Sweet dreams yogi I hope you sleep well

Sweet dreams velvet, I hope all is going well in your world

Good morning everyone.

 

The sun is shining up here.

 

I think it might be a time for a garden centre visit.

 

Have a good day everyone.

Good morning everyone

 

It's going to be a hot and humid day here though not as hot as the south east.

 

Yogi, I'm glad you had a nice meal with your son

I hope you aren't having any more problems with slow loading pages and a lack of smileys.

 

Summer, I wonder why your phone socket doesn't accomodate the broadband hub as I would have thought it just used a standard phone socket plug. If there's only one phone socket you do need a boradband filter which places like PC World stock. The filter plugs into the phone socket. It has two sockets, one for the hub and one for the phone. If you have two phone sockets side by side, BT says you don't need a filter, just use one socket for the hub, and one for the phone.

 

Yogi, enjoy your trip to the garden centre

Good morning everyone, much cloudier today and we've had a shower but so much cooler than overnight, my it was sooo hot last night, heaven knows what temperature it was, I was very grateful for the ceiling fan.

 

Oh no Summer, what on earth? Why should you need a different phone socket, as EL says I would have thought a standard BT socket with a broadband filter.  I hope BT don't keep you waiting too long now, and charge a fortune which they seem to do nowadays

 

Enjoy your visit to the garden centre Yogi, go and release some of those poor imprisoned plants and set them free in your garden

 

Enjoy your day everyone

Squiggle, it was hot last night. There's been no rain in my area and although there may be some rain at some point in the day it could stay dry.

Someone from Gloucester has discovered a strange error on Google Maps for Gloucester. There's a part of Southgate Street which forms a triangle with Commercial Road. The part of Southgate Street from the top right of the triangle to the bottom of the triangle is paved. If you go into Streetview mode and look at the top of the triangle before the Commercial Road junction you can see that it is paved. But if you move southwards down Southgate Street suddenly the paving has gone and you can see cars and a bus. Even more noticeable of you turn round to look north. In fact if you get to the bottom point of the triangle and look north, there's a line of cars.

Someone's identified the pictures as what it was like in 1997.

 

Good afternoon all what a glorious day! I'm painting & decorating, but just taking a quick snack break. I hope you're all having a lovely day

I spent ages on the phone to BT this morning and after wasting 45 mins talking to 2 different unhelpful non english speaking people, who quoted me £40 and then £130 for an engineers visit, which I refused, I then got through to someone who concluded I need a filter! They were shocked to discovered some weren't included in my hub parcel, so are sending me some in the post asap
I'm still logging each event in the long line of dire customer service that continues.

Where's moonie? Is he still absent?

I'll be back when I can

A young designer at the Royal College of Art has developed a series of interactive household objects, that are designed to stimulate feelings of happiness in users.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-33312642

A toaster that you need to hug and other things.

 

Summer, moonie popped in 3 days ago to say hello and hoped to be back soon so I think he's still poorly.

 

Broadband filters are a few pounds and can be bought from any computer shop, Curries, and the like. They look like:

The ADSL cable from the hub plugs into the socket which on the above is on the left, phone plugs into the one on the right if you have a land line phone, and the lead plugs into the phone socket on the wall.

It does seem odd that BT wouldn't include one in their pack as unless your phone socket has an ADSL socket built in or you use Virgin cable, broadband filters are required.

 

 all. 
Weather here not as hot as anticipated, but rather humid, have a breeze here as near the coast. My sister was in town and its stifling there. 
Oh Summer what a carry on you are having , hope you put in a complaint about lack of customer service ! I thought these filters were included in the box as standard. I always found when you phone, to avoid the call centres, press the number where it asks if you wish to pay a bill then you get through to English speaking people, then apologise for pressing the wrong number, then they will put you through to the right department  A hint learnt from the money matters person, Martin somebody, cant remember his name. 
Enjoy your day at the garden centre Yogi. 
Hope everyone else well , especially moonie 

Hi Skylark

 

I think you may be thinking of Martin Lewis.

I hope the weather is less humid for you and for the rest of us by tomorrow morning, it's supposed to be fresher by then.

 

I think it's wise to have a couple of spare broadband filters in store so that if one starts playing up you've got a replacement on hand.

Hi El, yes thats the chap x
Have broken my mobile phone  Been looking around for a cheap one just now. Lost without it! I dont need one that sings and dances, just a basic one to keep in touch. Found one in Carphone Warehouse, will try to collect tomorrow.

Hoping less humid for you all. x

Skylark, that's a bit of a disaster with your mobile phone broken I hope you are able to collect one tomorrow

Thanks El, dropped it on the bus on Sunday taking GD to nanas, and stood on it 


Hay fever playing up today, would like to take my eyes out and wash them under the tap!! Sneezing too. Anyone else suffer? Its not pleasant is it 
x

My sister suffered terribly with hay fever so I do sympathise Skylark, I hope you get some rain so that the pollen count will decrease and also so maybe it will be less humid.

 

Well thank goodness for that Summer, silly people thinking your socket needed to be changed when all you need is a broadband filter.  I always keep a spare, it can be a nightmare when one fails.  It happened to me and I had to go all around the house replacing each filter with the spare to find the faulty one.

Skylark, although I do get a bit of hay fever, it's never been too bad and I've never had to take medication for it. Sounds as if you need some anthistamine tablets if it's still bad tomorrow. For the eyes try holding a flannel soaked in cold water over them.

 

Apparently it's now officially the hottest day in July on record. That's at Heathrow and it's several degrees cooler here. The record for the hottest day on record used to be in Cheltenham of all places but that was in August.

 

Have taken meds, thanks El, sneezing as i type! 

Evening all 

 

Summer, I hope you get the missing part and your hub is soon up and running.

 

Hi Skylark. What a shame about your mobile. I hope Carphone Warehouse have a suitable one for you tomorrow.

 

Hi Velvet. Maybe your pharmacist could give you something for the itchy toes?

After the muggy heat of the day, it is starting to cool down, so I'm off for a cool shower and then to read for a while. Goodnight and sweet dreams everyone.

Night owl hugs.

Good morning everyone

 

Cloudy here at present, there may be a bit of rain some time to freshen things up. Not as hot as the last couple of days.

 

Skylark, I hope your hayfever is better this morning and that you get the new mobile

 

Summer, I hope those broadband filters arrive today

Good morning everyone.

 

Weather is dry and sunny. Forecast says it won't be as hot as yesterday.

 

Grocery shopping today. In this weather, I will be buying salad and fruit, rather than cakes.

 

Have a good day all.

Good morning everyone, I hope it is cooler for everyone today who was suffering from the heat yesterday.

 

Skylark I hope the hay fever is not so troublesome today and that you can get a good phone.  Summer I hope the filters arrive today so you can finally get your broadband up and running.

 

Yogi good luck with the shopping, hope there's lots of delicious salad stuff and fruit.  Did you get any nice plants yesterday?

 

Enjoy your day everyone

There's some light rain here so that should make the air a bit fresher.

 

Yogi, I hope your grocery shopping is successful

 

Squiggle, I hope it's cooler for you as well and not so humid

Thank you EL, it's much cooler and fresher here.  Probably much hotter a little inland but here on the coast it's much more bearable.  How is it where you are?

Squiggle, it's cooler than it was, and the night should be more bearable than last night but Friday night could be rather warm, humid with the possibility of thunderstorms.

 

Mobile speed camera van parked on Cheltenham Road in Gloucester this morning at 9.00

Mothers taking their children to school at that time were forced to cross the busy road as a result rather than at the traffic lights a bit further down the road. Cyclists not impressed either as their cycle path was blocked.

 

Rang a client and got through to their answerphone. Left a message on it and was allowed about 70 seconds.

Afterwards I discovered a message on my Virgin Media voicemail (which activates if I'm on the phone). It was from the person I was talking to.

I wonder how they were able to ring me on the same line at the same time I was leaving a message on their answerphone

That was very inconsiderate of the police speed camera van, I am thinking especially of elderly pedestrians, those in wheelchairs or mobility scooters, young mothers with pushchairs and the visually impaired.

 

There is something a little comical about you both leaving messages for each other at the same time, but as you say how on earth is that possible?

True squiggle, it's a bit comical but I don't know how it's possible. It could be that she doesn't have an answerphone as such and that I was put through to her phone company's voice mail though it was her voice on the answerphone. May be the start of the voice mail ends the call on her phone so that she was able to ring me. That's the only thing I can think of.

 

El, I wonder if you both called each other at exactly the same time, so your answerphones kicked in as your phones were engaged?

I remember one time my mum and I dialled each other at exactly the same moment and got connected.

 

Grocery shopping was postponed. I had to wait in for a call from a nurse, to arrange an appointment time for her to administer my first injection tomorrow - only she never called!

 

Squiggle, I was looking for a deep red, beautifully scented, red rose (the old fashioned kind) but couldn't find one. I did see some gorgeous climbing roses with a beautiful scent but I haven't got anywhere to plant them. However, Mr Yogi is considering replacing the hedge at the bottom of the back garden with a high fence, so I could have lots of climbers going up the fence next year. Mr Yogi is known for changing his mind, so I won't count on it until it actually happens.

Evening Velvet.

 

You ought to have heard Mr Yogi ranting about NHS inefficiency tonight.

 Hubby shouts at the telly during QT 

Off for a bath before bed. Goodnight and sweet dreams, Velvet.

Night owl hugs.

Good morning everyone

 

Blue sky here at present. Forecast to become rather warm and humid at the potential for heavy thunderstorms tonight.

 

Yogi, how frustrating for you to be left in limbo as to your injection. I hope it is sorted out today and the injection goes to plan

Good morning everyone.

 

The sun is shining.

 

El, I managed to contact the Homecare people this morning and they got the nurse to call me. She will be coming late afternoon, so I can get out and about this morning.

I have to have four injections today, then two next week, then one injection a fortnight.

 

Have a good day everyone.

Yogi, you'll be a pin cushion  At least you can get out this morning.

Best photos yet of the dwarf planet Pluto and its moon Charon in this BBC article:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/scie...environment-33369045

Next couple of weeks should show closer up images as the probe gets closer.

 

Good morning everyone, a nice morning here but due to cloud over a bit later on and a little rain this evening.

 

Yogi I hope all goes well with the injections, it seems an awful lot of injections - you're not needle phobic I hope.

 

Nice shots of Pluto EL and as the probe gets closer here is a greeting from one of the inhabitants