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Re: Wildfood campsite

Postby KeenCook2 » Tue Jul 21, 2020 5:44 pm

Phew.
I think I may have sorted out the whole OneDrive thing on my new Windows 10 laptop ... it was driving me absolutely mad that I couldn't stop it from automatically saving everything to OneDrive and exceeding the 5 gb storage, because of my photos ... anyway, several hours and days later and after some email exchanges with Abdullah at Microsoft, fingers crossed I may have succeeded ...

The test will come when I try to download all my photos from my phone again ...

And thanks EM, yes, today started a lot better thanks, and I remembered to go and get my blood test done. The surgery was totally deserted. I was the only person in the waiting room. It felt truly weird ...

Stokey Sue wrote:Then we had a maroon Morris Oxford, which was the first car we took abroad


My first car was a maroon Morris Oxford, which I loved but which unfortunately died as I was en route from my Mother in Farnham to my flat in Putney. As I recall it was very sudden, and kind of exploded and ground to a halt ...
Luckily it was long before the M3 was built and there was far less traffic altogether, and what there was tootled along quite gently!

Have a good day, everyone, and :newhuggy to unwell Wildies

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Postby icelesley » Tue Jul 21, 2020 7:41 pm

Good Evening Campers. OH is watching footies so I thought I would have a noodle on here. :D But it looks like you are all watching footies :roll:

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Re: Wildfood campsite

Postby PatsyMFagan » Tue Jul 21, 2020 7:56 pm

Not a football in sight in this household ... just catching up with the latest on here while watching my dream travel companion - Michael Portillo ;) :thumbsup

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Postby icelesley » Tue Jul 21, 2020 8:04 pm

I have just been out to check the tomatoes, I have 4 perfect cherry tomatoes and one plum tomato that I have picked. :thumbsup I forgot to mention, we cancelled the meeting at Wren today, OH rang to cancel, they asked why so he said you lovely people had warned us that the service was great until it came to the delivery and fitting then they were crap. The guy put the phone down. :o

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Postby PatsyMFagan » Tue Jul 21, 2020 8:11 pm

Re posting photos ...

I take them on my phone, send them to my email, then choose the smallest size that I can - this is 276.48KB ... I have no idea how many pixels this is, but it is the photo you see here.

If I go into my photo file and re-size it to 450x600 (pixels?) ... I get the message on here that the photo is too big.

Help :oops:

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Re: Wildfood campsite

Postby icelesley » Tue Jul 21, 2020 8:51 pm

Beautiful flowers Patsy. :thumbsup

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Postby patpoyntz » Tue Jul 21, 2020 8:58 pm

When our boys were young, I had a 2CV...a rather smart model called a ‘Charleston’. The seats were removable, so I used to take the back and passenger seat out, and was able to squash the boys in, along with their bikes and 2 dalmatians. I loved that car, used to corner like a demon, and was truly great in deep snow. I think the tyres were so narrow, that they acted like cross country skis. We thought it was a much better winter car than our Saab, which was quite surprising. We used to camp in those days, and of course the seats came out to sit on outside our tent. I remember we were camped in Borrowdale in what was then a very basic site, mainly used by serious walkers, (Hollows Farm..I’m sure Seat will know it) and there we were, lounging on the ‘sofa’ with a glass of wine, when some campers went past to wash their pans in the stream, Ooh, comfy, they said, and where do you keep the Hoover!
Our boys are still embarrassed about it.

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Postby PatsyMFagan » Tue Jul 21, 2020 10:00 pm

icelesley wrote:Beautiful flowers Patsy. :thumbsup


I would like to say I had grown them myself, but they were Tesco specials - bought for me by daughter. The vase is rather special though ... it's Waterford Crystal, designed by John Rochas for John Lewis.

I was using this photo to illustrate the smallest size I can get them from my phone ... unless there is something so obvious I am missing it :roll: :oops:

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Postby PatsyMFagan » Tue Jul 21, 2020 10:07 pm

I did grow these myself though, a few years ago now.

And I've had a go at re-sizing - how did I do ?

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Postby aero280 » Tue Jul 21, 2020 10:11 pm

I have a friend who ran a garage. One day he was asked to look at a Standard Vanguard that wouldn't start. The car was towed in. After much head scratching, he found that the exhaust was blocked - by a dead rat!! :o :shock: :o :shock:

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Postby herbidacious » Tue Jul 21, 2020 10:17 pm

KC2 my computer has suddenly started asking me if I want to save things on One Drive not having used it on this laptop before. Update, maybe? It's not doing it automatically at least. Yet.

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Postby Earthmaiden » Tue Jul 21, 2020 10:35 pm

PatsyMFagan wrote: my dream travel companion - Michael Portillo ;) :thumbsup

Really?

Glad you got the One Drive thing sorted out KC2 - it seems to have darkened everyone's doors at some point!

The car which my father had at the time I was born was an old Austin 7. There's a photo of me at 3 months old propped up on the front seat. It met its demise not too long afterwards, it broke down on the way to Chichester and careered into a ditch as we were being towed down a steep hill. My father didn't like 'flashy' cars. In Australia at the end of the 60's, where everyone had large, modern cars, we had to have a bright turquoise Morris 1000 :oops:.

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Postby Busybee » Tue Jul 21, 2020 10:38 pm

patpoyntz wrote:When our boys were young, I had a 2CV...a rather smart model called a ‘Charleston’. The seats were removable, so I used to take the back and passenger seat out, and was able to squash the boys in, along with their bikes and 2 dalmatians. I loved that car, used to corner like a demon, and was truly great in deep snow.



I had a 2CV, a Dolly in cream and maroon. Loved it to bits, the roof leaked so I always had bin bags to put on the seats. Driving on the motorway from Gloucester to Tewkesbury was an eye opener if you got sandwiched between two lorries, so much so I decided to keep to the A road instead. I sold it to a flying instructor at Staveton airport when my son was born and used to see it careering across the apron and runway. I thought I needed a more substantial vehicle. Happy, happy days.

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Re: Wildfood campsite

Postby Grasshopper » Tue Jul 21, 2020 10:42 pm

icelesley wrote:Good Evening Campers. OH is watching footies so I thought I would have a noodle on here. :D But it looks like you are all watching footies :roll:


Ice - That Game doesn't work on our TV ;)

Well, it looks like our favourite tearoom has come through! It's only opening at weekends at the mo, and you have to book, but at least it's open again!!!!!!!

Those scones ........... :yum :yum :yum :yum :yum :yum :yum :yum :yum :yum :yum :yum :yum :yum :yum :yum :yum :yum

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Re: Wildfood campsite

Postby Grasshopper » Tue Jul 21, 2020 10:44 pm

PatsyMFagan wrote:Not a football in sight in this household ... just catching up with the latest on here while watching my dream travel companion - Michael Portillo ;) :thumbsup


Patsy - Mr P is very knowledgeable, isn't he.

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Re: Wildfood campsite

Postby Pepper Pig » Tue Jul 21, 2020 11:10 pm

PatsyMFagan wrote:Not a football in sight in this household ... just catching up with the latest on here while watching my dream travel companion - Michael Portillo ;) :thumbsup

Well he wouldn’t be bothering you in the night . . . . .

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Re: Wildfood campsite

Postby Stokey Sue » Tue Jul 21, 2020 11:14 pm

A friend of a friend was very torn - both friends were card carrying socialists but she worked on one of Portillo’s first tv travel programmes and really enjoyed the experience especially when he invited her out to dinner with him and a cousin he didn’t get on with that well but thought she would. She did.

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Postby aero280 » Tue Jul 21, 2020 11:25 pm

I used to go to regular meetings in London to discuss progress on a big development that the government had an interest in. The committee was co-chaired by Michael Howard and Michael Portillo. :o

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Re: Wildfood campsite

Postby Pampy » Wed Jul 22, 2020 12:44 am

My Dad would only buy British cars and they haven't really stuck in my mind. I do remember an Austin 1100 though. The first car that we got when I married my ex was a soft top E-type Jag - far more memorable! Then we got another soft top - an MG C (poor man's Austin Healey 3000) - another memorable one. Unfortunately, after that, things got far more mundane.

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Re: Wildfood campsite

Postby karadekoolaid » Wed Jul 22, 2020 3:19 am

A friend of a friend was very torn - both friends were card carrying socialists but she worked on one of Portillo’s first tv travel programmes and really enjoyed the experience especially when he invited her out to dinner with him and a cousin he didn’t get on with that well but thought she would. She did.


Which all goes to show that human beings are human beings.The fact that one might be a socialist, or a conservative, or a liberal, or what ever, is irrelevant in a social context: and it should remain that way.
In my local pub ( when I was 20) there was an unwritten rule. No politics, no religion. People respected that.
Here in Venezuela I can remember entire families who were 1/3 socialist, 1/3 conservative and 1/3 liberal. No conflicts, because it only caused chaos and no-one ever won.

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