I’m not sure an old pay as you go Nokia will work with all this new tech.
I had a phone plugged into the router once, didn’t help in a power cut though, but it was free.
Wouldn't make much difference here if you needed an ambulance , up to 12 hours wait and that includes heart attacks and strokes. Your phone line will probably be back on by then in the case of a power cut. You'd think in this day and age things would be easier.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
Fire beacons - is that what the morons who set fire to 5G masts thought they were doing? I think my hand-me-down emergency use only mobile is just 2G but apparently that will be kept running longer than 3G which is going to be phased out.
Good afternoon Forkers. Lovely sunny day here and 15C at the mo but it was parky this morning when I set off for the plant swap. It's Armistice Day here because it's the actual day whereas Remembrance Sunday is just the nearest Sunday cos the UK doesn't think Armistice merits being observed on the day. Same with May Day being on teh firt Monday in May instead of May 1st - too difficult, apparently, for employers to plan ahead for a movable day off whereas here everyone loves it when these days fall on a Tuesday or Thursday as they take an extra day and have a 4 day weekend.
Anyway, I took a couple of minutes apart to do my own remembrance and then re-joined the fun. Lots of chat and natter around a mulled wine and nibbles brought by various people - I took savoury flapjacks. Then picnic lunch amid much laughter, shared desserts and then, suitably stuffed, we proceeded to the plant swap.
I had nothing going spare to offer this time but have still come away with a couple of dozen bulbs of Watsonia, some Lucifer crocosmia corms, a hydrangea quercifolius, a baby clematis viticella, a rose Alister Stella Gray and a hebe and an enormous strelitzia.
Just having a cuppa and then off to sort them out for the night before it gets dark.
We are supposed to get fibre optic for internet some time next year. Till then, we have a an OK line most of the time but not always. Mobile phone signal poor but my new phone gets 3 bars whereas my old one only got one so phone technology has improved. I only got the new one cos I need to check Covid passes at patch club. Hardly use it as a phone. Do one or two texts a week at most. We have a fixed line phone but it goes through the modem, not its own line. TV is satellite. I do not want to watch TV or anything else thru my mobile phone.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
I like my landline - there is nothing nicer than making a cup of tea and curling up for a good long chat with a relative or friend. Mobiles seem more urgent somehow. We switched to fibre (coming from the pole into our house via an overhead cable) so broadband is good. But they did say that at some point the landline will be switched off - but will come via the router. I'm here to report that I finally got my Cercis planted! Yay! And the rotten apple tree is out and just waiting for its replacement to arrive. The sun even came out to reward my labours. Still so much to do - weed and spread muck on the veggy patch, empty the tomato grow bags, sort out the summer pots and get the bulbs into them...
Hello folks, interesting thread today. Although we're on the outskirts of Bath, we're surrounded by hills. Our mobile connection is very poor, 1 or 2 bars at the most unless we hang out of the loft window and wave it. We have to have satellite TV as well but broadband is better since we switched to BT Superfast and I have a Wifi booster gadget which sits in the sitting room. Not sure if we really need it but I thought it a good idea at the time.
It was beautifully sunny and warm this morning - T-shirt weather whilst walking. Later I started trying to take out the box hedge stumps - they are only small ones but my goodness, I found them difficult. Can't use a fork as I can't put a lot of force on my spine/hips so knelt down and tried hand tools, a small pickaxe, secateurs and a lopper. That made my back and my hands ache. That's 6 out and about sixty or more to go. Might have to re-think. Does anybody know how long SBK might take to rot them down - months or years?
Going to try a new recipe (for me) of a sausage tray bake for tonight's dinner, sounded really moreish.
Actually @Obelixx, Armistice Day aka Remembrance Day is always marked in the UK ... 11/11/11 .... Silences in factories, shops, schools and homes and wreath laying at war memorials ... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-59246093
There have been events all over the country ... the Silence was marked this morning on radio and TV and even the builders opposite stood silent for two minutes.
We always took Pa to watch the British Legion parade and laying of wreaths at Southwold after he was too frail to take part.
Then at the weekend there's the National Festival of Remembrance at the Royal Albert Hall on Saturday evening and the Remembrance Sunday religious Service at the Cenotaph on Sunday.
My Aged Ps at the War Memorial in Southwold on 11th November 2013, having watched the Royal British Legion parade and wreath laying, and having placed a cross for Pa's younger brother who was shot down and killed over Hamburg in 1944 ... his grave is in Kiel Military Cemetary. Pa was 93 in this photo ... it's the last time he was able to attend ... he was very frail the following year but we watched everything on the tv with him.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
It is marked by some @Dovefromabove but not officially and I seem to recall never in the time I lived and worked in the UK. It has become a growing movement in the last couple of decades with more and more work places and public spaces pausing for 2 minutes.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
I don't know when you lived and worked in the UK @Obelixx but I've lived and worked here all my life and I've a feeling I'm at least as old as you ... marking Remembrance Day on the 11th November has always been part of my life as a schoolchild and ever since ... my OH is 50 and he and his family have always marked the 11th of November and my children who are now in their 40s have always marked it, as have their peers. Possibly your experience was the exception rather than the rule.
As for it not being marked officially in the UK ... perhaps you didn't look at the BBC link I posted ... royalty, military, government and church ... doesn't get much more 'official' than that
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I was at college today. Two minute silence at 11am respectfully observed, as it was every year in the office I worked in. People used to hang up on calls and dial back when it was over. Luckily this never bemused the Americans we worked with, as they were still asleep 😴
Many poppies on display too - in my experience the spirit of remembrance is still very much alive and well on these shores. Just because we don’t turn it into a long holiday weekend, doesn’t mean it is forgotten.
I did @Dovefromabove learn morse code when on a Coastal Navigation and Seamanship Course. An old (retired) salt from Devon taught us (in Auckland) and he made the lessons so interesting. 1976 I think. Also the flags used to indicate a message. Loved it. Don't use it now and probably wouldn't remember the code except SOS.
I do use the shorthand I learnt in 1970. Extremely useful in all sorts of ways!!
Nice picture of your parents. I miss mine, too. My father was RNZAF - meteorologist or Cloud Gazer as they were known.
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I had a phone plugged into the router once, didn’t help in a power cut though, but it was free.
Wouldn't make much difference here if you needed an ambulance , up to 12 hours wait and that includes heart attacks and strokes.
Your phone line will probably be back on by then in the case of a power cut. You'd think in this day and age things would be easier.
Anyway, I took a couple of minutes apart to do my own remembrance and then re-joined the fun. Lots of chat and natter around a mulled wine and nibbles brought by various people - I took savoury flapjacks. Then picnic lunch amid much laughter, shared desserts and then, suitably stuffed, we proceeded to the plant swap.
I had nothing going spare to offer this time but have still come away with a couple of dozen bulbs of Watsonia, some Lucifer crocosmia corms, a hydrangea quercifolius, a baby clematis viticella, a rose Alister Stella Gray and a hebe and an enormous strelitzia.
Just having a cuppa and then off to sort them out for the night before it gets dark.
We are supposed to get fibre optic for internet some time next year. Till then, we have a an OK line most of the time but not always. Mobile phone signal poor but my new phone gets 3 bars whereas my old one only got one so phone technology has improved. I only got the new one cos I need to check Covid passes at patch club. Hardly use it as a phone. Do one or two texts a week at most. We have a fixed line phone but it goes through the modem, not its own line. TV is satellite. I do not want to watch TV or anything else thru my mobile phone.
I'm here to report that I finally got my Cercis planted! Yay! And the rotten apple tree is out and just waiting for its replacement to arrive. The sun even came out to reward my labours. Still so much to do - weed and spread muck on the veggy patch, empty the tomato grow bags, sort out the summer pots and get the bulbs into them...
It was beautifully sunny and warm this morning - T-shirt weather whilst walking. Later I started trying to take out the box hedge stumps - they are only small ones but my goodness, I found them difficult. Can't use a fork as I can't put a lot of force on my spine/hips so knelt down and tried hand tools, a small pickaxe, secateurs and a lopper. That made my back and my hands ache. That's 6 out and about sixty or more to go. Might have to re-think. Does anybody know how long SBK might take to rot them down - months or years?
Going to try a new recipe (for me) of a sausage tray bake for tonight's dinner, sounded really moreish.
There have been events all over the country ... the Silence was marked this morning on radio and TV and even the builders opposite stood silent for two minutes.
We always took Pa to watch the British Legion parade and laying of wreaths at Southwold after he was too frail to take part.
Then at the weekend there's the National Festival of Remembrance at the Royal Albert Hall on Saturday evening and the Remembrance Sunday religious Service at the Cenotaph on Sunday.
My Aged Ps at the War Memorial in Southwold on 11th November 2013, having watched the Royal British Legion parade and wreath laying, and having placed a cross for Pa's younger brother who was shot down and killed over Hamburg in 1944 ... his grave is in Kiel Military Cemetary. Pa was 93 in this photo ... it's the last time he was able to attend ... he was very frail the following year but we watched everything on the tv with him.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
As for it not being marked officially in the UK ... perhaps you didn't look at the BBC link I posted ... royalty, military, government and church ... doesn't get much more 'official' than that
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Many poppies on display too - in my experience the spirit of remembrance is still very much alive and well on these shores. Just because we don’t turn it into a long holiday weekend, doesn’t mean it is forgotten.
I do use the shorthand I learnt in 1970. Extremely useful in all sorts of ways!!
Nice picture of your parents. I miss mine, too. My father was RNZAF - meteorologist or Cloud Gazer as they were known.