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Actually had a few PS2 mice do that..

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I've got my broadband back and no more pesky pixi's on my TV screen. https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2012/10/17.gif

What were the odds on having a bad internal cable run and the Superhub being faulty. Well done Steve and thank you for sorting it out. :D

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:D I never realised how much I used the internet until this last weekend. I really must try to curb my reliance on it to run my life. Having to go into my Bank on a Saturday morning is not something I want to do again any time soon and phoning around for insurance quotes is pants.

Not had the Shub long and until Friday I had been pleased with it. Coming from 10Mb getting 45/49Mb via WiFi was good and I had no issues with signal reception anywhere in the house (guess not having thick internal walls helps :D ) Before having it installed, and having read so many negative comments about the Shub on here, I was quite resigned to having to put it in Modem mode but having it go FURBAR after only a couple of weeks and apparently take the TiVo with it was a blow I didn't expect.

Hopefully it seems to be all sorted now thanks to a VM engineer who was prepared to try a number of solutions rather than leave me with a less than decent service.

Add .... After the engineer left I did a quick test using a USB cable and got over 60Mb which cheered me up no end. :)

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Well I got my new headphones from play Tritton AX Pro+ 5.1 true Dolby Digital, each cup has 4 speakers.

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Hi friends

just returned from Las Vegas on Monday. We had a good holiday, weather roasting. Hotel good. But I must say the Country Music was not my cup of tea. It was modern country & just a loud noise. Back to Texas or Nashville next time,

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l am glad you enjoyed your holiday nash but sorry to hear that the music was not up to scratch.

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Thanks Den

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Dude they aren't exactly budget cans. Do they do what it says on the tin? Christmas is coming and I stay up later than the wife during the week :erm:

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Reunions. Family ties, (no matter what troubles have happened) and a new chapter in life.
Oh, and time to reflect quietly.

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Got to go to Wembley last night to watch England play. Was an amazing experience as it was the first time I had ever been there :)

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So glad you enjoyed your wonderful experience MG.:)

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Glad you enjoyed it too. I have never been to a football match or any outdoor sports. Too cold for me ;)

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This morning a letter for "The Boiler Owner" dropped onto the doormat. It was the subject of much mirth until the swift, hard dig in the arm ;)

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I accidentally stood on one of my superhubs this morning, which I had left out on the floor, most of it is broken. At first I thought I had broken something important, but after realising what it was its now put me in a good mood for the rest of the day :D

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They are awesome, you can set volume controls for each speaker. I had ordered and paid for the Pro, they sent the wrong ones.:D

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Christmas is coming...:D

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Now now jem you can't open your presents yet.:D

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We have another little greatgranddaughter born last night. https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/local/2012/10/8.gif

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Congrats tink, great news :)

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Excellent :)

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Thats wonderful news.

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Thanks everyone, should have read greatgranddaughter, senior moment.:D

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Wonderful news. Congratulations!

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Congratulations Tinky, another one to spoil rotten... :D

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Posted this on Facebook earlier. It's not so much a happy thought but it's a positive mindset for me right now:

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Great news. That is the best present ever.;)

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Diagnosis back from the car quack. Fortunately only a broken airflow sensor and not a blown turbo....that would've meant the next year eating Tesco value noodles... whew

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Results of my wife's second (after the first one showed "more tests" were needed) biopsy came back today - very good news.

A bottle of fizz will be opened, and drunk, tonight.

These sort of occurrences really puts things into perspective (to me, anyway).l

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You have such a way with words :D

On the car theme, mine will be up for sale in 2 days and has a thoroughly clean bill of health, and clean all its bits and pieces.
Fingers crossed.

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So glad to hear of your wife's good news and yes it really does put things into perspective.

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Echoed.

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Really great news Hugh. Best wishes to your wife and all your family :).

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doing my charity work knowing I'm helping the many but just filling the pockets
of fat cat board members :)

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Grandmother on Monday got told she was being discharged, 7 years after having breast cancer. So some good news for a change, no moaning. Yet.

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Excellent :)

My happy thought - Tomorrow I'm finally going to the local chiropodist instead of going to hospital for my feet, only taken two years to get to this point :)

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I'm reading this on my new PC..which my son built for me today..

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Very Wonderful :)

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I think it's good news... I get a new lappy before the current one completely met the lump hammer. Makes me smile anyway :)

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And l hope you have many many years of happy life on your new PC.

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Good news Enjoy your drink ;)

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Enjoy your PC. Hope you have no future problems.;)

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Good news indeed

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Car is all pristine and ready to sell. Well, I'm not driving it and no one else can.
£sss :)

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Brilliant news Hugh! :)

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Great news Mark. Hope your Grandmother continues to bend your ear :D

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I thought I'd share an odd arrival I had in the post this morning, A stress sperm :)

So if I get wound up I can squeeze it and chill out.

No idea who sent it me but cheers, I already have a pair of stress breasts but this will make a fine addition to that team ;)

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That made me literally lol :D

I've picked up on your negativity recently, try and be strong and I hope you feel better soon :)

Glad to hear your good news and, yes, you're right, it's things like this that help us to keep things in perspective :)

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Good to hear that Hugh.

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My Happy Thought - off to the States on Tuesday for a couple of weeks.

Two days in Detroit to see Juliann's family then driving down to Key West. :)

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I have my holiday in Camarthen booked for next year :)

When I had my feet done at the local clinic last week it was great and the lady that did it was great too ;)

Off too see frankenweenie and James Bond next week and the local cinema does audio description now so I'm going to give that a try.

Oh and a very special service / day at church next weekend :)

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l hope you and your family have a wonderful time doing all these different things dilli.

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Happy holiday and safe journeys, both :)

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....I've got some rather nice new glasses coming ;) (well we shall call them milk bottle tops ;))

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I always think that Men in glasses always look very intellectual. :)

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Mine will make me look like Mr Mgoo :)

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Oh my l never knew l was that intelligent Jo.;):D

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And my glasses make me look like a young Des Lynam.;)

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But dilli only has eyes for Natalie..;)

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Well I always liked Mr Mgoo dilli so that's OK with me.

Des Lynam though, I certainly hope that you were only compared to him in looks den, as I have found his opinions about certain women somewhat controversial and suspect that he is a closet misogynist and I am sure you don't share those traits thank goodness.

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l can assure you that l have none of his opinions or traits and would say that l am entirely the opposite of Him in that respect.

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Off for a starfish sleep. There's only a couple or 6 things better than that.

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My LG BH10 Blu-ray rewriter has just arrived. This PC will be in bits soon so I can remove one of the DVD writers and replace it with my new toy. Please don't think that I'm going to leave you in peace though, I was expecting this and have a backup plan. Threw an old nail together to tide me over :D

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Mine just mean I can see. Love the thought all the same. Cost a fortune to thin down. Hate contacts - now I am starting to get unhappy thoughts, think of puppy, think of puppy :)

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i wish my glasses helped me see. it does make me wonder if they are worth paying for.

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Strangely the last eye sight test I had the optician said that my script had really changed & spent ages "creating " a new one. At the end I said I could see better with the glasses I had on ! He put my script into the eye tester thingy & I could see nothing!So went ahead with the new ones ( £300 +) went back the next week tried them on & it was like looking at fog. Upshot was saw different optician he agreed that I did not need "new" ones - no idea what the other guy was doing weird or what:dozey:

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Been out practicing with my stick and didn't get Tasered - Result :)

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Its early yet... :shocking:

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Dammit. If I'd known I could have got a bit of target practise in :shocked: :D

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Well the foot clinic have finally discharged me. It's been a fun two years :-) of course I still need to be going back every couple of weeks but not for my feet so that's one thing of the list. Party time

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Glad things are going well for you on the foot front. Hopefully starts an avalanche of good news.

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Happy to hear your feet are better dilli :)

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Just bought my wife's birthday present (it is a week on Monday).

Kindle Paperwhite - oooooh, shiny!

(Waterstones have them in stock).

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Good for you Hugh. ;)

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That will be a lovely surprise for her.

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Especially if she's expecting a new car ;)

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l suspect Hugh might save that one for Christmas.;)

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There an idea Hugh

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Thank you :)

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Did you see watchdog about them only having a 1 year life?

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Mmmmmm - watchdog, never knowingly alarmist.....

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I have a date for my second Cataract op..:)

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excellent :)

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Thats great news Maggy.

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Good news Maggy.

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Good news. Hope it goes well

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Excellent news. Having my cataract out was unpleasant but made a massive difference to my eyesight, it was like going from standard to hi-def TV.

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That's excellent news Maggy, I pray it all goes well for you :)

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The veil will be lifted Maggie, great news.

My happy thought; spent an afternoon in St. Augustine. The oldest continually inhabited European established city in mainland USA. Never heard of it, tourism sites seem to push Jamestown etc. The Castillo de San Marcos situated there is the oldest stone fort in the USA.

510 mile drive to Key Lime Inn in Key West tomorrow...

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All the new members of the local ministry team (Who also just got re-mandated) at the service this morning got a nice cross from the vicar. Nice :)

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Youngest has been sharing pics of his holiday (all 618 0f them !)with his SO, however - they had a great time away.

It's great to see 2 gorgeous, loving, fun people having such a great time. He brings her out of her shell.
Oh and then there were the pics of 'her cat' and 'her puppy' and their London weekend :D (her brother, the pup again, the cat again ... you know how it goes :D !)

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8 weeks to christmas and I only have 1 present left to buy and its my Dads so its a blu ray :)

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Good for you for being so organised :)

I'm waiting until Divali, Bonfire Night and other notable, celebrations have passed and then I'll throw myself into the 'joyous, sharing of the passing of deepest midwidwinter' celebrations. :D

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Wow you are certainly organised tiz but some of us one suspects have not even started getting our Christmas presents yet.:)

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I've decided and told my family that I won't be bothering with presents for them this year. Over the last few years, I've bought stuff that either gets used once then dumped or broken within 12 hours of them opening it. So this year I thought I would make a £20 donation to charity for them each instead.

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We will not be here for Christmas and New Year (36th wedding anniversary ) as we are spending them in Tenerife (24days) with Sis-in-law. :):cool:

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I completely understand your sentiments Mark. I've done a 'half way house' thing in the past for family members and colleagues, and subscribed to an animal-focussed charity on their behalf - something like WWF for example. They get a cuddly toy, newsletters and I foot the bill.

On a similar note Mark, workmates decided to stop the endless stream of cards at Xmas and put up a theme-based card to everyone. The not-spent money went to charity.

I'm wondering - if I lost my address book exactly how many friends and associates would receive a card!

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Oooh - sunshine and Family - you lucky thing. I'll be in the kitchen :D

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I was just sitting here surfing earlier when I heard a thud on the lounge window right next to me which made me jump. I immediately thought it might have been a bird but it was only after a few minutes looking down into the garden below that I spotted a tiny green bird lying on the ground looking very still and very dead. Despite my prediction of a broken neck and being the big soft lad he is, Osem Jnr. went to see if he could do anything. On touching the bird he found it was still warm with its eyes closed and actually still clinging to the grass on which it landed. He gently picked it up and put it out of harm's way nearby then quickly left it alone. It was obviously stunned as it just stood there for a good 10 mins totally still until he then heard a brief tweet and it was gone in a flash. It was such a cute little thing, a Goldcrest, even smaller than a Wren and Europe's smallest bird IIRC. There's a picture here for anyone who's interested.

http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgur...&ved=0CIYBENUX

A happy end to just one of the infinite number of life and death events going on around us all the time which we rarely ever notice. :)

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I bet the good feeling Osem Jnr, felt when the small bird took off will stay in his heart for a long time. You have brought up a caring young man there Osem. :tu:

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Sounds a good idea, might look into that. Although my first thought was a charity like Macmillan, which is dear to my heart considering my grandmother.

I'm a meanie when it comes to cards, I buy a generic pack of cards with no 'mum, sister' etc on the front. Saves money. Although my mum and grandmother have an agreement where they use the same Christmas card for 2 years then buy a new one.

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Lovely story, brilliant outcome Osem! How true your last line! :)

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I'm off quick for a bit of Rhod Gilbert comedy at a local arts centre.
I just love being shouted at by a cross Welshman? :D

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Star Wars episode 7 :D

http://news.sky.com/story/1004857/di...s-film-company

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Reading 4 - 1 Arsenal :D

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Eye op tomorrow.Appointment is at 8..and they only open at 7.45.Off to try and get some sleep.

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Good luck.