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I'd love to move to Cornwall. I fell in love with St. Mawgan/Mawgan Porth.

Trouble is synchronising finding jobs with a cross country move is difficult :(

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Returned to PT yesterday to have my daughter for the weekend, only been away 2 weeks but it still feels odd - staying as I'm compering a show this evening then driving back to Leicesterland tonight :)

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Only a stone's throw from the airport, and if you want to get away from the rat race this is the place to come punky. We are only selling because we can't manage the garden, and the house is just too big for us. But we won't be moving far. :)

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Ooh, near Newquay airport? Do you know the places I mean?

Nice problem to have :p:

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It's the white bits i'd like to see :P

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Ran the 10k race in Kings Lynn in 43m40s. Well chuffed as that's a new PB!

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the postie just came with my new laptop battery.

'please sign in box 2'

'I cant see box 2'

'it's there under box 1'

Gotta love 'em [img]Download Failed (1)[/img]

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Finally got my taxi/private hire test tomorrow but i'm pooing bricks lol, so it could also be a moan, but I just wanna get it over and done with! lol

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Good luck with that, let us know how it went :)

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Good luck Graham. I will be sending positive vibes your way.

(Can't cross my fingers for you as they are too stiff with wielding a paint brush for the last 5 days. I hate emulsion paint, primer, undercoat, gloss paint ........ )

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Good luck, you'll be fine :tu:

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Spurs are in the Champions League, thanks to Crouchy :D, and we are just two points behind Arsenal in 3rd.

:cleader::cleader::cleader:

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Good luck :)

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You will be fine..:hugs:

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Cheers guys, keep your fingers crossed for me from say 13:30 to about 14:30 :p:

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Good Luck but leave this one at home.

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...010/05/169.jpg

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Haha that'd be awesome, unfortunately it's an oral test, i'd be great at driving between 2 places, but trying to describe a route is the hard bit

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Looks like we will be getting a new MX1100 Cordless Laser Mouse for free as the receiver on our current mouse got damaged & we cannot get a replacement.

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Passed my test and got a full Hackney Carriage license, just waiting for my CRB check to come back now (it's been 3 weeks so far) and then I can go get my badge :D

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Well done Graham. :tu:

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Congratulations - well done :D

Shouldn't wait long now then for your CRB, mine came back in 4 weeks ;)

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Good stuff :)

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Told you that you would pass..Well done.:D

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Cheers :)

So yeah, it's been a good week, passed my taxi knowledge test and I've got a new laptop on order, yay!

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Congrats mate!

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Nice one on the pass mate, good luck for the future.;)

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Awe great news Graham, quite an achievement!:nworthy::nworthy::clap:

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Well done to Graham :)


I have had a pretty decent day, sat around on my backside and watched tv for the first time in ages. Tomorrow we are going to my gf's family farm to try and cure my fear of cows.

Was going to make a topic to ask but as I am in a good mood I wondered if anyone here used Play.com as I have 5 £1 Mc Donald's vouchers if anyone wants them?

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nice one!





Can I have lift please?

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nein! But thanks :D

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I need a taxi for Sweden as they charge £18 for 2 miles!

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Happy that I got my CRB through today and it was clean as it should be, but why couldn't it have turned up yesterday when I could have done something about it!

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I once had a Swede in a taxi - didn't get much for £18

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You probably got charged as a percentage of the hourly rate - I think that is about £500 per hour.

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So? I have a problem - there's no need to constantly bring it up on the forums - anyway, all the women I've been with have wanted it to be over quickly

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understandably lol

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Ive used Play in the past and had zero probs with them. Also try Amazon as they can be cheaper sometimes.

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Just ordered some bits for my new PC build :)

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Chat roulette - it makes me feel like I'm kinda normal, all things considered

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Star wars voices comes to tomtom

http://www.topgear.com/uk/car-news/d...mpaign=twitter

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ive had em for a while ;)

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Going to see Metallica tonight, their first concert in Belfast in far too long! :hyper:

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Your baby is going to be a rocking:D

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Excellent - you've got some really good gigs on there atm, i'm jealous! :D

The OH has just booked tickets to see Deep Purple in Belfast next month, i can't go cos its on a school night :erm:

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Lucky!!!

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Well the council finally have their copy of my CRB disclosure so after months of work I'm off to go and fetch my taxi license this afternoon :)

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Got mah license, about time too :D

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Well done. :clap:

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Being treated to a weekend at the Prague Sheraton :D

http://www.sheratonprague.com/

Hope the ash cloud behaves itself next week... :erm:

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Walking through my local shopping centre, I saw a woman (in her 50's) sitting on one of those vibrating muscle relaxing chairs (4 in the centre).

She had a smile on her face that only a crowbar could remove :D

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Well done Graham :)

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I've just bagged myself some free tickets to a comedy gig tonight in Liverpool :)

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Excellent :)

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Are you using a grade two Braille alphabet? ;)

edit - the third word is... n plus 'ever' which is a two letter sign.

More here.

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I found that one hard Dilli. I find swapping between the alphabet and the grade 2 abbreviations frustrating and end up with scraps of paper with the most bizarre interpretations littering my desk at the end of it. At one point I translated a couple of words to be about a USB duck. I had visions of your computer quacking. :D

Thumbs up to you for seeming to take to Braille like a duck to water. :clap:

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Got my new bike today. :)

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Very nice :)

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Petrol or Pedal?

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Pedal. A Cube SL Cross Pro.

http://www.cube-bikes.de/xist4c/web/..._id_36163_.htm

Very shiny and I've got in before the cycle to work scheme gets chopped so saving a fair bit on it.

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Nice. My neighbour's got a Cube mountainbike, but he's still jealous of my GT and Trek, so he's getting himself a hybrid as well. :)

I'm guessing you could do with a discount on a Cube. :shocked:

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I just finished building my new PC :), Just gotta install Win7 now.

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did you sniff the seat after?

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My happy thought, Mr LM is back :D

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I never knew that braille had shortcuts.

That proberly explains why I couldn't translate what the braille was on a bottle of bleach.:D

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Thomas, I've been dying to ask but was scared of causing offence, now i've got a drink down me...if you are blind how do you manage on a forum? the braille sig threw me when i first joined i didnt know if theres a monitor that shows it you in braille , forgive my ignorance :angel::)

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He will correct me if I'm wrong but afaik he relies on two main technologies - screen magnification & various flavours of 'text to speech' -e.g. standard 'touch typing' (voice feedback)

- & lastly the braille keyboard.

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Firstly, I don't mind anyone asking so don't worry about it.

The thing you have to remember about blindness Is it comes in lots of level. Only about %4 of blind people can't see anything at all.

My eyesight is extraordinarily bad and meets the legal definition of blindness.

Luckily that means I can get away with software on my pc / phone that zooms the screen much larger and reads everything out to me (think of a Stephen hawking voice).

I'm learning my braille now before things get too much worse so I can use a braille keyboard like gazfan mentioned. And for books of course as I miss my reading.

I do have a white stick and dark glasses but only need to use them depending on various things including how familiar with my surroundings I am or how bright or dark it is.

Looks like gazfan summed it up better than me though :)

Anyway enough about me.

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But he still kicks our ass on BFBC2......

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Braille is all about touch mate what use is showing it on a screen except for learning purposes

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Just because my vision is distorted doesn't mean I can't see movement ;)

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Yup so I put something there under my Sig every now and again for people to work with. My screen reader can't read it as its only a picture. But the more people who are aware of braille the better as far as I'm concerned.

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I seem to be haunted by the number 7.

This is my 7,777 post, spooky. :D

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Working in the centre of Pompey tomorrow..at a school I swore I'd not go back to but money is money.It's now become an 'Academy' and is probably going to be hell as it's just ending it's first year.:(

On the other hand I've heard that the usual study leave for year 11 has been cancelled at my favourite school(when they thought they were leaving last Friday).It's made the students unhappy and the staff furious because it was decided at the last moment.

However it means that they won't have enough staff to cover absent staff.Should mean more work for me.:)

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Good stuff - I see you got it ;) :tu:

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Few people are either close to going gold or have done in their reps. I believe punky now has a gold star to his name. :)

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Yes well done Punk, notice Frank has got one to though :scratch:

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Found out yesterday that my step sister is 6 weeks pregnant!!! im over the moon, but shhh im not suppose to tell anyone :D:tiptoe:

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Still losing weight.Two pounds this week.:)

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Good stuff :tu:

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Mind after this weekend I'll have to probably work hard at losing next week. :(

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Thats so lovely Frankie and we promise we wont tell anyone. :D

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Tell her her secret is safe with us. All 67,825 of us promise not to tell another soul. :D

Well done Maggy, :clap: You must be getting positively sylphlike. :)

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No!:(

I've at least another 10 stones to go. sigh!

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Leaving for my hols in about an hour, see you all in 9 days volcano permitting :D

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Have a good time :)

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Congrats! keep it up :)

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Finished work at one, lay sunbathing with some beers whilst my son splashes away happilly in his paddling pool, life cant get any better :)

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Just finishing work now (having started at 7:30am) - as soon as I get home, me and a bottle of Shiraz are going to get up close and personal.....:D

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Same here, Since I lost my job at the end of last year I have lost about 1 1/2 stone.

I have tried losing it or done any exercise, but I have only eaten less than I would have had at work.

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Well for me Friday's at 7pm is Vodka o'clock big time :D

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I am incrediby boobed out, I don't think I could cope with seeing any more :)

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qft . . .

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Quantum Field Theory?

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Oooh young man! Dilli's on top form today!

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Going a friends at 12pm, having a bbq and having 1 or.... 20 drinks :D, Nice cold pint of strongbow, maybe with a straw :D

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Blackpool has its charms.

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That was the whole problem - far too many charms. I actually went into 'boob shut-down'.

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Finally upgraded to a core i7 720 cpu new board and mobo

I am seriously impressed with this CPU my old 9450 clocked to 3.2 gig coulc manage just about 3 instances of convertxtodvd at once source and destination seperate drives. I couldnt do much else on the pc and each instance would take approx 45 mins to and hour.

This cpu can handle the 3 with headroom to do anything else and finishes in 15 minutes flat . Seriously impressed

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Keeping Dilli under control was fun :D

Went to Blackpool for the first time yesterday, loved it. The weather was amazing, was with good friends and had a cool evening. My only gripe was it caters a bit too much for the Stag/Hen night market but still, this morning there was a parade along the front for the ex RAF old boys, complete with a fly-by from a Spitfire :)

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Actually, sounds like Dilli feels the same as my sister. She had major surgery on her spine in 1994, and as a result was wheelchair bound for a long time (a couple of years IIRC). She was actually uncomfortable when people tried to work out what was wrong with her (I think it was mainly the amount of staring and whispering they seemed to do while trying to work it out) and preferred that people ask her directly. Kids were apparently best at this, as they don't have the same ideas of tact adults have, so will not feel uncomfortable about asking.

My happy thought? A few this week.

First, and most importantly, a friend of mine gave birth at 5 to 3 Thursday Morning. Mother and Baby are apparently doing excellently, although the Mother was knackered. Hopefully I'll go to see them soon, when things have settled a little bit (they made the mistake of moving house while she was in the final trimester of pregnancy, so are apparently still sorting things out).

Second, I had a damn good barbeque to go to yesterday (which is why I couldn't attend the meet, they organised it to celebrate my Birthday next week).

Third, I've just managed to get MediaCoder to access my GFX card properly (it can use Nvidia's CUDA technology to encode using the GFX card). As a result, I am able to watch Speed on Blu-Ray and encode video at two point fives times normal playback speed while only using around 75-85 percent of CPU time.

Edit: Just been looking at a few things, and I think the reason MC is limited to 2.5x speed is simply that it's reading video from my NAS which is on a 100 meg network..

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I'm happy that one of my brothers I haven't spoken to in like 6+ years is actually speaking to me now :D

He even came and said "hello" to his nephew for the first time today :)

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Just got back from Blackpool, awesome weekend with the CF Team, nice to meet you all :)