1,426 Reply by William

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In Windows there is an on-screen keyboard facility

Start
Settings

Search in the box for

on-screen keyboard

Does that help?

William

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I think it was early 1960s.

Ooh, ice cream has been made with (sound disparaging) vegetable fat.

Now (delighted) they are going to have dairy ice cream.

Samples of each A and B on four plates, four food critics or restaurant owners or the like.

Tasting test. Which is the dairy?

Two say one, two say the other.

The two who (purportedly) got it right asked about it.

Oh, yes, can tell the difference etc etc

Almost end of programme.

"Oh, I've just been told the samples were muddled up, it was the other way round."

End of programme.

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Another programme.

A panel discuusion about something.

People introduced, but for the medical man, professional rules, they can't mention his name.

Discussion.

"As Dr Name_said_out_loud was saying ... etc" (approximate quote)

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Another medical one, name can't be mentioned.

Interviewer asks detailed question.

"Oh, we've run out of time" (approximate quote as best remembered)

So the medical man had been got there and not said a word.

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One from the 1950s I think.

Panorama.

"Well we were going to talk about defence policy this evening but as there is now going to be a debate in Parliament on defence policy within the next fourteen days we are not allowed to do so" (approximate quote)

https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hans … 4-day-rule

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I had something on-topic to post, but I shall not do so now in protest at the disruption.

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jackneve wrote:

When playing, changing chord would just be by using the mallet upon a different group of xylophone bars.

Karen won't like this, ...

I don't like it either.

This was a pleasant thread until that was posted.

Also, if you change a quoted text, such as you have by makimg some words bold, it is polite to state (my emboldening) so as not to misquote the original writing.

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Thank you.

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1,431 Topic by William

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I would have liked to be able to play a guitar, but I could never go from one chord to another without taking quite a while. I know people say practice but I just could not do it. Then there is needing to tune it.

So I have been thinking.

Could one have what I am calling a 'chord xylophone'.

I looked on the web and all I could find was about playing chords on a xylophone using several mallets, two in each hand, and playing the notes of a chord one at a time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KO3LPRz5o20

I am wondering if one could have a chord xylophone, where narrow bars are in groups of three or four and one uses a single wide mallet to strike the three or four bars in the group simultaneously.

When playing, changing chord would just be by using the mallet upon a different group of xylophone bars.

So one group of narrow bars close to each other for each chord that the instrument can produce, with each group spaced away from the adjacent group.

Would that work?

If so, it might be a useful social playing instrument that could be played using just one hand.

Sort of like strumming a guitar and changing chord from time to time.

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1,432 Topic by William

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I saw this and read it.

Edit: Please read the article linked by Alfred before reading this article as this one has the solution and the one to which Alfred linked poses the puzzle. End_of_Edit

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/technol … ar-AAU8pF1

I don't know if it is the same thing but I remember back in the early 1980s when looking at linking together two microcomputers of different makes, all the ones that I saw had a section in the manual of how to do it, yet for each type of computer the instructions always assumed that that microcomputer was in charge of the two computer network. smile

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1,433 Reply by William

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Alfred wrote:
William wrote:

"Ah, there is a panel 'Send an item' but I want them to collect, so I suppose (wrongly) that I need to select the 'Arrange a collection' heading."
Yes, Arrange a collection now.
https://send.royalmail.com/collect/youritems
What?

Hmm. That appears to take me to the same place as your “What you need to do is” instructions, albeit by what seems to be a more circuitous route.

Oh. Once I got to there I thought that I was stuck and needed to go back.

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He was called that, through no fault of his own. Bit of victim blaming there.

Apparently he was himself a conscientious and faithful husband.

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1,435 Reply by William

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So one goes to

https://www.royalmail.com/collection

"Ah, right, I'd like them to collect a parcel from me."

So I'll click on 'Book a collection'.

Click it, and I arrive at

https://send.royalmail.com/

"Ah, there is a panel 'Send an item' but I want them to collect, so I suppose (wrongly) that I need to select the 'Arrange a collection' heading."

Yes, Arrange a collection now.

https://send.royalmail.com/collect/youritems

What?

What one needs to do is at

https://send.royalmail.com/

to use 'Send an item' then it will go to a customized page to arrange it all.

From there it is all straightforward to use.

William

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https://www.msn.com/en-gb/entertainment … ar-AATWw64

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1,437 Reply by William

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The website is a bit ambiguous in that to get them to collect a new item one needs to do a Send as there is a Collect which appears to be for other things including returning something somewhere and also something that I don't understand what it is.

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Alfred wrote:
William wrote:

I know, I know! smile

William

Too cryptic for me, I’m afraid!

I was meaning the matter of me seeking to adapt their system to my needs might seem a bit odd. big_smile

No dog but ... etc so as to convey information.

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I know, I know! smile

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Ah there appears to be a workaround.

They ask

> Please tell us where your Safeplace is in case there's no one at the property:

and there are some preset choices yet also 'Other' and 'Other' has a limited size freeform text box with enough space to put the following.

Plse knock, go 5 metres back, I will put on step

So I could put the letter in a Tesco translucent food freezer bag to keep it clean.

and there is also the following.

> Got a dog? Let us know. Please ensure it’s out of the way before we arrive.

So the space can be used as follows

No dog but isolating to try not to get COVID-19

Collecting the letter of under 100 grammes including providing a label and including postage is £1.45, which is very good. Pay by a credit card or debit card over the web.

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Alfred wrote:
William wrote:

> ***If you are opting to use the Bring My label service, your postie can only bring one pre-printed postage label if the collection is from your Safeplace.

The idea of this restriction is, presumably, to avoid any mix-ups that could occur with labels for multiple unlabelled items.

I thought that at first, and maybe it is, but perhaps it is to avoid a 'postie' finding a greenhouse full of parcels!

So a limit is needed.

However, there is a bit about that the 'postie' would pass (whatever that might mean in a COVID-19 situation) the labels (plural) to the customer, seems to reinforce the idea of seekung to avoid a mix up with more than one "customer not at home" collection.

I am not quite sure exactly how it would work with me at home sending a letter whilst observing social distancing as there is no 'safe place' out the front and, although I could put a parcel on the doorstep, a letter could blow away, and anyway there would be security considerations.

I can do most things over the telephone, by email, web facilities, card transaction and direct bank transfer for payments, but occasionally there are things that need a physically signed letter.

William

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https://www.royalmail.com/collection

https://send.royalmail.com/

This is an interesting development.

Has anyone here used it yet please?

When it started it required one to either print a label at home, from a QR code in some way, or go to somewhere, present the QR code and get a label.

Now there is an option for the 'postie' as they put it, to bring a label.

> Alternatively, your postie can bring your labels when they come to collect. Simply select the ‘Bring my label’ option* as you’re booking your collection. Your postie will bring your labels on your collection date, and pass them to you to affix to your parcel(s).

Not such a pleasing prospect if one is sheltering from COVID-19.

However,

> If I’m not going to be in, can my parcel still be collected?

> You can arrange to leave your parcel(s) in your nominated Safeplace for collection.***

where the *** has

> ***If you are opting to use the Bring My label service, your postie can only bring one pre-printed postage label if the collection is from your Safeplace.

That seems to imply that necessarily the 'postie' will affix the label to the item.

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This might possibly be relevant.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_track

Joe's mention of the panels being hinged concerns me. The panel needs to get into the water.

I am wondering if the panel needs to be fixed firmly, with each panel having a piece of side wall along the side of the panel on each side, with the side wall piece wider near the track, and having a slope, each piece of side wall being like a trapezium. From a bird's eye view, each panel that in the air and its side wall pieces looking like a capital letter H. This being because the side walls and panel need to cut into the water like a diver in a diving contest.

A link to a video of a waterwheel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPfjoAQxvcQ

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Is your design sort of like one of the tracks on a tank, but with panels below the track extending into the water, and then panels becoming pointing upwards in the air as the track goes back round in the air above the water?

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Joe wrote:

Sorry... the coffee hasn't kicked in yet and I'm feeling silly.

Robert,

Being silly is a prerequisite for joining this forum and for being Welsh. This is the longest town name in Wales:

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch

Google it and see, and then tell me if that's silly.

Joe

Not silly at all, a good bit of marketing strategy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHxO0UdpoxM

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Careful what you post, you may be putting personal medical information on the internet.

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jackneve wrote:

No need to expand it here, it is a matter for Affinity  providers and users.

Oh yes there is. Alfred has posted in the thread.

It looks like this thread is going pear-shaped too! big_smile

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I started the following thread this morning.

https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index. … -be-great/

It looks like it is going pear-shaped already.

Supportive posts would be helpful please.

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"Pride" by Jeannie Seely

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfYwd5af-24

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"Paper Mansions" Sung by Jeannie Seely and Shelly West

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3J7-2jP7jGE

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I did once go somewhere (I know exactly where, just redacted here) and a man who was about to fill in a form asked me "What are your Christian names?" and I replied, and he thought that I had told him my Christian names and my surname. smile

On a separate occasion I once filled in a form that had separate areas for Christian names and Surname and, hey ho, I got a letter in reply addressed to me as Mr then two initials and my third Christian name as if it were my surname. big_smile

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