MrsDoyle

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I think it may be dawning on them. I’m on an international holiday & didn’t get time to faff about installing Linux before I left. But I discovered the day before my flight that Microsoft has extended its offer of security updates for another year to individuals as well as businesses free of charge, and signed up. Last time I’d looked I’m sure ESU was for businesses only.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/extended-security-updates

The bit that made me laugh was: “ESU enrollment does not provide other types of fixes, feature improvements, or product enhancements.” Phew!

I’ll crack on with upgrading to Linux when I get home, nice little winter project.

It happened in the UK too, in the 60s. Some of the lines have been reinstated in recent years, but most were gone for good. Cars were the future! Really dumb.

In Belgium we hired bicycles at the railway station at Ypres, biked around the countryside all day, then dropped them off and got the train back to Brussels.

As for the Netherlands… this is a typical railway station bike park.

Taps aff!

Three, down to two now. One’s 70, the other’s 82.

Ha ha, that’s my one too - tell us what these bloody things are for!!

Your “Send to Kindle” email address is in your profile details, under devices and apps. In the app (Android) it’s under settings.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/sendtokindle

I once asked a Dutch friend what would be a good phrase to learn before visiting Amsterdam. He thought for a minute and said “sneeuwklokjes”. Snowdrops. It was his kindly way of saying don’t bother, lol. I did learn a few things - hello, please, thanks - and they did go down well.

The Monty Python theme is a Sousa march called Liberty Bell. I bet someone ran it past him & he said great, because he’s never watched the show and has no idea. That is hilarious.

Since at some point recently. You can still email files (epub not mobi now) to your kindle, but usb transfer doesn’t work any more.

A live hedgehog. He was obsessed with them. They would roll up tight to protect themselves and he’d grab them, prickles and all. To get them off him was a real pain, literally. What worked best was holding his head so tight he couldn’t move, and repeatedly pinching his nose until he dropped the poor creature. We both caught ringworm, a variety unique to hedgehogs.

My old greyhound was not very bright at all, but he often had a Cunning Plan.

Example: On a walk near home he found a forbidden item. He knew I’d take it off him but he wanted to keep it. Cunning Plan time. He ran home, knowing I would never keep up. In your face, slow poke! I strolled back and there he was, waiting to be let in the gate. The look on his face was priceless, lol.

I remember meeting a guy from East Berlin soon after the Wall fell, he was super excited at getting to travel outside the GDR (we were in Kenya).

I’d never heard of him, but I’m not American. I saw a headline something like, “panic after Kirk shooting” and wondered if someone had shot up a church service in Scotland.

Vibe coded lion:

I’m poised… might try a dual boot first.

They can’t convince me to switch to Win 11 because apparently my computer isn’t good enough.

My old dog went through the same thing - turned out his teeth were bad. Prior to that discovery one thing that worked for keeping his weight up was to cook his food myself. He liked chicken (necks are cheap and the bones aren’t dangerous) stewed up with pasta, rice or potatoes, and veg like peas and carrots; mincemeat ditto, with a bit of liver; ox heart and/or tongue also good but a bit gross. Offal is offally cheap, usually.

Important: Don’t use onion or garlic! They’re toxic for dogs.