Nick Hewer is going to be the new presenter of Countdown...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-15757855

Interesting...

Car Expert

He I think will do a fine job...

He is a very intellegent man is that Mr Hewer.

Just walked past a poster advertising a cake sale tomorrow for Children in Need.

Location: "Genetic Toxicology".

Hmmmmmmmmmm.....suddenly not so hungry

Usually I have a battle with my daughter every Friday morning about needing to cut her finger nails before her piano lesson in the afternoon.

This evening, for the first time ever, she has cut them with no prompting from me (Fingers crossed that this is the first of many).

Isn't toast just wonderful!


It's just so toasty and yummy and really starts the day in a lovely way. Even the smell of toast makes me feel all warm, reminiscent and content.

I wonder if Flossie's post has arrived yet?...

It was in the paper last week that the cheapest snack is a toast sandwich ! ie a piec of crisp buttered toast with bread on either side. Yes Im a toast fan too, particularly wholemeal.

Music to listen to in a 60's Jag

... after all they were cars for dodgy types ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBeT4ptY9sY

The Ebay item had gone to a previous address (don't know how/why as the other item I bought the same day came to the correct address) and I was able to retrieve it once the seller told me where it had gone.

My other post still hasn't come. Royal Mail being totally unhelpful and the shop says we need to wait until it is 3 weeks since it was posted and then they will resend and claim off Royal Mail - the only problem with that is that the main thing in the order is no longer available...

Glad about the eBay thing . Not so glad about the rest of your post woe

If this place is supposed to be indistinguishable from mumsnet these days, why one earth did no-one tell me about the John Lewis Christmas Ad????? (which has, according to the papers, been a hot topic over there for some time.)

Is there counselling available for aging Smiths fans like myself do you think?

That song was such a mantra for my teen years that I am desperately struggling to come to terms with it being prostituted as a vehicle for marketing middle class ephemera.

Wonder what Marr and Morrissey are going to do with the money?

I'm sorry, but I can't bear that awful wailing that Morrissey passes off as singing...

I am also not a fan.

Have you guys read my username? What sort of music did you expect me to like?

Weedy advert girl sounds worse.

Who's Weedy advert girl?

Slow Moving Millie

The self-pitying mantra of my teen years has been turned into an advert for the Middle-Class-Mecca that is John Lewis.

That is not a good TV ad...

I had seen a cut down version before and now the full version. I don't think the ad is much cop but the music is good.

The best Christmas ads were always the Woolworths ones

It's a great TV ad! It's got people discussing it online! If that doesn't advertise John Lewis, what would?

I really, really want to back to India this winter break, but I didn't book early enough because I was trying to coordinate with my father to go at a different time. Those plans fell through thanks to my exam schedule, and now airfare in December is astronomical... Hmph

If I phone the IT helpdesk at work, and get put on hold, the "hold music" is soundtracks to old company adverts. I cannot think how anyone might ever have thought this would be a good idea! The worst thing is when they get stuck in your head.

It just gives me another reason to do anything to avoid phoning the IT service desk. Perhaps this is the intention. *suspicious*

I work on an IT helpdesk and we do not control the hold music.

If your IT "helpdesk" is anything like ours, it is misnamed. It ought to be 'the unhelpful help desk'', the 'zone of confusion', 'home of all jobsworths' or similar.

Call my helpdesk instead, the staff are very knowledgeable and friendly, especially their newest member, me.

It's very much like my place of work as well with their background music. Because of company initiatives, they are forced to play 'Feeling Hot Hot Hot' and 'I Just Came To Say Hello'...

Not only that, they play two different versions of the latter - the original by Martin Solveig and a version by The Baseballs...

Mind you, not long until they'll start blasting out all the Christmas songs instead...

Car Expert

It doesn't help that I'm a qualified business analyst, that I've been working in IT for over 26 years, and I work with and design big complex systems. So I don't react favourably when a numpty located in XXXXXXX (name of country obscured to protect the guilty)starts giving me penny lectures when I have an issue that needs looking at, or treats me as if I am a 2 year old.

Violin Hero, I used to have to deal with a "help" desk in Bangalore, which really was a waste of time, and has given me a rather cynical attitude towards IT Service Desks. I have to admit, the current company is much more helpful, but then, they are UK based. I've yet to find that I know more than the person on the other end of the phone, which is really nice!

That said, some are way better than others. I've found that often if I can't get my problem fixed in a few minutes, getting off the line asap and trying again (hopefully getting a different person) is the most time effective solution.

But the adverts... I'd almost look forward to Christmas music rather than old adverts. I feel like they're trying to brainwash me! I guess it could be worse though, at least I'm not based at the UK HQ: I was at a 4 hour meeting there last week, and nearly got flattened by a cyclist whizzing around the open plan office on some promotional thing, whilst making my zombie-like way to the coffee machine at half time!

Sometimes my corporate existance is just surreal.

Which is why I never phone our helpdesk...I always submit a request via email where I can write out in full what the problem is, what I've done so far, and with what results, so I don't have to go through the 'please restart your computer to see if that helps it' routine, when I've just told them I've tried it but they can't go off-script.

Our spell-checker at work in our old mail software always wanted to change helpdesk to helpless. We liked that (and also 'errorlog' [a part of a bit of software we used which listed errors] to 'errorless').

I actually chose my ISP based on the fact that they have smart people on the end of the phone so that if things go wrong I can ring them and they won't tell me to go away because I'm running Linux, and they can only help me if I'm running windows.

I wonder if anyone will remember me?

Who are you?

Did you play at Egham? If so I think I remember you

If not then I am deluded...

Afraid it's not me lol

Won't be the first time I've been deluded

teehee

HELLO ! *waves*

Hello

I'm hungry.

I like owls.

Windows Server 2008 is harder than I thought. Should still pass tommorow though.

Whereas I prefer the Blades.

I don't think the Blades are quite as feathery. Do they deliver letters?

Combining both random comments into one - the fan blades on this laptop were designed after owl wings. They are supposed to be very quiet.

http://www.lenovoblogs.com/insidethebox/20...have-in-common/

I'm not sure that Rams are supposed to like Blades...

Floss - I'm sure you could get a lovely letter from the Blades if you gave them enough money.

How are things, heslop01? Have you been so busy at university that you haven't had time to post?


I thought you were a friend! My parents named their house "Hillsborough" and put owl statues on the gateposts! And my brother would never use Signal toothpaste.

My husband is not in the least sporty, and in his speech at our wedding my father said that he had never imagined me marrying someone who would think that when he mentioned Wednesday he was talking about a day of the week!

What did he make of Aquafresh - blue + white AND red + white all in one...

Not sure we had it in those days (brother is now 67). Mum and I used Signal and the men had Gibbs SR! Signal used to be "the toothpaste with a mouthwash in the stripes"; of course, the stripes have now been given over to fluoride.