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top man I wish you all the luck in the world :)

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Some of my friends are midwives in there, they are in good hands. Hope you have them both home soon :)

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OooooH Dilli I'm so excited for you., I'm sure the answer will be yes!:):):)

She is a little cracker, there is no doubt Uncle Frankie. She is going to be spoiled rotten I'm sure!!!!:D:D:D

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yer good luck for tommorow

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Oh good luck dilli and let us know all the news ;):D

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Frankie she is such a cutie. Wow!

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Good Luck for tomorrow Mr T, I`m sure you`ll find the Happiness you both deserve mate.;):)

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Ok, I have a confession to make. I couldn't wait ;) she said ................... Yes :) (as long as she nag me :))

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excellent news dude :)

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I'm chuffed to little tiny bits for both of you - congratulations :tu:

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Congratulations dilli! :)

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https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2010/12/21.gif dilli. Really happy for you. ;)

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Nice one Dilli.

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Congratulations Dilli, thats just made my night :) I'm drinking to you both now, all the very best xx

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dilli, so pleased for you both (and your lad) - what a perfect (early) Christmas gift for both of you.

Best wishes to you both.

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Wow!!!! You must be over the moon!! All the best to the both of you :)

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Nice one Dilli :) many congrats!

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my happy thought - all the shopping done (presents and food) - if it's not got now, it's not getting got.

Off to my mum's on Christmas day, and then Mrs_monkey's family are coming round on boxing day, and I'm cooking. (how did that happen - again?)

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Cheers all :) - Here is a piccy of the ring....

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I'm sure there's a tasteless joke there about her having her finger in your ring.... but I'd hate to ruin the moment so I'll keep quiet :)

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Because the Mrs is the boss and you have permission to say your the boss when she is out :D:D

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only if I say it very quietly :)

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ahh... the 2 recommendations I had to write for people to do MBAs have been done now. time for a beer.

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That ring is divine. Have ye set a date Dilli?

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Once you face up and fess up things can only get better.Good luck.:)

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Well done..hope it's not a long engagement.

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Very cute and very alert.:)

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Happy Christmas eve every one

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So very happy for you all.

Now - where's my tissues... :)

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Fantastic news Dilli. I'm really happy for you.

My happy thought: Made it to Singapore (4 days late). I'm currently in the Business Class lounge at Changi Airport waiting for a flight to Penang. Hugh: I've had a look for your wedding ring. No luck I'm afraid ;)

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Congratulations Dilli, I didn't doubt for a minute what her answer would be. Wishing you every happiness for your future life together!
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Congratulations to you both. All the very best to your future together. :)

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Thanks for looking - much appreciated.

If you get time, it was lost in the Singapore Airlines Business Class lounge, middle shower room, probably on top of the body wash dispenser* - thanks....:D


*but since it was in 1990, it might not still be there......

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Congratulations dilli I just wish I could give you both a hug.

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I had a sneaky feeling you would propose as soon as she arrived so I guess you did show a little patience. :D

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I must admit I am not a patient person :)

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How does it feel being engaged?! :D

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I still feel very fluffy :)

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1 more day to go till Christmas. finished my Christmas shopping last night all done now. went to asda today and it is packed the shelfs are nearly empty

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In my local Tesco I heard a woman ask an assistant "Do you sell clothes", he responded, "we sell childrens socks". She replied "No Cloves"

I said "Thats like Four candles from two Ronnies"

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ball hooks lol

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Plan today.

1. Going sisters having Christmas dinner :D.
2. Going hospital to visit my other sister and niece
3 Coming home and relaxxxxiiiiinnnnnnnng.

Good day, merry christmas all!

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Well my plan for the day is to allow Mr T to prepare the veg, cook the Christmas dinner, and set the table. Whilst I help by supervising the procedures and enjoying a small apperitiff. When he has everything organised we will take a slow saunter up to our local Club and enjoy a couple of vimtos, before heading home to enjoy the aforementioned (hic*) dinner. :D:D:D

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A nice (well, wonderful, actually) surprise in the early hours of this morning.

After we got home from Midnight Mass last night, my daughter's boyfriend took me and my wife to one side to ask our permission (for him) to propose to my daughter - we said yes, and he proposed to her this morning, so that was her best gift of the day.....:D

Wedding some time in Summer 2012.

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just a quick Christmas greetings to all of you who have lost someone during the year and having their first Christmas.

Just remember at this time of the year, there's lots of goodwill out there, and I hope you all realise you are remembered and thought of this Christmas.

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Lots of congratulations Hugh to you and your family.:)

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Ditto :tu:

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Good news indeedy :)

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So you didn't hang him off the highest building by his legs to guarantee her future happiness, or no electrical wires to his you-know-whats hooked up to a lie detector first etc?? :shocked:

Seriously, very nice news, all the best to you and your family. :)

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Lovely old fashioned gesture by asking for your daughter's hand in marriage Hugh. Better start saving now! :D:D:D:D

Mr T lost his youngest sister and his youngest son this year, they are never far from our thoughts.

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not heard noddy holder this year

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Nah - he was bricking himself enough as it was; for some reason, I have a reputation for being very nice, but also (at times) very scary - go figure......;)

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Best day ever, seeing my niece move and eat by herself made me nearly cry.

Very overwhelmed.

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Congratulations to them both.:)

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That's a long way away.

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We have to save up for the wedding........

(only joking, Summer 2012 was their timescale - my daughter will have completed her post-grad course and will hopefully have had a year of teaching in real life, and the lad will be about two years into his job so it fits in with those goals).

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I have just purchased a new Sky Box, with a bigger hard drive, so I can store more recordings yay

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Yes! the Kurzweil PC3x OS V2.0 has just been relesed.

"The PC3's synthesis engine has undergone a few notable enhancements. Several new V.A.S.T. DSP oscillators have been added along with the ability to edit both keymaps and samples in ROM, opening up even more sonic possibilities than ever before. "

grrreat

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Very nice iFrankie, She`ll change your life forever, Don`t forget to take plenty of pics and videos of her.:)

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hows ever 1 boxing day going?

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well good....

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Never seen so many Wagon Wheels in all my life.

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Wagon Wheel anyone? :D

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For a while now, my Apple Time Capsule has been difficult to access via SMB (the standard Windows File Sharing protocol). I always suspected it was something introduced by Apple, as not only did SMB work with Windows before the previous TC firmware version, but SMB worked with OSX. In fact, it never stopped working on OSX.

Anyhow, I fired up my Mac and it picked up an upgrade for OSX's built in Airport software Downloaded, installed and ran this. It picked up a new firmware version for my TC.

Although the SMB problem wasn't listed as one of the fixes, my PC is currently moving many gigabytes of data to the TC, and has been doing so for 30 minutes without a failure.

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Been in bed for most it. Up and about now, hopefully last out. :)

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That sounds like an excellent idea, definitely go with it...

My happy thought, just come back from the Lakes after a fantastic Xmas weekend break. Never seen so many frozen over; Bassenthwaite Lake, Thirlmere, Grasmere, Rydal Water.

In fact the only one we drove past which wasn't was Coniston.

Stayed at the Castle Inn Hotel near Basenthwaite:

http://www.castleinncumbria.co.uk/

Highly recommended, food & staff were excellent.

Might post some pictures in the snappers thread later...

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bare in mind even if the worst happens and you end up with bad credit marks they are only there for 6 years.Even CCJ's are off after 6 years. I had a credit card debt I just could not pay and all I could pay was the interest every month so I simply stopped paying. A few months down the line ( about 200 quid interest was added) the debt was frozen and passed along to the banks debt collectors. I made an arrangement to pay back the debt over 5 years no more interest 6 years where I could not get in any trouble credit wise and now its paid off and my credit rating is clean

obviously you need to pay your mortgage and prioritise the rest imo. Some companies ime do not even pass on the info to the credit refference agencies

get a free report from experion see what is recorded ( sign up for free month then cancel)

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Thanks for that, the mortgage and other 'essentials' are set up on my new bank account and will be paid as normal. The only things I'm not paying this month are loan, overdraft and credit cards. Would the 6 years start from when an agreed payment plan is put in place?

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the 6 years start from the date a default or none payment is issued and placed on the credit report

However if the payment passes like mine did to a different company a new report will be made. Also if anything does end up with a debt collection agency make sure they have proof they have rights to chase the debt

I had a HFC debt which they reported but the debt collection agency ( zinc recoveries in the end) never put their own in and I only paid some of it.

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I'm really not looking forward to going home - not been there for weeks but got to face the letters sooner or later. Thanks for your help :)

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My niece was delivered of a baby daughter, today - Mrs Gaz is significantly pleased to have become a 'Great Aunt' :tu:

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Pleased for you both!

As for Mrs Gaz, that's truly growing old gracefully! ;)

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It's funny how people assume you are old if you are a great aunt (or uncle).

My youngest aunt was already a great aunt when she hit 35.

Admittedly she is considerably younger than her sisters (nearly 20 years younger than her oldest sister).

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Thanks, the significant thing is the sense of moving on from the loss of my sister in law, earlier this year - and while we are sad she isn't here to see her grand daughter, it is still good news :)

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Congratulatioooons!!

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Great news Gaz! http://i760.photobucket.com/albums/x...teddy_bear.jpg

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Yip - even more good news :) :tu:

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did not get to go to the football yesterday but was still happy as i got to stay in and play my new games

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Think happy thoughts, Think happy thoughts, Think happy thoughts.

Watching a program on Vlad the implaler, (he shoved spikes up peoples (places where only custom men only go.))

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Not a cricket fan but England are very close to retaining the ashes

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yer i heard that on the news as well. im not a cricket fan as well.

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Done and dusted :D Where's me flag?

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Well I updated the software in my Blu-Ray player (LG BD570) and it now has iPlayer support :D

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For a few hours I have running water!!

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yay - what did you do first, flush the loo or have a shower ;)

I've been trawling through old photos ..

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There wasn't enough pressure upstairs to have a shower so washed hair in kitchen sink, did all the bottles I could find, the dishes and sterilised everything in sight. Hubby was on loo duty but we had been using water from my brothers tap (he is about 10 miles away and had water from last night) to flush the loo during the day. Then topped up any empty water containers.

Now looking at a snoring baby hoping he wakes soon for a feed so I can sleeeeeeeeep.

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I can't imagine how bad it has been for you over the last few days - all I can do is pay tribute to the indomitable spirit that has kept you all keeping on keeping on - respect - hope you get that sleeep :)

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I've been a tad smug and laughing about it, no point in getting stressed out really. That and the head of NI Water customer service is the old manager from Ntl here who made lots of people redundant and closed the call centre here, so watching him squirm when being interviewed has provided a few giggles.

Between us, my dad and my father in law we raided the bottled water supplies before a lot of people even realised that their water was off. None of this going and queueing at a stand pipe to get water you need to boil for me. ;)

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Ah, the wonderful days of knitting - the thought is comforting. How snuggly. Happy memories :)

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I'm sneakily filling my bath, shhhh!

I feel like such a rebel for every drop of water I take out of the tap, people (including my parents and inlaws) who are only just over a mile away and in the same post code still don't have.... best get the kettle on!

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Got back from France and didnt realise I'd booked first class Eurostar tickets so had a lovely meal and wine, Excellent.
After 5 trains and feeling shattered I'm finally back home!

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Just had our first home-baked loaf from our Christmas present from the kids (a Panasonic 257, inspired by the plaudits it received on CF).

Waking up to the smell of fresh-baked bread, then the wonderful taste - excellent.

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Enjoy your soak! ;)

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What butter do you use? don't say you use margarine, I'll just die.

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don't make promises you can't keep :)

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Olivio margarine normally, but Lurpak as a special Christmas treat - you may have to die another day......;)

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Golly gosh Hugh, couldn't you lie just this once. :D

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There is a census being completed again next year and adverts have appeared looking for staff to assist people in their own home to complete and return their forms. In a day I've completed an application form, passed an online suitability test and arranged a phone interview for 7th January :)

Its only 6 weeks work at 15 hours a week so I'm sure I can manage to work it around my full time job and the hourly pay isn't too bad either.

Now i've just got to find myself a free or almost free replacement fridge freezer which died on me yesterday - there's always somsething huh :shrug:

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I am doing that job, passed the phone interview apparently on 15th December (she shouldn't have told me how well I'd done) and that six weeks could turn into 8 or 12 weeks quite easily so I am told + there is a small bonus upon completion as well as wages. The phone interview is pretty straight forward, they basically want to know about relevant experience.

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On the 2 hour quick setting (for a 500g loaf), our usual loaf consist of 250g of Strong white, 150g Hovis Granary, and 100g of Strong brown flour. Tastes much better than just plain white or brown.

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Ooh thanks for the info, are you opting for one of the part time posts? I'm thinking it might be heavy going (after some of the scenarios on the suitability test) but it should look good on my cv :)

I thought the time slot was starting the end of March with 1st week of May completion? I didn't realise it could go over.

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Yeah I am going for between 15 and 25 hours per week. The phone interview is nothing to worry about, it only takes 5 mins!

Didn't they mention phase 2 to you? Apparently after the first month or so they may decide to keep you on for a little longer, couldn't really go into to much detail with her though as she was reluctant to tell me how I done first of and secondly they phoned me much later than scheduled and I was right in the middle of some thing, typical. Kind of ties in with the suitability questions to I guess with the phase 1,2 and 3 questions.

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I haven't spoken to anyone yet so only knew what was available on the website. I'm up for it, but I was a bit worried as they say they don't want you taking any holidays whilst working for them but I'll have to deal with that at the time.

Thanks for the heads up, I'm looking forward to the telephone interview already :)

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Good luck, you'll be fine I am sure :tu:

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my dad bought a bread maker recently (Russel Hobbs), I really enjoy making (and eating ;) ) home made bread

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I probably went a little OTT getting a wireless dual band gigabit router, but it worked straight out of the box - so far I've tested with my netbook, my laptop & my kindle - WPA2 password in each case ...

The desktops are still wired - will prolly leave mine wired & set up Mrs Gaz on wireless - <evil laugh> I could schedule her, then ... ;)

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home made bread smells and taste well nice.