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For those left behind .......

Sat, 3 Mar 2012 11:55:39 GMT

Firstly - commiserations, truly.
But on the back of some comments, most noteably but not exclusively, by AllyG and Iceman I thought that a thread just for those staying at home this week was in order.

It does seem that a huge number of "us" are off to the hoped for snow this week - and thanks Ally for your list on this.

So I thought that somewhere for you to "hang out" may be apreciated :thumbup:

I also wanted to post a pic. This is my dog Millie!
Her pic is here because on another thread Icy semed to think he was like her!
I will leave it to all of you to judge the verisimilitude of this!
PS: she is smaller than our cats :mrgreen:

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Sat, 3 Mar 2012 12:10:00 GMT

Comment so thoughtful - dog so cute - Icy so weird - but I thought you were in Serre Che!!!!

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Sat, 3 Mar 2012 12:24:39 GMT

Lizzie-B wrote:Comment so thoughtful - dog so cute - Icy so weird - but I thought you were in Serre Che!!!!

Stansted tonight ...
Stansted - Turin - Serre Chevalier tomorrow morning ....
Ski Monday!!
:thumbup:

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Sat, 3 Mar 2012 12:43:52 GMT

Are you driving from Turin? Hope dog doesn't miss you too much!

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Sat, 3 Mar 2012 12:52:57 GMT

Lizzie-B wrote:Are you driving from Turin? Hope dog doesn't miss you too much!

Turin to SC in tour ops coach - far too exghausting to think about driving!
Dog an embarrassment - again another similarity to someone on here?
She loves the kennels, whimpers to go in and last time didn't want to leave saying that she hadn't had a long enough holiday!

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Sat, 3 Mar 2012 14:49:07 GMT

I see - Can understand Icy saying I dont want to leave and saying my holiday was not long enough ...but whimpering...???
Well finished watching ski cross so back to researching places for next years ski. Hope Serre Che is good for you- looking forward to hearing about runs you enjoyed.

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Sat, 3 Mar 2012 16:34:11 GMT

i was about to share a photo of my dog Millie but ... i have not idea how to do it :lol:

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Sat, 3 Mar 2012 16:38:56 GMT

Its easy when you google! )

My dog Millie in the snow a couple years back

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Sat, 3 Mar 2012 18:35:23 GMT

Thanks OldAndy - very kind of you to think of us sad ones left behind.

I nicked this off Tony - he won't know :wink: - he's off ski-ing.

It seems very suitable for this thread :lol:

Ally

Re:For those left behind .......

Sat, 3 Mar 2012 19:02:20 GMT

I think the phrase from me was that when his dog goes to kennels she has such a good time she does not want to.come home......

I said, like me when I go skiing

Have a fantastic time Andy :)

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Sat, 3 Mar 2012 19:39:56 GMT

Ok ok Mr Icy - you were misquoted but do your ears bear any resemblance to Millie 2 ? ;-) (Sm4sh's-tricky to say)

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Sat, 3 Mar 2012 19:52:50 GMT

Iceman wrote:I think the phrase from me was that when his dog goes to kennels she has such a good time she does not want to.come home......

I said, like me when I go skiing

I think we all feel like that Iceman. I hate giving my skis back - it's like losing my wings and crashing back down to earth :cry:

Never mind - at least I can still do smilies and quotes even when you're on your mobile J2Ski version :D

Ally

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Sat, 3 Mar 2012 21:04:08 GMT

Ally - see Italy thread another one gone!

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Sat, 3 Mar 2012 21:21:39 GMT

Lizzie-B wrote:Ally - see Italy thread another one gone!

Thanks Lizzie :D

I've amended the how many sleeps list again - I've got 16 J2Skiers ski-ing this coming week now :shock:

Have you learnt how to do THIS yet :?:

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Ally

Re:For those left behind .......

Sat, 3 Mar 2012 22:09:46 GMT

I was just thinking - how did Marksman make this?

It's very clever :thumbup:

And if he doesn't mind me borrowing it, it could come in very handy for me, so that everytime I ramble off about things like the Welsh flag I could use it as a marker and then people who don't like wibble would know to skip a few paragraphs.

But I could really do with another one, to mark the end of the wibble and the return to ski related subjects so that those people would know when to start reading again :lol:

I suppose I could always use something like this:

Or this:

Ally

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Sat, 3 Mar 2012 22:46:36 GMT

One can only wonder :roll:

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Sat, 3 Mar 2012 22:56:26 GMT

Hi Iceman,
Where did you get those ones from?

I don't know about Marksman, but I'm not really Welsh. I'm a total British mongrel - Irish, Scottish, English and I live in Wales :lol:

I was just thinking, there are a lot of very talented J2Skiers and we could really do with some better ski related smilies (sorry Admin I didn't mean to hurt your feelings). Do you think anyone would be interested in making some for us?

I have absolutely no idea how to do it. I find it difficult enough to remember how to turn my computer on, and use the mouse etc. without trying to make animated ski related smilies.

I wonder how hard it is to do?

Ally

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Sat, 3 Mar 2012 23:00:08 GMT

There are websites out there that do them. Thats how Marksman would have got his & how I got mine. Type in text to a gizmo and it sticks a pic out the other end :thumbup:

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Sat, 3 Mar 2012 23:09:45 GMT

Hi Iceman,
Is it legal making them like that? I mean - can we use them without getting in trouble?

It would be really great to have a library of ski related ones like that, that we could use to illustrate our messages with, especially the rather more mundane posts.

So, you and Marksman used photobucket to make yours?

You have to remember that I am really pretty old :cry:

When I was in school we still used slide rules and log tables and things. I don't think I even had a calculator until the sixth form. And when I was at Uni we did a programming course on a Commodore 64 and had to learn basic (mind you I was very proud of my A grade for the program I wrote on variance analysis - still got it somewhere).

So - I am hopelessly out of date :roll:

I will have a look tomorrow to see how to make ski smilies :D

And maybe in about 10 years time I'll be able to do it :lol:

Ally

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Sat, 3 Mar 2012 23:15:00 GMT

Howdy all.

AllyG wrote:I don't know about Marksman, but I'm not really Welsh. I'm a total British mongrel - Irish, Scottish, English and I live in Wales

I'm half Welsh and half English. Welsh from the waist down (short hairy legs) and English from the waist up (poncy English accent). Thus both the Welsh and the English dislike me :roll:

I assure you no talent was consumed in the making of my smiley.

All done from here:- http://www.happyfacegenerator.com/

Really must go to bed.

Oh, nice job Iceman :thumbup:

Owen.

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Sat, 3 Mar 2012 23:23:09 GMT

Hi Marksman, thanks :D

Sorry Iceman :oops:

I forgot to say you did a great job making those smilies - and you were pretty quick at it too.

Night night everybody,

Ally

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Sat, 3 Mar 2012 23:52:54 GMT

AllyG wrote:But I could really do with another one, to mark the end of the wibble and the return to ski related subjects so that those people would know when to start reading again :lol

The real site doesn't seem to be working but here is a bodged "End of wibble" smiley to be going on with...

The properly geeky will complain that the slash is at the end not the beginning :oops:

Owen.

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Sun, 4 Mar 2012 00:04:15 GMT

I was going to say that

I noticed the site was down too!

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Sun, 4 Mar 2012 08:46:01 GMT

Thanks Marksman, even if it's not quite perfect :D

Maybe we should make them a bit smaller though :?:

Iceman wrote:
I noticed the site was down too!

How annoying :evil:

I got up specially early to start designing and manufacturing ski related smilies and the smiley website's not working :evil: :evil: :evil:

I wonder if there's another website that makes them? Iceman? Anyone?

Ally

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Sun, 4 Mar 2012 08:53:33 GMT

Sunday morning is crap......especially when i everyone is skiing and its raining here......

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Sun, 4 Mar 2012 09:06:21 GMT

Hi Snapzzz,
I am trying to think of fun, ski related things, for us all to do - like make ski smileys that we can surprise the others with when they get back :lol:

Or, you could try and think of another fun thread :?:

Ally

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Sun, 4 Mar 2012 11:29:32 GMT

Snapzzz wrote:Sunday morning is crap......especially when i everyone is skiing and its raining here......

Might be crap but I am off to test drive cars yipeeeee :D

Re:For those left behind .......

Sun, 4 Mar 2012 11:36:13 GMT

Now all the sensible people have gone off skiing, we can wibble away and not get told off. Yippee! :P I definitely want to learn how to make some cool smilies.

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Sun, 4 Mar 2012 11:56:55 GMT

Hi Allie,
Marksman assures me it's quite easy, but last time I tried I couldn't get the website to work :cry:

I've got to go out now but you are very welcome to have a go :D

If you work out how to do please let us all know and I'll have a go when I get back. Mind you - only ski-related smilies - none of that 'adult' stuff we all got told off about :wink:

Marksman wrote:I assure you no talent was consumed in the making of my smiley.

All done from here:- http://www.happyfacegenerator.com/

Really must go to bed.

Oh, nice job Iceman :thumbup:

Owen.

Re:For those left behind .......

Sun, 4 Mar 2012 12:11:14 GMT

Sorry folks, cant quite join in your misery.
Just about to dig skiing gear out and have a rummage.
Make sure daughter's ski trousers still fit etc....
:D

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Sun, 4 Mar 2012 18:30:14 GMT

Dids1 wrote:Sorry folks, cant quite join in your misery.
Just about to dig skiing gear out and have a rummage.
Make sure daughter's ski trousers still fit etc....
:D

Hi Dids,
It's nice to know we're not all miserable old xxx's :D

I'm just being greedy really. I've had one ski holiday this year and I want another one.

I hope you and your family have a really great time :D

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Sun, 4 Mar 2012 18:49:44 GMT

Hey I made one :lol: :lol: :lol:

I wonder where Nelly got those dancing bananas :?:

I used this website address:

http://www.smileygenerator.us/index.php

Ally

Re:For those left behind .......

Sun, 4 Mar 2012 18:57:05 GMT

Careful Ally, Adders may feel left out with everyone gone away for the week. He may decide to practice with his Axe..

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Sun, 4 Mar 2012 19:02:54 GMT

Far Queue wrote:Careful Ally, Adders may feel left out with everyone gone away for the week. He may decide to practice with his Axe..

Thanks Far Queue :D

Oh dear :cry:

Do you think these smileys use too many bits of whatever it is that websites run on?

Well, I can't resist just one more and then I will stop. You have to wait a moment to see what's so funny about this one :lol:

It's amazing the way every time I start to have fun I get into trouble :cry:

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Sun, 4 Mar 2012 19:14:51 GMT

AllyG wrote:

Love it :lol:

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Sun, 4 Mar 2012 19:55:02 GMT

Brilliant Ally :mrgreen:

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Mon, 5 Mar 2012 19:33:55 GMT

Far Queue wrote:Careful Ally, Adders may feel left out with everyone gone away for the week. He may decide to practice with his Axe..

Does everyone think it would be alright if I found/made some small ski-related smileys for all of us to use as required in our posts?

Or, has anyone else already found some new suitable smileys?

Ally

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Mon, 5 Mar 2012 19:41:57 GMT

Ski related smilies would be great, suggestion one with a helmet and one with a Bobble hat.
AM NOT opening up that can of worms.

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Mon, 5 Mar 2012 23:02:48 GMT

Well, I have made another one. Here it is:

I hope it doesn't use up too many computer whotsits, and I haven't nicked it cos the website says it's free :lol:

Smileys with helmets and bobbles on will be tomorrow's challenge :wink:

Ally

Re:For those left behind .......

Fri, 9 Mar 2012 16:18:36 GMT

I am so glad this thread got a bit off use ....

Love all those smilies :mrgreen:

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Fri, 9 Mar 2012 18:34:38 GMT

Get back to the skiing now!!

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Fri, 9 Mar 2012 20:41:34 GMT

im drunk

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Fri, 9 Mar 2012 20:50:26 GMT

Think.I am too...

Erm, yep I am.

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Fri, 9 Mar 2012 22:00:12 GMT

Think adders is deep stuff. I copied Ally's source site into my favourites. All you have to do is right click, then......

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Fri, 9 Mar 2012 22:56:27 GMT

Thanks Andy - Hope you have a had a good holiday. Look what I have learnt while you have been away. Thanks for the 'Those left behind thread. Smilies have been made. Stuff has been discussed. Some wibble but not too much. Some random threads posted in your absence.Some good youtube clips.Welcome home look forward to hearing about your time in Serre Chevalier.

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Fri, 9 Mar 2012 23:00:09 GMT

He comes back Sunday ;)

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Fri, 9 Mar 2012 23:22:28 GMT

I know but he has posted a note and I have replied to it!!

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Sat, 10 Mar 2012 09:09:09 GMT

Lizzie-B wrote:
Thanks Andy - Hope you have a had a good holiday.

Lizzie-B - I'm glad you've cracked it :D

Well done :thumbup:

How about quotes - have you got those sorted yet? You can either click the quote button or put it in manually using [quote sign for equals user name] text [forward slash quote]. And don't forget to delete the irrelevant stuff or you might end up with a whole page of quotes just for one important sentence.

If anyone likes the smileys and wants Admin to make some more interesting ones for us to use, officially, then they can vote for this using Admin's new feedback button.

Ally

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Sat, 10 Mar 2012 11:09:33 GMT

I have a headache :roll:

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Sat, 10 Mar 2012 11:31:56 GMT

I'm not surprised Iceman, if you were drunk last night. I hope you didn't make any er ... mess ... anywhere :wink:

I have no personal experience of such things, but I have had to clean up after my younger daughter when she's spent too long in the 'thinking place' :lol:

I hope your head has recovered by tomorrow, to think up some new Wibble :D

Ally

Re:For those left behind .......

Sat, 10 Mar 2012 11:54:04 GMT

Iceman wrote:I have a headache :roll:

Snap, and a little sick

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Sat, 10 Mar 2012 12:09:58 GMT

Snapzzz wrote: ... and a little sick

Well, I hope it all landed in a bucket or similiar receptacle :wink:

You two are a total disgrace :wink:

Just look at me this morning - the pinnacle of respectability - all dressed up complete with jewellery and perfume etc. and off with my husband to our local Catholic church to become godparents :lol:

Luckily, I think it's only the baby we have to promise to bring up in a Christian manner - not all the reprobates here on J2Ski :lol:

Ally

Re:For those left behind .......

Sat, 10 Mar 2012 13:47:27 GMT

Hope you -Snapzzz and Mr Iceman feel better soon

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Sat, 10 Mar 2012 15:04:37 GMT

Indeed, they start out like this move on to this meet up with each other and carry on like this , then they start the singing and the following day they are on the soft stuff

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Sat, 10 Mar 2012 15:32:00 GMT

......and feeling like this

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Sat, 10 Mar 2012 17:50:21 GMT

Well by the look of things it is a good job I am coming home tomorrow.

Icy - well I can totally believe his behaviour but Snapzzz !!!!!!!!

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Sat, 10 Mar 2012 17:56:50 GMT

Almost 6pm and headache is going away. Now where is that wine? Does wine go with pizza?

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Sat, 10 Mar 2012 18:18:04 GMT

Iceman wrote:Does wine go with pizza?

Ooo yes :)

As long as you don't mean carpet pizza :shock:

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Sat, 10 Mar 2012 19:04:42 GMT

Iceman wrote:Almost 6pm and headache is going away. Now where is that wine? Does wine go with pizza?

My wine says "enjoy with meat or fish" but i can confirm it goes down just lovely with monster munch and revels.

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Sat, 10 Mar 2012 19:06:13 GMT

Iceman wrote:Almost 6pm and headache is going away. Now where is that wine? Does wine go with pizza?

......it goes with everything!!!

BTW I wished Old Andy welcome home as I thought he wouldn't be visiting here anymore until he got home - but he just can't keep away.

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Sat, 10 Mar 2012 19:34:48 GMT

yep Lizzie, also with spicey wedges :thumbup:

Bought a new car today so need to celebrate - headache in the morning? ;)

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Sat, 10 Mar 2012 19:44:47 GMT

..Worth it though

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Sat, 10 Mar 2012 22:03:23 GMT

Lizzie-B,
That's a most impressive display of smileys :D

Well done :thumbup:

You've got such a wide range of smileys there's hardly any need for the text now :wink:

Ally

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Sun, 11 Mar 2012 09:59:16 GMT

Rob Howard wrote:yep Lizzie, also with spicey wedges :thumbup:

Bought a new car today so need to celebrate - headache in the morning? ;)

Oh dear. I wrote this under the other person's login too!

I did have too much wine last night. It also went with peanuts.

There was meat on my pizza if that counts?

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Sun, 11 Mar 2012 10:15:03 GMT

Iceman,
I don't get how you could have sent a message as someone else, unless they were already registered with J2Ski in that name and ticked the box to stay signed in so that when you used their laptop and went on to J2Ski it thought you were them. But I've never heard of Rob Howard. Whoever he is, I hope he's not belligerent, strong, black belt karate or whatever, and strongly objects to your post about pizza or whatever it was :wink:

I hope you didn't buy your car when you were under the influence. My husband's brother bought a cow once, in the mart, when he was in that condition - and you should have seen it when it walked out of the cattle lorry :shock:

Ally

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Sun, 11 Mar 2012 10:21:50 GMT

I can safely say that he is not a strong black belt or has any objections. He is my dad that is on holiday for 9 weeks :thumbup:

He must have the "stay logged in" box ticked and in my fuzzy eyed condition did not notice

:D

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Sun, 11 Mar 2012 10:25:59 GMT

Oh dear. I wrote this under the other person's login too!

I did have too much wine last night. It also went with peanuts.

There was meat on my pizza if that counts?

Now if you could have just had pinapple on it -to count towards the 5 a day it would have been a perfectly balanced meal.Hope it stayed down - Will we be calling you Rob the Iceman from now on??

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Sun, 11 Mar 2012 10:30:47 GMT

I'm starting at lunchtime today at a birthday meal. I'm banning myself from the keyboard but, if I do happen to login I apologise in advance for what comes out :shock:

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Sun, 11 Mar 2012 10:33:30 GMT

Am doing the quote/edit thing but it doesnt come up in a blue box like on others- still can't complain Ok with other stuff now thanks to Ally, Far Queue and my son who came home for the weekend - hence the OD of smilies- Small wibble but wanted to say thanks.

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Sun, 11 Mar 2012 10:48:48 GMT

Lizzie-B wrote:
Now if you could have just had pinapple on it -to count towards the 5 a day it would have been a perfectly balanced meal.Hope it stayed down - Will we be calling you Rob the Iceman from now on??

Fruit on pizza is WRONG

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Sun, 11 Mar 2012 11:15:47 GMT

...didnt say I eat it. Fruit in a pie now thats not wrong.Grapes in wine now thats my sort of fruit !!

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Sun, 11 Mar 2012 11:19:21 GMT

Iceman wrote:I can safely say that he is not a strong black belt or has any objections. He is my dad that is on holiday for 9 weeks :thumbup:

He must have the "stay logged in" box ticked and in my fuzzy eyed condition did not notice

:D

Thanks for letting me know. That's one less thing I've got to worry about today :wink:

It's nice to know that you and your dad get on so well :D

Those log in things can be quite amusing. Last summer, I was home here logging on to my Facebook in order to stalk my younger daughter (who's 'friends' with me) whilst she was in Australia to make sure she was okay. And simultaneously my older daughter was on holiday in Turkey logging in to my Facebook so that she could send a message to her sister (who she's not 'friends' with because she got annoyed with all the silly messages she kept getting from her sister's friends). And, finally, my younger daughter was logged in to my Facebook from Australia because she likes playing on Restaurant City and she doesn't like her friends knowing she's addicted to it (not 'cool' I suppose).

The upshot of all this Facebook activity was that I received a message from Facebook saying that they'd closed my account as they thought it had been accessed by someone other than myself :lol:

I really laughed about this. Facebook is far too clever and it knows where you are when you are posting messages, and I suppose it came up as an anomaly that I was simultaneously in West Wales, Turkey, and Australia!

And it was easy enough to get my account going again - I just had to re-submit my password and things.

Ally

Re:For those left behind .......

Sun, 11 Mar 2012 11:21:57 GMT

Maybe it was just the Wales thing? I have heard they are cracking down on it being used in thrid world countries :lol: ;)

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Sun, 11 Mar 2012 11:26:46 GMT

Andy is back today - his kind and thoughtful thread has just deteriorated from his cute dog
to this and I for one have not helped - sorry Andy

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Sun, 11 Mar 2012 11:29:11 GMT

I was just wondering how the thread started :roll:

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Sun, 11 Mar 2012 11:31:30 GMT

BTW - hope you are feeling better this morning !

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Sun, 11 Mar 2012 11:33:25 GMT

Oh yes!!!! Back on wibbling form :)

Off out now for dinner at a laydeee house....take a bottle of wine with me again :roll:

Not drinking then for at least 5 days :lol:

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Sun, 11 Mar 2012 11:36:41 GMT

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Sun, 11 Mar 2012 11:38:05 GMT

Maybe you are right Ally- no need for text!! (but maybe for some)!

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Sun, 11 Mar 2012 11:44:15 GMT

Best of luck Iceman, that all goes like this:

Ally

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Sun, 11 Mar 2012 11:54:11 GMT

Lizzie-B wrote:Am doing the quote/edit thing but it doesnt come up in a blue box like on others- still can't complain Ok with other stuff now thanks to Ally, Far Queue and my son who came home for the weekend - hence the OD of smilies- Small wibble but wanted to say thanks.

Lizzie,
You must be losing the second square bracket or something.

Try just finding a post and clicking on the quote box in that post (before you click reply) and you should find that the message box appears.Then try clicking on preview to make sure you've got it okay.

I tell you what though, all this messing about with this stuff has shown me how to put a line under a post I'm writing, to separate the text should I so want, like this

You just do the square brackets with forward slash and quote inside them.

I expect there are loads more of these sort of things we could do, if we knew how to do them. I was surprised to learn that my washing machine is programmable - like if you hold one button down and push another one it stops the machine pumping or whatever. The service engineer showed me - he has like a crib sheet for doing this.

Ally