What are you all up to today? - part 3
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Thanks B2, we have indeed allowed extra time to see a bit of the area, OH has booked us in for 4 nights on the CL before our ferry, so 3 full days for exploring. For our return she has only reserved the one night so far as we have yet to plan what we are
doing then.It is a long way for us to travel to a ferry, unless we use the much more expensive northern crossings, and we have plenty of time, so we do try to add a couple of weeks either end to also see more of UK.
Closest we have been to Harwich before is just a bit south of Lowestoft. Suggestions for places to visit most welcome
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We have very heavy rain round here just now, the skies are the darkest I've seen in the day time and roads are flooded. I've just had to do a detour to get home after a trip to town. Take care if you're travelling down this way.
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Mr H has decided that he needs to learn how to use the internet so I am trying to teach him this morning. My patience is being tried to the limit.
I'm impressed and feel your pain. My OH fully conversant with internet and has been since the beginning but refuses to learn online banking. I have just had 'the conversation' with him again . Its his credit card bill that I was paying!!!! If it didn't
cost so much in interest I'd leave it to him, but I can't watch others take his hard earned pension, that's my rightGet him to set up a DD for his CC, no need for any human intervention then. Also removes the possibility of missing a payment........but I am sure you are well up on these things.
I do leave most of the complicated money stuff to OH, but she has insisted that I take an interest these days, and that I know roughly what is going on, though I do sometimes get it wrong!! She checks up on me every month just in case.
Could not operate these days without DDs and SOs when we are on our long trips.
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Sun has just broken through here so have not turned the heating back on. Very cold here, was below zero when we reluctantly got out of bed, with freezing fog, but that has cleared now.
Have to go out after lunch, some essential shopping, visit to the Guide Hall to set this week's heating, and a visit to a trailer place to check out hire possibilities as we have 2 tonnes of firewood to transport to DS.
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Mr H has decided that he needs to learn how to use the internet so I am trying to teach him this morning. My patience is being tried to the limit.
I'm impressed and feel your pain. My OH fully conversant with internet and has been since the beginning but refuses to learn online banking. I have just had 'the conversation' with him again . Its his credit card bill that I was paying!!!! If it didn't
cost so much in interest I'd leave it to him, but I can't watch others take his hard earned pension, that's my rightSame here, OH only does what he likes doing eg browsing ebay, one day there'll be a panic about using the bank! At least I've trained him to use easyfundraising for a local charity!
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Mr H has been trying to use internet banking this morning as I was getting a bit 'short tempered'
everytime he asked me to check his accounts.
It was a tortuous process and I was frightened he would get us locked out of our accounts.
I then set up an email account for
him and he sent an email (!!!) which took hours and I am not sure he will ever check to see whether he has a reply.0 -
Thanks brue
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We are both set up for internet banking OH just uses the one bank while I've spread it about a bit. He is much better than me at HOW things work and how to do some of the things. I'm better than him remembering things, he's a right pain when it somes to
passwords as he keeps changing them. When he was still working he was brilliant at remembering them, in his job he used to have lots of differant ones for each of the military systems he had to use and they had to be changed at regular intervals. On top of
that he was responsible for a fair few combinations to safes and the armoury, he could remember all them no problem. Now you often hear him say "what's my password for" his
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We have very heavy rain round here just now, the skies are the darkest I've seen in the day time and roads are flooded. I've just had to do a detour to get home after a trip to town. Take care if you're travelling down this way.
Gosh Brue hope it doesn't get any worse, stay safe.
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We have very heavy rain round here just now, the skies are the darkest I've seen in the day time and roads are flooded. I've just had to do a detour to get home after a trip to town. Take care if you're travelling down this way.
Gosh Brue hope it doesn't get any worse, stay safe.
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plus 1. Takecare brue.
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Forgot to say thanks to Husky for the extra info on the Q box, most grateful.
MillieH, yes we do seem to be having a harder winter this year, November can be a funny month up here, it's either freezing cold like now or it warmer and raining all the time but feels colder and miserable. Usually settlesd by December.
Gosh 4 posts, apologies getting a bit like MM
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Mr H has decided that he needs to learn how to use the internet so I am trying to teach him this morning. My patience is being tried to the limit.
I'm impressed and feel your pain. My OH fully conversant with internet and has been since the beginning but refuses to learn online banking. I have just had 'the conversation' with him again . Its his credit card bill that I was paying!!!! If it didn't
cost so much in interest I'd leave it to him, but I can't watch others take his hard earned pension, that's my right...Neither of us will have anything to do with on line banking
and OH does not "do computers"our pals dont do online banking, either...
he is self employed (sort of, part time) and now, due to the closure of some local bank (then building society) branches, he now has to travel a 25 mile return trip to bank a cheque...
ill take my chances....
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We have very heavy rain round here just now, the skies are the darkest I've seen in the day time and roads are flooded. I've just had to do a detour to get home after a trip to town. Take care if you're travelling down this way.
Gosh Brue hope it doesn't get any worse, stay safe.
i was put in that, earlier.....lol.
collected contact lenses.....have to go out again for a shower pump......long story, lol
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So many passwords these days, and my memory is not getting any better.
We used to keep a little notebook with various details in a sort of code, but now use " Password Corral" to keep them all on my laptop. You still need to remember one password, forget that and you are snookered!
www.cygnusproductions.com/freeware/pc.asp
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KjNell I agree with DD for paying bills, also have reminders on my phone. As we tend to try to keep max in current accounts with decent interest we shunt money around so DD saves not paying but still need to look at balances .
Let me know what your interested in if you're visiting Essex/Suffolk and I'll give you some places to include, sorry no club sites in Essex or most of Suffolk so it will be CL's, not used many in our home area . Maybe we could start another thread?
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Very grey here and hasn't really got light yet!! Just been out, damp but no rain whilst I was out. (Devil takes care of his own ). Not cold 11c and little wind. Not inspired to do anything even essential jobs, but must cook the roast we were supposed to
have yesterdayMy OH used to be brilliant at communications generally, including emails, now we struggle......... He is more than capable but these days can't be bothered - a bit like trying to make a child independent, only he's the opposite end, was totally independent
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Hiding from the rainsqualls,galeforce wind at the boatyard ,drinking tea and coffee and eating biscuits !!
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Just got back from our walk, sun gone for the day, temp already dropped to -2c going to be another chilly night me thinks.
Good news is I've checked my LPG tank and we are doing rather well this year, only had 3 deliveries so far. First one in Dec. last year, then end Feb. then July, still got 55% in tank so that will take us up to Dec. again. 1702 ltrs not bad, the cost is
half what it used to be when we had a differant boiler and the boys at home in 1991. Come January I will need to re-negotiate our contract again, here's hoping I can get a good deal like last time. Electric is way down as well, must be doing something rightLooking out the lounge window its very pretty, the sky is kind of a grey/pink, the trees and cars are all white with frost and the spiders webs are just a picture everything is starting to twinkle as the light changes, isn't nature wonderful.
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We moved on from compter lesson to filling in the long and overly complicated form that Mr H had to fill in before his cataract appointment in 2 weeks time. They asked him if he had illnesses that we had never even heard of!! Still raining here.
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Wow what a day,
went to work in the rain, then watched the rain from the office window, and then still raining when I came home,
don't think it even got light today .
My countryfile Calander had been delivered so cheered myself up by looking at the lovely photographs .
Son emailed me his "Amazon Wish List" think we're supposed to get ideas for Christmas !
Think I'll reply with my own "wish
list"
May need
a boat if it doesn't stop raining ! !0
went to sunny Hunny, more rain! Back to van more rain