Ooo! Nice

[Lydia Dustbin]

Well, I like them, and the ceramic bowls.

http://tinyurl.com/c7pg2o8

Buy The man a biplane? Nah, he would just scowl at it.
Buy me hippo? Oh yeah!

Hope tiny url works. I have never used it before and it wouldn't load on my
Firefox bar.
Just in case (oh ye of little faith)
http://www.alittlepresent.co.uk/index.php?func=viewSubCat&cat=Metal%20Sculptures&catid=65

LdB

[Humbug]

On Mon, 2 Jul 2012 21:35:03 +0100, "Lydia Dustbin" <VLe...@LIVE.COM>
wrote:

Boith URLs lead to the home page.

Which item are we supposed to be looking at?

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Humbug

[Dustbin]

>
> Boith URLs lead to the home page.
>

Jolly good, so copy pasting on the tiny site works.

> Which item are we supposed to be looking at?
>

Any of hem, really. I just liked them. I have seen more iintricate little
statues but the prices of these are good.
they are the sort of thing you think 'I could do that...' if you had a small
shed filled with bits of old metal, that is.

Remember those awful pictures made with the innards of clocks and watches?
Someone bought me a traction engine and I hated it.
I hope they don;t read these posts.

I really must try and get Word into this xp thing. I need the wiggly
spelling lines. <glum>

LdB

[Dustbin]

>
> Boith URLs lead to the home page.
>

Jolly good, so copy pasting on the tiny site works.

> Which item are we supposed to be looking at?
>

[Dustbin]

"Dustbin" <marrowjam@{out}blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
news:Y1qIr.539079$kM1....@fx18.am4...

Why the heck a post in a doublet?
Baffled, of Little Doddering in the Marsh.

LdB

[Humbug]

Outright Distress.

Serves you right :-)

--
Humbug
(Whose Agent serves him right)

[Macabre of Auchterloonie]

Dustbin wrote:
>> Boith URLs lead to the home page.
>>
> Jolly good, so copy pasting on the tiny site works.
>
>> Which item are we supposed to be looking at?
>>
> Any of hem, really. I just liked them. I have seen more iintricate little
> statues but the prices of these are good.
> they are the sort of thing you think 'I could do that...' if you had a small
> shed filled with bits of old metal, that is.

Me-me-me-me-me- Miss! I have a shed filled with small (and not-so-small)
bits of metal!

> Remember those awful pictures made with the innards of clocks and watches?
> Someone bought me a traction engine and I hated it.
> I hope they don;t read these posts.

Wot, a picture made from traction engine parts? Are your walls strong
enough?

> I really must try and get Word into this xp thing. I need the wiggly
> spelling lines. <glum>

Put Open Orifice in - if you *must* have them, it comes with wiggly
lines TAAAW. Personally, I turn the things orft.

--
Old Nick

[Macabre of Auchterloonie]

Well, it's warmer than a couplet?

--
Old Nick

[Dustbin]

>>Why the heck a post in a doublet?
>

> No hose?
> Wear whatever you want!
> --
Now you have done it. A great many things may leap to mind when reading 'No
hose? wear whatever... ' etc.

Why have I a picture of an exotic dancer for drought areas in my head?
No python squirming and coiling as the dancer wiggles and bumps through her
routine but yards and yards of plastic green hosing from B&Q.

Music? The day that the rains came down? [99]

LdB

[99] I had an email from a friend in Michigan yesterday and, taking one
consideration with another I would rather be on the side of the Atlantic
where it rains for a month than sizzles for a month, thank you.
101 degs? No thank you. Sounds grim over there.

[Dustbin]

>> they are the sort of thing you think 'I could do that...' if you had a
>> small
>> shed filled with bits of old metal, that is.
>
> Me-me-me-me-me- Miss! I have a shed filled with small (and not-so-small)
> bits of metal!
>

<wistful> I once had a strong hankering to weld bits of rusty metal together
to make meaningful things... I had a happy vision of myself in a boiler
suit and face-plate sending out showers of sparks in all directions.
This was 'wrong,' I was told. I should be thinking about water colours and
dabs of oil paint.
Why do we allow ourselves to be talked out of what we want?

>> Remember those awful pictures made with the innards of clocks and
>> watches?
>

> Wot, a picture made from traction engine parts? Are your walls strong
> enough?
>

Behave yourself!

>> I really must try and get Word into this xp thing. I need the wiggly
>> spelling lines. <glum>
>
> Put Open Orifice in - if you *must* have them, it comes with wiggly lines
> TAAAW. Personally, I turn the things orft.
>

Er, yes. The snag is, there is a trick to installing a new program. It isn;t
as straigh tforeward as I thought it would be and I have lost the knack.
I am doing something wrong, but.... I aalso ught to be able to get files to
input - graphics or text, for examp. - from Win 7 and haul them over with a
clickerty mouse but how? From where? XP drive won't let me go anywhere but
its own little drive.
Humph!

LdB

[Macabre of Auchterloonie]

Dustbin wrote:
>>> they are the sort of thing you think 'I could do that...' if you had a
>>> small
>>> shed filled with bits of old metal, that is.
>> Me-me-me-me-me- Miss! I have a shed filled with small (and not-so-small)
>> bits of metal!
>>
> <wistful> I once had a strong hankering to weld bits of rusty metal together
> to make meaningful things... I had a happy vision of myself in a boiler
> suit and face-plate sending out showers of sparks in all directions.
> This was 'wrong,' I was told. I should be thinking about water colours and
> dabs of oil paint.
> Why do we allow ourselves to be talked out of what we want?

I don't, but the contents of my wllet generally do so.

>>> Remember those awful pictures made with the innards of clocks and
>>> watches?
>> Wot, a picture made from traction engine parts? Are your walls strong
>> enough?
>>
> Behave yourself!

I *always* behav myself. *How* I behave is different matter.

>>> I really must try and get Word into this xp thing. I need the wiggly
>>> spelling lines. <glum>

>> Put Open Orifice in - if you *must* have them, it comes with wiggly lines
>> TAAAW. Personally, I turn the things orft.
>>
> Er, yes. The snag is, there is a trick to installing a new program. It isn;t
> as straigh tforeward as I thought it would be and I have lost the knack.
> I am doing something wrong, but.... I aalso ught to be able to get files to
> input - graphics or text, for examp. - from Win 7 and haul them over with a
> clickerty mouse but how? From where? XP drive won't let me go anywhere but
> its own little drive.
> Humph!

Put yer pics &c on a memory stick?

--
Old Nick

[Dustbin]

>> Er, yes. The snag is, there is a trick to installing a new program. It
>> isn;t as straigh tforeward as I thought it would be and I have lost the
>> knack.
>> I am doing something wrong, but.... I aalso ught to be able to get files
>> to input - graphics or text, for examp. - from Win 7 and haul them over
>> with a clickerty mouse but how? From where? XP drive won't let me go
>> anywhere but its own little drive.
>> Humph!
>
> Put yer pics &c on a memory stick?
>

That is not the point.

One has a computer with an hoperating system and a virtual drive with
another operating system and there should be some was to pass data between
the two without resorting to a third... thingy.
Humph.

LdB

[Humbug]

On Sat, 7 Jul 2012 19:49:46 +0100, sn...@spambin.fsnet.co.uk (Sn!pe)
wrote:

>Humbug <hum...@tofee.net> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 3 Jul 2012 06:15:35 +0100, "Dustbin"
>> <marrowjam@{out}blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> >"Dustbin" <marrowjam@{out}blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
>> >news:Y1qIr.539079$kM1....@fx18.am4...
>> >
>> >Why the heck a post in a doublet?
>> >Baffled, of Little Doddering in the Marsh.
>>
>> Outright Distress.
>>
>> Serves you right :-)
>

>Ayup, Humbug!
>
><glum>
>I note that alt.a.b.c...x.y.z has disappeared from the list.
></g>

Last time I looked in there it was nothing but spam.

--

[Dustbin]

>> One has a computer with an hoperating system and a virtual drive with
>> another operating system and there should be some was to pass data
>> between
>> the two without resorting to a third... thingy.
>> Humph.
>

> Have you got the virtual router settings correct in your VM, Lyd?
> IIRC the virtual router has to be set up in bridge mode for the
> VM to be able to talk to the host OS (see this? this is me talking
> bollocks about stuff I don't really understand.)
>
Ah! You were quite right. Using the manual (Cor! 90% of it sheer Greek, the
rest baby steps which annoy) I spotted one setting at 'custom' which should
have been 'default.'
I err, must have fiddled. Say no more.
Now everything can be drag' n' dropped except... Except putting bitmaps into
XaraX which showed first a minus on the cursor, then when I did it anyway it
warned me that there were no filters installed, then it loaded normally.

huh.

Just the spelling to sort out. Word loaded normally. 103% of it, that is
instead of the whole whopping band but it shows no wiggly lines in Outlook.
Still, spell-check before send is ok so I will put up with that.

Cheers!
LdB

[Dustbin]

"Macabre of Auchterloonie" <nico...@foobar.hellsuncles.co.uk> wrote in
message news:jt18qc$m9l$3...@dont-email.me...

A rhyming doublet? I like that.
Doublet and hose and I see the hosepipe bans have now been lifted, down
south.

I shouldn't say 'fancy' as there is more to it than rain but it did strike
me as.... Buggerit. I am not putting ironical just in case it isn;t and I
know you lot.

LdB.

[Macabre of Auchterloonie]

Yup. It's been rather like a mongoose here, and lots mre pours are
predicted. (Well, what other way does rain go?)

--
Old Nick