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Hence the use of Freesat as well as Freeview.
biggs682
Itching to get back on my bike's
- Location
- Northamptonshire
No heating on here and it's chilly
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
A work colleague, someone I be on the phone to virtually every day and my right hand man, so to speak, has been signed off sick with suspected polymyalgia, or maybe Fibromyalgia. Seems the doctors don't really know.
I am shocked. He was pretty fit and healthy and only in his early 50s. I know nothing about it but they seem to be horrible conditions to suffer from.
He woke up one morning last week and was unable to put his socks on. He was fine the night before. He has been in a lot of pain since and always very tired.
A nasty and often mis-understood condition, and flare ups can be bad. I met quite a few folk suffering with fibromyalgia when I attended Pain Clinic and some mindfulness classes when I fractured my spine. Despite them being quite horrified by my circumstances, I think fibromyalgia is much worse.
rockyroller
Guru
- Location
- 20 miles northwest of Boston, MA
the ditzy Sales Reps. & Owner continue their dysfunctional, ignorant & confused circus of communications with their clients 
I don't understand why they refuse to look at records, when seemingly quote the records, erroneously. I guess that's why I have a job? but at the last place, this wasn't the case & I still had a job
so tiring
I don't understand why they refuse to look at records, when seemingly quote the records, erroneously. I guess that's why I have a job? but at the last place, this wasn't the case & I still had a job
so tiring
rockyroller
Guru
- Location
- 20 miles northwest of Boston, MA
same here, then we put it on & winder why it's on, because we're too hot. Wifey & I are juggling the on/off switch. change of seasons is so fun like that
biggs682
Itching to get back on my bike's
- Location
- Northamptonshire
A nice crunchy and juicy apple is being consumed
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
Got a ride in before the rain came in
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I remember when our lad and his future wife were using our back bedroom as a bedsit, the TV down stairs was tuned to BBC West Midlands but their TV in the bedroom would only get BBC Leicester, that despite both TV's being connected to the same ariel.
Andy in Germany
Guru
- Location
- Rottenburg am Neckar
Interview yesterday went well: it was the first place I could really imagine working at, despite the longish commute and proximity to Freiburg. Tomorrow I'm going to an interview the other side of Stuttgart before visiting family: it will be a long day.
I comforted myself that it's the last interview for now.
However, when I got back I found two more invitations, one of which I dodn't eexpect to respond in a million years and one that I'd forgotten about. Still, it's a good problem to have.
I comforted myself that it's the last interview for now.
However, when I got back I found two more invitations, one of which I dodn't eexpect to respond in a million years and one that I'd forgotten about. Still, it's a good problem to have.
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presta
Legendary Member
My kitchen TV runs off the same antenna as the one in the lounge, with a signal that's full scale on the lounge TV signal strength indicator, but the kitchen TV won't reliably receive anything that's not on the same channel as BBC1/2 etc. I ought to find out why, but I'm not up to shifting furniture and floorboards to get to the cable, so it stays as it is.
Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
It's been a cool and grey day here chez Casa Reynard, and it is now raining.
Slept well. Did a load of laundry, and then my day went a bit awry. I had meant to remove another branch off the large mulberry so I can cut the grass under it without putting my eyes out, but while I was in the utility room dealing with the laundry, I noticed that my job lot of cherry tomatoes were in danger of developing language skills.
So I went into kitchen mode instead and turned the whole lot into a big batch of marinara sauce. Glad I spotted that - think I only had to bin some six tomatoes in the one and a half kilos, although a few did need a bit of a trim. Also added the last can of tomatoes from the batch that I bought on YS the other week because they were dented. Also threw in a couple of large red onions, nearly a whole head of garlic, fresh bay leaves and rosemary from the garden and a good glug of EVOO. House smells amazing.
Had a fabby luncheon of cheesy bread, plus pate, a vintage red leicester, some fruit, some smoked nuts and two
Then went out into the garden. Moved the last of the ash trimmings from the lawn onto the path behind the garage so that they can be shoved into the green wheelie bin once the weeds the parental unit has put in it have wilted somewhat, and then filled the car up with more bits of conifer ready for another tip run tomorrow. It started raining just as I was packing up.
Now sat down with a and the last Portuguese custard tart.
Slept well. Did a load of laundry, and then my day went a bit awry. I had meant to remove another branch off the large mulberry so I can cut the grass under it without putting my eyes out, but while I was in the utility room dealing with the laundry, I noticed that my job lot of cherry tomatoes were in danger of developing language skills.
So I went into kitchen mode instead and turned the whole lot into a big batch of marinara sauce. Glad I spotted that - think I only had to bin some six tomatoes in the one and a half kilos, although a few did need a bit of a trim. Also added the last can of tomatoes from the batch that I bought on YS the other week because they were dented. Also threw in a couple of large red onions, nearly a whole head of garlic, fresh bay leaves and rosemary from the garden and a good glug of EVOO. House smells amazing.
Had a fabby luncheon of cheesy bread, plus pate, a vintage red leicester, some fruit, some smoked nuts and two
Then went out into the garden. Moved the last of the ash trimmings from the lawn onto the path behind the garage so that they can be shoved into the green wheelie bin once the weeds the parental unit has put in it have wilted somewhat, and then filled the car up with more bits of conifer ready for another tip run tomorrow. It started raining just as I was packing up.
Now sat down with a
and the last Portuguese custard tart.IME Digital signals do not like sharp bends on the cable. Could you fit a signal booster?
My TV aerial goes straight into a signal booster outputting to three TVs (lounge, kitchen, bedroom) and two PVRs.
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oldwheels
Legendary Member
- Location
- Isle of Mull
Been raining here all day.
The garden needed some water but I think it is being a bit overdone as rain is forecast for a few days further.
Not much done today as my back flared up again. Bending is not a good idea but it is now improving.
Sad news tho' as my toaster suddenly refused to work. Power is getting to it but the unit is not responding. Taking it apart is not easy as an odd type of screw is used. I do have the tools up in my top shed but not going up there in the pouring rain.
I did make toast of sorts using a grill thing ( cannot remember the proper term}. The annoying thing is I dumped an old but still working one which was used in the motorhome I no longer have. Should have kept it as a spare.
There is a local shop which will certainly stock such things but parking within my walking distance is usually impossible.
On the wildlife front a picture of a magpie has been taken in a garden about half a mile away from me. The first one this far north on Mull but they are on Iona fifty miles away.
There are no squirrels or foxes tho' my wildlife pal found a dead fox by the roadside a few years ago. He reckons somebody got it on the mainland and left it where they knew he would find as a wind up.
There was a proposal to introduce red squirrels but the RSPB had a hairy fit. They were not predators of a type to carry off sheep or small children so not acceptable.
The garden needed some water but I think it is being a bit overdone as rain is forecast for a few days further.
Not much done today as my back flared up again. Bending is not a good idea but it is now improving.
Sad news tho' as my toaster suddenly refused to work. Power is getting to it but the unit is not responding. Taking it apart is not easy as an odd type of screw is used. I do have the tools up in my top shed but not going up there in the pouring rain.
I did make toast of sorts using a grill thing ( cannot remember the proper term}. The annoying thing is I dumped an old but still working one which was used in the motorhome I no longer have. Should have kept it as a spare.
There is a local shop which will certainly stock such things but parking within my walking distance is usually impossible.
On the wildlife front a picture of a magpie has been taken in a garden about half a mile away from me. The first one this far north on Mull but they are on Iona fifty miles away.
There are no squirrels or foxes tho' my wildlife pal found a dead fox by the roadside a few years ago. He reckons somebody got it on the mainland and left it where they knew he would find as a wind up.
There was a proposal to introduce red squirrels but the RSPB had a hairy fit. They were not predators of a type to carry off sheep or small children so not acceptable.