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Very frustrating - have t redo PW every time then can 'tick' some boxes and enter on the blog but then ... did get a save earlier but then a 'you do not have permission ' etc.
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Following this reply I ventured onto my content and initially was able to read and tick a response then, about 10-15 minutes ago I found that I could no longer tick a response but still read so looking at my avatar I clicked it to find that '" you do not have permission etc.".
I have re-logged on to add a further comment to this. All seems to me rather odd and ER is the only blog currently accessible (unless no others have been adding content). Cheers, Peter
Edit:- Sorry, I meant the 'like' boxes yes, the boxes mentioned below. Google Chrome ... will look that up.
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Very frustrating - have t redo PW every time then can 'tick' some boxes and enter on the blog but then ... did get a save earlier but then a 'you do not have permission ' etc.
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Thank you. Safari and yes after a chat with Andy Y reset everything but even after yesterday I have had to 'forget password and reenter today. Only perhaps I have found that when resetting password I do not need my Peter BB name it just goes straight to my in box so I have just clicked on your response.
I have an iMac 2011 vintage that is sometimes especially on email remarkably slow.
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Hi,
Apologies for not remembering your proper name but the quote you gave came from Chris F not me. I quoted him since I too have a real problem with curry in any shape or form - the smell for a start. Once in an Indian restaurant for a department do ... best not mentioned.
Keep safe, keep well, cheers, Peter
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Andy,
Would you like to 'play/have' Cadley Hill to while away the boredom? A shopping trip will be needed in the very near future. Cheers Peter
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Hi Andy,
Hope it goes well. The idea was probably OK but in retrospect since, apart from the door to door return home when Adam came back, we have not actually left our property for over three weeks - someone else currently does our shopping. I am not one of those like Tony and the lad in Cumbria but still qualify under 3 of the items that say self-isolate for 12/52 so perhaps I am pleased that your own circumstances made it not the correct pragmatic response. Hope all goes well for 'the move' for you and Dee.
Keep safe, keep well, cheers, Susan and Peter.
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Thanks for that information. Came onto Macs after many PC problems in 2009, some of which were probably of my own making as I believe in backups.
Please can you tell me what the equivalent Apple programmes are. Many thanks, cheers, Peter
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The first bit is very useful and I like the idea of 256 GB SSD and will go back to the website. The faster 3 - I think that I use a powered USB hub on my iMac and a 3 will still work my USB 1 & 2 but at the lower speed. The responses that you are all providing shows just how good the RM community is. Cheers, Peter
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Thanks for that information. Came onto Macs after many PC problems in 2009, some of which were probably of my own making as I believe in backups.
Please can you tell me what the equivalent Apple programmes are. Many thanks, cheers, Peter
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Thanks Truffy - thankfully I no longer need them as Word and Excel have since both been used to provide the same, howbeit slightly more complicated, and from the other help provided by you and others on here it seems that Pages and Numbers together with Keynote will do an excellent job. Cheers, Peter
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Thanks for that information. Came onto Macs after many PC problems in 2009, some of which were probably of my own making as I believe in backups.
Please can you tell me what the equivalent Apple programmes are. Many thanks, cheers, Peter
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Looked up Pages, Numbers Keynotes - none will download on either current iMac - too old - checked and they are 2009 and 2011 - so also have no trade-in value but can be 'usefully' recycled. Certified Refurbished Products on laptops - with current situation easier to take with me that the desktop- did not have any real advantage price-wise to new.
13.3" MacAir seems best bet although a much smaller screen than I am used to but the 16" Pro seems a tad expensive when Apple's 'useful' life seems to be so short. I do need Word/Pages Excel/Numbers PowerPoint/Keynote. On a new machine they, PN&K, come free but most of the information that I produce has to be read on PCs by club members. Past history I also used Access and Publishing although not much use on the latter because none of my students or peers had it. Potentially then I need a new computer - laptop - but will still need Office for Mac although the prospect of working on the Mac equivalents first has some kudos.
Thanks for the guidance, cheers, Peter
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Thanks for that information. Came onto Macs after many PC problems in 2009, some of which were probably of my own making as I believe in backups.
Please can you tell me what the equivalent Apple programmes are. Many thanks, cheers, Peter
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Thank you both for the imnformation - 23 hours is not a late response especially since this computer has been inspirational for a few hours. Will look up sometime this week. Again, many thanks, cheers,
Peter
Edit = for inspirational read inoperable!
New edit - Now read your post on the NHS - in which I spent 35 years - glad you were given a clean bill of health.
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John,
As you know I followed you epistles on Sandy's progress and your coming to terms and subsequent care. It helped ... we have a 16/52 'last chance' grandson and our son's 26 year old partner is still in remission. We live in hope that that remains so but your detailed diary has given us plenty to think about should this change so, thank you.
Having missed a week or so on ER I quickly scanned to see how things went and was pleased to see you state the positive response given to you by the organist.
Cheers, Peter
PS I presume you lecture at Birmingham/Aston Uni? and your comments re student attitudes on ''work' ring a bell with some of my former students at Walsall. PBB
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Thanks. Sounds like the one that had the 'jump in lift' that kept going - can'g remember what it was called. Went there from Gloucester Royal for a special meeting on DNA 40 plus years ago from an up and coming guy from Leicester - very good evening ... now a Sir and responsible for DNA use in policing etc. - name escapes me at present ... neither of the latter is a good sign.
Thank you, Sir Alec Jeffreys it was and pleased that his efforts also helped Sandy. Strange how some people stand out ... the evening was also the first time that I had been to Birmingham, little knowing that many years later I would end up based there in my final job when working for the Red Cross.
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John,
As you know I followed you epistles on Sandy's progress and your coming to terms and subsequent care. It helped ... we have a 16/52 'last chance' grandson and our son's 26 year old partner is still in remission. We live in hope that that remains so but your detailed diary has given us plenty to think about should this change so, thank you.
Having missed a week or so on ER I quickly scanned to see how things went and was pleased to see you state the positive response given to you by the organist.
Cheers, Peter
PS I presume you lecture at Birmingham/Aston Uni? and your comments re student attitudes on ''work' ring a bell with some of my former students at Walsall. PBB
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Thanks. Sounds like the one that had the 'jump in lift' that kept going - can'g remember what it was called. Went there from Gloucester Royal for a special meeting on DNA 40 plus years ago from an up and coming guy from Leicester - very good evening ... now a Sir and responsible for DNA use in policing etc. - name escapes me at present ... neither of the latter is a good sign.
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Hello, Mal's wife Gabe here.
Really very sorry for being the bearer of the worst news, but Mal died on Monday 18 March at 9.40pm. His children Cat, Fin and I and his best friend (my brother Vic) were all with him, here at our new home in Ancrum Bank. It was so very tranquil. So tranquil in fact that it took me and Fin ten minutes to be absolutely sure Mal really wasn't breathing, he looked so serene and calm. But he was definitely ready to go. All medical and caring staff said how content he looked, wrapped comfortably in all the warm wishes of all those who loved him, from both near and far.
A celebration of his life will be held at Mortonhall Crematorium, Edinburgh on
Thursday 28 March at 12 noon to which all are warmly invited.
I've been working hard all week getting his funeral arrangements sorted and his celebrant, Onie Tibbitt, is keen to get close friends to share the funny things he said or did that exemplified the kind of man he was. You guys were a massive part of his life. He was very close to you. Many is the time he would leave your forum with a moist eye telling me some sad news, or, much more often, with a chuckle. Sadly, you are the guys with whom I have least connection as I have never met or spoken, or indeed communicated in any meaningful way with any of you apart from the briefest of updates while Mal was in Basingstoke after his major op in February last year.
You guys may have been a facet of his life which was an entire mystery to me but now it is time to unveil the mystery. It is clear, as Onie and I have pored over Mal's lifetime, that the theme of Railways surfaces time and time again as a major focus in his life. Apart from your friendships, I would love to receive sentence or two from you guys explaining the significance of trains in general and RM in particular to Mal.
It is one of my biggest regrets that Mal never achieved his long-held ambition to set up his own model railway here in our new home. Who knows, in the fullness of time, I may even pick up that challenge, but don't hold your breath or you may turn blue and keel over and I've had more than enough of that thank you.
If any of you would like to contribute your thoughts, Onie is happy to get in touch with you for a chat, or you could email her anecdotes of funny things he said, or things he did which seemed to exemplify his character, before 5pm Monday 25th March so she can start compiling a tribute in good time. Onie's email address is celebrant@onietibbit.com, so feel free to email her direct, or if you would rather chat, let her know and she can arrange a convenient time.
And in case you don't know it already, our new address is 1 Ancrum Bank, Dalkeith, Midlothian, EH22 3AY, tel 0131 660 1609. My mobile is 07563557310. I’ll be shutting Malcolm’s email and phone contracts down at some point, so remember to delete him from your contacts list, but feel free to please add me if you wish ;-)
I know you will understand that I have my hands full. So please don't be overly concerned if I don't acknowledge any replies on the forum for a couple of days. Once I can stop juggling balls while unicycling, and once things start to feel a bit more settled, if it is not too presumptuous, I look forward to logging in and maybe getting to know you guys a wee bit.
Gabe
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Simon,
I would be grateful if you could give a few details/short run down on how your CIO came to be/is working, as I believe some club members are looking into it again.
Thank you in anticipation, cheers, Peter BB
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Can my life get any worse. YES. I have to sell where I am living due to circumstances out side of my control.
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Went into a Charity Shop today to get a Belt, they didnt have one, so when I got home I stuck two fingers in the electric socket, THAT WORKED.
