Ronay’s one of reasons I still buy and read theguardian, even when he writes about sports – other than cricket – I care not about. ‘Still, two Tests to come’ would have fitted better, headline writer.

‘Chitty’ remains one of my favourite films. And one of the very few I’ve been to the cinema to see. I wish I still had my Corgi Toys car. I can do a very good Baron Bomburst, though. Or at least whoever did Gert […]

Yodel: We have delivered you parcel. My partner: No, you haven’t. Yodel: Yes, we have. And took a picture. MP: You haven’t. *contacts Ebay seller*. Seller: They say they have. To your address. xMP oYodel: Whe […]

Reactivating this thread, because I’ve just done an install of Linux Mint on an old Toshiba laptop. I had a minor problem altering the laptop’s BIOS to boot from the USB, but making the install was easy on a Mac […]

Plist or the permissions are wrong for something.

An idea from a long time mac user, before doing anything else. It might be that you have a corrupted ‘plist’ (preference) file somewhere. 1/ Boot the mac up, and using Disk Utility, check that the disk has no […]

I just think the nickname Forks is superb. I think it was one of Burt Kocain / H.P Saucecraft’s. I don’t think Forks came back here when the site reappeared after the Great Drupal Outage and the Facebook Hiatus.

Which works admirably. Everywhere bar imgur, which returns a gnomic {“data”:{“error”:”Imgur is temporarily over capacity. Please try again later.”},”success”:false,”status”:403} every time.

Hmm, well they are no use at all. Have installed the free version of Proton VPN…

I’m currently stuck in a loop with imgur, trying to download the images I’d put there. I filled in the form for UK users to request their images. Their guide to downloading your images if you’re in the UK says […]

My guess would be that the review image is hosted on this site (as are our ‘avatars’) but that hosting every image used would have various issues; bandwidth, cost, copyright, images being uploaded and posted elsewhere?

Oh, I agree. The Amazon man always seems run ragged, but he drives too fast off our access and down the lane. Pulls out in front of bikes, and turns left in front of them. Which he did in the space of 5 minutes to […]

Evri’s the worse. They sucked when they were ‘Hermes’. The Evri logo is sh1te, too. Especially when huge on one of their distribution warehouses. Prior to them, Home Delivery Network were so bad, that my […]

My partner certainly was on Street View, gardening away as the camera car went by. Not sure if she’s on the current version.

Fantastic! Good job it wasn’t ‘MUM’? Three of our cats were characters from the The Archers. One had been named ‘Pixie’. He wasn’t. Our first two – still in passwords, so not plain text – went together li […]

Further to my post upthread, anyone with a pet might want to consider putting what would happen to them in a will if they died; specifically, if you live on your own. Our neighbour left her house to four animal […]

Brian is a quite brilliant name for a cat.

I have no religious faith. But if there is an afterlife, and our pets aren’t in it, then I’ll pass.

Aww. Ours settled her arse on the left hand side of my keyboards, neatly covering – and often triggering actions from – the control, option and command keys and the spacebar.

Thanks. There were many years between cats 6 and 7. She very quickly inserted herself into our daily routines. I grieved for all our cats, but I’m surprised how upset I am. She was old, and we knew she wouldn’t be […]