Good to see you back darki fingers crossed re the phone and the modem that they may continue to run in tandem and play nice:)

Good to see you back darki fingers crossed re the phone and the modem that they may continue to run in tandem and play nice:)

Hi ya JV, so good to be back and I really do hope my troubles are over... I really have had a bad time with this since about Jan 2nd, so after over a fortnight I am very hopeful.

I have met some lovely young people tho, all of them so patient and knowledgeable about internets, modems and servers.. but it took a Telstra linesman to discover the final (not only) problem and tell me to get back the server to fix it.

I think the server will have to pay him :^O

Yes Darki we dont realise how much we use our phone or internet provider until something goes horribly wrong:(

Glad I gave some of you a laugh.  We have 2 magnets on our fridge given to my OH, but I can relate to also.

One says "I refuse to grow up" and the other one "If you haven't grown up by age 60, you don't have to".  This one is now 9 years old!!!!

Good to see you back online Darki.

I use to work as a receptionist at one stage of my working life (got the sack when I turned 21 😞 ), and the other girl and I used to listen into converstaions on the old plug switchboard - amazing the things we found out 😮  Guess much the same is happening these days in a more technical way and then becomes known internationally in a few minutes - was much more fun hearing it firsthand, although I know how naughty we were for doing it.

Im sure there are many on the thread that will remember vividly where the wives salary didnt count in getting a home loan no matter how much money you were making as you were told that of course you will be having a family. what an assumption:(

Also husbands and wives in many firms couldnt work together......and it would be the wife that had to resign.

Inequality was well and truly alive in the work place as well......where you would be asked run along girl and get us all a coffee no matter how high up in the company you were:(

Thank goodness some things have changed for the better:)

Good morning all 🙂

Hi Kaye, what a norti girl you were listening in to phone conversations 😞  you certainly deserved the sack... did you improve after that :^O

I like the fridge magnets, particularly the second one.  It's a relief to think I don't have to try and grow up any longer.

Oh yes, JV I remember well the discrimination in the work place and also the unwelcome advances made by the men 😞

The last fellow who tried to come from behind and grab my breast got an elbow had in his stomach for his effort.... grrrr!

Oh yes, and if you needed a bank loan you had to have a man's signature on the form.

When I was finally divorced I needed a loan for a short time - one that I could easily pay off, but I still needed that signature....  I found an accountant who could vouch for me and he signed the bluddy form

X-(

Well I have to buy an electric dog barrier for my dog Harry to stop him running through the gate.  It's all got to difficult trying to control the people rather than the dog... well I have to get them to let me know when to expect them so I can shut him in...  that's my new project... installing it.

It won't be difficult except that training him will take a week and in that time if he's outside I have to either be training him or keeping him away from the area until he learns it's a no go zone...

Ho hum... it doesn't matter how old we get we still have things we have to learn...

Who remembers having dogs that weren't desexed or microchipped or had to be confined and they would wander the streets with little or no effort on anyone's part to stop them?

Oh well onward and upward I suppose 🙂

Morning Darki i know nothing about those doggie barriers........can you install them or do you have to have a tech to fit them?

Morning Darki i know nothing about those doggie barriers........can you install them or do you have to have a tech to fit them?

I can install it JV.. it's fairly simple once one has worked out where the wires are to go.

I have heard some good reports on them and I think it will help this situation... leastways I hope so, it is tiring having to keep Harry inside when the neighbours are moving around... if I can stop his barking and the fear of him going through the gate I will be very well set up.

Yes Darki i understand what u r saying did you have a look on ebay to see if there might be one for sale?

Anyone remember those little tiny faced watches that one was expected to wear..........there were none of those wonderful big faced watches when we were growing up unless one wanted to wear a mans watch:(