Recent content by Mike

8-year-old twin girls, go ballistic when they find out the price for 2 ice creams from a van is £9. Twins, 8, fume after discovering two ice creams will cost them £9 Mike.

Sorry to read this, Ron, may he Rest In Peace. Mike.

One thing that I didn't list, was if you worked a Bank Holiday, you were paid Double Time, plus you got a, "Day off in Lieu", so treble time really. Mike.

Here in the UK, every employee gets paid holidays, usually between, 21 to 28 days, increasing by one day for every year you are with the company, but there is a limit that I don't remember, plus there are 8 days of Bank Holidays, these are normally Mondays, except for Good Friday, and Christmas...

Thank you for your replies. I left it alone, after another hour and a half, I went out to get a newspaper, when I got back, another hour later, everything was working!!!! I sort of suspect a fault in my machine, for a couple of days now, it seems to be doing a lot of buffering of the videos...

I deliberately restarted my PC to allow updates to happen, over 1 hour ago, it has now been stuck in "Cleaning up 100% complete Don't turn off your computer ", for 30 minutes! What to do now, should switch off, or should I wait? Mike

So, more "Fake News", I was hoping that it is wrong, somebody narrating the video, says, it still remains a possibility! Mike.

Hundreds of earthquakes have hit Yellowstone, this has the authorities worried according to the attached video, we heard about Yellowstone being a super volcano, that will cause serious problems Worldwide if it does erupt. Mike.

There was a discussion on the radio about them today, they said that if you can't see them, on a faint tinge on the sky, if you look at that tinge by using your phone camera, you will get a better sight of them that you will using only your own eyes, I didn't know this and now we have cloud...

They are really very powerful this year, below in an image from the BBC, this was taken in the center of England, normally they are only seen in Northern Scotland. In pictures: Northern Lights dazzle around the world Mike. A view of the Northern Lights at Rutland Water next to Normanton...

Absolutely amazing, I have seen them in Scotland, years ago, but here in London, there is too much light pollution. I saw the report on the TV News tonight, they are also seeing them in New Zealand, but they have different names down there. Mike.

OK, I got the booster today, Modena Pikevax, I have had this one before with no problems and the needles are a lot thinner, I never felt it going in. The strange thing, that I found is, that nobody can tell me when this booster becomes active and covers me 100%, I even called the NHS helpline...

I didn't go for the booster yet, too much going on and I forgot about it till Monday evening, when I spoke with my brother on the phone. Last week, my young brother was admitted to hospital with a serious UTI, since being admitted, he has been infected with Covid, so I am getting one this...

This is a sad story with a sort of happy ending, but I am sure his family would rather have him sitting with them, even if they were poor. It is nice to read that the family at least have a roof, over their heads. Mike.

The Belgians like a good time, I used to go there on nights out when I was in the Air Force in Germany, it wasn't too far in a car and the beer was cheap, which suited we young underpaid Airmen! Mike.