I'm off to Australia on Tuesday morning (flight leaves at 8:45 to Dubai, which means leaving the house at 4:00 in the morning to be there 3 hours before! ), and i'm really nervous about the flying! I'm petrified, and assume the worst about every bleep or flash or rushing steward etc I really don't wan't to go to be honest and I'm losing sleep over worrying about the flights (we're doing 8 because of internal flights!).

Ho hum. Mum has booked tickets for our family (minus 12 year old sister who will be sleeping over at friends) to go to the Lord of the Rings all nighter at the imax.

It starts at midnight, then plays through all night until 8am ish the next morning. Will probably fall asleep but should be fun





Wow, Australia!!!! I've never been out of Europe.

Don't be scared about flying! Try to enjoy it. Take your most calming classical music on the aeroplane. Then you can try to drown out all the noises. Just sit back and have a good time, feel all cosy snuggled up in your seat, with blankets, and pillows, and food being brought to you! Maybe take a few good books, anything you want really.

I don't really know what advice to give, I just sort of listed the reasons why I love flying!

But I get scared of things badly too. Like when I had to have my teeth pulled out. I was terrified, and wouldn't let them do it first time round, so had to book another appointment. I've had it done before, and knew I hated the crunching sounds. So I put together a little playlist on my ipod to help drown it out.

Think about what you're most scared about, and how to confront them.

I made myself hungry as well. Shame I didn't have the right ingrediants. Blame my housemate for cooking bacon, eggs and muffins.

WHAAAAAT!? I didn't know this was going on! *scrambles to check Waterloo IMAX site*

I get the idea it might be on a weeknight though so it'll prob be out the window.

There is no better way to see your favourite films than in IMAX. Dark Knight and the new Star Trek completely blew me away in IMAX



I've been to Aus a few times - all I do is:

- Get Champagne
- Drink Champagne
- Repeat
- Sleep
- Go to step 1

Thanks. I think i'll make sure I've got all my music with me. I've also got lots of books to take, and we're flying with Emirates who have all these individual television things on the seats, so i'll watch lots of films etc.

I remember having teeth out! I had the ones right near the back out and was awake for the whole thing. I had two out in one session, and then went back for the other two the next week, so I knew what was coming the next time, and the dentist kindly gave me the week to worry about it! The crunching is awful! What's worse in when I had mine out, I apparently have HUGE roots much bigger than the average adult, and my teeth are very strong too, and they couldn't get the top one out for ages, and the dentist was so tired she had to call in another dentist. This new dentist was a MASSIVE woman who came in, held onto my forehead grabbed my tooth and wrenched so hard my head was going side to side! Through all of this, I was just sat that being thrown around! I felt SO sick that whole afternoon and the pain was AWFUL despite pain killers! I feel ill just thinking about it! And I can still taste the strawberry gel they put on the gum before the injections!

Why do my iPhone icons wobble from time to time

Just noticed that Skylark joined the forums on my 50th birthday!

Am I one of the only people ever to create a forum where the creator hopes it'll be used as little as possible?...



Thinking of you at the funeral p-c-f

A belated Happy 50th birthday!! Hope you had a good one!

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I'm off to Australia on Tuesday morning (flight leaves at 8:45 to Dubai, which means leaving the house at 4:00 in the morning to be there 3 hours before! ), and i'm really nervous about the flying!
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I've been to Aus a few times - all I do is:

- Get Champagne
- Drink Champagne
- Repeat
- Sleep
- Go to step 1
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That's one way to do it! I don't drink though, and I am only 16 anyway, so I think me downing a bottle of Champagne at regular intervals might be frowned upon!

Sleeping on that flight really isn't that easy, even in Business Class it's still noisy Next time I go on such a long flight, I will definitely do a stop-over for a night or two somewhere like Hong Kong.

We're flying with Emirates. If you fly First Class, you get these Anti-Social private rooms to sit in!
http://www.emirates.com/uk/english/flying/...irst_class.aspx
(Start the tour, and click privacy, and move the cursor over the red symbol)
Slightly over the top!

Hrm part of the fun sometimes though can be chatting to interesting people - it has the added bonus of making a bit of time fly by too I've met some really cool people on flights

1st class would be a no-no for me, ridiculously expensive and you're basically subsidising Economy - I'd rather spend the cash on activities at my destination!

"It has the added bonus of making a bit of time fly by too- Was that pun intended?

We're flying economy, there's six people in my family, and it was about £11,000 for all the flights we're doing! Thats only economy class, I dread to think how much first class would have cost!

I like buisness class, we got bumped up into it free of charge when we went to America 10 years ago. There were about 10 buttons on my chair and I pressed every single one of them when I got on, and two people came running up to me looking worried! Nobody told me what the buttons actually did!

Hahahaha! Yeah the reclining seats/pods are great Your gaffe reminds me of the time I used the disabled toilet in a pub once and accidentally set of the alarm because I thought the cord was for the light...

I did economy to Thailand once. As I'm 6'2 it wasn't very nice (I checked in too late to get an emergency exit seat) Premium economy is alright and not much more expensive if there's 1 or 2 of you. I would have like to have upgraded to 1st but I don't think I could have afforded it... the flights were paid for by my firm but I reckon from Business > 1st is still a good few thousand.

Make sure you do your exercises to stop your legs getting numb (and also to prevent DVT). Take a few aspirin as well People must have thought I was mad on my Oz flight as I kept walking around and doing jogging on the spot etc to keep my legs from going numb (surprised I didn't topple over with the booze they were giving me!)

You hold an icon down a little longer than usual and they all quiver charmingly - then you can move them about or delete them with the little x. Magic!
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When I was little (~8) I remember we were on a flight and I went to use the toilet on my own. After I washed my hands I went to dry them and the towel dispenser looked a bit weird. I wasn't sure how to get them out so I thought you must press a button or something and they come out. I pressed the button and nothing happened so then I pressed it again, still nothing... Then one of the stewardesses knocks on the door, it turns out I had pressed the emergency cabin assistance button!

Awww , I've had overall.... *counts in mouth* 6 teeth pulled out I was awake for them all but they were all milk teeth

I had my first out when I was 6 or 7. All I can really remember is when I sat down, I was clutching a tiny teddy I'd made myself, which I took to all hospital/doctor/dentist apps. The dentist came over and said "Now, let's give teddy to mummy so that we don't get any blood on him" then they started pulling them out, and it hurt so cried a LOT and I remember the nurse person pleading with me to stop, and mopping my face up with tissues

I REFUSED to let them pull out any more after that. But then 6 years later I was summoned to have another 2 out. (These 3 were all molars, and pulled because they came through with very very little enamel, so rotted and got infected) These hurt a lot too. I remember squeaking when he started pulling, and he said "you can feel that?" I nodded, so he stuck an injection in the roof of my mouth I'd convinced myself that it was only because I was little that it hurt so much, but I was wrong.

Then another year later, a few months ago, my orthodontist said I needed to have three out, two canines and another molar- all on top. (This was to do with braces...) it didn't hurt at all! Which was great.

But then on my top teeth I had my four front teeth, then on right hand I was missing three teeth in a row, and left was one tooth missing, tooth there, tooth missing. Luckily two teeth have grown in since... but when I smile, it still looks like I've only got 4 top front teeth

I actually enjoyed having two of my molars removed - and was also awake throughout.

Was I unwise to respond to personal messages here after three glasses of red wine? Probably not but thank you anyway. You made my day.

Drinking and posting/PMing wrecks lives...

Oh thanks - aren't they cute when you know what to do with them!

ENJOYED?!

How exactly? What can be enjoyable about being pinned down in a chair andhaving long pointy metal things jammed into your gums, then having a pair of pliers shoved into your mouth to push and pull the teeth backwards and forwards and twist them around until eventually the satisfying crunching sound of bone being ripped/cracked apart occurs, and the teeth are literally ripped out of the socket.

Sorry, am I missing something here?

I don't know, I just liked it!

Also, the dentist and nurse spent most of the time talking about how nice my eyes are and telling me to stop scrunching them shut because they were too nice to hide.

Right, I'm off to Australia in the morning (4am ARGHH!), so I wont be around for the next 3 weeks! I return on the 31st, if for some reason you want to contact me (can't imagine why you would, but hey!). I will hopefully be in a good mood, because GCSE Results come out 3 days before I get home!

See you all soon!

Thanks. Has been a hard day.

I'm going to look for my new instrument tomorrow!

More tea?

Just seen Skylark's signature for today. Coincidentally I was at a friend's house yesterday and they have two beautiful Victorian lamps, each with two lightbulbs, and each lightbulb operated by a pull chain, so you can have low light (one bulb) or bright light with both bulbs - Victorian dimming with pull chains - really clever and very beautiful

the forum works

Hooray for the forum being back!

Today is odd.
Tomorrow I am off work because of it being my mother-in-law's funeral.
Today I have lots of urgent things to do, with a stupid 4-6pm meeting (meetings beyond 5pm - really not a reasonable thing to do!), and the meeting is with a group of people who...well, are used to getting things their own way and have much to say about things being done any other way, and they also occasionally ask for the technically-not-possible, then suggest to other people on the team that a different developer is approached when I tell them it's impossible (and one thing they insisted was possible, I asked them to send me a screen-shot of how they had it on the front end so I could try to work out how it was done in the background, and they came back and said they'd looked in to it and indeed their set up turned out not to have that functionality they were insisting on after all, and perhaps could't we get a programmer from the software manufacturer to provide me with advice. Hang on. Who just got it wrong about what the product can/can't do, and I'm the one who needs assistance?!)
And I just don't give a stuff about any of it. By 4pm what little enthusiasm I have for the day will be well worn out, having to deal with people who just seem to want to make things difficult fo the sake of it will not be something I'm up for. Hopefully my colleagues will step in when/if I get too close to saying anything tooooo inappropriate to these people

What a coincidence! You'll be able to tell them now when it was patented The lamps sound lovely

The forum is working.

*hopes she hasn't jinxed it*

Alto flutes are great, aren't they? Now, if only I had the spare cash to buy one...

My daughter complains about that also. She always blames the Americans who throw their weight about wanting to have 'conference' calls and meetings just when she wants to go home . . She usually goes in early and likes to leave at 4.30.

I usually get a call from the states wanting something when I'm on late shift... typically about 2 minutes before I'm due to go home

Yep, I'm a leave at 4pm person. Most of the people I work with in the US are also early people - as an example, I had a meeting with one of them at 11am UK time yesterday, whcih was 6am her time (on a Monday morning! And she was in her office!) But it's just these extra special get their own way external people who we have to pander to, who want it at a time which is most inconvenient for us in the UK.

Half an hour to go till we can ring the vets, and find out when kitties come home!!!

Yay! I hope they continue to progress.

My alarm clock failed me this morning and I didn't wake up until my driving instructor arrived. Not good.

When you've been messing around in the cafe for a while, it's quite strange to come out and see that the rest of the forum have been having serious musical discussions

I am getting sick of the fact that the only people to have added me on MSN in the past six months have been almost exclusively promiscuous porn types. I mean, there's nothing wrong with promiscuous porn types as such, but once you've seen one you've seen 'em all.

For the record, I should submit that I do not entertain these cheeky ladies, and I resist their offers to "bust" me into their exhibitions with VIP seats!

Where are they getting my address from?!!

I just nearly fell down a set of stone steps.

Could have been a nasty end for Babybird2...

I'm glad you're okay.

I miss Carol's hilarious PMs.. How dare she go away

Also, where is davidmackay lately?

All those websites you keep signing up to?

It's easily fixed.... privacy settings - don't allow anyone to communicate with you unless they are on your list. If there's no comment in the request or you don't recognise the address, decline it.

Anyhow Matthew - could you compile a list of these promiscuous womens' email addresses and pass it on to h_c - it'll give him something better to do late at night other than hanging around on the forums

Oh no, then who would I have to play with at Chester ?

I hope you are OK, BB. I did that once when I was about two - apparently I decided to see how far my pram would go down the steps and forgot to let go! There were lots of bent wheels and a bent Gerald!

Yes, you have my e-mail Matthew, forward them

*joke*