Judith
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I've only popped in now and then, Menthe, but it's good to see that the experienced heads don't wine everytime, even when we know experience helps. There have certainly been some serious upsets this year .. all makes for more entertaining TV!
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Apart from getting all the figures I need from OH, I long ago gave up getting him involved - it's much safer that way!
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Menthe, we have this problem with satellite reception often especially in the rain, and at certain times when climatic conditions interfer with the signal. Similar to what you could get on the radio signal in the old days. We got around it by having a VPN installed and using the interniet and an Amazon firestick, but I can't get BBC to work on that at present, but I also have it on laptop, computer and Ipad and with the VPN connected, I can get trhough on those. Yes, OH has been glued to the snooker too. It's becaue they are now if HIgh definition, which Channel 4 and ITV work much better as they are not (I think) but even they disappear when it rains, hence the VPN etc. It tends to get better in teh evenigns - sometimes! He's watching it on the TV now, for example.
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Just completed mine today .. but my excuse is that next week is busy with birhdays and then we go on holiday and won't be back until it is too late!!😉
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3 hours ago, Lehaut said:
If I may suggest another approach. Try finding the "microphone" on your keyboard. On my android phone keyboard it is above the comma. Press that when you are composing an email or SMS and speak slowly and clearly into the phone. The words will appear in the document. The same when using google search, tap the microphone on the right of the search bar and pose your question.
Mine voice input spells much better than my finger inputs!
Yes, being an Apple person, I have that on my devices too, and I find it very useful, even though I can touch type within reason, though it doesn't seem to understand French words, but then I'm working in English .. so if I changed it to French maybe it would be OK then. Certainly worth investigating ..
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Good idea, Noisette, that would work too .. it's the movement and shiny surface that does it according to OH.
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1 hour ago, DaveLister said:
Talking of spring. Does anyone have any ideas on how I can stop birds nesting on my terrace? The problem is that I foster cats for a local charity and the terrace is part of an enclosed area where they can get some outside exercise. I'm afraid, if I allow the birds to nest they could be put off from feeding the chicks because of the cats or, heaven forbid, a cat might catch a bird. Currently I'm out every day dismantling the nests in the hope they'll go elsewhere but I'd rather stop them doing it in the first place.
We put up old CDs on string to discourage birds from nesting under our "upstairs" terrace, as we sit underneath it .. seems to work, I can see the terrace as I type and there are no birds evident, nor have been ever since we put the discs up. Bits of aluminium foil would work as well if you don't have old CDs.
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On 25/04/2024 at 22:41, menthe said:
No, don't want to change keyboards. It's just that these on-screen keyboards do me no favours as my clumsy fingers keep tapping the wrong key. I could touch-type and OH says that's my problem right there and that I just need to type with one finger at a time.
Yes, everything does get larger if you put the phone on its side or use two fingers to stretch the text.
Anyway, I chose a pretty blue phone and my battery has died on my latest wrist watch so I tell OH I have bought the phone so that I could tell the time. A lot easier than trying to change the battery on the watch!
I have that problem too, Menthe, as I can touch type too .. yes,you need to learn to type with one finger only, sadly!
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Writing frrm what seems to be the only place in France still under extreme drought conditions, and being no gardener either, plus being in the UK for most of March, all I can say is, that this year has been totally untypical ... one minute so warm I can put a T-shirt on, the next week, I'm back in winter woollies, and that has been happening all year! My drive both ways to the UK was wet, wet, and even wetter, I did manage a few nice days on and off whilst in the UK, but it has been just the same here, except for the rain, we just get grey skies, which are neither use nor ornament to anyone, since I got back. Winter woollies today, 3 days ago, T-shirt!!!
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It makes forgetting where I put my glasses seem like child's play! But, yes, I suspect that more people than we'd like to think of have done some things similar ... and I must confess to checking passport location even when I know I have put in where it always lives when travelling! It's where I have put the house keys for safe keeping in the room, when I am away which I forget!
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Menthe,
I presume you can change keyboards (ie French or English, or something else) I find that helps .. also if you turn the phone on its side, the letters get larger!! At least they do on mine! Good luck.
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I used 1.15, as advised by my financial advisor, who by chance, I talked to last week.
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47 minutes ago, menthe said:
Judith, I saw a documentaire recently about that museum and it's supposed to be the last word, in museums that is.
NOT the LAST word from any of us here on the forum, is it?
DL even if you are not the miracle worker, you deserve tons of credit for keeping us informed and motivated.
So come ON, eveybody, put your shoulder to the wheel or mettre la main à la pâte or simply just come and post in DROVES!
The forum rules, OK?
It was good, but sadly, I could find ways of improving it .. more seats, and a café, for example! A tiring place to walk around. Totaly agree, come on folks, POST!! Keep this forum alive!!
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Thanks Dave, yes, it's good to get away from everything for one day. I went with a friend to NarboVia, a newish museum, in Narbonne, evidently, all about Roman Narbonne. She drives, which is so relaxing for me, we always find a good place to have a good lunch, and do something interesting. She's been to the museum several times before, but says she sees something new everytime. €9 entry, but as it happened, as I got my card out to pay, my carte mobilité incusion could be seen (NormanH will certainly know what one of those is), and when he had checked it was stil valid, said, it's free for you!! Such a pleasant surprise! Well worth a visit if anyone is in the area! What with travelling on the télépherique in Toulouse for the first time on Saturday, as well, I've been more of a tourist these last few days than I've been for some time. So nice!
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Been out all day (enjoying myself, lovely weather too!), and came back to the news that we were back live! Thanks to those who kept us informed ... great stuff .. fingers crossed we keep going ..
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Menthe, I must admit, I was working on our tax form last night and had got to savings, and on checking got quite a surprise how much there was .. not excessive, but after a miserable year before, like you it was a minor shock ...
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At lunch with my ladies group today, one of the ladies was searching for her glasses .. she thought she must have left them in the car ... we told her she did have a pair of glasses on her head (hair not forehead .. but) was it those? It was! We all had to laugh (she has lovely thick hair by the way, so not entirely a surprise that she couldn't feel them). I couldn't carry them like hat even if I wished to do so with expensive prescription glasses as my head is the wrong shape to do so, but it does seem to be a popular place to keep them even if it can't be doing the fit any good I always think!
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Gardian, I vey much sympathise with both of you. As you say, she looks as though she's been lucky and is getting some life to live still, but impossible to push trolley and wheelchair .. I've tried pushing a trolley with only one hand after a hand op .. impossible, so the fact that you've managed what you have for so long is amazing! Such excellent news, because it gives you both independence, as she will be able to do so much more with the electric chair, which is of benefit to both too ... I've been unable to walk any real distance without a stick for some time now, and yes, such seemingly trivial things (not being able to do the speed or the distance I once did without thinking about it), does becoome imcredibly important once you cannot do it!. Even slight improvements take on incredible importance too.
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I've just mamaged to change the hour forward, twice now in 2 days .. as I'm back in France. Arrived at the hotel last night and said, what time is it please? Tunnel was late, which didn't help! Maybe by the time I'm home - 2 more days - I'll have sorted myself out!!
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I'm in the UK longest, wettest spell I can rememebr for a very long time, in both countries. Maybe had 2 or 3 warm and sunny days, several cloudy but with no rain, though never warm, and like today showers and sunny spells .. I was hoping it would improve as I come south this week, but evidently not from what you are all saying. Botheration!
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Suspect I joined in about 2004/5, when the idea of moving to France when retirement was close enough to make it viable, but it might have been sooner, as I'd been thinking of it for sometime before it became a feasible option. Since we came in 2005 (or OH did, I had to wait to retire so was behind him), in 2005, it was certainly by then. As for the names, they are to conjure wiith. SD helped with tax affairs as well as many other topics, Copperlola, RH and other all remembered fondly here .. but as to when it actually started, qui le sait???
I'm currently on hols and family visiting it the UK, so late to seeing, responding and even posting in my own right!. Tant pis!! Suspect other forums ie FB might have thought to replace this one, but do you know, it doesn't do the same job at all!
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Hubby came into the kitchen after the Eng / Ire match and said, I've just been put through the wringer! I suspect the same for the earlier match. I don't watch it - love the game, but can't stand the tension! I always say, it isn't over til the final whistle! Please to see Italy moving upwards, since they joined the group, they have steadily, if slowly improved I think.
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I will eat most veg, if I have to, but there are several I would prefer not to .. artichokes, squashes (OK in soups), the rest I can like, depending on how cooked. The French overcook most veg (and undercook most meat!) I find. I buy few veg as OH won't eat enough of them to keep a mouse alive, so I buy my preferences, and don't bother with the rest. Ratatouile is alwysy over cooked as are most veg, I prefer the individual vegetables raw, courgettes I prefer raw to cooked, same problem with lots of the fruits as well.
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Don't snack between meals, a little like the French??
BBC programmes apart from news no longer available?
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Menthe, that is certainly true, about his clothes .. but as the last ranked player standing, you would expect so, but this year, nothing can be assumed I think!