DD_Arthur

Blue skies Jim. Still miss that "hallooo laddie" a lot. Hope Helen is well.

Its just the voices in my head Slicker.

Hello Slicker, yes BoS now supports triple screens.

Freakin' British summer!! Red Arrows were due to display at 6.30 here in Sidmouth. The cliffs either side of the town provide a magnificent spot to watch from as the singletons make their turns right over your head and you actually look down on the main display just off the seafront. Weather has been same today as yesterday - low cloud obscuring the hill top across the valley from my back garden. Its been a will they/won't they all day. Trolled down town and walked up Salcombe Hill Cliff for the most disappointing display I've ever seen 'em put on. Three passes with smoke on as a nine ship formation well out to sea and.......sorry folks - thats it! Not the 'Arrows fault at all just our bloody fugley weather. Grrrrr........

Hmmm...yeah, might dip my toes in by putting it on this laptop but think I'll hold off on my game rig for the time being. If it ain't broke................

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Homing Badgers? Thats going to keep me chuckling the rest of the day

It can only be Percy or Speckled Jim can't it? I strongly suspect this one lives 'Ooop North' but I wonder where he was released and how he ended up here? We left blighty a couple of Thursdays ago in a westerly gale and returned to horizontal rain from a westerly front. I understand, while we've been away sweltering in southern France, our weather has been variable/grotty. Down y'ere we get our weather from the west and there ain't much west of me except Cornwall (not known for Pigeon racing) and after another three and a half thousand miles, BadAim. Hmmm....I wonder if I've got Chet's Pigeon? After all, Friar appears to have someones Badger!

Yes, I've heard that too. I must admit - not being familiar with racing Pigeons - that he's a little beauty, but where do they put the saddle?

Ta-Da! Guys; I love you and I want Painless to bear your children Got it fired up in Safe Mode and ran System Restore. Everything now peachy. Thankyou very much for the good advice. OK, Percy Pigeon 'ere is next on the agenda. Tomorrow morning at breakfast I'll grab 'im - won't be too hard as he's so docile he'll feed out of our hands - and get the info off his rings and do the right thing. I'm just worried with all this Karma going round that when I touch him there will be some StarTrek-Mr.Spock-Vulcan mind-meld situation and he'll become "aware" that in the past I've shot several dozen of his breathren with a .310 shotgun! It could be the end of something beautiful!

Thanks for the ideas FT. I've tried System Restore using Finn's account but you need to have Administrator rights for that. I did think about going into safe mode but I actually didn't reralise Win7 does this, Doh! I think that might be worth a try but how do you get into Safe Mode again? If all this fails I'll give that link a go but I'm very wary of interferring with the registry. I'll start with Safe Mode I think. How does that go again? Lol. @Painless; yes, I think a happy ending for our feathered friend would certainly ensure a recovery of my pc in some deep-karma like way. Perhaps I am being punished for two weeks of freeloading at my m8 Charles's house on Arcachon Bay . @Jabo; yep, realised too late that Finn may as well enjoy Administrator Rights too! @Pooka; Friar has Badgers? I'd keep that to yourself m8. You know how it goes. Once they know Friar has a Badger, eveyone will want one

Got back from hols on Thursday having left chez Arthur in the hands of son #2 for a fortnight . His report on our return; a) "I've crashed and broken your electric helicopter Dad" "I've punctured your two man inflatable Kayak at Ladram Bay Dad" c) "The central heating system seems to have stopped working Dad" d) "We've been adopted by a racing Pigeon Dad" Well a, b and c can or have been remedied by the application of soldering iron, puncture repair kit and a Plumber. The central heating boiler could yet turn out to be a real pain in the rear end but I won't know until my plumber returns from his own hols in another fortnight. Item d; Er....hopefully it'll bugger off of its own accord in a few days. However I digress. My major pain in the rear at the moment is that I fired up my game pc on Friday for the first time in a fortnight and upon logging in got a red-bordered message from Windows Defender saying it had identified and quarentined a major threat to my pc and I should restart my pc to ensure all would be well...or something like that. Being a good boy I restarted my pc and upon trying to log in to my user account was told the file had failed to load. Oh. This is Win7 64bit btw. The other user account is my youngest sons. I can log into that one ok where I can enjoy a great deal of Lego stuff and my own flight sims too and all peripherals work ok but thats about it. Finn's account is a standard user one so has no administrative rights. If I want to do anything I'm asked for the Administrator password which I give but the system won't find any files due to "Error Code 08x0070002". I now find myself in a Catch 22 situation; I've Googled this error code which seems to have something to do with a Windows Update failure and I've tried downloading Windows tools from Microsoft to fix this error but I can't run them without Administrator rights. I have no Administrator rights on this account and can't get them because of Error Code 08x0070002, etc, etc. Any ideas how I can sort this?

Very well done Heather and Jessica!

Thats bloody amazing!

Fekkin' RyanAir!

Get something small and unobtrusive that can be taken into lectures for note taking - a net book or think pad with keyboard sort of thing with an 11" screen will be fine for course work and surfing and a lot easier to lug around too. A built in camera for Skypeing would be good. Watching DVD's? If she's going for QTS there won't be much time for that! I wouldn't worry about future-proofing too much either. Just get the extended warranty and nut it in year three Col! In her first job she'll have a school laptop foisted on her anyway. Good career choice and my very best wishes. I'm off to France on Monday!!!!!!

+10000000's, etc. Really nice piccies Jade

Yeah but I last went in 1978!

I'm pretty sure you know this Mick but Hendon is about two and a half miles from Bentley Priory. Just a thought at the moment.... 'Ere, Mr. P. We get a discount on entry to Bentley Priory for being "veterens" lol. Makes me feel like Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

It is a Pipistrel Taurus. It be Bongo's turn. Ohh aarr.

? Me find original picture via Google image. Me think bongodriver right. Pipstrel Taurus G4.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-33381772

OK. What are you doing with the letter opener from my Bockwurst hampton business jet Jabo?

What are you doing with my letter opener Jabo?