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2) Predict severe emotional turmoil shortly in elderly parents house with no broadband.
scrumpy | 17.02.22 - 7:14 a.m. | #
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3) In March 2012, this appeared on Eaton Rise in Ealing.
A few years ago, a "Zero 1A" popped up next door. I'm not quite sure where this would be on an integer sequence.
HoosierSands | 17.02.22 - 7:22 a.m. | #
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6) The TV set supplied with the Sky Glass deal does have an aerial socket so can be used as a normal TV on Freeview. So you can still watch television if the internet goes down.
7) Nice as flowering trees are it is not a good time of year if you suffer from tree pollen hay fever, especially when it is windy
John | 17.02.22 - 8:06 a.m. | #
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5) Thank you for spelling 'through' correctly.
SAM | 17.02.22 - 8:15 a.m. | #
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3 - I feel a written 'Minus One' is also cheating.
In the olden days a letter suffix would sufficed, but should the sequence be ..5, 3, 1, 1B, 1A or ..5, 3, 1, 1A, 1B.
5 - dealership white - keeping down costs.
6 - so 'Sky Ultimate TV' is the name for the most basic package. Is the TV permanently rented?
Still Anon | 17.02.22 - 8:28 a.m. | #
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6) I'm told that Sky have had the ability to prevent ad-skipping on Sky+ for quite some time, but it seems didn't think they could get away with introducing. A whole new product on the other hand gives them the opportunity to monetise it too...
martin | 17.02.22 - 9:01 a.m. | #
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6 - I wonder how long it will be before Sky dumps all their satellites and dishes, and just becomes another internet streaming service.
Jimbo | 17.02.22 - 9:02 a.m. | #
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2) Storm Dudley is reported this morning as having cut electricity off for thousands of people. Just as well there’s no need for any of them to phone their doctor, an ambulance or the fire brigade while their BT phone hub isn’t working. Oh, wait.... They all have fully-charged mobiles, so that’s OK. What do you mean “there’s no signal because everyone’s trying to use their mobiles at once”?
6) Another reminder why killing off the licence fee (aporoximately 50p a day) and making everyone pay for a subscription instead, even for BBC programmes, would be a really bad idea. Unless you run Sky, of course.
Labourer | 17.02.22 - 10:20 a.m. | #
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7. Maybe I will wait till next spring to see the Blossom Garden. I went looking for it last autumn and failed to find it despite following the signs.
davews | 17.02.22 - 10:25 a.m. | #
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2. I would have thought that someone with such a mobile life style as yours would have had a Power Bank.
Michael | 17.02.22 - 10:42 a.m. | #
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4. You did well. Both of my latest bunches from Tesco contained 16 stems!
6. I never watch enough TV to warrant having any subscriptions, so the BBC licence fee is all I need.
7. It's not the blossom that triggers pollen allergies since the flowers rely on insects to pollinate them. It's the trees that use wind to disperse their microscopic pollen, that are the culprits for us sufferers.
Cornish Cockney | 17.02.22 - 10:56 a.m. | #
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4. We have 5 bunches of daffodils right now, from both Lidl and Sainsburys. They vary between 15 and 17 flowers. Like dg, our first bunches were in single figures. There does appear to be a bit of a daffodil price war this year. Sainsburys are offering vouchers cutting the cost to 75p. Lidl has been as low as 89p.
ap | 17.02.22 - 11:29 a.m. | #
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2. My Smart Hub has to be in the utility room because all the cables have been set up with BT Openreach - and in this case, plugging your phone in that room is certainly not practical.
My phone socket is remotely connected to an ethernet cable in the utility room, so I have been able to use this adapter to plug the cable into the Openreach (or Smart Hub) box, and then I can still have my phone plugged into the living room as normal.
Ell | 17.02.22 - 12:17 p.m. | #
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2. Pardon my enormous bout of ignorance but what is a "smart hub" and will BT supply it?
I'm a computer user, not a skilled technician and struggle with many aspects of technology. Dear BT, please supply explanations in words of one or fewer syllables for folk like me.
dg writes: Try clicking on the links in the post.
Joel | 17.02.22 - 1:21 p.m. | #
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2. During the last storm, when thousands of homes in Scotland and northern England were without power for days, the mobile phone masts were damaged too. What would they have done with no landline either? And also of course there are many rural areas where there is never a mobile signal so there’s no point in having a fully charged mobile phone available.
VeeJayEm | 17.02.22 - 1:51 p.m. | #
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3. I grew up in a new build house which was two doors before the existing 2. The local council refused to give us a number, and looking back I think we should have called ourselves "Minus Two". I agree that that wouldn't have been the same as being numbered -2 though.
Re Still Anon's question, locally we have ... 5, 3, 1, 1C, 1B, 1A
miker | 17.02.22 - 1:56 p.m. | #
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2&6 (call it half a crown).
You can call me a dinosaur, but I manage to live quite happily without a mobile phone and without Sky. I work on the basis that there's no point in spending money on things that I wouldn't derive sufficient value from.
Petras409 | 17.02.22 - 2:28 p.m. | #
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1 why did a man with a big hose fire a jet of water from the first floor of a condemned block of flats? was there a fire that needed putting out
dg writes: do look at the photo.
Caroline | 17.02.22 - 4:33 p.m. | #
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7. I suspect there will be little blossom left by monday with the storms coming.. there might be fewer trees!.
1. Caroline... it's to control dust.
Alistair Twin | 17.02.22 - 4:54 p.m. | #
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2. That's quicker than I thought since the pilot domestic switchoff (Mildenhall) was only last summer, unless they ar targeting people who already have broadband.
In approving the switchover protocol, Ofcom have been incompetent or subject to capture by industry interests, maybe both.
MilesT | 17.02.22 - 7:05 p.m. | #
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6 - When Sky first launched, I thoguht their pitch was pay and see no ads. Now it's pay to see ads and pay even more to not see ads. It seems companies are starting to double-dip their customers more often. (At auctions you get both a buyer's commission and a seller's commission) How long before someone charges me to both breath in and breath out?
Jimbo: It's been Sky's plans for many years to get rid of their satellite service and rely on streaming. It's one of the reasons they got into broadband. I don't have Sky myself but I believe Sky is mainly a streaming service now anyway.
Jon Jones | 18.02.22 - 5:42 a.m. | #
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6 if you are very selective in what you stream, and don't connect an aerial, a TV license is not legally required (reducing costs). But that is a whole can of worms too involved to expand on here.
MilesT | 18.02.22 - 9:24 a.m. | #
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3) Not wishing to be pedantic, but both the linked maps spell it Lyttelton Rd.
dg writes: fixed, thanks.
Betterbee | 18.02.22 - 9:26 a.m. | #
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6) "I see it still has to show BBC/ITV/C4/C5" - Actually the BBC have to pay Sky to take it's channels - £50 for each sky subscriber, every year. It used to be £100 but Murdoch agreed to it being reduced.
dg writes: Not since 2014.
BJ | 20.02.22 - 12:59 p.m. | #
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