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In message , JennyC
writes "Mary Fisher" wrote "designmea" wrote ... and maybe actually try to learn dreamweaver or similar. Ive got plenty of time to learn, I am only 20 after all. I use Dreamweaver, it's expensive but very easy - no need for codes (here the IT purists will find objections but why make things more difficult than they can be?) Mary Totally agree with you there Mary :~)) Give me a WYSIWYG program anytime And you can tweak the HTML afterwards if you so desire......... Jenny I've been using HoTMetaL Pro for years, but I'm beginning to have trouble with it's weak compatibility with PHP (it barfs on any "" used in a PHP script, which means that you can't use PHP classes, and have to be careful with how you emit HTML from PHP code). There are a number of freeware HTML editors out there - I'm using NAMO web editor as a backup for HoTMetaL Pro, when not using notepad or vim. -- Stewart Robert Hinsley |
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On Sat, 6 Oct 2007 11:40:43 +0100, "Mary Fisher"
wrote: "Cat(h)" wrote in message roups.com... I wonder if the laser technology for unwanted hair removal could be adapted... It doesn't work. Laser hair removal? Yes. Believe me, I spent a lot of money on it. Oh, good. I'll keep going with the old razor then ;-) I still use tweezers, don't like 5 o-clock shadow :-) I find tweezering the pins a wee bit tedious, and the armpits downright torture. The last two posts are probably way too much information for most urgers. Cat(h) |
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"JennyC" wrote in message ... Looks interesting to me :~) Would be even better with pictures of the items........ I'm curious about the 'ear scoops' !!!!!!!! Jenny Having no pictures is deliberate: a) it would slow down the site and there are still some Neanderthals (some would describe them) who aren't on broadband. b) since all our items are handmade the pictures we have aren't exactly like what we have in stock at any one time. c) I'm happy to send any pictures to anyone. d) most people who look at the site know what the items look like :-) Mary |
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"Cat(h)" wrote in message I find tweezering the pins a wee bit tedious, and the armpits downright torture. Never shaved armpits even when I had a bush but since my breast cancer surgery - probably combined with menopause - there's nothing under there. The last two posts are probably way too much information for most urgers. Not the grown up ones :-) Mary |
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On 7/10/07 10:47, in article ,
"Mary Fisher" wrote: "Cat(h)" wrote in message I find tweezering the pins a wee bit tedious, and the armpits downright torture. Never shaved armpits even when I had a bush but since my breast cancer surgery - probably combined with menopause - there's nothing under there. The last two posts are probably way too much information for most urgers. Not the grown up ones :-) Mary !! I didn't realise being interested in other women's hairy bits was a sign of maturity! -- Sacha http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk South Devon (remove weeds from address) 'We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.' |
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"JennyC" wrote in message ... "Cat(h)" wrote I'd love it if she could design me a hoe that weeds in a permanent fashion. Her fortune would be made. Cat(h) Ah ha - now that's an idea. An electric hoe like those electric grass mowers....one that has a camera and a whole database of which plants are weeds and which ones are plant seedlings just emerging :~) Jenny I'd like a rotavator that works on stone filled compacted clay. Existing models just dance a jig on the surface. |
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On Oct 5, 5:35 pm, "Cat(h)" wrote:
On Oct 4, 8:38 pm, "Mary Fisher" wrote: "Cat(h)" wrote in message ups.com... On Oct 4, 3:56 pm, David in Normandy wrote: In article , R.A.Omond says... Hey, and one of us (i.e. one of me :-) is still a current VMS consultant ! VMS - when downtime is not an option. If you need any job control language writing I'm your man! It's been a good few years but I'm sure the VMS grey cells are still there under the dust :-) Getting way off topic now, but I once wrote a very large JCL program to monitor and regulate the system, run various jobs, backups, reports etc. I even gave it it's own username space to run in "Marvin". It would monitor and log off idle users and send messages to appropriate people saying printers had run out of paper etc. It got quite chatty with one user one day and they phoned up the I.T. dept asking to speak to Marvin :-) ... the Paranoid Android? You're showing your age. :-) I'm not denying the age, but I've discovered the Hitchhiker only about a year ago, when the new fillum (as they say here in Ireland) came to the big screen. It wasn't part of my youth's pop culture, as it took place away from the British Isles. I've read the books since, and enjoyed them - though less than Terry Pratchet's - but that's even further off topic than we've ventured so far. So I could be, really, really, really young... at heart... really... honest. Cat(h) I got my kids into them about 6 years ago; my daughter read all 5 books in the trilogy over and over until they fell apart. |
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On Oct 4, 3:32 pm, "R.A.Omond" wrote:
David in Normandy wrote: In article , Nick Maclaren says... In article , Martin writes: | | Sounds like a VAX. Instead of soap, put roundup in it. | | or VMS. Now, that is getting a bit too geekish :-) Regards, Nick Maclaren. DEC VAX VMS. Sweet memories of a "proper" operating system. I swear more than half the contributors to this group are either current or ex IT. Hey, and one of us (i.e. one of me :-) is still a current VMS consultant ! VMS - when downtime is not an option. hiya Roy: hahahaha; did not take you long to notice; I was about to e-mail you to say that VMS just got mentioned in URG. ahhhhhhhhh when computers were easy to use and were proper big things and made noises and had flashing lights. |
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In article .com, Des
Higgins says... ahhhhhhhhh when computers were easy to use and were proper big things and made noises and had flashing lights. And carrying a backup disk to the fire safe made your arms ache! -- David in Normandy. (The free MicroPlanet Gravity newsreader is great for eliminating rubbish and cross-posts) |
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On Oct 8, 5:49 pm, David in Normandy wrote:
In article .com, Des Higgins says... ahhhhhhhhh when computers were easy to use and were proper big things and made noises and had flashing lights. And carrying a backup disk to the fire safe made your arms ache! -- David in Normandy. (The free MicroPlanet Gravity newsreader is great for eliminating rubbish and cross-posts) in 1988, I bought a 600mb disk for a vax and it was huge and cost between 12-15kIrish pounds which, at that stage was about 10-13ksterling. |
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In article , David in Normandy writes: | In article .com, Des | Higgins says... | ahhhhhhhhh when computers were easy to use and were proper big things | and made noises and had flashing lights. | | And carrying a backup disk to the fire safe made your arms ache! Ah, you youngsters! Mountable disks are a recent development, and traditional backups were on tape. Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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On Oct 8, 6:28 pm, (Nick Maclaren) wrote:
In article , David in Normandy writes: | In article .com, Des | Higgins says... | ahhhhhhhhh when computers were easy to use and were proper big things | and made noises and had flashing lights. | | And carrying a backup disk to the fire safe made your arms ache! Ah, you youngsters! Mountable disks are a recent development, and traditional backups were on tape. Tape?? Tape?? Luxury; in my day we had to take the hot valves from the glass blowing department and design our own circuits and invent computers and keep the operating system in our heads (backwards because that was how you loaded it). We had to wait 40 years before tape was invented. We had wax tablets and small boys as back up. Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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In article . com, Des
Higgins says... Tape?? Tape?? Luxury; in my day we had to take the hot valves from the glass blowing department and design our own circuits and invent computers and keep the operating system in our heads (backwards because that was how you loaded it). We had to wait 40 years before tape was invented. We had wax tablets and small boys as back up. :-) I've still got backups of some Fortran software I wrote on punched paper rolls. There is probably no equipment left on the planet to load the software now (unless it is in a museum). More recently I've got stacks of backups on 5.25" disks but no hardware to read them any more. My archive on 3.5" disks are also heading the same way with only one computer left in my possession capable of reading them. Makes you wonder just how recoverable various important National archives are? We take it for granted that various paper based records can go back several hundred years, but what of digitally stored records? -- David in Normandy. (The free MicroPlanet Gravity newsreader is great for eliminating rubbish and cross-posts) |
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"David in Normandy" wrote in message ... In article . com, Des Higgins says... Tape?? Tape?? Luxury; in my day we had to take the hot valves from the glass blowing department and design our own circuits and invent computers and keep the operating system in our heads (backwards because that was how you loaded it). We had to wait 40 years before tape was invented. We had wax tablets and small boys as back up. :-) I've still got backups of some Fortran software I wrote on punched paper rolls. There is probably no equipment left on the planet to load the software now (unless it is in a museum). I never did get a Fortran prgram to run, but I did once enter a very brief program into a 16 bit GEC computer using the instruction keys on the front panel. |
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"CWatters" wrote I never did get a Fortran prgram to run, but I did once enter a very brief program into a 16 bit GEC computer using the instruction keys on the front panel. I know someone who used to hard wire programs with soldering iron............ Jenny |
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In article , "JennyC" writes: | "CWatters" wrote | | I never did get a Fortran prgram to run, but I did once enter a very brief | program into a 16 bit GEC computer using the instruction keys on the front | panel. | | I know someone who used to hard wire programs with soldering | iron............ I know several, but am a bit young to have done that myself. I have written a program using jack plugs (on an analogue computer). I like the references to Fortran! I am currently revising a course to teach Fortran to (graduate) students. Anyone who needs help with that sort of thing is welcome to contact me :-) Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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"Nick Maclaren" wrote in message ... In article , David in Normandy writes: | In article .com, Des | Higgins says... | ahhhhhhhhh when computers were easy to use and were proper big things | and made noises and had flashing lights. | | And carrying a backup disk to the fire safe made your arms ache! Ah, you youngsters! Mountable disks are a recent development, and traditional backups were on tape. Yes, do you remember when Radio 4 had a programme on (I think) Saturday afternoons which was only of interest to computer owners. It broadcast a series of whizzes and beeps which could be taped by the listener and understood by his/her computer. Ah, Radio 4 isn't what it used to be ... Mary |
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"Des Higgins" wrote in message ups.com... On Oct 8, 6:28 pm, (Nick Maclaren) wrote: In article , David in Normandy writes: | In article .com, Des | Higgins says... | ahhhhhhhhh when computers were easy to use and were proper big things | and made noises and had flashing lights. | | And carrying a backup disk to the fire safe made your arms ache! Ah, you youngsters! Mountable disks are a recent development, and traditional backups were on tape. Tape?? Tape?? Luxury; in my day we had to take the hot valves from the glass blowing department and design our own circuits and invent computers and keep the operating system in our heads (backwards because that was how you loaded it). We had to wait 40 years before tape was invented. We had wax tablets and small boys as back up. I MAKE wax tablets - and the styli. A couple of years ago we made some for a top computer 'expert' who later attended a US computer convention and caused astonishment and more interest than the speaker when everyone else in the audience opened their lap tops and he pulled out his codex of tabulae :-) Mary |
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In article , "Mary Fisher" writes: | | I MAKE wax tablets - and the styli. Interesting. What's the market for them? And can you read and write cuneiform? | A couple of years ago we made some for a top computer 'expert' who later | attended a US computer convention and caused astonishment and more interest | than the speaker when everyone else in the audience opened their lap tops | and he pulled out his codex of tabulae :-) I like that :-) Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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"Nick Maclaren" wrote in message ... In article , "Mary Fisher" writes: | | I MAKE wax tablets - and the styli. Interesting. What's the market for them? Museums (for education, handling boxes etc.), Roman to C15th re-enactors, reconstructed period houses and anyone just curious. It's not a mass market :-) And can you read and write cuneiform? You don't need to, in Britain cursive script was always used. | A couple of years ago we made some for a top computer 'expert' who later | attended a US computer convention and caused astonishment and more interest | than the speaker when everyone else in the audience opened their lap tops | and he pulled out his codex of tabulae :-) I like that :-) So did we. So did the customer :-) Mary |
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On Oct 9, 9:29 am, (Nick Maclaren) wrote:
In article ,"JennyC" writes: | "CWatters" wrote | | I never did get a Fortran prgram to run, but I did once enter a very brief | program into a 16 bit GEC computer using the instruction keys on the front | panel. | | I know someone who used to hard wire programs with soldering | iron............ I know several, but am a bit young to have done that myself. I have written a program using jack plugs (on an analogue computer). I like the references to Fortran! I am currently revising a course to teach Fortran to (graduate) students. Anyone who needs help with that sort of thing is welcome to contact me :-) this is from memory and is not accurate but have not written Fortran since 1993: IF(HELPFLAG.EQ.1) THEN GOTO 10 ELSE GOTO 11987 ENF IF 10 WRITE(5,10836) 'Help Nick' 10836 FORMAT('*') 11987 CONTINUE STOP Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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On Oct 9, 10:35 am, "Mary Fisher" wrote:
"Des Higgins" wrote in message ups.com... On Oct 8, 6:28 pm, (Nick Maclaren) wrote: In article , David in Normandy writes: | In article .com, Des | Higgins says... | ahhhhhhhhh when computers were easy to use and were proper big things | and made noises and had flashing lights. | | And carrying a backup disk to the fire safe made your arms ache! Ah, you youngsters! Mountable disks are a recent development, and traditional backups were on tape. Tape?? Tape?? Luxury; in my day we had to take the hot valves from the glass blowing department and design our own circuits and invent computers and keep the operating system in our heads (backwards because that was how you loaded it). We had to wait 40 years before tape was invented. We had wax tablets and small boys as back up. I MAKE wax tablets - and the styli. A couple of years ago we made some for a top computer 'expert' who later attended a US computer convention and caused astonishment and more interest than the speaker when everyone else in the audience opened their lap tops and he pulled out his codex of tabulae :-) Mary gasp :-) do you have to keep them in the fridge on a hot day or keep them away from mice? |
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In article . com, Des Higgins writes: | | I like the references to Fortran! I am currently revising a | course to teach Fortran to (graduate) students. Anyone who | needs help with that sort of thing is welcome to contact me :-) | | this is from memory and is not accurate but have not written Fortran | since 1993: | | IF(HELPFLAG.EQ.1) THEN | GOTO 10 | ELSE | GOTO 11987 | ENF IF | 10 WRITE(5,10836) 'Help Nick' | 10836 FORMAT('*') | 11987 CONTINUE | STOP You do, indeed, need help :-) See http://www.cam.ac.uk/cs/courses/. Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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"Des Higgins" wrote in message ups.com... On Oct 9, 10:35 am, "Mary Fisher" wrote: "Des Higgins" wrote in message ups.com... On Oct 8, 6:28 pm, (Nick Maclaren) wrote: In article , David in Normandy writes: | In article .com, Des | Higgins says... | ahhhhhhhhh when computers were easy to use and were proper big things | and made noises and had flashing lights. | | And carrying a backup disk to the fire safe made your arms ache! Ah, you youngsters! Mountable disks are a recent development, and traditional backups were on tape. Tape?? Tape?? Luxury; in my day we had to take the hot valves from the glass blowing department and design our own circuits and invent computers and keep the operating system in our heads (backwards because that was how you loaded it). We had to wait 40 years before tape was invented. We had wax tablets and small boys as back up. I MAKE wax tablets - and the styli. A couple of years ago we made some for a top computer 'expert' who later attended a US computer convention and caused astonishment and more interest than the speaker when everyone else in the audience opened their lap tops and he pulled out his codex of tabulae :-) Mary gasp :-) do you have to keep them in the fridge on a hot day or keep them away from mice? ?? The melting point of beeswax is c70C. Mice aren't interested, not that we have any as far as I know. If we have they're finding nutrition somewhere else. Mary |
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In article , "Mary Fisher" writes: | | The melting point of beeswax is c70C. Mice aren't interested, not that we | have any as far as I know. If we have they're finding nutrition somewhere | else. Mice certainly do eat beeswax, but I don't know under what circumstances. Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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"Nick Maclaren" wrote in message ... In article , "Mary Fisher" writes: | | The melting point of beeswax is c70C. Mice aren't interested, not that we | have any as far as I know. If we have they're finding nutrition somewhere | else. Mice certainly do eat beeswax, but I don't know under what circumstances. They will eat comb, either in or outside a hive. It's easy to bite and usually contains somethiing nice - honey, pollen or larvae. Great chunks of solid wax - from 1 to 60 lbs are not as easy :-) Mary |
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In article , "Mary Fisher" writes: | | Mice certainly do eat beeswax, but I don't know under what circumstances. | | They will eat comb, either in or outside a hive. It's easy to bite and | usually contains somethiing nice - honey, pollen or larvae. | | Great chunks of solid wax - from 1 to 60 lbs are not as easy :-) They eat beeswax candles. Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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On 9/10/07 16:34, in article , "Nick
Maclaren" wrote: In article , "Mary Fisher" writes: | | Mice certainly do eat beeswax, but I don't know under what circumstances. | | They will eat comb, either in or outside a hive. It's easy to bite and | usually contains somethiing nice - honey, pollen or larvae. | | Great chunks of solid wax - from 1 to 60 lbs are not as easy :-) They eat beeswax candles. Regards, Nick Maclaren. You put mouse guards on bee hives to over-winter them - shame you can't do it on vestries. ;-) -- Sacha http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk South Devon (remove weeds from address) 'We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.' |
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On Oct 9, 12:01 pm, (Nick Maclaren) wrote:
In article . com,Des Higgins writes: | | I like the references to Fortran! I am currently revising a | course to teach Fortran to (graduate) students. Anyone who | needs help with that sort of thing is welcome to contact me :-) | | this is from memory and is not accurate but have not written Fortran | since 1993: | | IF(HELPFLAG.EQ.1) THEN | GOTO 10 | ELSE | GOTO 11987 | ENF IF | 10 WRITE(5,10836) 'Help Nick' | 10836 FORMAT('*') | 11987 CONTINUE | STOP You do, indeed, need help :-) Seehttp://www.cam.ac.uk/cs/courses/. Regards, Nick Maclaren. Were you appalled by the bad structure or the bad grammar? Both were pretty dire. I struggled to remember the syntax. I used to write huge wadges of the stuff (it looked nicer than above) but the last program I wrote was in Python and that was 8 years ago. These days I just sit at a PC looking perplexed. Des |
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"Nick Maclaren" wrote in message ... In article , "Mary Fisher" writes: | | Mice certainly do eat beeswax, but I don't know under what circumstances. | | They will eat comb, either in or outside a hive. It's easy to bite and | usually contains somethiing nice - honey, pollen or larvae. | | Great chunks of solid wax - from 1 to 60 lbs are not as easy :-) They eat beeswax candles. Evidence? Mary Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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In article , "Mary Fisher" writes: | | | Mice certainly do eat beeswax, but I don't know under what | circumstances. | | | | They will eat comb, either in or outside a hive. It's easy to bite and | | usually contains somethiing nice - honey, pollen or larvae. | | | | Great chunks of solid wax - from 1 to 60 lbs are not as easy :-) | | They eat beeswax candles. | | Evidence? Personal, historic and second-hand. The books you don't read are very good sources of information on such mundane issues :-) I have also had beeswax candles eaten by mice, and have known other people who have, too. Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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"Nick Maclaren" wrote in message ... In article , "Mary Fisher" writes: | | | Mice certainly do eat beeswax, but I don't know under what | circumstances. | | | | They will eat comb, either in or outside a hive. It's easy to bite and | | usually contains somethiing nice - honey, pollen or larvae. | | | | Great chunks of solid wax - from 1 to 60 lbs are not as easy :-) | | They eat beeswax candles. | | Evidence? Personal, historic and second-hand. The books you don't read are very good sources of information on such mundane issues :-) I have also had beeswax candles eaten by mice, and have known other people who have, too. I make hundreds of beeswax candles a yar, possibly thousands this year. They've never been eaten. What books would you suggest? I have quite a large collection :-) Tallow candles were eaten by mice and rats, which is one reason why they were not stored for long and then out of reach of rodents. Nobody I know has had beeswax candles eaten by rodents. Incidentally Prices Candles used to make tallow candles for HM Forces and arctic/Antarctic explorers. They were VAT zero rated because they were made from food. Mary Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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In article , "Mary Fisher" writes: | | I make hundreds of beeswax candles a yar, possibly thousands this year. | They've never been eaten. | | What books would you suggest? I have quite a large collection :-) I am getting too old. My memory of "where" is not what it was. If I recall, it was in some 19th century childrens' books and others that had references to empty houses. Beeswax was the standard hard wax in the UK before the industrial revolution. | Tallow candles were eaten by mice and rats, which is one reason why they | were not stored for long and then out of reach of rodents. Oh, indeed. They were actually nutritous. They also rot in warm, humid conditions. | Nobody I know has had beeswax candles eaten by rodents. I have seen that - but am not prepared to swear that the mice regarded them as MUCH more edible than PVC. The damage was the amount that is typical for potatoes or PVC. Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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On Tue, 09 Oct 2007 03:57:27 -0700, Des Higgins
wrote: On Oct 9, 10:35 am, "Mary Fisher" wrote: "Des Higgins" wrote in message ups.com... On Oct 8, 6:28 pm, (Nick Maclaren) wrote: In article , David in Normandy writes: | In article .com, Des | Higgins says... | ahhhhhhhhh when computers were easy to use and were proper big things | and made noises and had flashing lights. | | And carrying a backup disk to the fire safe made your arms ache! Ah, you youngsters! Mountable disks are a recent development, and traditional backups were on tape. Tape?? Tape?? Luxury; in my day we had to take the hot valves from the glass blowing department and design our own circuits and invent computers and keep the operating system in our heads (backwards because that was how you loaded it). We had to wait 40 years before tape was invented. We had wax tablets and small boys as back up. I MAKE wax tablets - and the styli. A couple of years ago we made some for a top computer 'expert' who later attended a US computer convention and caused astonishment and more interest than the speaker when everyone else in the audience opened their lap tops and he pulled out his codex of tabulae :-) Mary gasp :-) do you have to keep them in the fridge on a hot day or keep them away from mice? |
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On Tue, 09 Oct 2007 03:57:27 -0700, Des Higgins
wrote: On Oct 9, 10:35 am, "Mary Fisher" wrote: "Des Higgins" wrote in message ups.com... On Oct 8, 6:28 pm, (Nick Maclaren) wrote: In article , David in Normandy writes: | In article .com, Des | Higgins says... | ahhhhhhhhh when computers were easy to use and were proper big things | and made noises and had flashing lights. | | And carrying a backup disk to the fire safe made your arms ache! Ah, you youngsters! Mountable disks are a recent development, and traditional backups were on tape. Tape?? Tape?? Luxury; in my day we had to take the hot valves from the glass blowing department and design our own circuits and invent computers and keep the operating system in our heads (backwards because that was how you loaded it). We had to wait 40 years before tape was invented. We had wax tablets and small boys as back up. I MAKE wax tablets - and the styli. A couple of years ago we made some for a top computer 'expert' who later attended a US computer convention and caused astonishment and more interest than the speaker when everyone else in the audience opened their lap tops and he pulled out his codex of tabulae :-) Mary gasp :-) do you have to keep them in the fridge on a hot day or keep them away from mice? If they melt, you can make them into very good earplugs, and when you're finished with them a few drops of mint oil and they make spiffing chewing gum - which can be composted in the end. But the wastrel that you are would now know anything about that... Cat(h) (I think Desmond is taking the Michael. He only does it very very rarely and you have to be really careful to notice.) |
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"Sacha" wrote in message . uk... On 7/10/07 10:47, in article , "Mary Fisher" wrote: "Cat(h)" wrote in message I find tweezering the pins a wee bit tedious, and the armpits downright torture. Never shaved armpits even when I had a bush but since my breast cancer surgery - probably combined with menopause - there's nothing under there. The last two posts are probably way too much information for most urgers. Not the grown up ones :-) Mary !! I didn't realise being interested in other women's hairy bits was a sign of maturity! Oh dear, that means I must now be mature! |
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On 9/10/07 22:55, in article , "Alan
Holmes" wrote: "Sacha" wrote in message . uk... On 7/10/07 10:47, in article , "Mary Fisher" wrote: "Cat(h)" wrote in message I find tweezering the pins a wee bit tedious, and the armpits downright torture. Never shaved armpits even when I had a bush but since my breast cancer surgery - probably combined with menopause - there's nothing under there. The last two posts are probably way too much information for most urgers. Not the grown up ones :-) Mary !! I didn't realise being interested in other women's hairy bits was a sign of maturity! Oh dear, that means I must now be mature! "other women's", Alan, therefore not your problem. ;-) -- Sacha http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk South Devon (remove weeds from address) 'We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.' |
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"Des Higgins" wrote Were you appalled by the bad structure or the bad grammar? Both were pretty dire. I struggled to remember the syntax. I used to write huge wadges of the stuff (it looked nicer than above) but the last program I wrote was in Python and that was 8 years ago. These days I just sit at a PC looking perplexed. Des I know the feeling. Business Basic was my poison and now I open the Microsoft magazine that sometimes arrives in the mail and have no idea what they are on about :~( Jenny |
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"Cat(h)" wrote in message ... On Tue, 09 Oct 2007 03:57:27 -0700, Des Higgins wrote: On Oct 9, 10:35 am, "Mary Fisher" wrote: "Des Higgins" wrote in message ups.com... On Oct 8, 6:28 pm, (Nick Maclaren) wrote: In article , David in Normandy writes: | In article .com, Des | Higgins says... | ahhhhhhhhh when computers were easy to use and were proper big things | and made noises and had flashing lights. | | And carrying a backup disk to the fire safe made your arms ache! Ah, you youngsters! Mountable disks are a recent development, and traditional backups were on tape. Tape?? Tape?? Luxury; in my day we had to take the hot valves from the glass blowing department and design our own circuits and invent computers and keep the operating system in our heads (backwards because that was how you loaded it). We had to wait 40 years before tape was invented. We had wax tablets and small boys as back up. I MAKE wax tablets - and the styli. A couple of years ago we made some for a top computer 'expert' who later attended a US computer convention and caused astonishment and more interest than the speaker when everyone else in the audience opened their lap tops and he pulled out his codex of tabulae :-) Mary gasp :-) do you have to keep them in the fridge on a hot day or keep them away from mice? If they melt, you can make them into very good earplugs, How can you make tabulae into earplugs? And at body temperature beeswax is too hard for earplugs - I've tried it. and when you're finished with them a few drops of mint oil and they make spiffing chewing gum - Why bother adding flavour? Beeswax tastes delicious as it is/ which can be composted in the end. Why compost? Why not swallow it? But the wastrel that you are would now know anything about that... Cat(h) (I think Desmond is taking the Michael. He only does it very very rarely and you have to be really careful to notice.) He doesn't do it very well. Mary |
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"Nick Maclaren" wrote in message ... In article , "Mary Fisher" writes: | | I make hundreds of beeswax candles a year, possibly thousands this year. | They've never been eaten. | | What books would you suggest? I have quite a large collection :-) I am getting too old. My memory of "where" is not what it was. If I recall, it was in some 19th century childrens' books and others that had references to empty houses. I doubt that wax would have been left in empty houses. Beeswax was the standard hard wax in the UK before the industrial revolution. You think I don't know that? :-) | Tallow candles were eaten by mice and rats, which is one reason why they | were not stored for long and then out of reach of rodents. Oh, indeed. They were actually nutritous. They also rot in warm, humid conditions. | Nobody I know has had beeswax candles eaten by rodents. I have seen that - but am not prepared to swear that the mice regarded them as MUCH more edible than PVC. The damage was the amount that is typical for potatoes or PVC. So that - and your C19th children's books, are your evidence? I asked for evidence. I doubt that you'd accept that :-) Mary |
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