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proactive

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Just had a young bloke knock the door, says he's from Cancer Research, had the sweatshirt,lanyard and big folder in his hand. Tried the hard sell, so much per month etc.. I asked if he had a form I could read before committing to such stuff, No, but they do have a cancellation period of a month, and why would I want to read it first? So I can be sure of what I'm getting myself into!
Told him no, but it don't half seem a bit late come a knocking for something like that??
We had one of these last week.

Called at 9.15pm. Not only that but because the gate was locked he had decided to climb over it, rather than pressing the buzzer. I told him to sling his hook (well, maybe not quite so politely) and made him climb back over the gate to get out rather than opening it for him.

As I recall, a happy bunny he was not.
 

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staffordjas

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After knocking on my neighbours door with tin of baked beans and can opener in hand (she didn't answer...probably heard my earlier swearing and decided she wasn't going to open the door to me in that mood ...) had to resort to using the dreaded new laptop...to google how to use my new modern 'new type to me' can opener .
In the end, so that I could get my breakfast before teatime, gave up with new shiny opener. Got the can partly open eventually using a bottle opener with a pointy end, resulting in scooping the beans out of the dangerously sharp star shaped hole in the middle of the can.

Decided new opener is going to the back of the cupboard, and the search is on this afternoon for a good old fashioned replacement for my old one.

Off to have one last look around and say goodbye to the house that's been our family home for about 50 years, before handing the keys in to the estate agent this afternoon .
 

Gadget

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After knocking on my neighbours door with tin of baked beans and can opener in hand (she didn't answer...probably heard my earlier swearing and decided she wasn't going to open the door to me in that mood ...) had to resort to using the dreaded new laptop...to google how to use my new modern 'new type to me' can opener .
In the end, so that I could get my breakfast before teatime, gave up with new shiny opener. Got the can partly open eventually using a bottle opener with a pointy end, resulting in scooping the beans out of the dangerously sharp star shaped hole in the middle of the can.

Decided new opener is going to the back of the cupboard, and the search is on this afternoon for a good old fashioned replacement for my old one. .
What kind is it?
 

Gramaisc

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I can't remember the last time that I needed a can opener (other than my index finger) - it could be over five years ago, I think.

Lidl had some deluxe rice pudding in 'real' cans recently, the first non-ring-pull ones that I've bought for many years.
 

Mikinton

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staffordjas

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What kind is it?
One with lots of wheels and cutting things....looks like left and right handed.... the bloke on the youtube video that I found with an opener resembling mine commenced his tutorial....he failed to open it the proper way, so resulted in showing how just continuous piercing around the can was one remedy.....I do pick em! :roll:
 

Trumpet

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Handy for opening certain beer cans from the bottom so as you don't have to glug beer through a small opening.
 

Mikinton

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These last few days, I've been transcribing a one hour, Channel 4 documentary - without the adverts, it's about 45 minutes in length. I'm about three-quarters of the way through and each quarter has taken me a little over an hour for a rough transcription; tidying the whole lot up will probably take another hour or two.

As I'm not a typist*, I'm having to listen to what is said and repeat it into the voice-typing tool of Google docs. It's slow going but we're getting there - and it's certainly preferable to me typing it all. And I can recommend the voice-typing tool. You can actually see it making sense of what I've said to it and making the necessary adjustments to the text.

* - my daughter used to make a few bob doing transcriptions when she was between jobs. She can type fairly well, so as it's going in one ear, she's typing it.
 

Gramaisc

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These last few days, I've been transcribing a one hour, Channel 4 documentary - without the adverts, it's about 45 minutes in length. I'm about three-quarters of the way through and each quarter has taken me a little over an hour for a rough transcription; tidying the whole lot up will probably take another hour or two.

As I'm not a typist*, I'm having to listen to what is said and repeat it into the voice-typing tool of Google docs. It's slow going but we're getting there - and it's certainly preferable to me typing it all. And I can recommend the voice-typing tool. You can actually see it making sense of what I've said to it and making the necessary adjustments to the text.

* - my daughter used to make a few bob doing transcriptions when she was between jobs. She can type fairly well, so as it's going in one ear, she's typing it.


Being a typist used to be considered almost as lacking aspiration, but some typists were truly impressive in the old days. I can remember discussing last night's telly with our Doreen, whilst she deciphered and corrected garbled and misspelled handwritten scrawls, as she typed them, and faster than I could have read the bloody things.
 

Carole

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Just booked a hotel room in Edinburgh for August for the Festival/Fringe.

Same hotel as previous years on Grassmarket near to all the action.

We didn’t go last year and missed it so really excited to be going back.
 
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