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I suppose it must be autumn or even winter in Oz, Jude, and here we are in the usually damp and cloudy United Kingdom being warned to stay at home if we can, because of the heat! I’ve just been out in the garden, doing the annual Big Butterfly Count, and managed to snap a peacock butterfly sunning itself on the path. I’m a bit clumsy with the tiny buttons on my little digital camera, a Panasonic DC-TZ90 that I’ve had for a good while now. I accidentally set it to video but never realise I’ve done it until too late. Maybe I should RTFM a bit better!
We are only partly back online after an outage; the Mac side of things is working but we can’t access our network drive. The Windows side is still on the fritz. Oh, our router is a Fr!tzbox by the way! Funnily enough, when I returned to Facebook, it turned out that a number of our fellow villagers in Clyst St Mary had also experienced outages. Coincidence or not, I don’t know.
I do hope everyone is thriving.
Best
Susan
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We have been having overnight and some mornings in single figures. We have electric blanket on, big heavy Doona on, log fire on on occasions. We've also had high winds and one of our big trees came down -- fortunately not on top of us driving out but it was there when we came back from an appointment and $5000 roughly to get it removed - what a job. My husband has been busy burning the monster stump so he's been keeping warm out there.?
When the temps get up here ( and it does it a lot in the sub tropics ) I turn my Mac off when it gets to about 33-35Deg C.
We don't have aircon though the house stays pretty decent as its double brick and has 8ft verandahs all around (about a 40square roof area) which means we can walk about out there in all weathers under cover. ?We have talked about aircon particularly for the room where the computers are and our bedroom but have never done it. ?Sounds like the heat might have got to your gear particularly if you still had it running. ?
I do photos with my little old iPhone SE and they're pretty good, but the new iPad takes very good photos. ?I do have a camera but its an ancient Canon Digital Rebel. Its software hasn't been supported in a while but I can rip the card out and put it in a card reader and transfer pix that way. My iPhone is first edition of the SE, husband has a 2nd edition one and its behaving brilliantly. ?Apple brought out a SE version 3, but by all accounts the battery on them is not wonderful. So I am thinking on the matter and the jump to the 13 S is big dollars. My favourite tech says not worth me changing battery at $75 - much better to put the money to a new phone. ?
Jude
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Hi Susan
We’re in good shape, thanks. The temps are high here in Dorset (33-34, according to our two thermometers) but the house is well insulated and we’re on the side of a hill which gets us whatever breeze is blowing.
Had some good news a while ago (stop me if I’ve told you already :-)): my 2017 MacBook Retina 12” started playing silly buggers with the battery so I enquired of Apple if they would sort it out. It had had only 400 charge cycles and had gone below 80% capacity. The answer was, “yes”, and they sent a box for a courier to collect it. It was back within ten days and had had the logic board replaced as well as the battery. It’s as good as new!
I’ll still get myself a new Air M2 when my boat comes in, but I’m very pleased.
I hope that your network recovers . . .
Cheers
Chris
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On 17 Jul 2022, at 16:17, Purler <susan.platter@...> wrote:
I suppose it must be autumn or even winter in Oz, Jude, and here we are in the usually damp and cloudy United Kingdom being warned to stay at home if we can, because of the heat! I’ve just been out in the garden, doing the annual Big Butterfly Count, and managed to snap a peacock butterfly sunning itself on the path. I’m a bit clumsy with the tiny buttons on my little digital camera, a Panasonic DC-TZ90 that I’ve had for a good while now. I accidentally set it to video but never realise I’ve done it until too late. Maybe I should RTFM a bit better!
We are only partly back online after an outage; the Mac side of things is working but we can’t access our network drive. The Windows side is still on the fritz. Oh, our router is a Fr!tzbox by the way! Funnily enough, when I returned to Facebook, it turned out that a number of our fellow villagers in Clyst St Mary had also experienced outages. Coincidence or not, I don’t know.
I do hope everyone is thriving.
Best
Susan
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Sometimes you can just be plain lucky ?:-)?
Jude
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Thanks Chris, yes we are now back to full function on our network and, most important, I am back to playing EverQuest! :D
Did you see there is a new MacBook Air out? I would not have noticed but I play Words With Friends on my iPad and each turn is punctuated by ads and the Apple one was freezing my game! I seem to recall this happening before, on an Apple ad, but it doesn’t take long to do a restart of WWF.
Best
Susan
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On 18 Jul 2022, at 19:03, zuiko via groups.io <ftog@...> wrote:
Hi Susan
We’re in good shape, thanks. The temps are high here in Dorset (33-34, according to our two thermometers) but the house is well insulated and we’re on the side of a hill which gets us whatever breeze is blowing.
Had some good news a while ago (stop me if I’ve told you already :-)): my 2017 MacBook Retina 12” started playing silly buggers with the battery so I enquired of Apple if they would sort it out. It had had only 400 charge cycles and had gone below 80% capacity. The answer was, “yes”, and they sent a box for a courier to collect it. It was back within ten days and had had the logic board replaced as well as the battery. It’s as good as new!
I’ll still get myself a new Air M2 when my boat comes in, but I’m very pleased.
I hope that your network recovers . . .
Cheers
Chris
On 17 Jul 2022, at 16:17, Purler <susan.platter@...> wrote:
I suppose it must be autumn or even winter in Oz, Jude, and here we are in the usually damp and cloudy United Kingdom being warned to stay at home if we can, because of the heat! I’ve just been out in the garden, doing the annual Big Butterfly Count, and managed to snap a peacock butterfly sunning itself on the path. I’m a bit clumsy with the tiny buttons on my little digital camera, a Panasonic DC-TZ90 that I’ve had for a good while now. I accidentally set it to video but never realise I’ve done it until too late. Maybe I should RTFM a bit better!
We are only partly back online after an outage; the Mac side of things is working but we can’t access our network drive. The Windows side is still on the fritz. Oh, our router is a Fr!tzbox by the way! Funnily enough, when I returned to Facebook, it turned out that a number of our fellow villagers in Clyst St Mary had also experienced outages. Coincidence or not, I don’t know.
I do hope everyone is thriving.
Best
Susan
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Believe it or not we are back to single digit mornings (6-8degC) and getting to about 20deg C during the day or thereabouts....but there is wind and it has a cold side to it.?
We have fire built in the hearth ready if we want a night in front of the TV in comfort.?
Otherwise electric blanket getting a work out.?
The pool has had a new filter installed with glass medium in it - never had one of those before - last one had sand in it. This one is smaller but seems to be doing a far more efficient job. So when we get past this cold bit we are ready for swimming weather.?
Come the very hot weather here I often turn the Mac off in the middle of the day - even though Apple probably makes for Aussie conditions I think somewhere I read not to operate it over a certain temp.?
Jude
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There is a fan control application for Macs; I have it in my old iMac and it tells you what the temperature is. I got it from Macupdate:? See what you think. Best Susan
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Believe it or not we are back to single digit mornings (6-8degC) and getting to about 20deg C during the day or thereabouts....but there is wind and it has a cold side to it.?
We have fire built in the hearth ready if we want a night in front of the TV in comfort.?
Otherwise electric blanket getting a work out.?
The pool has had a new filter installed with glass medium in it - never had one of those before - last one had sand in it. This one is smaller but seems to be doing a far more efficient job. So when we get past this cold bit we are ready for swimming weather.?
Come the very hot weather here I often turn the Mac off in the middle of the day - even though Apple probably makes for Aussie conditions I think somewhere I read not to operate it over a certain temp.?
Jude
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My old Mac never liked that. IMac Pro not had a worry. I wouldn’t use it again.
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On 27 Jul 2022, at 7:20 pm, Purler <susan.platter@...> wrote:
? There is a fan control application for Macs; I have it in my old iMac and it tells you what the temperature is. I got it from Macupdate:? See what you think. Best Susan Believe it or not we are back to single digit mornings (6-8degC) and getting to about 20deg C during the day or thereabouts....but there is wind and it has a cold side to it.?
We have fire built in the hearth ready if we want a night in front of the TV in comfort.?
Otherwise electric blanket getting a work out.?
The pool has had a new filter installed with glass medium in it - never had one of those before - last one had sand in it. This one is smaller but seems to be doing a far more efficient job. So when we get past this cold bit we are ready for swimming weather.?
Come the very hot weather here I often turn the Mac off in the middle of the day - even though Apple probably makes for Aussie conditions I think somewhere I read not to operate it over a certain temp.?
Jude
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We’re not looking forward to cold weather again, Jude, although it felt quite autumnal a couple of days ago. ?When it gets cold a lot of people will not be able to heat their homes as well as eat. ?We’re not in that situation, but now that we’re fully electric with a heat pump we will be a little stingier with the thermostat. ?In addition, we have bought a gas fire to heat the house when the power goes off in the middle of winter (Sod’s Law). And we have paraffin lamps for the dark nights without leccy.
Turning off your devices sounds wise anyway, to reduct heating in the house.
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Believe it or not we are back to single digit mornings (6-8degC) and getting to about 20deg C during the day or thereabouts....but there is wind and it has a cold side to it.?
We have fire built in the hearth ready if we want a night in front of the TV in comfort.?
Otherwise electric blanket getting a work out.?
The pool has had a new filter installed with glass medium in it - never had one of those before - last one had sand in it. This one is smaller but seems to be doing a far more efficient job. So when we get past this cold bit we are ready for swimming weather.?
Come the very hot weather here I often turn the Mac off in the middle of the day - even though Apple probably makes for Aussie conditions I think somewhere I read not to operate it over a certain temp.?
Jude
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That’s the Air that I’m aiming for, Susan, although I gather you need to spec the 512Gb RAM to achieve full speed (according to the Internet).
My wife’s old iMac (2011) will probably need replacing, but it will all have to wait until I get paid by a US company for work I’ve done.
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Thanks Chris, yes we are now back to full function on our network and, most important, I am back to playing EverQuest! ?:D?Did you see there is a new MacBook Air out? ?I would not have noticed but I play Words With Friends on my iPad and each turn is punctuated by ads and the Apple one was freezing my game! I seem to recall this happening before, on an Apple ad, but it doesn’t take long to do a restart of WWF.BestSusanOn 18 Jul 2022, at 19:03, zuiko via <ftog@...> wrote:
Hi Susan
We’re in good shape, thanks. The temps are high here in Dorset (33-34, according to our two thermometers) but the house is well insulated and we’re on the side of a hill which gets us whatever breeze is blowing.
Had some good news a while ago (stop me if I’ve told you already :-)): ?my 2017 MacBook Retina 12” started playing silly buggers with the battery so I enquired of Apple if they would sort it out. ?It had had only 400 charge cycles and had gone below 80% capacity. ?The answer was, “yes”, and they sent a box for a courier to collect it. ?It was back within ten days and had had the logic board replaced as well as the battery. ?It’s as good as new!
I’ll still get myself a new Air M2 when my boat comes in, but I’m very pleased.
I hope that your network recovers . . .
Cheers
Chris
On 17 Jul 2022, at 16:17, Purler <susan.platter@...> wrote:
I suppose it must be autumn or even winter in Oz, Jude, and here we are in the usually damp and cloudy United Kingdom being warned to stay at home if we can, because of the heat! ?I’ve just been out in the garden, doing the annual Big Butterfly Count, and managed to snap a peacock butterfly sunning itself on the path. I’m a bit clumsy with the tiny buttons on my little digital camera, a Panasonic DC-TZ90 that I’ve had for a good while now. I accidentally set it to video but never realise I’ve done it until too late. Maybe I should RTFM a bit better!
We are only partly back online after an outage; the Mac side of things is working but we can’t access our network drive. The Windows side is still on the fritz. ?Oh, our router is a Fr!tzbox by the way! Funnily enough, when I returned to Facebook, it turned out that a number of our fellow villagers in Clyst St Mary had also experienced outages. Coincidence or not, I don’t know.
I do hope everyone is thriving.
Best
Susan
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We have gas instantaneous HW and Falcon gas oven and in the bush we get big bottles delivered. Cheap to run. No air con, but thick industrial batts in the roof - well worth doing. We do run a 30x15 pool - that takes a bit of power. ?Our electricity bill went down last bill ?- due in part I suspect of me turning lights off fast as husband turns them on. If worst comes to the worst we can always wander down the paddock and grab a log or two and cook outdoors. Petrol is up 30% on this time last year.?
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On 27 Jul 2022, at 9:42 pm, zuiko via groups.io <ftog@...> wrote:
? We’re not looking forward to cold weather again, Jude, although it felt quite autumnal a couple of days ago. ?When it gets cold a lot of people will not be able to heat their homes as well as eat. ?We’re not in that situation, but now that we’re fully electric with a heat pump we will be a little stingier with the thermostat. ?In addition, we have bought a gas fire to heat the house when the power goes off in the middle of winter (Sod’s Law). And we have paraffin lamps for the dark nights without leccy.
Turning off your devices sounds wise anyway, to reduct heating in the house.
Chris
Believe it or not we are back to single digit mornings (6-8degC) and getting to about 20deg C during the day or thereabouts....but there is wind and it has a cold side to it.?
We have fire built in the hearth ready if we want a night in front of the TV in comfort.?
Otherwise electric blanket getting a work out.?
The pool has had a new filter installed with glass medium in it - never had one of those before - last one had sand in it. This one is smaller but seems to be doing a far more efficient job. So when we get past this cold bit we are ready for swimming weather.?
Come the very hot weather here I often turn the Mac off in the middle of the day - even though Apple probably makes for Aussie conditions I think somewhere I read not to operate it over a certain temp.?
Jude
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My cousin Karyn (now retired as a GP) is in the Southbourne area - not had word from her about the weather and she knows what Australian weather is like as she was here for a couple of years some years back.
She’s probably having jokes with her husband (also retired GP) about Aussie weather. They have a yacht in the Chichester Harbour I think — probably is sailing weather I imagine.
Jude
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Our temperature in west Dorset got up to over 30?C for a couple of days last week, but dropped to mid-20s for the rest of the week. It’s fine here because we’re countryside and hilly with breezes; I couldn’t bear to be in the city or town at those levels. I’ve lived in many hot countries, Bahrain, Aden and Mukalla come to mind, but England in the heat is a bit different.
Chris
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On 28 Jul 2022, at 07:37, Judith Hall <glenidol@...> wrote:
My cousin Karyn (now retired as a GP) is in the Southbourne area - not had word from her about the weather and she knows what Australian weather is like as she was here for a couple of years some years back.
She’s probably having jokes with her husband (also retired GP) about Aussie weather. They have a yacht in the Chichester Harbour I think — probably is sailing weather I imagine.
Jude
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Understand that. We have tropical heat here and its muggy. Been to Calais on a day when it was 39degC and it was awful. Hard to explain to people unless you've experienced both.?
Jude
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I have an old-fashioned mercury max-min thermometer in the greenhouse and the most it’s been recently is 35C. I did have a magnet to zero it but it got lost so I’m using one of those “secret” keyholders you used to put inside the wing of you car. Oh, so secure…not! At the back of our little terraced house is 27C today and I’ll be out soon to do the Big Butterfly Count, wearing my BBC Radio 4 Test Match Special hat! :D
Best
Susan
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On 28 Jul 2022, at 07:37, Judith Hall <glenidol@...> wrote:
My cousin Karyn (now retired as a GP) is in the Southbourne area - not had word from her about the weather and she knows what Australian weather is like as she was here for a couple of years some years back.
She’s probably having jokes with her husband (also retired GP) about Aussie weather. They have a yacht in the Chichester Harbour I think — probably is sailing weather I imagine.
Jude
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