biggs682
Itching to get back on my bike's
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- Northamptonshire
Lunchtime stroll completed and it was lovely seeing the sun
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rockyroller
Guru
- Location
- 20 miles northwest of Boston, MA
trash pick up has been delayed 1 day this week
biggs682
Itching to get back on my bike's
- Location
- Northamptonshire
Nearly time for my working day to be completed.
Green recycling and brown garden waste bins need to be positioned kerbside
Green recycling and brown garden waste bins need to be positioned kerbside
cyberknight
As long as I breathe, I attack.
- Location
- Land of confusion
Looks like another night in hospital as the MRI was not done till after 5 so I bet the doctor had already gone home
Andy in Germany
Legendary Member
- Location
- Rottenburg am Neckar
Win11: the gift that keeps on giving.
IT Dept. has decreed that now we are on Win11, every thing will belost stored on The Cloud: all client data is now entered online, but also everything from Holiday application forms to client progress reports are kept on a secure server. Because things regularly vanished in to the ether, several of us kept nonconfidential items on USB sticks which turned a twenty-minute manual search into a thirty-second click-and print. Then IT department realised what we were doing and remotely locked our USB ports*. Everything would be stored on The Great Cloud.
This system "worked" at least from the IT department's point of view: we wasted time finding everything on Teams which we previously could just open in seconds, and all was decreed to be well.
Until earlier this week when the W-Lan went from being slow and awkward to non-existent, and then today even the wired network went down, so we are all sitting around waiting for someone in central office to get around to switching it off and on again so we can actually do our job.
Fortunately the Industry Standard till programme has been declared incompatible with the new network, so that runs on a separate Win10 based "Shadow System" run by a local tech, so at least the shop could still open...
Latest status is that IT "Support" will get it back online when they've dealt with important things like the colour of the new user dashboard. The opinion locally is that they're sulking because we broke their shiny new system.
*Or possibly they just stopped working, it's hard to tell.
IT Dept. has decreed that now we are on Win11, every thing will be
This system "worked" at least from the IT department's point of view: we wasted time finding everything on Teams which we previously could just open in seconds, and all was decreed to be well.
Until earlier this week when the W-Lan went from being slow and awkward to non-existent, and then today even the wired network went down, so we are all sitting around waiting for someone in central office to get around to switching it off and on again so we can actually do our job.
Fortunately the Industry Standard till programme has been declared incompatible with the new network, so that runs on a separate Win10 based "Shadow System" run by a local tech, so at least the shop could still open...
Latest status is that IT "Support" will get it back online when they've dealt with important things like the colour of the new user dashboard. The opinion locally is that they're sulking because we broke their shiny new system.
*Or possibly they just stopped working, it's hard to tell.
biggs682
Itching to get back on my bike's
- Location
- Northamptonshire
An evening garage session and test ride has been completed.
Soon be time for an evening cuppa.
Soon be time for an evening cuppa.
Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
It's been a bright, sunny and very spring-like day here chez Casa Reynard.
Slept well enough in spite of lady issues and some very itchy bits on my leg where I have the last bits of scabbing. The usual choresy morning was had - didn't meet up with a friend for a dog walk this week. Glad I didn't, as there was plenty enough to get done. That included the food prep for tonight's supper.
Lovely luncheon of sourdough toast, Pont L'eveque cheese, a tangerine, some grapes and a
Then it was out into the garden to do another spot of lumberjilling. The cherry tree I was eyeing up yesterday is in too tight a space for me to fell without it getting hung up in its neighbours. I did take off the lower branches, and if I use a step ladder, I can get the next ones up as well. Then I'll re-evaluate whether it's worth the risk of attempting to fell it. However, a few trees further down, there's another smaller cherry that does need felling, and that's got clear space to fall, so that will be tomorrow's task.
I did also cut up two heaped wheelbarrows of logs, so the firewood situation in the garage is looking far less precarious. That said, the cherry wood I brought in is of no great quality - it's that awkward kind of stuff that's too poor to store long term, but still too good to just wang and let rot. Mind, now that it's not so cold, I can just as well feed it to the heating.
The plan is to put the good quality wood into the wood store for next winter - I've managed to avoid taking from there while the weather has been so wet, so it was a bit squeaky bum with what I had stashed in the garage.
Had a fabby supper of honey & mustard gammon, wedges and peas & carrots.
Now I plan on a nice quiet evening.
Slept well enough in spite of lady issues and some very itchy bits on my leg where I have the last bits of scabbing. The usual choresy morning was had - didn't meet up with a friend for a dog walk this week. Glad I didn't, as there was plenty enough to get done. That included the food prep for tonight's supper.
Lovely luncheon of sourdough toast, Pont L'eveque cheese, a tangerine, some grapes and a
Then it was out into the garden to do another spot of lumberjilling. The cherry tree I was eyeing up yesterday is in too tight a space for me to fell without it getting hung up in its neighbours. I did take off the lower branches, and if I use a step ladder, I can get the next ones up as well. Then I'll re-evaluate whether it's worth the risk of attempting to fell it. However, a few trees further down, there's another smaller cherry that does need felling, and that's got clear space to fall, so that will be tomorrow's task.
I did also cut up two heaped wheelbarrows of logs, so the firewood situation in the garage is looking far less precarious. That said, the cherry wood I brought in is of no great quality - it's that awkward kind of stuff that's too poor to store long term, but still too good to just wang and let rot. Mind, now that it's not so cold, I can just as well feed it to the heating.
The plan is to put the good quality wood into the wood store for next winter - I've managed to avoid taking from there while the weather has been so wet, so it was a bit squeaky bum with what I had stashed in the garage.
Had a fabby supper of honey & mustard gammon, wedges and peas & carrots.
Now I plan on a nice quiet evening.
Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
Thanks for the reminder. I saw that earlier and put the green bin out for emptying in the morning. It's only a third full (mainly kitchen peelings, wood ashes and sawdust), but I haven't put it out for six weeks, and with the warmer weather, I don't want it to get too whiffy. It was surprisingly heavy to move!
No black bag, there's hardly anything in it.
