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Our brown bin (garden waste) and green bin (recycling) were collected yesterday and today as normal.
Put them back round the back before I left for my walk.
Did some work earlier, cross trainer session and spoke to my Dad. He’s in Essex where things are not great COVID wise. But he’s keeping safe.
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Actually, it only crossed my mind yesterday to query whether collection (this week, next week) is as normal, or whether it had changed on account of Christmas, as last year did, (they had a special collection on a Saturday, I seem to recall).

Anyway, it is sorted; yesterday, on the phone, they confirmed that today's collection would go ahead as normal and also texted me about it as a further reminder.
 
Scepticalscribe said:
Actually, it only crossed my mind yesterday to query whether collection (this week, next week) is as normal, or whether it had changed on account of Christmas, as last year did, (they had a special collection on a Saturday, I seem to recall).

Anyway, it is sorted; yesterday, on the phone, they confirmed that today's collection would go ahead as normal and also texted me about it as a further reminder.
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We stick them in the calendar at the start of the year. Then it’s all there on my iPhone/iPad/Mac.
 
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Scepticalscribe said:
The carer (and later, her friend) used to do that at the start of the year, in the calendar we have in the kitchen (not the charity firemen's calendar that was in Mother's room).
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I discovered a free app called "bin reminder". Once set up I just ask my Alexa what bins go out this week and she tells me!
 
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Somebody disliked one of my comments, which in itself isn't noteworthy.

But the comment was from 9 months ago, buried pages into the thread, and a reply to another comment asking how to private message me.

Somebody disliked my instructions for how to contact myself.
 
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AVBeatMan said:
I discovered a free app called "bin reminder". Once set up I just ask my Alexa what bins go out this week and she tells me!
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For some strange reason, I have always liked to have a physical (i.e. paper) calendar - with nice images - in the kitchen.

Anyway, the bins have been emptied, and have now been returned to their respective niches.

Meanwhile, I may have to go calendar hunting.........
 
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Scepticalscribe said:
For some strange reason, I havev always liked to have a physical (i.e. paper) calendar - with nice images - in the kitchen.

Anyway, the bins have been emptied, and have now been returned to their respective niches.

Meanwhile, I may have to go calendar hunting.........
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I was going to google hunky fireman calendars and post a link, but decided I didn't want Google thinking that was my thing!
 
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Apple fanboy said:
I was going to google hunky fireman calendars and post a link, but decided I didn't want Google thinking that was my thing!
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Mother loved them, and thought that they were an absolute hoot.

Even before the carer had joined us, I had bought one - actually, two - of these calendars, for Mother, as I knew she'd enjoy them, for the local fire brigade used to do a charity calendar which they would sell on the streets - attired in their fulll uniforms and complete with dashing fire engines, - in December each year, and Decent Brother thought it a brilliant idea when I starting getting them for Mother.

Initially, they used to hang in the kitchen, and the idea - which succeeded - was to put a grin on Mother's face. She and the carer would discuss favourites, both roaring with - and helpless with - laughter.

In latter years, as she was bed bound, and confined to her room, the calendars used to hang on the wall in her bedroom, and A Brother and/or the carer managed to get an additional poster or two of a hunky fireman which found its way to her wardrobe door, where it found a home, somehwat incongruously, along with a few university graduation photos of myself, and both brothers, respectively.
 
Got the first dose (Moderna). So far no side effects.
 

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Scepticalscribe said:
For some strange reason, I havev always liked to have a physical (i.e. paper) calendar - with nice images - in the kitchen.

Anyway, the bins have been emptied, and have now been returned to their respective niches.

Meanwhile, I may have to go calendar hunting.........
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I'm another who always has a calendar in the kitchen; one with a magnetic thingy so that it lives on the side of the refrigerator. Each morning when I first get up I glance at it while getting the OJ out of the refrigerator and beginning to prepare my coffee. I note the dates I'll be away from home on trips, days and times of lunch or dinner dates, appointments, people's birthdays, when library books are due, etc., on there and I really find this much more convenient and quicker than using my iPhone, iPad or computer, although sometimes I will also stick something in the Calendar on my devices, too.

In the past I used to be able to buy my favorite brand at Barnes & Noble, which has a bookshop in a small mall down the street from me, but last year when I looked they had none available. I always start looking in October in order to be able to get what I want, as they tend to sell out quickly once the holiday shopping season is underway. I shrugged, came home, got online and ordered what I wanted from good old Amazon.

This year, because of COVID-19, I didn't even go to the bookstore at all, simply ordered from Amazon straightaway and the calendar has been sitting by these past months, waiting to be pressed into service. Only a couple of days now!
 
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AngerDanger said:
Somebody disliked one of my comments, which in itself isn't noteworthy.

But the comment was from 9 months ago, buried pages into the thread, and a reply to another comment asking how to private message me.

Somebody disliked my instructions for how to contact myself.
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Given the particulars of some posts I’ve read here, I am not surprised. 😉

@Clix Pix glad your MBP is trucking. That is great. Especially nice to hear that battery draining social media sites have no effect on it.

@yaxomoxay Glad your first dose of the vaccine went smoothly. Here’s to no side effects!

Paper Calendars. I like them too, but noticed I’ve stopped using them and defer to my phone, tablet calendars instead. If I buy a paper calendar now, it’s just for the images.

Thankfully, some homeopathic remedies are helping mom’s osteoarthritis a little bit.
 
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kazmac said:
Given the particulars of some posts I’ve read here, I am not surprised. 😉

@Clix Pix glad your MBP is trucking. That is great. Especially nice to hear that battery draining social media sites have no effect on it.

@yaxomoxay Glad your first dose of the vaccine went smoothly. Here’s to no side effects!

Paper Calendars. I like them too, but noticed I’ve stopped using them and defer to my phone, tablet calendars instead. If I buy a paper calendar now, it’s just for the images.

Thankfully, some homeopathic remedies are helping mom’s osteoarthritis a little bit.
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Glad something is helping your mother.
Hope she continues to improve and your own Mac is working well.
 
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Paper Calendars. I like them too, but noticed I’ve stopped using them and defer to my phone, tablet calendars instead. If I buy a paper calendar now, it’s just for the images.

Thankfully, some homeopathic remedies are helping mom’s osteoarthritis a little bit.
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Still love paper calendars (and paper books, and real newspapers).

Very glad to learn that some homeopathic remedies are helping your mother's osteoarthritis.
 
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The Internet Archive is posting an ad asking for donations because less than 1 in 1000 donate(0.001%)

Honestly, I am feeling good about Google and FaceBook now. People deserve having their personal privacy abused for being so stingy and not donating to free(and kind) services/software.
 
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yaxomoxay said:
End of January.
For the record this thing is painful!! It started well but after a few hours I could barely move my arm (they told me it’s totally normal).
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Ouch.

Good to know.

Actually, very good to know.

Hope you feel better soon, and best of luck as you approach the time when you are due to recieve the second dose.
MacBH928 said:
The Internet Archive is posting an ad asking for donations because less than 1 in 1000 donate(0.001%)

Honestly, I am feeling good about Google and FaceBook now. People deserve having their personal privacy abused for being so stingy and not donating to free(and kind) services/software.
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While I love to see someone (anyone, preferably a government or an international or supranational body, siuch as the EU - put manners on Facebook and Google, to my mind, nobody deserves to have their personal privacy abused, not personally, not professionally and not for commercial advantage.
 
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Scepticalscribe said:
Ouch.

Good to know.

Actually, very good to know.

Hope you feel better soon, and best of luck as you approach the time when you are due to recieve the second dose.


While I love to see someone (anyone, preferably a government or an international or supranational body, siuch as the EU - put manners on Facebook and Google, to my mind, nobody deserves to have their personal privacy abused, not personally, not professionally and not for commercial advantage.
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They refuse to save themselves,Wikipedia ask for about $3 to remain free, tracker less, ad less...just $3!
 
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