I went to the optician this morning, first time in five years, yes, I am a naughty girl, I know this, but frankly specs are too expensive to buy every other year.  Unsurprisingly my prescription has changed, and also, arrgh, I need reading glasses, which I am not going to get, I am getting varifocals, because I intend to be a trendy older person, ( Read more... )

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One male chaffinch, two longtailed tits, a robin and a wren at mum's and a female chaffinch on my new seed feeder.  Plus the usual assortment of blackbirds, blue tits, dunnocks, magpies and crows.  Oh, and a squirrel (that's not a bird, I know that, but, 'tis one of God's wee creatures ( Read more... )

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... is clearly the default font for IE7.  How do I get it back to the normal more comfortable typeface of IE6?  It is killing my browsing pleasure, and my head is sore, and my eyes are sore, and I can only read it with my nose up at the screen.  Is not good.

The time has come to replace this behemoth with something a bit more snazzy, speedy and less prone to BSODs, as that can only mean one thing to this PC, immanent death. We're on HDD four or five, and we know the signs. This is a MESH PC, and it's been a bit of a problem to us, but I know some folk love them, so for the right price, we might ( Read more... )

My hub is here.  It is connected.  It works.  I have 12Mbps - yeah baby!  And it's teatime, so the connection ought to be a bit slow as every man and his dog are trying to get online at this time.

12 Mbps. Oh yeah!  Twice what my dad gets on his on a good day, with a following wind.  I suspect this is because I am within shouting distance of the ( Read more... )

Would you look at my Icon! Is it not the cutest thing? Thanks to
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Saw a chap with a stonkingly huge shiny Prada belt buckle the other day.  A really tasteless adornment which IMO took away all the Prada goodness that was his suit.   I saw the suit and thought to myself how nice it was, and then noticed the belt buckle, and the whole look was ruined.  Truly a great big vulgar piece of shiny stuff.  It offends my ( Read more... )

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