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« Reply #6435 on: 05:04:01, 30-06-2008 » |
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Whenever I settle down to compose, my wife calls me and tells me to change a diaper nappie to you Brits.
Napp y actually. When I was at your stage in the process, a colleague somewhat further along remarked to me that what you need to be able to do is get something useful done in 20 minutes because that's the size of the segments your day is now divided into, and will be for a while. It can be achieved I think (though of course I shouldn't be making such extravagant claims on my own behalf). Thanks for the tip. Not sure if it will help me... I mean, does the affixing of 'y' or 'ie' follow any rules at all?  (grump!) |
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« Reply #6436 on: 06:04:03, 30-06-2008 » |
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Grump. I stayed up in order (among other less self-sacrificing reasons, admittedly) to check a set of proofs being sent through from New York. They finally arrived at 2am (i.e. 9pm New York time), I sent back some corrections, another draft came at 4am my time, I replied to say it was fine except for two small mistakes, and I've heard nothing since. I suppose the designer went to bed, but he could have told me if he wasn't planning to stay up beyond 11.30, especially since it was already pushing 5am for me. We could have finished the whole project in 10 more minutes; now I suppose I have to wait till he wakes up tomorrow, by which time it's already afternoon over here and we effectively go to press a day later than planned. Morning all! |
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The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
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« Reply #6437 on: 07:10:03, 30-06-2008 » |
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Mrs BBM re-done the kitchen arrangements all day yesterday!! So now as she has to start work at 6am today, Ive had to get up the saemtime as she in order to have thecar. The reason being, is that Ive to take various bits and pieces to the tip!! O well, such is life.
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« Reply #6438 on: 08:52:29, 30-06-2008 » |
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My mother is in hospital at the moment, having had a fall. While she's been there, her brother and sister have apparently persuaded her that she won't be able to look after Pixie, her cat, when she comes out, so she'll have to have it put down ie killed   [cotitsalv] Poor Pixie She's got a good fews years left in her yet, all being well. Ron got there first with the Cats Protection League. They would be happy to accept a more mature cat. A couple of neighbours here have 3 'rescue' cats between them and have had no problems. If for some reason the CPL don't take Pixie, would you consider keeping her yourself? Or, if you do take her back with you, you could speak to the local vet. They will often put up 'Good home wanted' signs in the surgery. Plus, you know people seeing that sign have already demonstrated that they care about animals. She looks lovely, I do hope you find somewhere for her  I was briefly tempted myself, but I suspect my two chaps might have something to say about that! Good luck Andy. And Pixie. |
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« Reply #6439 on: 09:14:13, 30-06-2008 » |
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Thanks for the tip. Not sure if it will help me... I mean, does the affixing of 'y' or 'ie' follow any rules at all? (grump!) There's something of a national subdivision, Turfs: the standard ending is now nearly always 'y', but it wasn't always so: Shakespeare has 'fancie' rather than 'fancy', for example, and the 'ie' version still provides the standard plural. Most Scottish dialects retain the older spelling, however, particularly where diminutives occur: Jamie is an obvious example, but you could expct to see Jo(h)nnie rather than Jo(h)nny, Mollie rather than Molly and 'dearie' rather than 'deary'. Dundee has a range of everyday diminutives which are all *uggie words, such as 'spuggie' sparrow, 'chuggie' chewing-gum 'puggie' one-armed bandit; but all over Scotland the 'ie' can be found in national terms such as 'cloutie dumpling' (a suet-based pudding traditionally steamed in a cloth or clout { rhymes with root}), 'sweetie' (a small portion of anything sugary, such as a bar of chocolate), 'bridie' (a semi-circular pie made from a filling enclosed in a folded circle of pastry), 'closie' (a tenement building) and (particularly useful for the morning after the night before) 'peelie-wallie' (having a pale and sickly complexion). |
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« Reply #6440 on: 11:24:22, 30-06-2008 » |
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Poor Pixie She's got a good fews years left in her yet, all being well. Ron got there first with the Cats Protection League. They would be happy to accept a more mature cat. A couple of neighbours here have 3 'rescue' cats between them and have had no problems. If for some reason the CPL don't take Pixie, would you consider keeping her yourself? Or, if you do take her back with you, you could speak to the local vet. They will often put up 'Good home wanted' signs in the surgery. Plus, you know people seeing that sign have already demonstrated that they care about animals. Absolutely - Cats Protection (sorry, they've dropped the "League" bit now) will certainly take her, and even if they don't have space locally they'll almost certainly be able to find another branch who can. You can find your nearest branch here: http://www.cats.org.uk/contact/findcp.aspI hope your mother is better soon as well, AndyD.  Grump: Having spent all last week ripping CDs to iTunes, I found out yesterday that the bit rate had defaulted back to 48, after I set it at 192. Now I've got 68 albums that sound like tapes being played on a cheap car stereo and I'll have to do them all again.  |
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"Two wrongs don't make a right. But three rights do make a left." - Rohan Candappa
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« Reply #6441 on: 12:45:23, 30-06-2008 » |
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Poor you Ruby2! Ive been doing a lot of ripping cds to my itunes lately. I had a tutorial from my son of 21 yrs!
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« Reply #6442 on: 13:03:39, 30-06-2008 » |
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Poor you Ruby2! Ive been doing a lot of ripping cds to my itunes lately. I had a tutorial from my son of 21 yrs!
Does he know how you stop it losing all your settings? I can see myself doing it again... |
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"Two wrongs don't make a right. But three rights do make a left." - Rohan Candappa
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« Reply #6443 on: 13:21:31, 30-06-2008 » |
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I booked an appointment with the door engineer to sort out my problem with the front door and was told they would be with me between 8am and 1pm. It's now 1.20 and I have spent the morning kicking my heels and looking hopefully out of the window. Just phoned the service centre, she phoned the engineers and I was told they are running a little late. Any idea of time? I enquired. Well, not hugely late, just a little bit, was the answer. How long is a little bit?
And I have a pile of work at the office which I should be doing. Grump! Grump!
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Reality, sa molesworth 2, is so sordid it makes me shudder
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« Reply #6444 on: 13:26:05, 30-06-2008 » |
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Anna, I work closely with a proper engineer at one of my customers, he would be livid about you referring to a door engineer. My colleague regards an engineer as someone with a degree in engineering and resents descriptions like refuse engineer, roofing engineer, door engineer - I can just see his face if he read your posting  |
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« Reply #6445 on: 13:50:09, 30-06-2008 » |
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May they show up soon or run the gamut of the goatist phalangists. Are you with a largish housing association/ TMI Anty? So many have carp maintenance depts, mainly through understaffing and overlong admin (some are required just to 'be in the office' for a set number of hours).
Ironically , I think some of the reappropiation of the word 'engineer' has come through management consultancy.I can think of one instance where it makes sense in nat phil terms to me-Peter Checkland's Soft Systems-but he was a scientist when he developed that.
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« Reply #6446 on: 14:09:11, 30-06-2008 » |
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Not a Housing Association marbs, but well known supplier of doors and double glazing. The problem is if you are last on their list of calls and the previous calls have been time consuming ......... And they have to come from Bristol ........... The door is still under guarantee, if it wasn't I would have got our excellent local locksmith.
John, I referred to them as "engineers" because that's how the girl making the appointment referred to them. Apologies to all "proper" engineers.
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« Reply #6447 on: 15:30:05, 30-06-2008 » |
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Poor you Ruby2! Ive been doing a lot of ripping cds to my itunes lately. I had a tutorial from my son of 21 yrs!
Does he know how you stop it losing all your settings? I can see myself doing it again... I expect so. PM me and see if we can sort it out!! |
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« Reply #6448 on: 15:42:31, 30-06-2008 » |
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I had a tutorial from my son of 21 yrs!
Well, after that length of time you should know what you're talking about, then. |
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« Reply #6449 on: 16:08:03, 30-06-2008 » |
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The door technician has just phoned me. He apologised and said he has been running very late due to being stuck in Glastonbury this morning (whether he had been packing up his tent or on a job he didn't say.) He said he phoned the office at 11.00am and asked them to phone all the customers. Of course they didn't, I landed up phoning them. He is now 20 minutes away.
I have no idea how long the job will take so that means I won't attend the 5.00pm after work champagne party I was due to go to. Which doesn't really upset me.
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