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In my fifties and living in the Lake District in Cumbria UK, although most of my life spent in Yorkshire...Have some holiday cottages in Dumfries and Galloway in Scotland, where we spend a lot of the winter...Married, two grown up daughters and two lovely grandsons...used to enjoy golf, but recent illness has restricted my mobility so now its more eating and drinking and insomnia on this damn computer.
Why do we allow American English on spell checker?
I just used the well known English word Tesco and it gave me Tosca or Taco???? are we being taken over.
15 AnswersLanguages1 decade agoDo you really want to see our Monarch travelling on public transport?
Sorry, but I don't want to see her sitting in a first class carriage. If the Monarchy becomes like the rest of us, what is the point.
3 AnswersEtiquette1 decade agoA Grandad asking a question about a mobile phone?
Take pity. I have an old Vodaphone pay as you go phone. I want to update to a newer phone....3G with Camera etc. Do I just put my present SIM card in the new phone if I want to stay with Vodaphone or will they send me a new SIM card and a new phone number. Thanks for helping.
5 AnswersMobile Phones & Plans1 decade agoIn the current BB10 how many housemates do you think?
are actually actors sent into the house by BB...I think Karly and Ken, Tom and Bea are really actors....together with Noiren and Issac....discuss
6 AnswersReality Television1 decade agoCan someone in America explain to me why you have to queue for hours to vote.?
Here in the UK you maybe have to go about a mile or two to a polling station and then it only takes about ten seconds to tick you off a list and then put a cross in a box. What do you have to do that takes so long that you have to queue, or are there not many polling stations?
4 AnswersElections1 decade agoDo you have an Archos media player? If so can you help.?
I have an Archos 605 wifi. I am wanting to buy a new Micro hifi with hard drive. I want to connect my Archos to it to transfer files. Does anyone have a hifi which connects directly with an archos? If so which one. If not how can I connect it as most only seem to work with I pods. I am not very computer literate...as you can no doubt tell, so make answers easy.
1 AnswerMusic & Music Players1 decade agodeleting unwanted programme.?
I have apple i tunes on the computer and recently selected an update....when it had downloaded it put an apple safari icon on the desktop and this became the default brower instead of internet explorer....it didnt make this clear prior to the download...I wanted to delete the programme, but when I went to control panal I couldnt find it under the apple programmes, it seemed to be bundled together with quick time player which I want.....Is there a way to find out which bit refers to the apple safari other than looking in the control panel?
5 AnswersSoftware1 decade agoIs it true that Microsoft is bringing out a new operating system soon as vista has been proved to be so poor?
Or is this a rumour.
14 AnswersSoftware1 decade agoPardon...I do not speak French....how do the French decide whether a new invention is Masculine or Feminine?
Is there a Government Department?
7 AnswersSciences sociales - Divers1 decade agoWhat Country and Western song has thirteen words in the title?
Answer to follow later if no one gets it.
8 AnswersCountry1 decade agoCan you translate this into Welsh..?
The church of St. Mary in the hollow of white hazel trees near the rapid whirlpool by St. Tysilio's of the red cave".
5 AnswersLanguages1 decade agoDont you think its strange...?
If a woman is indecently exposed to by a man, she will run home and ring the Police...if a man was indecently exposed to by a woman...he would stand there...and maybe ring his mates and ask them to come over for a look....why is that?
17 AnswersPolls & Surveys1 decade agoCrossword clue...cryptic crossword....7 letters..clue: Medicinal diamond?
Been driving me mad for 24 hours...no letters I'm afraid.
3 AnswersWords & Wordplay1 decade agoDo you think its disgusting that in the debate on Knife crime in parliament only 20 MPs turned up.?
and they want a pay rise as well......what a waste they are.
14 AnswersGovernment1 decade agoComputer software question?
When I turned on the computer it showed a screen I have not seen before which said windows is checking disk for consistency....everything works fine, I am using Windows vista...is this just a normal 'housekeeping' programme? and what does it mean?
4 AnswersSoftware1 decade agoBig Brother....help me out please.?
I didnt watch the first show last night....can you give me a quick run down of who the inmates are....just a brief description would do, dont need names.
8 AnswersReality Television1 decade ago