Hi everyone, another flying visit, I'm afraid.
It's hubby's birthday, so we've been out for lunch and done some shopping.

El Loro, I hope you get your central heating sorted quickly.

Evening everyone.  I have to say that El Loro's news about his heating/radiator problems far exceeds any news that there has been on this site today!!!

I cannot wait for this series to finish!!!

Probably won't be back again tonight but will try and catch up with you all tomorrow.  I sincerely hope that there is SOME news to report by that time. 

what are we to do with our sammy pepper? the forums not happy with him at all.
i wanted him to be in the final hes pushing his luck i think.

Ooh ooh ooh

http://www.contactmusic.com/ne...es-to-return_1158665

well that would make us all smile squiggs

Son breathing down my neck to get on, must go , chat tomoro  xxxxxxxx

I'm off too, wonder where the thread will be in the morning

Hi - it was down near the bottom of page 2 - at least it didn't get to page 3.

Just as well it didn't get to page 3 El Loro (hee hee) El Loro topless  

Morning everyone, drizzly drizzly drizzly here, I have heard the weather forecast is rain until November

Leave it out we are on page 2 AGAIN

I give up

Your original topless comment - it's just dawned on me what you were getting at - I'm too innocent .

Sweet innocent We'd better hold hands El Loro I think everyone else has mysteriously disappeared

Afternoon everyone.    Sorry I was not here to help keep the thread bumped this morning but unfortunately I've had no broadband connection since last night.  It's back now and, hopefully, won't disappear again.  I'm planning on changing internet service provider but don't want to change my email address until after I get the paperwork through for my holiday!!

Can some one give me a short synopsis of the Corin/JJ problem.  I've not watched last night's HL show.  Is the answer on there, or should I not watch?? 

joyorn, if it's any consolation, I alos often have broadband connection problems. Sometimes weeks can go by with no problem, then it starts again sometimes just once or twice a day, but I can get it back, sometimes like today it's bad. To get it back I try a variety of things. I try ringing my own number which of course is engaged then press 5 for a ringback request which of course can't be accepted. The idea is that the attempt to ring my own phone sends a small voltage into my phoneline, which can trigger the reconnection. Sometimes I dial 123 (the speaking clock), (doesn't matter which number I ring but I'm not going to start ringing random numbers and this can only work if the person answers). Again this sends a slightly higher voltage down the line which can do the trick. Sometimes I disconnect the phone line at the wall and plug it back in. Sometimes I take the phone plug out of the test socket, then plug it back in, but of course whilst tt's unplugged I can't receive any calls. Sometimes one or a combination of these works, but it's a pain. Whilst the broadband is disconnected I get a crackly sound over the ordinary phone line because the broadband connection is crossed with the ordinary line.

And the man repairing my radiator pipe is coming first thing tomorrow. It's just as well as I have noticed that the pressure has continued to slowly fall which means that it may be that it's not just the pipe leak causing the problem.

Wow El Loro that certainly is an ongoing problem with the heating system. Good job you spotted it now.  Joyron I changed my service provider and thought I had to change my email address too but my helpful computer guy said no need, usually they provide a free email service (your old IP that is) just sign up and you should be able to use your old email address in the normal way.  Well it has worked for me for the last 3 years or so

Thank you for your suggestions El Loro.  I will copy your post and keep it for future reference. 

joyron, as an addendum to my broadband connections hints, there is one which I hadn't mentioned, but this is only as a last resort as it takes work. Basically set up your router and telephone in a combined plug then place the lead in a filter into the teat socket. Potentially worth doing if your router connection to the PC is wireless, otherwise you would also have to probably move the computer etc within plugging distance of the router and that could be too much like hard work. Even if your router is wired, it may still be worth plugging the router and telephone into the test socket as if you still did not get the connection lights all appearing (other than online) on the router you would then know that the problem lay either externally or with the test socket. If it dos connect, you may find that when you go back to the normal setup that connection has been restored. If it hasn't then you know that the problem lies internally in the house (telephone wiring, telephone sockets, router, cable problems are some of the possibilities which is why at that point you need an engineer to track down the problem.

There is of course another possibility. If the broadband filter is faulty, then changing it would resolve the problem, but you may have tried that out already.

I passed on your comments to No.1 son (the computer expert) and he said it is more of a problem with the ISP than the actual broadband connection/service.  I'm with Tesco at the moment and their service seems to go down with increasing regularity.  I am considering changing to BT as ISP and hopefully they will give me a better service.  I think that Tesco just cannot cope with the pressure put on their servers, and they have to go to BT at the end of the day to sort their problems out.  I will let you know what happens if, or when, we change ISP. 

I've had such a "delicious" time posting in all the anti JJ1 threads.  I think he is about to face his karma come Friday!!!

Just realised I'm up to 2000 posts (although this one may (or may not) show 2001). 

I had that problem once, there was a fault on the broadband but not on the telephone.  The engineer from BT said there would be a charge if when they arrived the fault was past their box and I had better check.  So I had to unscrew the lid of the box and plug a phone in there, no problem.  I then checked each filter in turn and one of them was faulty, new filter, no problems since then.

My congratulations to you on this milestone, from someone who also posted that they had done their 2000th post.  And at this present moment in time, you are right in saying that you have 2001 posts. But we are lagging behind some of the other regulars - I'm not sure that we will ever catch up with Yogi at over 10,000, and then as far as I know the forum leader must be Baz, currenlty with 55,883 posts

I've no idea what mine is till I post this! I used to love getting a new star over on the old C4 forum!

Hi all, well done Joyron on your 2000 milestone!   I miss getting a new star too Kimota

Hello everyone.
I have given up watching this year's BB, so I haven't been posting very much recently.
On reading one of the other threads, it seems that Alex Sibley won't be joining the Allstars, so I won't be tuning in to that either.
I will still pop in now and then to say Hi to everyone.

Joyron, congratulations on reaching 2000 posts.

I will try to bump the thread when I can. Logging out now though.

Good morning everyone, hope you are well

Shock horror - Splattered over page 3, what will the neighbours say. Probably not a lot as I think I can get away with it

Good morning

squiggle, you got in just before me

Boasting!!, points finger Morning El Loro

Morning squiggle.

It you haven't seen this thread, you will probably want to. But you won't be able to see any of the Facebook photos of Freddie from the first link unless you are a member. The second link is a Youtube clip so no problem there, though you might want to turn the volume down a bit.

Rather confusingly when I clicked on the link it took me to my Facebook page and then when I had finished looking at all my friends' various comments over the last few days I didn't know where to go.  I'm not very good on Facebook as you can tell, thanks for the link though.

squiggle, I have realised that probably only the friends of the poster of the thread can access those photos. I don't use Facebook myself so don't know how it operates, and as I don't Facebook I couldn't access the photos anyway, so I posted my comment for those who could.

Anyway I've now made a post on that thread suggesting the poster posts the photos on something like photbuclet, then posts the photos from there to his thread.

I forgot to mention that the boiler man came this morning to repair the leak at the radiator, so let's hope that's an end to the boiler epic.

Good news about the boiler man El Loro but make sure you test that whole system and look at every part (with a magnifying glass if necessary) before the onset of winter.  Especially make sure there are no leaks in out of the way places.

So much going on this morning, forgot to say Hi

squiggle, as we speak, I am crawling underneath the floorboards looking for leaks - I have yet to be convinced that things are sorted yet. I will report back if I can ever extricate myself - it's a bit cramped for space.

I saw your post on the other thread re the Freddie photos, and I've made another post because I'm now even more confused as to how monkey13 posted the photos on to Facebook but has no Facebook account with them.

Afternoon everyone.    Hopefully the boiler man has fixed your plumbing problems El Loro but, as Squiggle says, check every nook and cranny until you are sure it's all working properly.

Seems as though they've been having a bit of fun following the flooding last night.  However I don't want JJ1 to walk; I want him out of the door properly on Friday to lots of boos!!!

Probably won't be back later as No.2 son has come home for a visit and we are going out for a meal this evening.  Will catch up with you all tomorrow after No.2 son returns home. 

Bye Joyron, hopefully catch up tomorrow, El Loro hope you got your mobile phone with you in case you get in any particularly difficult places we can rescue you