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The Retirement Thread
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Wrong spelling. Should be--- Khrushchev
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
I think I have slightly OCD tendencies about certain things. I couldn't care less about cracks in the pavement, even numbers vs odd numbers, checking that the door is locked and so on (those 3 examples being things that DO upset some people I know...) but I would be upset if all of my photos had the date on them in yellow! (If I wanted to know the date that pictures were taken I could look at the info stored with each photo.)Fortunately, Mrs Boldonlad does not come on here, but, just in case she is watching over my shoulder, would you guys please stop talking about doing housework type things, it might give Mrs @BoldonLad ideas, and wreck my carefully planned leisure time
We managed our longest cycle ride so far, of 2021, a 20 mile circuit around the coast. Bright sunny day, 11C, but, with a cold and brisk wind blowing.
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I'm not suggesting that anybody else should be bothered by YELLOW DATES!!!! but my eyes are drawn to the date rather than the rest of the photo!
BoldonLad
Not part of the Elite
- Location
- South Tyneside
I think I have slightly OCD tendencies about certain things. I couldn't care less about cracks in the pavement, even numbers vs odd numbers, checking that the door is locked and so on (those 3 examples being things that DO upset some people I know...) but I would be upset if all of my photos had the date on them in yellow! (If I wanted to know the date that pictures were taken I could look at the info stored with each photo.)
I'm not suggesting that anybody else should be bothered by YELLOW DATES!!!! but my eyes are drawn to the date rather than the rest of the photo!
Funny old world
I like having the date on, in fact, I have a much better camera, which will supposedly show date stamp, but, I cannot figure out how to do it, so, I don't use that camera, much to Mrs @BoldonLad's annoyance, because she views it as another discarded "toy"
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
I tend to take pictures using my phone these days even though I have a really nice compact Canon camera which takes better pictures. I just don't want to carry both a phone and (even a small) camera about with me.Funny old world
If I needed to take better quality pictures for a specific purpose I would use the Canon.
BoldonLad
Not part of the Elite
- Location
- South Tyneside
Yes, I suppose I could just use the camera on my iPhone, but, I like the little Pentax, with the date stamp
I usually have video from an Action Camera as well, from which I could take frames..... spoiled for choice
gavroche
Getting old but not past it
- Location
- North Wales
I am being summoned to hit the motorway soon and renew acquaintance again with the potholes. Likely to be in the first week of March and wondering if I should take my bike as the weather seem to be improving.
If so, I will stick to the roads with the least potholes and I only know one of them.
If so, I will stick to the roads with the least potholes and I only know one of them.
dickyknees
Guru
- Location
- Anglesey
Maybe to compensate for the lumps of metal they gave me.
Excellent! You will have to change your User Name
I can change my avatar but I’m sure you are stuck with your user name.fixyknees
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
If you want to change it, you can make a request to the moderators to do it for you. They will probably add something below for a while to avoid confusion... Something like "Formerly known as dickyknees".
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
SUCCESS!Aargh!
I've been trying to fix an old Garmin Edge 200 GPS which has been donated to me. I did get it working and watched it boot up but when I screwed it all back together the damn thing packed up again.
The fiddly part that I had been struggling with was a small cable connecting the screen display. It is a multiway flat cable that turns out to be really tricky to plug in. It turned out that I hadn't quite got it in place properly and it had pulled out again.
I have watched a video on YouTube showing how someone else did this job and the connector on his GPS had a hinged flap on it which can be loosened, like every other similar connector that I have encountered before. This one doesn't seem to have the flap though. Mind you - I'm not 100% sure that it is the case because my eyesight even with reading glasses and a magnifying glass is no longer up to this kind of work!
I had better leave it until tomorrow afternoon. I can try doing the job in daylight and I will not be so tired. If I carry on now I'll end up damaging something and have to scrap the device...
So much for an earlier night... I'm outta here!
classic33
Leg End Member
"Snow Bomb" for Easter!
https://metro.co.uk/2021/02/25/uk-w...it-at-easter-after-18c-temperatures-14145810/
https://metro.co.uk/2021/02/25/uk-w...it-at-easter-after-18c-temperatures-14145810/
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
classic33
Leg End Member
I did my Summer MLTB training up at Blake Dean in March 1994, knee deep, and more, in snow.
We'd a "snow blower", tractor reversing with a mower, up here in 2013.
Are we still allowed to shoot the bearer of bad news
Mo1959
Legendary Member
- Location
- Perthshire,Scotland
Morning. Cool and dry up here. If I can believe the BBC we have 11 dry days in a row to look forward to 
Should at least get some walking in. The wrist is improving, but very slowly so not up to gripping handlebars yet I don’t think.
Should at least get some walking in. The wrist is improving, but very slowly so not up to gripping handlebars yet I don’t think.
