Winifred, you and I have the very same disease and that's why I started this blog again. I was forgetting everything to do with the computer. It's good to find your comments again. Last night 'Escape to the Country' featured a couple from Bristol, so we got some good views of your city. There are lots of things about Bristol on the telly here. I keep expecting to see you walking along the street one day, Winifred. I just adore English houses - they are so cute and quite different from ours.
Had another d'uh experience yesterday. I am the proud/silly? owner of a very expensive set of bathroom scales made in some foreign country. A bit like mobile phones, they will almost cook you a casserole, convert dollars to cents and lots of other things you are most unlikely to ever want to do. I wanted simply to be able to read my weight in kgs. Well, some months ago - and I blamed the unfortunate cleaning lady - it stopped giving me this information and started saying 'Lo' to me. I banged it and pressed all the pushbuttons over and over, but to no avail - it still kept registering 'Lo'. While I was searching for my bank statements yesterday (and I have put that job on hold) I also looked for the user manual - I mean fancy having to have a user manual to weigh yourself in your own bathroom!!!! - and when I couldn't find it, hit on the bright idea of googling the improbable name, Soehnle, and asked for help. Can you believe my relief when some kind employee emailed me the user manual almost immediately. And can you imagine my embarrassment when I read that 'Lo' means the battery is running low!!!!!!!!!!!! I didn't have the remotest clue that there would be batteries in there for some strange reason.
So, this morning I popped off to the local battery shop and now I know I am very fat.
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Please come to my house - I hate housework. You won't spot me walking down the street in Bristol Diane because since we became the first 'bike friendly' city in UK it's too b....y dangerous! Cyclists now dominate the roads, the pavements, the pedestrian centres and sometimes even the actual cycle paths which have cost the council £25,000 million pounds ...so far!...but don't get me started.
Saw on the news parts of Oz caught some dreaded SNOW obviously not you as you're already gardening.
Take care, keep blogging xxx
Ooops! I forgot to say the story of LO made me laugh as I did the same thing last year and tried to blame Roy for buying a machine which only spoke Japanese! xx
By the way, Soehnle is one of the most reputed German scale producers.
Our scale can even be switched from kgs to lbs which is quite unnecessary for us... ;-))
I was waiting for my dr in his rooms the other day (he was called out for a moment) so I rushed over to the scales and thought these must be accurate...I weighed 6 kilos more than I have for a very long time! So of course the scales must be WRONG and not me at all!! Am now on the hunt for scales that lie to me and it can be in any language!! Lina
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