Good morning!
Cool & cloudy, but dry
The job for today is to finish sorting & tidying my books & book shelves
When I started I thought it would take a couple of days, but at this rate I’ll be lucky to have it done in a week – but really, I should have expected that
Morning all…
Bright and sunny again today here in southern Hampshire. Not sure what’s happening today, apart from having to go to the dental hygienist for a gum scrape and polish. Mrs G is off to the gym afterwards. Beyond that, my fate will remain with a mug of coffee and maybe a bacon sandwich. I have decided not to pursue upgrading my image software until after next week, as we’re away for a few days.
I am however, thinking about a new pursuit. I have an old Panasonic camcorder I have not used for years and a large box of DV tapes. If I can breath life into my very old laptop I have some editing software and maybe I should start converting the tapes to media files and rewatch some of my old footage I’ve not seen for years, mostly of our trips away. My camcorder only uses Firewire and I need to dig out some old cables…assuming my camcorder still works after all this time. Something to think about.
Meanwhile, hope everyone has a great day.
Good morn all
I am sitting here thinking about house owners that don’t bother to maintain their property. They spend hundreds of thousands of pounds to buy and don’t look after it, Makes no sense to me.
Every one of the 5 houses that we have lived in have needed work done on them. This is not because of personal choice but needed doing. This goes as far as a brand new 4 bed house and found the main water stop tap had been plaster boarded over and had to be cut out by the builders.
The house we are in now was previously owned by a so called “builder” and eveything he touched was bodged. I love this house and worth correcting everything he messed up, the list would be so long it would need a book to put it all in.
Morning all – dull start to the day but the sun is breaking through
BT arrived yesterday to carry out the upgrade – after searching for a little while the engineer couldn’t find the box where the cable comes into the house. He said the only way to do the upgrade would be to bring in a digger to dig up my drive and install a new one – told him not to bother!
Solicitor arrived mid-afternoon with my original Will and related documents. He again seemed more concerned about whether I planned to take my complaint further. Told him only if the digital copies of my passport and drivers licence were accessed, he assured me they had never been hacked but I pointed out that just because something hasn’t happened doesn’t mean it won’t and I was concerned due the proven incompetence of his staff.
Despite my conversation with my neighbour about not being able to look after the cat – she still arrived with home-made cake for me yesterday afternoon!
Plan for today is to return some garden solar lights as one of them isn’t working followed by some grocery shopping
Take care – have a wonderful day
What a load of Bo**ock that BT engineer gave you. All he had to do was look for the telephone point inside the house then go outside to the same spot where the cable goes into the house. From there there should be an extrnl connection box and plastic pipe duct to the box on the pavement. Hole is covered with protective stopper I removed to show you
Below original BT cable and new fibre cable by private company sharing the same duct
Seems to me he was rushed for time or didn’t know his job, I would get on to his level 1 manager or place a complaint to your BT local head office. I spent 25 years working in houses or companies for BT and never came up against this
actual original BT box going where cable goes into my house
Good morning forum friends, here I am sitting outside after doing my morning chores, listening to rumbling thunder all around me, grey clouds moving fast, wondering if it’s going to rain here, or not!? I can see in the distance that it’s pouring with rain in our nearby town.
Our Summers are definitely not what they used to be. Before moving from the UK, I always spent every single August on holiday here and rarely saw a drop of rain during the whole month! 
Well at least, talking about imminent droughts has become a thing of the past for us! 
Ok, must get back to preparing my omelette. 
Rice salad as a first course. 
Have a good day everyone.
Doesn’t sound like a very good morning for some posters on here this morning… 
Bruce is stuck in the house with the rain…
Mr Smith has got gentlemen falling from the sky…
Spitty is cheesed off with Bergerac reruns…
Mac sounds like he’s doing alright with plenty of plan B’s… 
Swim fell out of bed…Hope you’re okay Swimmy…
Zuludog has bitten off more than he can chew and been overwhelmed with books…
Graham has a questionable camcorder…
realspeed is busy assessing the state of houses in his area…
And finally…Sheila needs to write a strongly worded letter to BT…before they bring the digger in…
I’ve just packed in with BT for the second time…I’ve been paying 80 quid a month for broadband and landline… 
What! I hear you say…So when the nice young bloke from ‘Quickline’ said he could provide the same for 32 quid, it was no contest…
It starts sometime in September…
Sorry Rose, I just missed you…
I wish we could have a thunderstorm here, I love them, and the rain would come in very handy not having any proper rain since February.
It seems like we’ve exchanged our “weather types” Foxy! 
Yeah Rose, I expect the media will make a big thing out of it…
Watching news items about the floods in Pakistan and hearing Bruce’s account of the rain in Australia, it seems there is lots of rain occurring in the world recently, except in Yorkshire… 
Bit of a ugly shonky job there @realspeed my fibre comes in without any visible wires or cables snaking across the brickwork, just the box on the wall.
So where is the cable from the street going into that box ? Makes no sense a box without a cable feed into it. Don’t tell me it is behind that brick wall 
. Should something happen getting to it must be hell
Nice job Bruce, when the engineer comes to sort out my fibre he better be ready for some direction…I won’t tolerate sloppy wiring…
So the cliché of the British way of making conversation - “talk about the weather” - is about to change drastically! No more moaning about rain.
There is conduit from the street box to under the house, then the fibre comes back through the wall where is is terminated in the box. the house side fibre then goes back through the wall back into the conduit to come up into the wall in the middle room
It is then terminated in the WAN modem thingy on the wall and thence into my house wiring to a router where Cat5e cabling takes it to each room.
The old copper phone connection is on the left, that is all gone now, The extension lead is from a UPS again no longer used the modem just plugs into the power point above it
You can see the original inputs to the old modem and telephone system below but only the modem line is used now, when fibre came I got rid of the landline. The modem socket was changed from the phone line’s RJ12 to RJ45 and the telephone cable replaced with Cat 5.
This is where theCat5 cables go to each room. Again an old photo the top two sockets come from the box in the previous photo. Remember this was put in when Wifi was too expensive for the average person. But I still use the LAN for the TVs and my desktop computer. I sometimes think of rewiring it with Cat 6 cable but frankly cant be bothered
Each room has a terminal like this. Top is TV aerial and telephone (the latter no longer used). Below it is a LAN outlet in this case two LAN outlets from the router but most rooms only have one
All the permanent wiring is in the wall and hidden. These are all old photos, the original Cat5 wiring was done in the 1990s the NBN fibre arrived just over a decade ago. All the wiring is under the house or in the walls, can’t stand cable snaking their way across walls. In the over quarter century since the LAN was put in it has never been faulty (why would it be?)
Hi
OK, just bruised and feeling very annoyed with myself.
I can’t remember what happened and was woken up by the call centre trying to get me to answer.
I took too long and so now people will be all over me because of that.
I could do without all the fuss.
Thanks for asking though Bob.
We just have a router in the lounge. the signal is srong enough to be able to use the internet in any room. It also is the same router for the telephone, which is a DecT system being cordless with at the moment 2 telephones on it. the phones can also be used anywhere in the house or garden.
That means if I had stayed with BT apart from maybe commercial poperties a lot of my wiring of houses has gone. Thank goodness I got out when I did
No Rose, here in Yorkshire we now start conversations about the lack of rain…Give it time though, and we’ll soon be back to normal.
On the local radio in the last few days was some information about a Wollongong Uni project (I think it was) to help people recover from falls. There was an interview with a lady who had benefited from it, she had previously had falls and been unable to get up again and couldn’t get to her phone.
She said that the program trained her in techniques to get up and since then has been able to recover from falls. I was tempted to enrol myself.
Personally I haven’t had many falls but I do have problems getting up after doing some activity on the ground. in the garden I always take a milk crate with me or have one nearby (and always make sure my phone is in my pocket.)
I hope you are fully recovered from your fall.
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Thanks for that Bruce, it means a lot.
Nope , not fully recovered and will never recover from incidents like that.
I am in end stage Heart Failure, I will never get better and every time I have an issue, I can’t get back to what I could do before I had that event.
No great shakes,death is as reliable as being born, it comes to us all.
The thing is, enjoy every minute you can.
