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开云体育May I suggest, if you buy from Amazon, you use the ?URL and choose a charity that you’d like to support? It doesn’t cost you any extra because it’s Amazon that makes a small donation from each purchase you make. ?My charity is the RNL (I had to spell it out in full) and Harvey’s is the Devon Air Ambulance. Just a thought and it makes you feel virtuous! I think they do it on all their sites.Best Susan On 13 Feb 2021, at 15:57, John Miller via <johnmiller051118@...> wrote: Iguess people aretrying to fill the gap in the market left byElgato. Frustatingly, I can't find any mention of apple compatabiliy: john |
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开云体育Harvey’s sister is five years older but still has the “little brother” attitude towards him!Best Susan On 13 Feb 2021, at 15:29, John Miller via <johnmiller051118@...> wrote: My sister is far worse Jude. She was born 6 years earlier than me & used to call me junior. Now she says she's 49 when I'm 52 John
On Saturday, 13 February 2021, 15:14:04 GMT, Purler <susan.platter@...> wrote:
I love my iPad; I pre-booked one of the very first models out as soon as I heard about it, since it was, quite literally, just what I had been waiting for from Apple and even had cash put aside for it! Later on, I sold that model and bought an iPad Air and now have an iPad Air 2. Very happy with it and I keep it for Words With Friends or Wordfeud (I enjoy word games) and other games for iPads. ?Monument Valley is a beautiful game and there are some older ones that I play on an old Mini iPad of Harvey’s. ?Doom runs on that old model and I still love that very old game! ?Quake runs, believe it or not, a special version for Mac! Sorry, I do love my games! ?:D Best Susan On 13 Feb 2021, at 14:13, Judith Hall <glenidol@...> wrote: Anyone using Procreate? I have looked high and low for anyone doing lessons for young people as some village locals are interested for their teens -- but nothing. Even Apple shops not doing anything. I sort of got interested myself -- but lack an iPad. I've always resisted iPads as being rather ?useless things that just run cut down software and not much use to anyone --- not in the things I get involved in anyway. But looking into it I got myself curious. ?My husband asked what I wanted for my un-birthday..... he asks this every year then ducks and runs. ? I could get expensive.? Jude |
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开云体育I love my iPad; I pre-booked one of the very first models out as soon as I heard about it, since it was, quite literally, just what I had been waiting for from Apple and even had cash put aside for it! Later on, I sold that model and bought an iPad Air and now have an iPad Air 2. Very happy with it and I keep it for Words With Friends or Wordfeud (I enjoy word games) and other games for iPads. ?Monument Valley is a beautiful game and there are some older ones that I play on an old Mini iPad of Harvey’s. ?Doom runs on that old model and I still love that very old game! ?Quake runs, believe it or not, a special version for Mac! Sorry, I do love my games! ?:DBest Susan On 13 Feb 2021, at 14:13, Judith Hall <glenidol@...> wrote: Anyone using Procreate? I have looked high and low for anyone doing lessons for young people as some village locals are interested for their teens -- but nothing. Even Apple shops not doing anything. I sort of got interested myself -- but lack an iPad. I've always resisted iPads as being rather ?useless things that just run cut down software and not much use to anyone --- not in the things I get involved in anyway. But looking into it I got myself curious. ?My husband asked what I wanted for my un-birthday..... he asks this every year then ducks and runs. ? I could get expensive.? Jude |
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开云体育Ah, you made your surgeon happy - that is something to be proud of! I’m very glad you are OK!Best Susan On 13 Feb 2021, at 10:52, Judith Hall <glenidol@...> wrote: Susan I had a brilliant surgeon - got myself out of hospital in 30 hrs with about 5 small holes in me. Total cure. Can’t say better than that. Surgeon was so excited you realise they don’t have a lot of wins.
The initial talk is hard you’re right but we have to rally ourselves and deal. Nice if you could support someone. It’s a shock so if someone dies in it gives someone to bounce off.? But who’d be a bloke ! :-) Jude On 13 Feb 2021, at 8:15 pm, Purler <susan.platter@...> wrote:
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开云体育Hahaha that is fair comment but oh I do love a sunroof! My little buggy can get awfully stuffy if it’s at all warm, even without sun. ?The amusing thing about convertibles is the older fellas going through their second adolescence with an expensive soft-top!Best Susan On 13 Feb 2021, at 10:47, Judith Hall <glenidol@...> wrote: Susan down here Aussies say about Brits and cars ... sun roofs ... what’s that about ... they got no sun! ? ?? ? ?
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On 12 Feb 2021, at 17:58, John Miller via <johnmiller051118@...> wrote: I have never such a run of bad luck, for the UK & globally. Keep checking out of my window to see if 4 horsemen are coming. Thank goodness we have good governance! John |
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开云体育Oh gosh Chris that reminds me: our conveyancer was a poorly woman with MS, who had to give up part of the way through the process. I think we were not exactly given all the attention needed after that because we did mention the missing items but got no response so just gave up in the end. Never mind, we sold for a good price when we eventually moved away, so it’s as broad as it’s long.Best Susan On 12 Feb 2021, at 14:54, zuiko via <zuiko@...> wrote: I’ve heard of that going on, Jude, but it’s wierdos and you have them all over the world. We’ve completed our list of inclusions for our house and seen the one for the one we’re buying. ?We are selling stuff to our buyers, two wardrobes, dishwasher, cooker, beer fridge etc . . . and our vendor is leaving some things for us as well as the fixtures. But the poor conveyancer is rushed off her feet, and I don’t want her to have a breakdown as a result. Chris
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开云体育I remember reading in the papers about a sale where the vendor went off with an entire patio! I think they had to return in in the end, not sure though. Some people are just dishonest and it hurts.Best Susan On 12 Feb 2021, at 13:00, Judith Hall <glenidol@...> wrote: Susan my friend in London told me a friend of hers bought a picturesque period place and arrived to find all the brass light switches gone and in its place polystyrene stuck to the walls with sticky tape!! The English are bloody queer she said.?
That doesn’t go on here - there’s a list of inclusions. Usually things like fly screens, security screens, blinds, curtains and light fittings are the norm along with anything fitted in the kitchen like microwave oven dishwasher etc. plus pool equipment stays of course...quite often people will even negotiate if they want to retain the furniture or large screen tv and stuff. One of my sisters had bought a $24,000 package to furnish a whole house. She was in a relationship that broke down - she sold the house complete with furniture ( and got more for the furniture than she paid for it.? Jude On 12 Feb 2021, at 8:32 pm, Purler <susan.platter@...> wrote:
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On 12 Feb 2021, at 10:14, Judith Hall <glenidol@...> wrote: Here they do open houses a lot. Some places you have to arrange to view with the agent. If you want to buy and the price is set agent will give you a contract and you sign. You have a five day cooling off period - but there is a penalty top you if that happens. You can sign subject to the usual things like having boundaries checked, pest inspection, building inspection, approval of finance — occasionally there might be subject to buyer selling house but not often etc — when it goes unconditional after 14 days the contract is the contract.? There’s no gazzumping. ?There’s no chains. Settling might be 30 days or 60 days or whatever is decided, and it goes from there. OIccasionally there are longer settlings but not usually. Average time for settling in Australia at the moment is 66-77 days. When we are buying we take contract into our solicitor to review before we sign it and he wipes out anything not right. He also handles conveyancing in house.? We once talked a friend out of a house because there was a huge drain out on the road and all the land behind and either side drained to the block….. and it cost him $1000 penalty and we talked him into another, at the auction I shoved his arm up :-) ?— and when he sold that buyers went wild - he bought it for $600,000 and it went for just under $1.1m 3 years later. Nice little bonus to retirement fund. ?Family now down in the Hunter Valley wine region.? Jude I don’t know what the purchase system is in Oz, Jude, but the Scottish one seems pretty cruel – closed bids in an auction. ?Ours is pretty straightforward except that it requires a land contract to be signed, sealed and delivered – unlike a simple contract which requires offer, acceptance and a consideration (payment). Our problems arise because conveyancing is a simple enough activity but we hire it out to legal firms who pay conveyancing clerks way too little to achieve timely results and that comes down to greed; which is prevalent in all of the US/UK/Australian company systems. ?But the current situation is grossly exacerbated by the temporary “holiday” in Stamp Duty Land Tax. ?SDLT is normally 5% but the Chancellor waived that last year to keep the property market going, and it has been pretty hot! ?It’s not why we decided to move (family reasons) but it did mean that the cash arithmetic was easier to work out. ?If we go past the deadline of 31 March, the increase of ?15k on the purchase price would make the purchase price much less attractive – we might not move. But because of the deadline there are loads of people, hundreds of thousands who are in the process of buying and selling putting extra pressure on those poorly paid clerks and making it take much longer. ? Chris
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On 12 Feb 2021, at 08:03, John Miller via <johnmiller051118@...> wrote: My Uncle Sid ran the atlantic convoys in the 2nd World War, & he heard what happened to me at Manchester University. He said: "He's got to keep his pecker up" Not easy advice to follow. John
On Friday, 12 February 2021, 07:46:49 GMT, John Miller via <johnmiller051118@...> wrote:
I'm really sorry to hear that Chris, for you, your wife & Children. I've been through tough times recently. I'm not sure if I can fully empathise, but I'll try John
On Friday, 12 February 2021, 07:34:31 GMT, zuiko via <zuiko@...> wrote:
I don’t know what the purchase system is in Oz, Jude, but the Scottish one seems pretty cruel – closed bids in an auction. ?Ours is pretty straightforward except that it requires a land contract to be signed, sealed and delivered – unlike a simple contract which requires offer, acceptance and a consideration (payment). Our problems arise because conveyancing is a simple enough activity but we hire it out to legal firms who pay conveyancing clerks way too little to achieve timely results and that comes down to greed; which is prevalent in all of the US/UK/Australian company systems. ?But the current situation is grossly exacerbated by the temporary “holiday” in Stamp Duty Land Tax. ?SDLT is normally 5% but the Chancellor waived that last year to keep the property market going, and it has been pretty hot! ?It’s not why we decided to move (family reasons) but it did mean that the cash arithmetic was easier to work out. ?If we go past the deadline of 31 March, the increase of ?15k on the purchase price would make the purchase price much less attractive – we might not move. But because of the deadline there are loads of people, hundreds of thousands who are in the process of buying and selling putting extra pressure on those poorly paid clerks and making it take much longer. ? Chris
You all daft about far to much in England in settling a house. Dare I say you need to adopt the Scottish system which is more straight forward it would seem .... or better still the Australian system. ? Jude |
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开云体育ROFL!!!I now drive a smartfortwo, a few moves down from my sleek Saab Convertible, though it does also have a soft top - you need it in hot weather, that is one or two days a year here! Best Susan On 12 Feb 2021, at 10:19, Judith Hall <glenidol@...> wrote: I’m the one with the Alfa.
I’m reasonably economic to keep. Cost Pete three pounds to marry me !!! Jude <Screen Shot 2021-02-12 at 8.19.25 pm.png> On 12 Feb 2021, at 8:11 pm, Purler <susan.platter@...> wrote: Hehehe!! Nobody has *ever* called me a “flash lady”!! ?(Harvey seems to think I’m “cheap to run” and that’s in spite of just having got a new 16in MacBook Pro!)
Best Susan On 12 Feb 2021, at 05:59, John Miller via <johnmiller051118@...> wrote: I'm getting by, I have some savings from my last job at Nottingham Trent University. Realistically what can I spend it on, a holiday in the Maldives, an Alfa Romeo sports car & I don't have a flash lady, like Susie or Jude. John |
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开云体育Go ahead, Jude, we listen to folk here, I’ve noticed. Best Susan On 12 Feb 2021, at 10:16, Judith Hall <glenidol@...> wrote: Had cancer episode and thats not fun but here to talk about it ?:-)
Jude On 12 Feb 2021, at 5:15 pm, John Miller via <johnmiller051118@...> wrote: Yeah, I'm sort of scared of that. After I had compression fractures, they wondered if I had some spinal cord damage. I can only say thank God it was a female Doctor who did the exam, smaller fingers
On Friday, 12 February 2021, 07:03:38 GMT, John Miller via <johnmiller051118@...> wrote:
You don't know how lucky you are Jude, you really don't. When men get into later years it can be really uncomfortable, no make that painful, with prostate enlargement. My father had his removed 20 years ago. So I guess it will be 20 years till my turn John
On Friday, 12 February 2021, 06:36:23 GMT, Judith Hall <glenidol@...> wrote:
It’s called getting older. I have up belly dancing when I could no longer sink gracefully to the floor sword on head, roll over with sword on head and rise just as gracefully from the floor not losing said sword ?? Jude On 12 Feb 2021, at 9:37 am, John Miller via <johnmiller051118@...> wrote:
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