Libby, which is an app for borrowing books from the library. When I turn the page I sometimes get a totally black screen. I need to go into the library as I think deleting then signing up again may fix the problem. Overdrive - an alternative app works well on the same device so I'm not totally bereaved.
The problem is that it is school holidays and there will be wall to wall mini- terroristslittle darlings everywhere.
For what it's worth (maybe nothing), I find sometimes turning a few pages backward helps with a problem like that, then going forward again. Or refreshing the screen, if you can.
... In this house, music runs from Gong to Metallica via Hawkwind, Tull and Fairport. I get a lot of stick that my music's old, but it's not my fault that there's not much productivity in the genres that appeal to me. ...
(I really need the old "pounding on the floor whilst laughing" emoji.)
You/they think that your music is old?!? It is to laugh. Mine runs from the Renaissance or so into serious music of our own time, with an emphasis on the 19th century. And it is absolutely Great Stuff!
Lamb Chopped, thanks. After a few less than polite words were uttered I found that after the black page it displayed the page after the next one, so I then had to go back a page and it was OK, until next time.🙄 I knew it had to be in there somewhere.
It was a mystery and I was determined to find out whodunnit,
It has been my happy place for years, and all of a sudden it tells me
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Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.
Size of a request header field exceeds server limit.
I have cleared the cache and the cookies, and flushed the DNS (get me!) but to no avail. At first I thought it worked on my tablet, but alas, that too caught the infection, so I think I am going to have to call the helpdesk. That's this morning sorted then...
So you should - a very obscure opera, to say the least!
(I once went to a fairly professional production of it, accompanied by a Kiwi lady friend. We decided - reluctantly - to stick it out for the second half [...])
... In this house, music runs from Gong to Metallica via Hawkwind, Tull and Fairport. I get a lot of stick that my music's old, but it's not my fault that there's not much productivity in the genres that appeal to me. ...
(I really need the old "pounding on the floor whilst laughing" emoji.)
You/they think that your music is old?!? It is to laugh. Mine runs from the Renaissance or so into serious music of our own time, with an emphasis on the 19th century. And it is absolutely Great Stuff!
I don't think my music's old. My critics think it's old.
My music tastes are fairly ecclectic- if it has a tune I'll listen, so we are exposing the Dragonlets to a wide range of stuff, including early music and a lot of organ pieces. Dragonlet 1 does sometimes moan about our choices, but is still a bit young to have developed his own tastes yet.
So you should - a very obscure opera, to say the least!
(I once went to a fairly professional production of it, accompanied by a Kiwi lady friend. We decided - reluctantly - to stick it out for the second half [...])
You surely mean, the 'sickened heath'?
Yes, she did indeed have a strong Kiwi accent - she came from Auckland.
A lovely lass - six feet tall without high heels...
... In this house, music runs from Gong to Metallica via Hawkwind, Tull and Fairport. I get a lot of stick that my music's old, but it's not my fault that there's not much productivity in the genres that appeal to me. ...
(I really need the old "pounding on the floor whilst laughing" emoji.)
You/they think that your music is old?!? It is to laugh. Mine runs from the Renaissance or so into serious music of our own time, with an emphasis on the 19th century. And it is absolutely Great Stuff!
Huh. For some of us, music died with young Mr Gibbons...what is this new-fangled 19thC stuff of which you speak?
Thanks for posting the Anvil Chorus, GK - it brought back memories of a record of a Welsh male-voice choir that my dad had back in the 1970s.
There is also an Anvil section (not a chorus I think) in "Rheingold". When I saw it at the Coliseum c.1970 there was a note in the programme: "Anvils supplied by courtesy of British Rail".
... In this house, music runs from Gong to Metallica via Hawkwind, Tull and Fairport. I get a lot of stick that my music's old, but it's not my fault that there's not much productivity in the genres that appeal to me. ...
(I really need the old "pounding on the floor whilst laughing" emoji.)
You/they think that your music is old?!? It is to laugh. Mine runs from the Renaissance or so into serious music of our own time, with an emphasis on the 19th century. And it is absolutely Great Stuff!
I don't think my music's old. My critics think it's old.
I complained to our musician recently about the minister's appalling taste in what he loosely calls music, suggesting that that if he can't stomach strong traditional church music, there's still a wealth of modern music and hymns that are good for congregational singing. His response was that His Reverence considers anything before about 2005 to be out of the Dark Ages. (We have a good Casavant organ and a quite glorious Schimmel grand piano, all now sadly neglected in favour of the band from hell, with its small repertoire of vacuous, migraine-inducing tripe. A first rate classical pianist left and the choir has disintegrated).
Something quite different. In fact I want to call some people to Heaven - my fellow bus passengers today. There were 12 on the bus "going" and about 4 "coming back" (we were fairly close behind another bus) - for the very first time everyone was wearing a face-mask. Perhaps the message is at last getting through!
Indeed, so (as a result of seeing a photo, in the news this morning, of him entering a shop) TICTH Stanley Johnson, the PM's dad.
He was NOT wearing a face-mask, but was presumably OK with breaking the law in a specific and limited way, following the example of his son and friends.
Some friends came over this weekend. This is allowed and AFAIK no one has Covid. What they omitted to mention however was that their baby had a streaming cold. Which Captain Pyjamas has hoovered up, because of course he has, and now he's a snotty little snotty person who's not napping properly because he has a cough. Now I know that small people catch colds all the time, but I'm still a bit ticked off. Am I right to be annoyed that they didn't at least warn us before coming over that their offspring was a snotty little ball of microbes?
Having said that, perhaps having two separate visits to snotsville in quick succession might build up his immunity to such things?
(I should add the caveat that I'm one of the fortunate people who rarely gets a cold; in the past I've had a couple of stonkers on moving to somewhere new, and then hardly had any for years. I hope this admission hasn't put a jinx on me) ...
Speaking of moving to somewhere new, LL is on his second bug in a month after moving in to university. He's getting COVID tested today. I could almost hope it was positive, as I know he's going to catch something at least six more times this first year, and at least we'd have that fear over...
It has been my happy place for years, and all of a sudden it tells me
Bad Request
Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.
Size of a request header field exceeds server limit.
I have cleared the cache and the cookies, and flushed the DNS (get me!) but to no avail. At first I thought it worked on my tablet, but alas, that too caught the infection, so I think I am going to have to call the helpdesk. That's this morning sorted then...
I go to the site on Saturdays to print the Cryptic and Quick, so I'll keep my fingers crossed that I don't come across that problem! They've altered something, though, which is that when I click on 'print' it comes up with a different panel. Tech chap was here the other day and said if I click on that, it comes up with the print version, but why add in an extra step I wonder.
We gave up on the Telegraph and Times crossword subscriptions years ago when we were having a cash-flow crisis (one of many), and discovered that the Grauniad online crossword (also printable) is free and actually rather more fun* than the Torygraph. I highly recommend it.
* It is a little more devious, but that's the whole point of cryptic crosswords, isn't it?
We gave up on the Telegraph and Times crossword subscriptions years ago when we were having a cash-flow crisis (one of many), and discovered that the Grauniad online crossword (also printable) is free and actually rather more fun* than the Torygraph. I highly recommend it.
* It is a little more devious, but that's the whole point of cryptic crosswords, isn't it?
Hmmm...Satan perhaps has many cross words...but Satan and"cross" in such proximity...
(Though I go with the idea that even he will be saved.)
Nice one! fortunately, I have a secret weapon- one of the posters on the R&E forum is a crossword genius and provides helpful hints wen requested whichmakes the exercise more enjoyable of course.
Wild fires, we are on evacuation stand by again. We have neighbors ready to help Mr. Image out of the house into our van. Love all of my neighbors, but I am moving. I can not take another summer of this, on top of the Virus and ill Mr Image.
Graven Image thinking of you. There has been a much smaller fire here in a lakeside village, with people evacuating and just getting out on time and half the houses destroyed. It brought home to me the horror of fires. I don't think I could live somewhere like that even with brilliant neighbours to help.
Thanks for the support everyone, it does mean a lot to me. Report just in fire is 30% containment from working the fires through the night. Still on stand by but feel a bit more relaxed now that day is here in the large planes can fly in. Blessing and safety for all those helping to stop the fire.
If someone is having a loud conversation on their phone on speaker phone in a public place, is everyone else allowed to join the call?
If it is not on speaker phone, what about then? Like when they have those wireless ear phones in and they obliviously talk away as if there's someone physically present.
I have to use the speaker on my phone otherwise I can't hear. Having said that I think I have answered only 2 or 3 calls in a crowded public place in the 10 years or so that I've had a phone and I keep them very brief as I have no desire to share with random strangers.
If someone is having a loud conversation on their phone on speaker phone in a public place, is everyone else allowed to join the call?
If it is not on speaker phone, what about then? Like when they have those wireless ear phones in and they obliviously talk away as if there's someone physically present.
On my morning walk I pass a junction with a slow traffic light change. Every day I hear speaker phones from waiting cars with open windows, and many of the conversations are work related and possibly confidential (talking about clients, etc). I work in health and social care where confidentiality is an essential and I often wonder what the person speaking would think if they knew they were being broadcast to the outside world.
I was on a bus once where a young woman was discussing her convoluted love life on the phone so that the whole bus could hear. The bus driver eventually told her to shut up, but I think half the bus was disappointed that we didn't get to hear what happened next!
My wife has a book of letters to the "Times" - quite old now. One writer describes how a businessman held forth about business matters on his phone for half an hour in a crowded train, and had the whole carriage in convulsions when he at last said, "It's confidential, so I don't know how the news got out ..."!
By the way, why do some people have to be so LOUD on their phones?
I think it's a throwback to the really early mobiles (the ones the size of a brick), when reception maybe wasn't very good - "I'M ON THE TRAIN", fortissimo, so that everyone else on the train knows that he's got a mobile.
I was on a train in which a young and heavily pregnant woman phoned her midwife (or possibly social worker?) so say that she was on her way home from court and her boyfriend had been sentenced to 7 years in prison. She was going to have to change her birth plan to have someone other than her boyfriend with her when she went into labour. The whole carriage listened transfixed as she discussed the pros and cons of various potential birthing partners. She was very pragmatic, and kept reassuring whichever professional was at the other end of the phone that she would be ok.
Slight tangent: When I was about 8 I went on my parents' work outing to an ice show. On the coach I got chatting to some other children who asked me who everyone was (I have 7 older siblings). When I got to my eldest niece, who was just a toddler, they asked where her parents were and I loudly proclaimed that her father was in prison. I was asked what for and I said stealing drugs from a chemist (this is true, btw). My Mother was mortified but I think they probably learned an important lesson about just how much info young children take in.
Many people talk louder on the phone than they realise. Which brings me to my current pet peeve: people who remove their mask when they're on the phone. When you're bellowing down the phone you're expectorating everywhere. It's precisely the sort of moment when you ought to be protecting your fellow citizens by wearing the damn mask .
Couldn't agree more. On our buses there's a sign saying (among other things) "Limit phone use" but no-one takes any notice. https://tinyurl.com/y3885nyo
There are a handful of people who get their jollies by pretending to have phone conversations in public places and saying things like "You mean he didn't use a condom? With his own sister?" as loudly as possible.
Some of them are videotaping reactions for YouTube.
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I'm not eager for the long sleep myself.
Absolutely!
The problem is that it is school holidays and there will be wall to wall mini- terroristslittle darlings everywhere.
signed Huia the Grump.
You/they think that your music is old?!? It is to laugh. Mine runs from the Renaissance or so into serious music of our own time, with an emphasis on the 19th century. And it is absolutely Great Stuff!
It was a mystery and I was determined to find out whodunnit,
It has been my happy place for years, and all of a sudden it tells me
Bad Request
Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.
Size of a request header field exceeds server limit.
I have cleared the cache and the cookies, and flushed the DNS (get me!) but to no avail. At first I thought it worked on my tablet, but alas, that too caught the infection, so I think I am going to have to call the helpdesk. That's this morning sorted then...
You surely mean, the 'sickened heath'?
I don't think my music's old. My critics think it's old.
Surely, surely, it should be Verdi's "Anvil Chorus" (YouTube). Especially about 1 minute in.
Yes, she did indeed have a strong Kiwi accent - she came from Auckland.
A lovely lass - six feet tall without high heels...
Huh. For some of us, music died with young Mr Gibbons...what is this new-fangled 19thC stuff of which you speak?
I complained to our musician recently about the minister's appalling taste in what he loosely calls music, suggesting that that if he can't stomach strong traditional church music, there's still a wealth of modern music and hymns that are good for congregational singing. His response was that His Reverence considers anything before about 2005 to be out of the Dark Ages. (We have a good Casavant organ and a quite glorious Schimmel grand piano, all now sadly neglected in favour of the band from hell, with its small repertoire of vacuous, migraine-inducing tripe. A first rate classical pianist left and the choir has disintegrated).
Commiserations.
Time to leave?
He was NOT wearing a face-mask, but was presumably OK with breaking the law in a specific and limited way, following the example of his son and friends.
I doubt if we'll ever hear of him being fined.
Some friends came over this weekend. This is allowed and AFAIK no one has Covid. What they omitted to mention however was that their baby had a streaming cold. Which Captain Pyjamas has hoovered up, because of course he has, and now he's a snotty little snotty person who's not napping properly because he has a cough. Now I know that small people catch colds all the time, but I'm still a bit ticked off. Am I right to be annoyed that they didn't at least warn us before coming over that their offspring was a snotty little ball of microbes?
*am I being unreasonable
Didn't the unfortunate Captain pick up a cold whilst playing in the park a few weeks ago? The poor chap has surely snotted enough snot for a while...
Having said that, perhaps having two separate visits to snotsville in quick succession might build up his immunity to such things?
(I should add the caveat that I'm one of the fortunate people who rarely gets a cold; in the past I've had a couple of stonkers on moving to somewhere new, and then hardly had any for years. I hope this admission hasn't put a jinx on me) ...
* It is a little more devious, but that's the whole point of cryptic crosswords, isn't it?
I used to be able to manage the Times and the Torygraph crosswords, but that in the Grauniad usually defeated even my mighty intellect.
Were I presently wearing a Hat, I would raise it as a token of respect to anyone able to complete (or attempt to complete) the Crossword of Satan...
(Though I go with the idea that even he will be saved.)
If you're joining in the comments, I sometimes post there as OrcadianPiglet. Good luck!
If it is not on speaker phone, what about then? Like when they have those wireless ear phones in and they obliviously talk away as if there's someone physically present.
By the way, why do some people have to be so LOUD on their phones?
One hopes it all turned out all right in the end for what sounds like a fairly brave (and unfazed) lassie.
Some of them are videotaping reactions for YouTube.