HeeleyBridge

Nothing like forcing people to do something they don't want to get their backs up! I'd never thought that Microsoft would EVER do something like that Internet Explorer Windows 10 Microsoft toilet paper Nope, no problems with the EU either. Anti-trust Bleh.

Reorte was talking about turning updates off in Windows 7 & 8. Installing manually only those that exhaustive internet searches show will not install nagware / automatically update to Windows 10.

Morning all. Dick, I really sympathise with your problems, I've been there myself. My granddaughter got a 'wee bit stroppy' when her little brother was born. Unfortunately he was a little bit poorly due to a millk allergy which took a while to diagnose. She felt completely pushed out. Luckily, like your granddaughter, she's a very bright girl. We sat her down and explained to her that when she was a baby she needed looking after just like her brother. Also that Mum and Dad only had so many hours in a day and were very tired from working, looking after her and her brother and running backwards and forwards to the hospital. It took a little time, but she understood and went home determined to help her parents when she could. The doom and gloom only lasted a couple of weeks and then everybody's moods lightened. Offering advice to No1 Son is a bit but I like to think I brought him up properly, to look after himself and make his own decisions, which on the whole he does very well. Battening down the hatches now, as the above mentioned litte terror grandson will be arriving any minute, excited to try his new bicycle. BarryO, what you need is the good old Yorkshire 'Nose Snood' or maybe a heated Darth Umpire helmet All best wishes to the sick injured and missing in action.

Happy Birthday Andy. Hope you have a good day. Is that new? No I've had it ages. Oh ok. Ten minutes later Is that new? No I've had it ages. I've counted the cases. How many bl00dy sunburst strats do you need? Um .. One with a capo for That'll Be The Day, one for Peggy Sue, one for Words of Love, one for ...

Thunderstorm, hail and general pestilence. I'm heading back under the bed with a torch and the Beano till it's all done!

The weather is swinging between bright sunshine and heavy snow showers at the moment. So I was having fun earlier discussng the merits of narrow gauge with large radius or broad gauge with small radius. No apologies to Debs are required on this occasion though ... And the discussion has probably been running as long as similar ones here Thoughts to those sick, injured, recovering and missing in action. Now where's me plectrum?

Nowhere in my paid for licence for Windows 7 does it say "all your computers are belong to Micros**t". There is no compulsion to connect to the internet or download unwanted updates in the licence 'agreement'. The business of "my computer started installing Windows 10 this morning and I can't do anything about it" is what I'm talking about, not licence term and agreements. A computer is a tool. If you don't need a new head on your yard brush you don't fit one. If you don't need Windows 10 (which doesn't work properly yet and probably won't for some time) don't install it. Turn off updates. Simples.

Don't want Windows 10? Turn off updates. Nowhere in my paid for licence for Windows 7 does it say "all your computers are belong to Micros**t".

Morning all. Woken to the news that "When I opened the curtains this morning the lot came down". You're supposed to open them woman, not swing on them ... Sooo.. I thought that before I get on my GDBob the Builder (Can we do it? Can we &$@~) T-Shirt and hard hat and dig out the first aid kit I'd pop in here to cheer myself up a bit. Finished up chilling out to Pete's (Trisonic) tracks. I'm sure there used to be more there. May track some of the other guitar forum guys stuff down later. West from East got a nice groove going. Now, if the hands are up to it after the fixing job, I shall pull one of the Strats out and have a thrash myself. Thoughts to the sick injured and missing in action. Grandkids arriving soon must get on and finished before they get here. Must not be distracted. OOOH! Shiny!! ..

I scored 36, though I'm sure that a few years ago I may have answered some of the questions differently. Maybe I'm just getting world weary ...

I got sent out to paint the woodwork in the hallway. I got back and Andy's built Cornwall. Tomorrow the world 6 pages caught up now, you may continue sir, looking good from here.

I've just had a look at the 6" OS for my neck of the woods too. The map as presented repesents Heeley Station as it appeared prior to it's major rebuilding in 1900-2. So not reliable for the 1920s at all, but still interesting.

That's going back a looooooong time, I remember doing the same thing myself. Handy was the fact that my mate Pete lived with his grandma almost at side of the Brinsworth terminus, great for a free butty and a cup of tea. Slightly before that time, the bus fare to school just after the new fangled money came in was and incredible ½p, though the bus being fitted with a Videmat machine most 'paid' in buttons, washers or anything alse that went 'chink' as it hit the bottom of the slot. Best wishes to all those under the weather. Speaking of weather, beautiful warm, dry sunny start here, but expect it will change before this years cricket season gets underway in a couple of hours. More tea required I think, have a good day all.

My youngest lad has the pleasure of driving a bus around the quiet, well laid out and maintained streets of Sheffield. The usual excuses for c**kwombles running into said 30 odd foot long 15 foot high vehicle are "sorry mate I didn't see you" or "you came out of nowhere". The last one to hit him was another bus ...

I can't speak for anyone but myself, but my mobile phone is just that, a phone, the only data it collects is used to charge me for its use (about twice a year). Google doesn't have access to any files on my computer and I certainly don't log in to use it. Facebook is and always has been nothing but a data slurp and nothing would ever induce me to sign up. Amazon and E-Bay are personal choices to use or not use. I have an android tablet, which knows nothing about me, it's quite happy being ignorant. None of the above are the operating system on my computer, neither will Windows 10 be. Life was so simple with the ZX80...

Central heating now back under control. The interwebs located a very similar but not identical (of course) unit eventually, the lump hammer was not required. Whatever happened to simple? Grandkids arriving any minute so just a quick visit this morning. Best to all who are ailing.

A short power cut this morning while I was out. Arrived back to find no central heating/hot water a scrambled display on the timer and an irate SWMBO. Installer left wrong user manual for said device and it has no identifying number visible. I flipped a coin to decide between crawling the inerwebs for a manual or going to the toolbox and getting the 4lb #2 computer fixing hammer. The coin was las seen rolling under the washing machine. I may now be considered to be in 'Grandad Bob' mode. I may be back later...

I was going to say 'keep taking the tablets Richard' then realised that it may be 'stop taking so many tablets' that may be appropriate. Then I thought that I was thinking too much for so early in a morning and I may have to go and lle down for an hour... Best to Jock and others that are not feeliing so well.

Perhaps the cyclist had a better perception of when it would be safe to pass/be passed than you did? Had he been driving a 40 ton truck would you have still performed your "this road belongs to me" manouvre? "methinks the lady doth protest too much". You action was driving without due care and attention at best, dangerous driving at worst.

I hope the guy on the pushbike in the grass verge incident didn't have a camera. @rsy rider or not you're supposed to drive on the road.