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Post by Mouse on Aug 9, 2008 7:54:03 GMT
Thank you Mr De Mille!
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Post by Mouse on Aug 9, 2008 7:47:35 GMT
I cannot get on with August even though a lot of very lovely people are born in this month, and, indeed, I myself am particularly fond of The Glorious Twelfth, there is just something of being in limbo about it.... I feel extra twitchy and restless and ready to get on with the rest of the year.
Shouldn't wish time away but roll on September!
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Post by Mouse on Aug 9, 2008 7:34:51 GMT
When I was 5 a single computer needed a warehouse to house it.
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Post by Mouse on Aug 8, 2008 19:02:50 GMT
It was a warning that McAfee bought up on my screen when I looked at the site. Can't remember the exact wording but it made me think 'right I'll leave that alone'
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Post by Mouse on Aug 7, 2008 18:33:15 GMT
My phone is working now - now all I've got to do is get the hang of using it again!
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Post by Mouse on Aug 7, 2008 16:33:46 GMT
thanks Tangent explanation much appreciated (and understood!) Mouse
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Post by Mouse on Aug 7, 2008 11:57:02 GMT
sounds like a direct line to the Devil - are you sure? Seriously I didn't like the message that McAfee sent so just letting you know. Mouse
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Post by Mouse on Aug 7, 2008 7:37:10 GMT
No, I wouldn't say I'm a Luddite - but I just get bored at the instruction stage!
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Post by Mouse on Aug 6, 2008 20:41:29 GMT
I'm so untechnical I didn't realise that SMS meant I could text from my phone until a couple of months ago and to be honest I'm not entirely sure that the SMS is the text facility - it's all a bit hazy...
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Post by Mouse on Aug 4, 2008 11:02:16 GMT
tell me about it!
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Post by Mouse on Aug 4, 2008 6:56:58 GMT
Like them? I love them. I sat here in tears the first time I came across that site. It has been a source of much pleasure to the cake community!
The funniest / saddest thing is that these are all 'paid-for cakes - part of a proper business transaction - at least when mine go bottoms up they won't be appearing on this site.. I hope.
I once made a huge pumpkin- shaped cake for for my sister's halloween party and carved a face at the front and my nephew described it as 'sad and disturbing' (it was hollow and lit from inside with a candle in a jar and the face side started collapsing - it looked so bad my sister turned its face to the wall).
Today I am making a near- life-sized Ferrari F1 team cap to go on a Ferrari fan's cake.
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Post by Mouse on Aug 2, 2008 14:28:34 GMT
Why can't anyone close the door to any room containing large but essential porcelain items???
Is it 'man code' for something? Because it means nothing to me.
Perhaps seeing the loo in all its glory is acceptable these days and I'm just old fashioned. I suppose it saves guests having to ask where it is. Revised etiquette.
I'm seriously considering installing a 'pissoir' in the front garden... but it might be easier to go to a builders' merchants and try and get some rising butt hinges.
no need to reply to this.. just had to get if off my chest as I am expecting a visitor and it gets on my nerves.
Mouse
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Post by Mouse on Aug 2, 2008 9:24:41 GMT
thank you - so not just me having the problem then! I did a search for an explanation but it was all Dutch to me.
will wait and see if things improve later on
Thanks once again
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Post by Mouse on Aug 2, 2008 8:35:37 GMT
I edited this to nothing because I don't think I can get to grips with it myself! so apols. mouse
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Post by Mouse on Aug 2, 2008 7:15:04 GMT
I am trying to get into a forum on another site - never had an problems before but now.. when I try and get in there it comes up with the following:
The current Web page is tyring to open a site in your trusted sites list. Do you want to allow this?
At the bottom it says if you don't trust the current web page, choose No.
Well I have a bit of a dilemma because I'm not sure what to do. I would know what to do if I understood why this message has just started coming up.
The trusted site ref ends in ieframe.dll which I understand to be something to do with internet explorer but is this a bona fida thing to be trusted or viewed with suspicion?
If anyone can help I'd be really grateful.
Worried Mouse
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Post by Mouse on Aug 2, 2008 7:08:17 GMT
I'll put my foot on the gas then!
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Anger
Aug 2, 2008 0:23:44 GMT
Post by Mouse on Aug 2, 2008 0:23:44 GMT
Hello PB
Could've screamed for you myself when I read that he won't come around to see your son when he's ill. Selfish sums it up but almost doesn't go far enough - and how on earth do you explain an inadequate dad to a son who's looked forward to seeing him all week.
I often wonder if father's don't also do this to get at the mothers because they know they'll be so angry and frustrated by the hurt caused to their children.
I suppose it's a controlling behaviour if they know that by not turning up they will wind up the other parent and maybe all the other parent can do is to deprive them of any reaction at all.
I don't really have any tips on the anger front as I vary in my success at controlling my own and I often don't even take my own advice..
I just know that bottling it up doesn't help your stress levels. And if you can't scream, which is isn't always a viable option, then at least you can share it.
Hope the chicken pox is on the wane (and hoping 'dad' gets his comeuppance..)
Mouse
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Post by Mouse on Aug 1, 2008 18:36:46 GMT
Apparently I drive like I've got Miss Daisy sitting the back most of the time... so not really a problem I've noticed!
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Post by Mouse on Jul 31, 2008 22:34:16 GMT
If that cake had hit you'd be suffering a serious injury.
I don't know what's going wrong whether the heat is affecting everything but I am just about ready to give up on making that ruddy cake.
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Post by Mouse on Jul 31, 2008 17:57:03 GMT
Leon thanks for your post earlier because it reminded me that I needed to send off my letter to Sly by registered post. (thought I'd thanked you already). They only give you 14 days in which to reply, which is a bit rich when they can't even manage that themselves!
You find a lot of that sort of thing going on. In a former life, we had a huge rat problem at one of our sites. The EHO from the local council came along and told us that we had to get the problem sorted and gave us 21 days (I think it was) to get it sorted.
He also mentioned that we could pay the council to come and do the job. The boss asked how long it would take if they did it and he replied 'not less than 5 weeks', to which the boss said' in that case you should give me 5 weeks to get it sorted before you start talking about fines, etc'. Grudgingly the EHO agreed he couldn't argue with that logic and the boss went ahead and employed another company to do the job.
Speaking of golf balls I was going to put a large one on my nephew's cake but when I turned out the two hemi-spheres of cake they just looked like two rather slack - well manners dictate that I won't finish that sentence.
I love miscellaneous and obscure facts.
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Post by Mouse on Jul 31, 2008 17:35:55 GMT
Glad to hear your thermometer is in plain view!
I thought I'd be able to compartmentalise this failure on the interview front and just move on but actually it is making me feel more than a little depressed. Can't believe my eyes started tearing up as I walked to the post office this afternoon. And I got my nephew's birthday date wrong and the cake I said I'd make well, I'm through 4 different sponge just trying to work with this oven. Tasted this last one and its as dry as old Harry. And that's why I need a padded room!
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Karma?
Jul 31, 2008 11:56:31 GMT
Post by Mouse on Jul 31, 2008 11:56:31 GMT
Great idea Roland - actually, mine's a sherry!
And could we have another room (preferably padded and with plenty of tissues) for those of us who need to go off and have a long, loud scream?
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Post by Mouse on Jul 30, 2008 19:04:02 GMT
It's great!! Thank you very much for this. Mouse
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Post by Mouse on Jul 30, 2008 18:19:32 GMT
know what you mean. I couldn't get over reading people's posts and finding they'd put into words exactly what I'd been feeling!
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Post by Mouse on Jul 30, 2008 7:59:34 GMT
Nokia.. Sony... I feel like a phone fashion victim now.. just had to go and look and it says Trium so not even a make I knew!
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Post by Mouse on Jul 29, 2008 23:07:23 GMT
Hi PB
Yes it was a job interview and I could cry but there you go.. you live and learn.
Plenty of learning going on here too. I left mobile phone in the garden in a pot - found it this evening sitting in four inches of water.. it's drying out but think I need to get a new one. bit annoyed about that as well.
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Post by Mouse on Jul 29, 2008 23:01:38 GMT
Not sure if the mobile contact number given will still work - waiting for phone to dry out.
(it was left out in garden in a pot and we had a huge storm here yesterday)
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Post by Mouse on Jul 29, 2008 22:38:49 GMT
Thank you for asking I came out feleing that it didn't go too badly so.. based on the principle that the exams you thought you'd done well in actually weren't I don't feel hopeful,
and re the thermometer probably better not to dwell on that!
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Post by Mouse on Jul 29, 2008 15:36:19 GMT
I had an interview this morning so really could have done with some decent sleep last night - instead of the restless night I had.
At one point in a dream I was walking down a dark tube tunnel hearing lots of bangs in the distance and it was hot and muggy and suffocating. I hate the way atmospheric conditions can even colour your dreams!
PS really sorry Leon but i am laughing because I read you post quickly and then had to re-read it because you know how your brain helpfully supplies words (predictive reading I suppose..) and I read 'I have a thermometer in my bedroom..' as something quite different!
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Post by Mouse on Jul 28, 2008 22:52:13 GMT
Thunderstorms here have done nothing to reduce the humidity. I have an interview in the mornign and cannot see how I'm going to get any sleep tonight!
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