Padded Cell
Here she is...Anna Genevieve.Poppa Joe
Getting away from that badly policed F1 parade was awful. Underground? Forget it. Buses? They weren't letting anyone on. Taxis? All taken.So, by 2012, Greater London will come up with a transport system that can cope with the biggest sporting event in...
Can't find the original thread -- search doesn't work -- so apologies for any duplications, but...There's a big canteen-style affair at the top of Charing Cross Road (Oxford Street end) called (I think) Da Portare (ie, "take-away"). Except it's not...
My Outlook e-mailer-mejig has gone mad all of a sudden and I was wondering if anyone can suggest a cure...If I try and delete an old e-mail, I get an error box with the following message : 'The messaging interface has returned an unknown error. If the...
According to TheInq AMD and Intel boxes in chess event standoff Intel and AMD are pitting their computer chips against each other via the 12 World Chess Championship held at Bar-Ilan University. Just thought someone would be intrested, I see Fritz has...
In my neck of the woods we seem to have had a bumper crop of baby birds,especially sparrows and blackbirds.I have always put food and water out for birds but the buggers are now demanding their nosh very loudly and at what I consider to be an ungodly...
Apart from the fact Version 9 is a total P.O.S. I keep getting this error code which boots me off whatever I'm listening to.So can anyone tell me what 80070026 means and how to fix it??red
My beloved mum wants to get broadband, but her pc is old - a celerion 1100(?) chip, 4x CD writer, 128 memory and 20 gig hard drive - will it all work, or should she think about a new pc, and if so, what sort of minimum spec... I may also use it (and...
Hi chaps,I'm about to leave on holiday later this morning! and wife has a Fuji Finepix 6900 digital camera. Normally she takes pictures and we use the Finepix viewer software to download them to our laptop. I'm looking at all this baggage and am...
I have to get the barrel out...i can't.so that i can get the van to Ford,i will have to "hot wire" it.Which wires do i have to cross?
Time for a list of suggestions for those summer holiday book buys perhaps? Not that I get a summer holiday of course...Some to start off,Nigel Slater 'Toast', poignant and thoughtful autobiography of the chef, and how foods/taste/smell evokes memories...
I need financial advice as we appear to be heading towards moving house to a place that could be well beyond my means. . (Isn't it always the way!!)I have a regular mortgage on the house, which I changed only a few months ago.I have a small business...
Just to warn you of one I was sort-of involved in.Recently I sold an underwater camera on e-bay for 1300 GBP. The buyer collected it and was very satisfied. A week later I got an e-mail from another guy asking where his camera was as he had sent 800...
We've just had a fundraising drive for the school that two of my boys attend and raised £1500. The head would like us to buy the school a new digital camera and dedicated printer.Can anyone recommend suitable items? Ideally the camera would be...
One third of his future earnings.Are footballers wives just a bunch of glam gold-diggers who trawl the clubs for rich pickings? Seems the same with F1 drivers wives.You never get a horror, do you. Who are they?
I`ve been following the discussions on this recently.My own feelings are:(1) The BBC has its own inimitable style...at its best it is unbeatable- like Naim (2) These days I am finding I hardly ever find anything on BBC1(especially) and BBC2 that I...
Last summer I noticed during the course of my work as an architectural photographer wasps tucking into hardwood garden furniture. I mentioned this to my partner and Debs said that she had never seen this.Within a week of mentioning this wasps were...
As an addition to the thread about the problems with the forum..Anyone else having this problem?Regards
A little boy goes to his dad and asks, "What are Politics?" Dad says, "Well son, let me try to explain it this way: #1. I'm the head of the family, so call me The President. #2 Your mother is the administrator of the money, so we call her the...
Not being terribly computer literate could anyone explain why the forum is appearing on a white background whilst the topic/topic starter/replies etc/last post are appearing on a background of various shades of grey. The topic headings are also...
So, the most influential, and perhaps (I keep thinking of all those stinkers) greatest fim actor of them all has gone to that great method class in the sky.He'd been little more than a ghostly presence for the past 20-odd years, better known for his...
After some thought – and after toying with (oo-er missus) Jarvis Cocker, Michael Eavis, Peter Kay, Morrissey, Dave The Model Dad From Wife Swap, Ricky Gervais, John Peel, George Melly, AN Wilson, Sir Trevor Brooking, Roger Penrose, Dennis...
A new thread inspired by an incident I witnessed yesterday as I was driving across Epsom Downs.A dedication to those who are training for their later entry into the Darwin Awards...Yesterday mid-afternoon I was driving to Epsom and as I was crossing...
Once again I'm in the nasty brown stuff, and hope that all of you computer experts can rescue this poor old computer illiterate sod from further doldrums.[OP SYSTEM XP PRO] Dispite having McAfie antivirus, XP firewall, Mailwasher, Spybot and Ad-aware running on my computer plus several strands of razor wire a few anti personal mines and a burgular alarm this weekend two viruses managed to infect the computer,fortunately for me this coincided with a visit of some friends and their family for...
Living in London I feel that a short note to mark the end of this episode is due. I have the distinct feeling that half a loaf is better than none but to settle for such a small half I feel is wrong. "Your guess is as good as mine to what she is...