General Chat

We hav'nt got a letter box Vera!! Have a good pain free day if you can.

Anng hope you can get the ONe Drive sorted today.

Good morning Mel, AnnG and all

It looks as though it is going to be another lovely day. There’s still quite a breeze which makes it feel a bit cooler than it is but I’m not complaining while I can see SUN :-). It would be a good gardening day but I am not going to risk more than a few minutes out there. I haven’t any plans but might try a little walk by the river today.

I’ve just had an email from Royal Mail saying my Covid testing kit will be delivered today. I’m not sure why they email as it’s only put through the letter box anyway but I suppose you could query it if it doesn’t arrive.

Better get moving and get the day started. Enjoy the weather and have a good day folks.

good morning all, it is a beautiful morning and already 6 degrees. I must do my list for tomorrows shop, otherwise it will probably be gardening of some sort or another.

I have never been to Roys but do know about the shops, lived on the Beds/Herts border for 10 years not far from the A1(M) so trips out often took us over Norfolk Cambridgeshire way, not heard of QD or TJ Hughes. Fairly local shops that have not sold out to the big companies.

I do seem to remember that I had a problem changing my Avatar on my Ipad some time back. Love the daffs Ann

I will look at disabling onedrive later when I have showered and am more 'awake'.

Morning all,

The suns starting to shine but its a bit windy today and pc says 6 degrees and sunny.

Shop this morning and then Em's with half a dozen eggs. I have more but we have been binging on them and I need 4 for tomorrows big breakfast.

Hope you all had a good nights sleep, I went out like a light.

I never change my profile Island.

Really tired so think I am goingt o bed as its turned rather chilly here and I don't want to turn the heating on if I don't have to.

I got bored with the film OH was watching so came up to the PC and got my avatar back. It just doesn't seem to work on an iPad.

I had never heard of T J Hughes Ann so I googled and they seem to be mostly in the north of England with one store at Maidstone. QD used to be called Quality Discounts.

I was asking OH about Onedrive and he can't remember disabling it but he presumably did at one time as I have had a look at it and there is a list of documents that are all apparently taking up 0 Kb and if I click on the pictures folder it says it's empty. I don't want to play around with it too much in case I mess the thing up altogether as I am no technology whizz., so I shall just leave well alone.

Now I really am going to close the computer down for the night. Sleep well everyone.

Mine still works Island.

Roys sounds an interesting shop, a bit like T J Hughes? The sort of place where you always come out with something! :-D I've not heard of QD either.

AnnG onedrive has given me nightmares as mine was full after only 12 months and telling me my computer wouldn't work properly unless I paid a sub to extend it.........probably all my photos had filled my free allocation! What it does is safely store your files like documents and pictures in an online 'cloud' storage where you can share them if you want, but is only free for a limited storage amount. I have found it to be nothing but a nuisance and finally found a way to unlink it from my PC as it was causing me to not be able to see any of my photos unless I actually opened them which was a real pain. Unlinking it gets rid of it being visible or being able to do anything, but it can be added back in the future if wanted again. Ask google what it does as there are pros and cons.

You are leaving me behind with your seed planting so I must see if I can do some myself tomorrow while OH is at footie if he goes! He hasn't been to a match for a few weeks.........not so keen on the cold lately!

I can just imagine the shudder at hearing 'the cutting of the thing with stems' Vera. Luckily it was something that needed cutting this time. :-D Those dogwood stems are lovely though in the winter.

Mel OH filled his car today and it wasn't empty and it cost £20 more than usual. Tell OH you need a pony to tow the mowers now like posh people in big houses used to have. We also had a notification from our energy providers today suggesting we pay about £70 a month extra! Extra jumpers instead I think and quicker showers! It may be the right time to get a slow cooker too.

I'm off to bed now as I feel tired. I hope everyone has a good night's sleep.

I’ve just been experimenting and seem to have lost my picture but I am on an iPad. I had trouble before on the iPad and had to go on the PC to change the pic. I’ll have to see if I can get it back tomorrow.

I haven’t tried Island.

No one else having a problem with changing profile pic then?

Here I am and the leccy came on at 140pm just as I was getting lunch as we did'nt know what the time was. I have been crafting most of the day and have been getting on quite well.

We went early to Holsworthy to get mower petrol. I told oh to put some diesel in but he did'nt hear me so I did'nt get any. The mower petrol came to £108 something. In the summer he gets that amount every two weeks!! just to cut the grass.

Oh had done a machine wash before it went off soi that was on the line before we went out and it dried nicely in the wind today. We had the sunniest day today just because the leccy went off we would have done well today on the solar.

Oh thanks for that Vera. I am not actually sure what one drive does anyway.

Yes, AnnG, I wondered if the “no slots” business was a ploy to make people hang on for tests till they have to pay and that I don’t have problems because I’m over 75. If over 75s will get them free anyway there’s no point in them holding them back now. Perhaps that’s a bit cynical but I can’t understand this thing of no delivery slots as they come through the letterbox from Royal Mail..

Re. Onedrive - you can’t uninstall it as it is part of Microsoft Office but you can disable it. Google “disabling Onedrive” and there is info on how to do it. I think OH must have disabled ours as I occasionally get a box telling me Onedrive isn’t operating and I need to sign in to sync it.

Poor Island. You’ve got one of them thar gremlins by the sound of it. Pesky things get everywhere.

Strange goings on with GR and profile pics....
I changed mine but as Vera kindly pointed out, it was upside down (duh) so I reversed it on my desktop. GR wouldn't accept the new version so I went for the no photo grey one. Today the upside down one has re-appeared as my profile pic! :-0 and I can't get the no pic image :-0 :-0
Hence the hurried 'paint' job.

I know I'm a bit tired and stressed but...... it wasn't me!
I think I have a poltergeist in my laptop. :-0 :-S

That is a nuisance Island. Of course if people can't get the free ones, then actually need to do a test they will have tp pay. so making people run out may be a clever ploy.

Dom, my PC man is very good, not that old, about 30ish, We have dealt with him quite a few times and he has always been very reliable.
Thank goodness he did get rid of Drop box for me. I really didn't want it and they keep nagging to take out a subscription He also got rid of a couple of other things that I didn't use that T put on here for me.
Sadly he can't get rid of One Drive which is infuriorating as that too keeps telling me it is almost full and all sorts of things I won't be able to do if it gets full and I don't pay to expand it. Apparently that is a windows thing but he said ignore it.

still no joy here with LFTs online

It sounds as though your computer man is a handy chap to know AnnG. It’s good he’s got it all running smoothly for you. I am reasonably computer literate but must admit that I would struggle to cope with all the technical stuff and would be lost without OH. The couple of times we have used “experts” have not been happy experiences. The first time was when OH bought a new computer at Currys/PC World and being short of time paid them to set it all up. I think they gave it to the teaboy to do! It took weeks for OH to put it all right. The second firm we used was a 2 man local business. They did manage to clear the problem that we had but in the process completely deleted my Family Historian software and all the family history information gathered over many years of work. I felt sick and was close to tears for a while but when I calmed down I realized I had kept the original download code given to me which proved I had bought the program so I could download and reinstall it. All the information was backed up to USBs so I could restore it all, but what a faff it was.

Ann, Roys is a general store mostly based in Norfolk but with a couple of branches in Suffolk. It’s main premises are in Wroxham where they seem to own most of the village, having 5 separate stores for different things. It’s hard to describe it – it’s a sort of combination department store, supermarket, general store etc. Our local store has a comparatively small food section but plenty of household goods, garden stuff, clothes etc. I’ve bought stuff in their clothes section that has been cheap but decent quality but they are now selling much more expensive lines. I don’t know if that’s a good decision or not. As a friend said to me recently “If I were spending £80 or £90 on a blouse I wouldn’t go to Roys for it”.

I wonder if Mel’s leccy is still off.

It’s a beautiful day here. We had coffee in town with our friends. We like a French owned place where the coffee is good and they come round with refills. It gets packed on Thursday and Saturday as they are market days and people come into town from nearby villages to do their shopping but it wasn’t very busy today and we had empty tables either side of us. When we got back OH disappeared into the garden and came in saying “I’ve cut down that thing with the stems” which worried me for a moment till I realized he meant the dogwood and we do cut it down every spring so that we get coloured stems in the winter. I do have to keep an eye on Mr Scissorhands or everything in sight gets a crewcut. I did think I would try and do a little bit myself so I started cutting back some penstemon that are in troughs in a sheltered area. I had to stop after one trough (there are 4) as it was really pulling on the back. Still, that’s one trough less to do. We also have a load in a semi-circular bed round a birdbath but they are not so sheltered so I would leave those a bit longer anyway.

Window cleaners have just arrived and said they will give all the window frames and sills a good wash round to get rid of the Sahara sand. OH had wiped round downstairs but I told him not to get up a ladder to do the upstairs so I am pleased the window cleaners have arrived today.

OH has cleaned the kitchen, uti and hall floors for me and has gone out for a walk but he will be back soon so I had better get the kettle on and make him a CoT. I see you have all been posting while I have been typing and talking to the window cleaners but I’ll post this now without responding any further or I shall never get it finished.

It is 16 degrees here, once the fog lifted it has been absolutely beautiful but there are a few clouds now. I think it is going to be nice tomorrow as well.

Afternoon all,

Yes been out in the sunshine Anng its lovely out there 12 degrees when I last looked ,I've dug some chicken pellets into the troughs and little gardens ,I then got the box of rose feed out and fed the roses but I used all I had in the rose feed so need a box of that put on my list .

Ann Roys is a nice shop ,household bits ,garden ,food , clothing ,shoes ,wool ,toys ,bedding ,curtains all sorts .
We first came across Roys in Wroxham, they had most of the shops in Wroxham even a chemist ,supermarket one side of the toad and all the other shops the other side of the road ,it was nice when they came into the outskirts of the town ,we go there for quite a few things .
QD is another nice shop in town very much the same as Roys nice for muching and buying all the bits you never knew you wanted :-D
I'll let you know how I get on with the Shark ,it will seem strange to go back to a plug in hoover after the cordless , I do think these cordless don't seem to have the suction of the plug ins but we'll see.

Got some more seeds planted up this morning so the conservatory is a bit loaded up with trays now ,another week or so and hopefully we can get the greenhouse up again ,last year when I got my trays in there we had that very strong wind which took the greenhouse over and messed all the seed trays up so we need to really tie it to the fence and Coiln anchored to the slabs too.

Time for a cuppa now

Well at least you got a small walk in. I am a bit achey from the long walk yesterday so what I did in the greenhouse was enough to tire me out. I hope tomorrow it will be dry and hopefully without the fog so I can get more done out there. I have more seeds to plant and I need to fill the baskets and let the soil warm before I put the plants in. This is one of the times I miss t the most as he always filled baskets, tubs etc. As my friend says, I was spoilt, and I do know that. Still he never really cooked me a meal so he was spoilt by not having to cook.