Mundane News

[PeteXXX]

I just opened the lid of my laptop and knocked a leaf off my poinsettia!
Before you ask, it was a red leaf, not a green one.

 

[Katherine]

Mars, the Moon and Venus from our front door

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The moon and Venus from earlier.... not from my front door but on a short bike ride. View attachment 156037

Great pictures!

 

[Katherine]

Grr velcro. It's a great invention but sometimes. Spent ages trying to find one glove. Bloody stuck to the bib tights wasn't it..

 

[Katherine]

[QUOTE 4622324, member: 21629"]I've had a large blister under the big toe. And it's filled with blood. my love for blisters means it was pierced and I walk like a duck.[/QUOTE]
Ouchy!!

 

[Katherine]

The holiday is over and we go back to work, leaving the tree up just feels to me that it would be like I was trying to drag out the holiday a bit longer.

You wouldn't be dragging it out. It just is. We are just enjoying it as and when we can. Mr K works shifts, so he has been in and out during the festive season, which finishes on twelfth night. I'm not looking forward to how bare it will all look, especially taking down all the cards which are hanging on string around the room like garlands.

 

[tyred]

My USB pen drive seems to have lost it's memory

 

[hopless500]

£3 approx, how long ago would I have bought those needles? At least twenty years I suppose.

@Hill Wimp - Have you thought about teaching @Fab Foodie how to knit?

That would involve me re-teaching Wimps

 

[Katherine]

My USB pen drive seems to have lost it's memory

That doesn't sound good!

 

[classic33]

Did you know?
Nothing whatsoever happened in British history between 3 and 13 September 1752.

 

[summerdays]

Did you know?
Nothing whatsoever happened in British history between 3 and 13 September 1752.

I'm assuming that is the jump in calendars?

 

[tyred]

It's official. I am an idiot.

I first noticed that the problem with the USB stick this morning when I went to sort through some photos which I had been meaning to burn to DVD. The laptop found it and all looked good but there was nothing on it and panic began to set it. Once I got my internet fixed, I spent all evening downloading and trying different file recovery programs and none of them recovered my files. Other sticks worked so I figured the problem was with the stick and not the computer.

I have an old XP desktop which I rarely use but keep as it's got a DVD burner. I decided to perhaps try the stick in it.

There was another identical Sandisk USB pendrive already in the USB port of the desktop which conveniently contained all my missing photos. I obviously must have bought a spare at some point and had forgot I had two of the same

 

[Gravity Aided]

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2x300mm mirror lens (yes, one of those old Russian ones) at 1/200th.

Yay Russian Lens! (My whole medium format SLR system was a Kiev 66)

 

[lutonloony]

The four letter word beckons tomorrow, looking forward to a little commute ride, will be first in 2 weeks, hopefully the manflu won't kill me off

 

[Old jon]

especially taking down all the cards which are hanging on string around the room like garlands.

Second try at this, must be the beer messing up. I hung all my cards on strings as well,

 

[classic33]

Second try at this, must be the beer messing up. I hung all my cards on strings as well,
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You can't do that to a harp!