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Time, perforce to write a little about the skiing holiday.

alitalf has written a few words about the skiing and the weather, so I thought I'd put a slightly different perspective on it. One of the pictures under the cut is not suitable for vegitarians or vegans.

( Different aspects of skiing holidays )

Has anyone used eBay to sell anything recently? (

wellinghall ?) I have a surplus mountain bike to get rid of and, as I don't have a Paypal account, I would like to sell it using means other than PP. Does anyone have any experience of selling and accepting payment by other methods?

My gripes with PayPal are that it wouldn't let me release money to my cheque account, it wouldn't tell me why, the PP "help" desk never answered any emails and their telephone helpline, when I finally found a number, was useless.

Owning a Lexmark, I sympathise with this cat.
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Happy birthday

apademek - have a great day.

On July 8th. 2010, I posted about my ongoing quest for economical printing using a dirt cheap inkjet printer. When I posted that time, I had just fitted a refilled black ink cartridge. Three days ago, it ran out completely.

The cartridge as purchased originally cost £23.42, managed 130 pages so the cost perpage was £0.18.
The refilled cartridge cost £12.00, managed 182 pages, so the cost per page was £0.066. In other words, nigh on one third of the price.

Sadly, I haven't had time to order any ink from Lexmark or get to Cartridge World for a second refill [1], so I had to pay PC World prices. Ouch! A combined B&W/colour pack, of the type that isn't refillable, cost £52. I note from Lexmark that the same item costs £41.86. The refillable cartridges don't come as combined packs so the B&W costs £25.68 and the colour £32.36

When this printer gives up the ghost, I'm going to have to be very careful in selecting its replacement.

[1] The CW man did say that they could only do a small number of refills and that after three or four the cartridge would fail.

I have done my hour's bird-bothering. The tallies were:

Blackbird 8
Starling 8
House sparrow 6
Dunnock 2
Collared dove 3
Robin 1
Blue tit 2
Jackdaw 13

I decided to do the survey with the early evening feed so that I stood a chance of seeing a few birds at least. We don't have hanging seed feeders as there are about 4 of them within 50 metres of our garden. The song thrush and the pied wagtail only showed up in the morning.

By request of

wellinghall

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Happy birthday to meglorien

Have a great day.

1. When you looked at yourself in the mirror today, what was the first thing you thought?
Damn, but there's one handsome rogue.

2. How much cash do you have on you?
£30 plus some change.

3. What’s a word that rhymes with DOOR?
Claw

4. Favorite planet?
Gallifrey

5. Who is the 4th person on your missed call list on your cell phone?
Unknown- i.e. no number ID enabled. Probably spam or a job agency.

6. What is your favorite ring tone on your phone?
Look Back.mid

7. What shirt are you wearing?
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, with a picture of an Egyptian tomb relief.

8. Do you label yourself?
I'm normal, it's the rest of you that are a rum bunch.

9. Name the brand of the shoes you’re currently wearing?
Bare feet.

10. Bright or Dark Room?
Bright. middle aged eye deterioration necessitates it.

11. What do you think about the person who took this survey before you?
Young

gayalondiel ? Well, that would be telling but she's very special.

12. What does your watch look like?
Black, carbon fibre case with dive ring and radiation hazard warning logo. It does glow in the dark though.

13. What were you doing at midnight last night?
Reading a book.

14. What did your last text message you received on your cell say?
An invitation from Jeremy Morgan to attend Northfarthing smial moot.

15. Where is your nearest 7-11?
According to www.7-eleven.com it's at 704 CONGRESS ST PORTLAND,ME 04102 (207) 871-1483
There is a Spar 2 miles away, it's more convenient.

16. What's a word that you say a lot?
Forsooth.

17. Who told you he/she loved you last?

apademek or

melchett when he landed on me at 08:30.

18. Last furry thing you touched?
Melchett

19. How many drugs have you done in the last three days?
None.

20. How many rolls of film do you need developed?
None. I have two film cameras still and there's a roll or two of film around the house but...

21. Favorite age you have been so far?
Various periods when I was (much) younger.

22. Your worst enemy?
Can I nominate Melchett's? If so it's Oedipus.

23. What is your current desktop picture:
No picture, just a blue background.

24. What was the last thing you said to someone?
"Sorry cat, but I need to get up".

25. If you had to choose between a million bucks or to be able to fly what would it be?
Go to be the money - here's hoping for the Premium Bonds as I only got £75 last month.

26. Do you like someone?
I like lots of people.

27. The last song you listened to?
No-one's more important than the earthworm by Stackridge

28. What time of day were you born?
3:55pm

29. What’s your favorite number?
11 for no other reason than it's my birthday.

30. Where did you live in 1987?
20, Windrush Close, Witney followed by 140, Manor Road, Witney.

31. Are you jealous of anyone?
Not really.

32. Is anyone jealous of you?
Ask them.

33. Where were you when 9/11 happened?
At the TRW research centre in Shirley, Birmingham.

34. What do you do when vending machines steal your money?
Attempt mugging it for the return of the money.

35. Do you consider yourself kind?
Yes.

36. If you had to get a tattoo, where would it be?
I've never really considered getting one.

37. If you could be fluent in any other language, what would it be?
Meroitic.

38. Would you move for the person you loved?
Yes.

39. Are you touchy feely?
Not very, it's an age thing.

40. What’s your life motto?
I've never thought about getting one.

41. Name three things that you have on you at all times?
Swiss army knife (these days, the one with a magnifying glass for pernicious small text.
Keys
Wallet

42. What’s your favorite town/city?
Phnom Penh

43. What was the last thing you paid for with cash?
Lunch.

44. When was the last time you wrote a letter to someone on paper and mailed it?
Hell, that's a long time ago. Too long to remember.

45. Can you change the oil on a car?
Yes. Better than my local Peugeot main dealer (I refit everything I've taken off).

46. Your first love: what is the last thing you heard about him/her?
Is young love real love or infatuation? If it's YL, then, what, 30 years ago she was in a relationship with a bloke. Haven't herad anything since.

47. How far back do you know about your ancestry?
Samuel Fowler Smith "he was warden of this church..." and his parents, Benjamin Smith and Hannah Lyth, ca. 1601.

48. The last time you dressed fancily, what did you wear and why did you dress fancily?
Some have said that I'm like that all the time.

49. Does anything hurt on your body right now?
No, but that's because I'm seated. I spent all day yesterday standing on a production line.

50. Have you been burned by love?
No.

Courtesy of my cousin, Sue.

WE WAS BRUNG UP PROPER !!

"And we never had a whole Mars bar until1993"!!!CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL
WHO WERE BORN IN THE 1930's 1940's, 50's, 60's and even early 70's

First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while
they carried us and lived in houses made of asbestos.

They took aspirin, ate blue cheese, raw egg products, loads of bacon and
processed meat, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes or
cervical cancer.

Then after that trauma, our baby cots were covered with bright coloured
lead-based paints.

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and
when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets or shoes, not to mention, the
risks we took hitchhiking.

As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.

We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.

Take away food was limited to fish and chips, no pizza shops, McDonalds,
KFC, Subway or Nandos.

Even though all the shops closed at 6.00pm and didn't open on the
weekends, somehow we didn't starve to death!

We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE
actually died from this.

We could collect old drink bottles and cash them in at the corner store
and buy toffees, gob stoppers, bubble gum and some bangers to blow up
frogs with.

We ate biscuits, white bread and real butter and drank soft drinks with
sugar in it, but we weren't overweight because......

WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!!

We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were
back when the street lights came on.

No one was able to reach us all day., and we were O.K.

We would spend hours building our go-carts out of old prams and then
ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot to fit the brakes. We built tree
houses and dens and played in river beds with matchbox cars.

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo Wii , X-boxes, no video games at
all, no 478 channels of crap on SKY, no video/dvd films, no mobile phones,
no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms...........WE
HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!

We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no
lawsuits from these accidents.

Only girls had pierced ears!

We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in
us forever.

You could only buy Easter Eggs and Hot Cross Buns at Easter time....

We were given air guns and catapults for our 10th birthdays.

We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or
rang the bell, or just yelled for them!

Mum didn't have to go to work to help dad make ends meet.

RUGBY and CRICKET had try outs and not everyone made the team.
Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that,
getting into the team was based on merit.

Our teachers used to hit us with canes and gym shoes; they threw chalk or
board rubbers at us.

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of.
They actually sided with the law.

Our parents didn't invent stupid names for their kids like 'Kiora' and
'Blade', 'Ridge' and 'Vanilla'

We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned HOW
TO DEAL WITH IT ALL ! And YOU are one of them! CONGRATULATIONS!

You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow
up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated our lives
for our own good.

And while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how
brave their parents were.

PS -The big type is because your eyes are not too good at your age

Free to the first bidder. I have a spare cable rack of the type used in labs for keeping test leads and assorted BNC cables stored out of harm's way. Go to the RS Components website and type code 668-4597 into the search box at the top left hand side. Click find to go to the relevant page. Or, if the website works how I think it should, go to modular test lead storage rack directly.

There is a screw hole at either end for attaching it to a wall and the "coat hook" parts can be slid from side to side so that it fits the cables of your choice.

If it's not of use to an electronic engineer like

alitalf , then it may be useful to someone who keeps spare cables in their shed etc.

First reply to this post as determined by LJ's gets the goodies, otherwise I will offer it on Freecycle.

A little something for

wellinghall in his copious free time at work. This quiz was set as a means of raising funds for the church of St. George The Martyr in Wash Common. I reproduce it here for the amusement of all and sundry. Answers may be available in March.

Bird Quiz
From the clues, can you find 50 birds?

1 Someone who bolts their food
2 Around the neck in Elizabethan times
3 A little cut goes east
4 The symbol of the RSPB
5 Seen on the chess board
6 Arthur Ransome's famous dinghy
7 Ruddy beginning
8 A metal pin to hold meat?
9 A Bell Boeing military aircraft
10 Green arms (anag.)
11 Pear cider induces a smile, perhaps?
12 Could be used to tell the time
13 17th century author spoke of Lilliput
14 Darwin's ship loses its bow
15 An illegal party heads north
16 This one doesn't need string to fly
17 A pastime
18 Look into the other one
19 It sang in Berkeley Square
20 A wizard
21 Made in part at Madame Tussauds
22 Tipple found on tap
23 A Royal Naval rating
24 A fashionable shade of blue
25 Thievin'?
26 Extremely rare sighting on the golf course
27 The Mother of all pantomimes
28 An embarrassed outside forward
29 Cot has ten (anag.)
30 Power provider dons a hair piece
31 You fill your car with this?
32 Noah and Nelly's boat
33 Batman's adversary
34 Edif Piaf drops a consonant
35 Chinese language doesn't score
36 To grumble
37 Sounds like a letter of the alphabet
38 Big Ears' best friend
39 Ellen MacArthur's Vendee Globe boat
40 A bird called 3.142 until the late 16th century
41 No sound for this graceful bird
42 Symbol of peace
43 An idiot goes east
44 The hind part or butt?
45 Credited with writing the Law of the Capillaries
46 Triangular flags and festive decorations
47 Johnny's pirate character
48 Replete mother
49 Cetti went to a Garden in Dartford
50 William's cutlery

My 4Gb memory stick seems to be suffering from corrupted files. There's nothing important on there, so I tried to format it; that seemed to be succesful. When I tried copying more stuff too it, I got an error message saying there were corrupted files again.

Does anyone know of a downloadable disk checking utility I could give it a quick once-over with? I will replace it PDQ as it's the one I use to move work related stuff around, but I'm curious to know what it wrong with it.

We have, surplus to requirements:

Archaic Egypt by W.B. Emery. Rather old, but a good introduction to Egyptian prehistory.
The cities of the ancient Andes by Adrianavan Hagen & Craig Morris
Byzantium, the early centuries by John Julius Norwich
The pyramids of Egypt by I.E.S. Edwards. A good guide to the various pyramids.

Free to whomsoever wants them, just reply to this posting. First responses secure the goodies.
I can transport some or all of them to Committee moot on Saturday if you are going to be there.

jason_finch . Have a great day.

Season's greetings to everyone. The annual Martin & Annie Xmas letter is in its usual location.

It's 20:45 and the snow has stopped. At the back of the house, we think it got to 18" depth. This is the front and, whilst it is looking deep, it has been quite windy and blown a fair amount off the walls and cars. On the right side of the picture, close to the wall, there's wheelie bin with a snow cap on, that's indicative of how much has fallen here. The snow has been very powdery and because it was below freezing all day it stayed light and fluffy.

Well, everyone else has posted about snow, so... Here's the main street with about half of our snow fall on it.

Happy Birthday Narizinho and parrot_knight

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