March until the English one joined in.
We drove back early afternoon along the main A55 route into North Wales from Cheshire and it seemed like a normal Friday traffic load with slow moving traffic due to sheer weight.
Have to get used to it I suppose.
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Ah right - thanks TW!
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My, pleasure. I was that meter reader / ticket filer / bill folder back in 1966😂😂
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Very well remembered TW
.We always used to moan that the training schools that we Engineers went to should have had a large dark "Quiet~room" so that time-expired info like that could be drained off, just to allow more total guff to be absorbed !!
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I was digging deep there, Brian. I did far more interesting things after that😄
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Yes, we too have noticed a big increase in the traffic. It was nice when it was quiet, but presumably not good for many businesses.
This last week or so it has been gradually increasing here, though not yet back to as before as a lot of people are still working from home.
Both our children are Software engineers and their employers are key in keeping the internet going, and facilitating people working from home.
Our son has been working from home for over 15 years, he has worked for over 20 years for the big American company Cisco, and loves it. We have no idea what he actually does, it is too secret!
He hardly ever goes to his designated office, where apparently he does have a desk. He spends more time in meetings in USA than anywhere else away from home, and was just saying it is now almost 18 months since he last made a business trip, which suits him well, he hates dealing with jet lag. Everything is done via Zoom.DD is of course on maternity leave at present, but from early March 2020 till January 2021 was also working from home. She is also with an American company SAS, since 2012, they do a lot with police, security and various other stuff......all hush hush and also a mystery to us!
She loves WFH, used to do 1 day per week at home previously, does not miss her relatively short commute, and can be flexible as to the hours she works. It is working so well for the company and the employees that it is likely a lot more WFH will be going on in the future. Company will save money on office space, employees no longer have to commute. Win-win all round.
She does slightly miss the social aspect of being in the office, they did have company lunches and charity events, but not having to travel is a big bonus as far as she is concerned.
Her company has done so well in the last year, not been affected at all by Covid, that, having been previously told there would be no bonuses, or any pay rises, they have all just had a good bonus, and she has been given a 17% pay rise, though she will not actually get this till after she returns to work in February 2022. Something to look forward to.
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WhereNext wrote "I never had access to a telephone in the house until I got married!"
E'ee, thee 'twere lucky. I were married three years before we had telephone inside 'ouse.
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