Good morning everyone its snowing here Thank you for posting that link on here EL, I have emailed it to Joyron already but its nice to have if others want to look her up.  Its very topical of course because that new movie The King's Speech includes that little poem.  I am old enough to remember the King and how devastated I was when a boy came to school after going home for lunch and told us that the King was dead.  We all refused to believe him and I was very upset.

Elizabeth became queen 3 weeks before I was born so I never knew Geoge VI as monarch. The King's Speech sounds as if it's going to be one of the major contenders for awards this year including the Oscars. It has already been in the news for originally being classified 15 for 11 uses of a certain word, but on appeal revised to a 12A cert on the grounds that the word is used in a speech therapy context. In the States, the R certificate has remained, but the difference is that there adults can take underage people in to see an R rated film.

Hi everyone, just a quick hello and to wish you all a good 2011

And to you

And it's just started to snow here in Gloucester

Fear not EL, the snow has all gone here now, we had a bit of snow lying but its all melted away and our weather forecast on the BBC site is to get much milder and I checked yours out too and your snow all stops mid evening and will get milder too

Happy New Year wishes to you too Skylark

 Well its too cold for snow here, its bloomin freezing!     Glad that the festivities are over and can get back to "normal" . It seems to have gone on so long this year, probably of course because it was the weekends

I'm going to be dreaming of spotty dogs jumping up and down on my car tonight

Apart from a sprinking on some surfaces, nothing has come of that snow here. Though, the BBC forecast here shows Friday mild and wet, but the Met Office shows a more recent update which now shows similar to today, at least in Gloucester. I don't think they really know.

Evening all.
It has started snowing here, too. Hopefully it won't lie and will be gone by the morning.

Right everyone concentrate on the picture below, we can do it if we all wish hard enough

And to accompany the above:

 Well done guys, feel warm already

Where is the help thread? Was going to ask Lori if we could have a sticky for Dancing On Ice? Unless someone else wants to of course, dont want to ruffle feathers

Bye now, up at 5.30. 12 hour shift looms

Good morning everyone

Skylark, since the changes, I sense that Seattle's attitude to providing help has been cut back. I used to send a PM for such a request, but they no longer seem to appreciate that. I think they expect you to create a thread in the Community Technical Questions/Suggestions asking for this, but I don't know to what extent they look at this.

You could create a thread in the Big Brother forum with an appropriate title and make a posting asking Seattle to add a sticky. Good luck.

Good morning everyone, good idea about the sticky Skylark.  I wonder whether it would work if you made the thread and then left a request in it to Lori to make it a sticky, she seems very 'on the ball'.  Hope you have a good day, we should be hearing from Joyron today

Good morning to all my lovely buddies.    Hope you are all well.  I'm pleased to say that I am feeling much better now, almost back to my old self!!

I am really enjoying having the house to myself this morning.  It is SO quiet.  I've just finished ironing four loads of washing and I'm off to the shops shortly to stock up on everything I'm running short of.  Hubby is due to be at home tomorrow but I'm hoping if the weather is okay he will choose to spend some time down on his boat.  If not then Thursday is not too far away, when he is due to return to work full time!!

Will catch up with you all again later.  Have a good day whatever you are doing. 

Good afternoon everyone

Joyron, it's good to know that you're feeling a lot better and that Grumpy is going back to work.

I see on my internet searches that the actor who voiced Grumpy in the Disney film also voiced Sleepy. I'm not sure he ever appeared in a film, but besides Grumpy and Sleepy, elsewhere he voiced Goofy and Pluto many many times. His name was Pinto Colvig. Now that could one day win one of you a million pounds on Who Wants to be a Millionaire

I have tied a bow to remind me of that important (ahem) piece of information EL

Glad to hear you are feeling more like your old self Joyron (did you get my email?)

(I am really posting this piccie from my pc just because I can, having solved the little glitch I encountered when installing my new router)

squiggle, that's great

I've just posted a rather long post on our little private dialogue.

I have replied EL, goodnight, God Bless

Good morning everyone

Thanks squiggle

Good morning everyone.    Just a quick visit as hubby is at home today!!  Sorry I didn't get back again yesterday but hubby came home a lot earlier than I expected.

Squiggle, yes I did receive your email.  Please accept my sincere apologies for not acknowledging it.  Everything has been so muddled over the past couple of weeks.  I printed the email off and have it stuck on the wall next to the computer, so that I can see and read it every day.

El Loro, I've read your post in the PM.  You have certainly had much to deal with recently.

Will get back later if I can, if not hope to catch up with you all tomorrow. 

Good morning everyone, its wet wet wet here (but no Marty Pellow unfortunately ).  No worries Joyron I'm just glad you got the email safely, it certainly is a lovely poem and image (your hand in God's hand) to take into the new year.

Morning  Nice to see you Joyron x    Thanks El and squiggle re DOI .   I havent received any PMs , and appear to have lost our little place    The computer has been playing up so i asked my son to give it a "clean" , he may have deleted some stuff , as there are no PMs at all, the old ones have gone too ..... Hope you are Ok Yogi x

Skylark, you are right, your son has managed to delete you from your PMs, and it is not possible to add you back on to our little PM.

So I have created a new PM for 2011, and I have copied yesterday's post from me and also squiggle's reply.

So you should be able to access that one, and we'll use that one from now on.

Thanks very much El, sorry about that!  Wont give him a row, as he was only trying to help !

Aww squiggle    Just had 3 power cuts here, only lasted for seconds but alarms going off everywhere. Got my 2 smoke alarms sorted, but my carbon one, was a siren...my poor dog,s ears. But i think it has sorted now, dont know what caused it.

On Sunday I had 2 power cuts lasting for a few seconds each. Besides alarms going off in other houses, the main inconvenience was that my computer went off both times. I wasn't working at the time, so I didn't lose any data.

My comp went off, so thats a worry, its old

Skylark, I'm assuming that your electrics are wired up through a trip switch panel. I think that's a legal requirement for all houses once they get rewired if it's not already there.

So unless one of the trip switches was triggered, you can assume that it was an external power cut rather than something in your house. On the other hand, if the same trip switch gets triggered each time then that suggests there's a problem with some item on the circuit controlled by that trip switch. So it's then a case of identifying which item it is by trying each item in turn to see what does it.

If you find the item which causes it, then if there is a fuse, if the fuse is replaced and blows again, then there is a fault with that item. On no account just put a piece of wire in place of the fuse or a higher rated fuse to prevent it from blowing. That's a recipe for real disaster like an electric shock or the house burning down.

Nice pussy cats, squiggle

Good morning everyone

Dental appointment this morning, but it's just a check up, so I'm not expecting any shocks apart from the bill. If I charged my clients at the same rate per minute as my dentist, either I would be a millionaire by the end of the year or, more likely, have no clients

Good morning everyone, good luck at the dentist EL hope there are no nasty shocks.  Talking of charges per hour I bet even dentists cannot approach the fees that top London lawyers charge or even patent or trademark agents (I used to work in that field and some of the charges in both those professions take your breath away).

Good morning  Nice poody cats       Thanks El for advice last night, sorry i didnt want to run the risk of the cuts affecting the computer so i shut it down. Dont know the cause of it, but it was external, thank goodness. No it didnt trip the electrics but set my alarms off, the carbon monoxide one just wouldnt reset so i used the only thing i could think of and hit it with a hammer  I now have to pay someone to come fix it!  These things are sent to try us!  Good luck at the dentist!

Skylark, if the carbon monoxide detector was battery operated, would taking the batteries out, then putting them back in stop the alarm?

No shocks at the dentist, all clear, not even a scale and polish, so just £25

The alarms do have batteries, but they bypass them and go onto the electric circuit, so taking the batteries out wouldnt stop the alarm, They are linked to the lights so i switched that off, but the house was in darkness, when i switched it back on the siren started again, the reset button wouldnt work so i hit it !     You will be smiling all day now with your nice clean teeth  oops sorry read that wrong, but you must have good teeth anyway!  I am ranting now need my lunch, bye for now x

Or the dentist took one look, said there's nothing that can be done with these, and ran out of the room screaming