Mundane News

[Illaveago]

Funny you should mention that Are last two cars have been grey mrs p choice.Garage and a retaining wall grey .

Varying shades of grey on walls in the house are grey l like it especially as it replaced the previous Magnolia

Did you get your ideas from that colour sample book 50 Shades of?

 

[PeteXXX]

Mist's cleared.
Rain started just as we got back from our hour's walkies 🐶

 

[biggs682]

Too slow to catch a cold
Bike sold

 

[mybike]

I was quite partial to GEM Desktop.. 👍

Sounds like you had an Amstrad PC.

 

[PeteXXX]

Sounds like you had an Amstrad PC.

Yep. 1640 If memory serves 👍

 

[mybike]

An A0 printer is expensive these days.

Not just these days.

 

[pawl]

Did you get your ideas from that colour sample book 50 Shades of?

Everyone around here who paint exterior walls seem to go for white or cream.It seems to weather quickly
Have yet to find a colour chart with 50 shades of grey. If one should exist I’m not mrs p near it

 

[mybike]

Yep. 1640 If memory serves 👍

I had one as well, but with the limited colour palette. But the piece of software that allowed the GEM desktop to work also gave you more colours.

 

[mybike]

There is a chocolate croissant in the kitchen with my name on it.

There's an unbaked one in my freezer with mine on it.

 

[mybike]

Curiously, even my German keyboard has the '€' on the 'E' key; we have an extra "AltGr" key next to the space bar that you have to press like a shift key to activate it. Nearly a quarter of a century after Euro first came into use, and they still make this odd shortcut. So much for German efficiency.

I worked on one of the early packet switching exchanges, covering the EU & Switzerland. You learnt a lot about the 'efficiencies' of the various nationals.

 

[biggs682]

Lunchtime stroll completed under grey and slightly damp skies but very nice.

 

[Reynard]

Cool, murky and hosing down with rain here chez Casa Reynard.

Did not sleep particularly well. For some reason, I felt really cold, so I got up to grab a hot water bottle. That worked well enough for a while - until the cat nicked it. Which meant that I ended up pretzelled in a really weird position and was still cold.

Not much one can do when the weather is like this, so I have been working on some writing and assisting the parental unit with her lace patterns. I also had a bit of a kitchen morning. The crock pot is locked and loaded with all the ingredients to make a nice tomato & Mediterranean vegetable sauce, which I will need for tonight's supper.

I did not water the plants I potted on yesterday, but they look good and are enjoying being rained upon. I always maintain that rain does a far better job than a Human with a watering can.

It is almost time for luncheon.

 

[DCLane]

Had a total of 14 visitors into my 'support room' so far, out of about 140 sitting the exam. Most have been fairly sensible queries.

In the mean-time I've been using the LH screen to schedule eBay listings, do work e-mails, other stuff. Am now bored and still have three hours to fill todaythen another three hours tomorrow. That'll be the 'exciting' bit, when I'm dealing with submission issues.

 

[Reynard]

We sometimes had human visitors who did not like cats. One of our cats sussed this out and made a bee line to sit on their laps.
Never failed and how she worked this out goodness knows but it was infallible.

That's generally because cats communicate by body language, and people who hate cats generally try and not look at them and keep quiet. Cats actually rather like that, because when people stare at a cat without adding any slow blinks to that, they see it as being threatening behaviour. So as a result, they'll gravitate towards the person that in their mind is being non-threatening.

Which is why cats seem to like people who hate cats. But it's all down to the different ways that cats and Humans use to communicate, as there's a lot that's "lost in translation"

 

[Andy in Germany]

That's generally because cats communicate by body language, and people who hate cats generally try and not look at them and keep quiet. Cats actually rather like that, because when people stare at a cat without adding any slow blinks to that, they see it as being threatening behaviour. So as a result, they'll gravitate towards the person that in their mind is being non-threatening.

Which is why cats seem to like people who hate cats. But it's all down to the different ways that cats and Humans use to communicate, as there's a lot that's "lost in translation"

Useful information. I'll have to scowl at the resident moggy next time I visit their staff.