Indeed... the bane of my existence these days - roll on the upgrade, I'm drowning in XML and bugs!

CJB temperature = 39.6 and I feel dreadful

aw get well soon...

Just found out a friend has had a small stroke at the age of only 58................it's terrible.

Oh no, really sorry to hear that. Hope your friend makes a speedy recovery

Thanks Juniper. She is such a nice lady, we met on the internet through a Patchwork and Quilting site, and although she is quite a bit older than me, we get on like a house on fire.She says her arms and legs are not affected, but her speech is a bit awful. I expect that will come back, but she's scared.

Hope she has a quick and full recovery.

Ditto - sorry to hear this , Bev

Thanks chaps. It certainly makes me want to do everything I fancy...........now. Only I don't get enough time, and haven't the money
Just make the most of every day.

Best wishes for a full recovery to your friend, Bev.

Sorry to hear about your friend Bev - hope she makes a good recovery.

Feeling ill... Self-inflictedly... And I have a load of cleaning of my old house to do today. I should've thought this through...

Didn't learn a lesson from last time then?

Don't think I ever have!

That seemed to happen to me every time I had to move house as a student. Of course these days I'm much more sensible - I don't move house very often!

Managed to sprain my ankle rather badly on Saturday evening. Walking back from festival in park, the path wasn't very well lit and there was a rather deep dip in it I didn't see.

It's rather bruised and painful (though definitely better than it was yesterday) and I've had to take today off as I was rather immobile this morning.

Oh well, could be worse - at least i didn't break it.

£350 on the car on Friday, and £300 today for a completely different fault
Now which pupils might want ALOT of extra lessons this holiday...?

Ouch. Sympathies. Get better soon.



Ouch again.

Does anyone, ever?! It's like a form of logic-blindness...




Eugh, it's ######. I hope never to have to do it again (to be fair my housemates this year are less useless, and will actually give me a hand!).

*Hugs* to everyone else who isn't feeling spectacular...

Just been signed off work for at least 6 weeks.

That's not good news Celeste . I hope the situation gets much better before then.

Thanks Gerald. The dr said "Although the chances you'll be able to work by then... well..."

flobiano, miffy, celeste: all the best for a quick recovery of ankles, bank balances and general well-being!!!!

Best wishes for a speedy recovery, Celeste.

Hope your ankle gets better too flobiano, and comiserations on the car bills, miffy...

I went into school today to fetch some books. Because it is holiday time the gates were closed but as the lycée building is being used as a holiday centre for hadicapped people they are not locked. On the side of the primary school were three swallows nests. Two were not used this year but the third has been used by a pair of swallows and they were rearing their second family when we broke up.

I found to my horror and disgust that the three nests have been vandalised. At the foot of the wall lay one dead swallow surrounded by the smashed remnants of its nest and eggs. It was all I could do not to cry. I was upset and very very angry.

Before the end of term I caught three very small boys throwing stones at the nests. They were much too small for the stones tpo reach that high but I gave them a good taliking to and explained how precious our swallows are. I took the opportunity to explain to the rest of the school that we should be proud to have these little birds nesting on our building. I really don't think any of our children would have come back into school during the holidays to vandalise the birds. I think it was probably done by outsiders. There is an estate opposite the school where some very unruly street- roaming youngsters live.

The sad thing is that there are fewer and fewer swallows and only a few days ago I saw a person who was a complete stranger to me watching the swallows who had built on the side of the supermarket. She was smiling at them and I spoke to her and said how nice it was to see them there and she agreed. So somehow it seemed ieven sadder that some thoughtless, cruel person(s) had deliberately destroyed the birds that some of us love to see.

Sickening - pointless and cruel.

What a sad story, I don't blame you being angry. It is horrible.

Oh no Aquarelle that's awful
We have the same situation with some swans on the canal. We are trying to keep an eye on them and their babies but it's so heartbreaking.
This sort of behaviour I do not understand.
My neighbour was trying to cut down his side of my tree the other day and even when I told him birds were nesting and he couldn't, he just laughed and said he didn't care. I ended up with the phone in one hand and my camera in the other saying I'd call the council (his is a council house!)...believe it or not it worked!

Aquarelle and miffy

Miffy - good for you!

Aquarelle - that is really horrible and upsetting. We see fewer and fewer summer visitors like swallows and swifts every year in the UK - at least it seems that way. How sad that someone would deliberately destroy them. Mindless. Aaaargh.

Sounds as though their first brood may have made it - hope so.

A really nice chap I know from the pub is in a coma at the moment, and gravely ill Really hoping he pulls through as I could do without yet another funeral this year

That's not the only argh, but the most prominent one of the two.

I hope he makes it.

I was depressed reading this story - it's hard to understand this kind of behaviour.
Where I sit and work at home I can see the local families of sparrows who live in an ivy hedge in our garden, and watching them doing their sparrowy things, splashing about and congregating in various trees is a real pleasure; especially having seen them grow from squeaks in the hedge to rowdy crowds shooting about the garden...I know it's pure anthropomorphism but they do look as if they are doing it for fun rather than just survival

Also sad that so many people seem to be ill at the moment - hope that things improve for them soon.
N

Thanks, CM.

When I mentioned the pub it probably implied he was a heavy drinker, but he doesn't drink at all - just turns up for the socialising. He seemed fine when I last saw him a week and a bit ago

fingers crossed he pulls through.

Wondering what on earth to do with my misbehaving computer...I am utterly stupid when it comes to technology, and my e-mails are playing up Big Time.

I tried last week to phone Virgin Media - held on for 20 mins (at 25p a minute ) then got put through to Calcutta where the person I spoke to was No Help At All.

Bah - what to do???

Defenestrate the computer?

What's wrong with it exactly?

Ah, Solari - you are a Pooter Whizz, I forgot!

Umm...how long have you got???

About 10 days ago I started getting a window popping up on Outlook Express asking me to put in my user name and password. I tried it several times and it just kept popping up again and again. During the call to Calcutta I tried putting in my husband's user name and password (we use the same machine) and it cleared and my mails came through. It was fine for a few days but then it started happening again. Sometimes it's OK and sometimes not but it's getting worse. I tried putting in OH's details again and now I've started getting some of his e-mails! When I've forwarded them to him they get sent back to me ARGH!!!

I'm able to access my mails through the VirginMedia website but WWWWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH this is driving me nuts!

Help....

If it works with one account but not the other, then it looks like some sort of misconfiguration either your side or theirs. You'll have different accounts defined for both of your mailboxes. I'd wager that perhaps on your account settings, there's a box unticked or ticked where it shouldn't be (something like an authentication setting for example). The fact that you can log in via the webmail system suggests that your password doesn't need a reset.

Not at home so can't really fire it up in a VM, but in Tools > Accounts, you can bring up each account > edit/properties and view all of the settings - I'd take a note of all boxes that are ticked and the settings in each text box for the other account that works, then compare it with your own.

Do you use seperate logins for the same machine btw?

I have had a very similar problem with e-mails for the past week. I am having to go to the Virgin media site to make sure I don't miss any mails.

It seems quite a lot of people are having problems - it may not be your computer.

I had a couple of problems yesterday as well. I've been visiting the Virgin site regularly since they changed their spam filters a few months ago. Goodness knows how many emails I lost before I realised that ones that used to get through were no longer doing so.

I'm with Virgin Media myself but only use them for the actual connection itself. I don't trust the reliability of their DNS or Mail Servers!

GRRRRRRRRRRRRR.

Some people!!!!!!!!!!!

Fingers crossed you're able to enjoy the holiday more this coming week...

Still working hard, Baz, altho' had two lazy days just now!

Soz - just a couple of people have got RIGHT up my nose in the last few days...

Time for bed, I think!!

Goodnight C...I guess I'd better head for bed soon...I'm going west tomorrow (cue puns )

Why am I reminded of the Pet Shop Boys all of a sudden?

It was either going to be you or clavicembalo...

But I don't have these Pop Culture references to hand! Surely you've noticed?

I have noticed but I thought you'd come up with some other witticism! Your reputation goes before you, clavicembalo

Somehow though, it willl be difficult to live up to. "Come on Clavi, be humorous for us!"