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Gravity Aided

Legendary Member
Location
Land of Lincoln
Knowing the admirable skills possessed by those here, I thought I'd ask.

We're in the process of buying a border collie bitch, and need a name of one, or at most two syllables. Pat is out, since there would be confusion between Mrs MY and the dog. I'm not allowed Freda, Fang or Spot, a sister is being named Flora, so that's out. Mrs MY is suggesting Cara or Bess.

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Madra? Efficient, and to the point. Just means dog. Amaryllis might be nice too.
 

fossyant

Ride It Like You Stole It!
Location
South Manchester
It's been a stressful morning; my students are sitting an online exam. Although probably more stressful for them, and Son no. 2 who's got a maths A-level exam.

Firstly my PC's Skype for Business (work Skype) set-up has gone 'pop' and won't work, but I've re-directed that to my mobile phone.

Then the audio file to help a student with additional needs has disappeared, so I've had to re-record the questions.

But ... we're getting there. The 180-ish students are doing the exam, with technical hitches for a couple of them, and will mostly get there. Two hours to go before the last one with additional time finishes ...

Yikes. Stressful. Have you not moved to Teams - it's a bit more reliable !
 

fossyant

Ride It Like You Stole It!
Location
South Manchester
Lunch break and the laurel hedge has had it's haircut - doesn't half grow. Green waste bin packed solid to the lid. The other hedge will need to wait until the green bin is emptied. ;)

I also need to go 'over the hedge' into the field behind our house and give the brambles and the like a trim, otherwise they try to invade our garden. Must put jeans and sturdy shoes on for that.
 

DCLane

Found in the Yorkshire hills ...
Yikes. Stressful. Have you not moved to Teams - it's a bit more reliable !

We've got Teams but I use Blackboard Collaborate, which works much better. I had a Collaborate room open, along with e-mail, phone, Discussion Board and Skype. Most of the students were phoning, with a few popping in/out of the Collaborate room.

Skype's for university communication and my university phone number - I find it a pain as it takes over the audio settings from MS Teams. However, that's what they installed.

The biggest issue was a Turnitin* outage just before the main submission cut-off :eek: - cue piles of e-mails/calls. Only for a couple of minutes but enough to set the nerves off in about 25 students. I'd got a 'late/additional time'-type box already set up which they could submit into OK.

* an online academic submission method, that checks authenticity, for the non-academic.
 

postman

Squire
Location
,Leeds
Just a little treat for Sunday already had the glasses.
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biggs682

Itching to get back on my bike's
Location
Northamptonshire
Lunch on the patio with swmbo ^_^
 
Knowing the admirable skills possessed by those here, I thought I'd ask.

We're in the process of buying a border collie bitch, and need a name of one, or at most two syllables. Pat is out, since there would be confusion between Mrs MY and the dog. I'm not allowed Freda, Fang or Spot, a sister is being named Flora, so that's out. Mrs MY is suggesting Cara or Bess.

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Isla, Ella, Cara ...two Celtic and Cara is Irish l think . Or spell it Kara which is old Cornish , meaning beloved ^_^
 
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