The ex-mrs_sean_bean

New friends

msb66 — Thu, 03 Jul 2014 15:55:10 GMT

If you wish to friend me leave a comment below. Cheers!

Computer help required

msb66 — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 14:13:35 GMT

Our friends B&C (our fellow travellers in Paris) have had their Hotmail account hacked and subsequently blocked. The attack came via an email from a friendly address which had itself been hacked. B contacted the Hotmail Abuse team via email (from a new address) and was given some links to supposedly help him, although these took him to pages he had already found on the 'abuse' page. When these didn't work he was asked for a mobile number and was given a code which he had to enter in a specific dialogue box to unlock the account. This did not work. The response to his latest email to Microsoft (where he told them the code had not worked) told him that they felt they had given all the advice he needed and would no longer answer his queries.

B has set up another email address and had a record of quite a number of his email contacts. However, another person affected by the same attack had TalkTalk as a supplier and they have a facility to transfer an address book from one account to another.

The questions are:

1) Does Hotmail have a similar facility to transfer contacts from one address to another? And will he ever be able to use this if he cannot unblock his original account?

2) Does anyone have any ideas of what he can do to try and unblock the account now that Microsoft have turned their backs?

3) Has anyone any experience of emails being blocked (from hacking or otherwise, Hotmail or otherwise)? If so do you have any useful advice?

I will leave this post open to the public so B can see your responses.

Such is the awesome power of you, my internet friends that B rang specifically asking if I could ask you for help.

Meanwhile the rest of us will go and print out an up-to-date list of our email contacts lest the same should happen to us...

Aga/rayburn questions

msb66 — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 10:14:10 GMT

So now I have to ask fredbassett and liars_dance what do I need to know about Aga and Rayburn cooking?

I know virtually nothing at the moment, but several of the houses we have details for have one or other. I know you can get gas agas simply to cook on and that they don't have to be the whole heating/water system. But are most agas doing the whole job? I think of rayburns as always being the entire heating/water/cooking unit. What questions would we need to ask about them? I presume they have to be serviced like any other heating system?

A lot of the places we are looking for properties don't have mains gas, so are on solid fuel or oil. When my parents moved to the village they retired to there was no mains gas and they changed their system from solid fuel to oil. Since then oil prices have rocketed, but gas is not the cheap product it once was.

We are a bit unsure about the thought of an aga/rayburn, but it is through lack of experience. Any info would be useful. Thanks in advance.

Tooty Frooties

msb66 — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 11:37:42 GMT

Seriously - I had no idea these were still around. I cannot remember the last time I had some, but it was YEARS ago.

Apart from being smaller than I remember (but what childhood treats have grown with age?) they are exactly the same. Amazing.

http://www.rowntrees.co.uk/range/

msb66 — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 15:25:37 GMT

I stole this from autumn_witch78. AND I got the same result.

I write like
Chuck Palahniuk

I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!

Perry

msb66 — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 12:44:32 GMT

While I remember...

I have long wanted to try perry. This is a wine made from specific perry pears. I love pears and pear flavoured things, so have wanted to give it a try.

Last week I was doing my shop in Aldi and spotted a 'wine box' with a pear on the front. On closer inspection it contained 3l of still perry from Norfolk. Thinking 3l was rather a lot to get through I saw it was only £3.99 so decided it give it a go. I would highly recommend anyone vaguely interested gives it a try. It has only a slight pear flavour. Really it is more like a fruit juice - and you have to remember it is alcohol! But at 7.5% alcohol it's very light. As with all wine boxes it has a little spout affair to dispense the liquid, and seems to be 'keeping' the wine OK.

Extremely pleasant and well worth a go. It strikes me that it would be great if you were having friends round for a summer evening - a good talking point and not expensive.

Gay Cinema

msb66 — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 10:22:42 GMT

Over at adventures_in we are doing a Farewell (for now) Countdown of the favourite 20 topics covered by the community. You are all welcome to come over and have a look. Yesterday (in 17th place) was Gay Cinema, a topic I covered a while ago. For those who aren't members, but might be interested anyway I post my entry here.

As I said I did this list off the top of my head, without huge thought. Really I could do a top 20 very easily, and would still be having to leave out things I enjoy watching. I left out 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show', 'Bent', 'My Own Private Idaho', 'Mysterious Skin', did not include any Almodovar...

I thought I'd just go with trailers for my top 10 favourite films with gay content.

10. Priest

9. Maurice

8. Head On

7. Brokeback Mountain

6. Beautful Thing

5. Latter Days

4. The Sum of Us

3. The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert

2. The Crying Game

1. My Beautiful Laundrette

Ride 'em...

msb66 — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 09:56:14 GMT

Jon Favreau was involved when Sean Bean was put into a cowboy outfit. Now he's doing it with Daniel Craig. (Strangley it's cowboys and aliens as a theme again

http://www.collider.com/2010/05/20/jon-favreau-cowboys-and-aliens-daniel-craig-image-tweet/

Regency Queer History

msb66 — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 09:26:46 GMT

Before I forget to post about this...

On Monday night Peter noted that there was a drama on telly starring Maxine Peake. We like Maxine and try and catch stuff that she does. So we watched. It was a drama about Anne Lister - an 'openly' lesbian woman in regency times (http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/tv/2010/05/anne-listers-diaries-from-page.shtml) Fascinating.

Anne wrote a diary running to 4 million words and therefore being twice as many words as Pepys. She wrote explicitly about her thoughts and actions - with the explicit stuff being written in a code. The drama was followed by a documentary narrated by Sue Perkins (for whom I have a great deal of time). She commented on her own lack of knowledge of this woman and how history would have been far more interesting to her as a kid had characters such as Anne been highlighted. I did a course looking at the role of women in the UK economy and we never dealt with women as land owners at this time (I suppose because they were so rare). Yet this woman was a landowner, sunk a coal mine on her land, was a very successful business woman and as Sue Perkins pointed out, moulded other women to fit in with her business and leisure activities. She probably had the first 'official' civil partnership, with her marriage being blessed in the church.

As was said in the documentary, previous to this we have the women of Jane Austen as guides of social niceties in this era. Yet in Anne Lister we see a totally different outlook on life of the times. Totally fascinating.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Lister
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Know-Own-Heart-1791-1840-Literature/dp/0814792499

msb66 — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 08:08:46 GMT

I had a fairly free day yesterday so I thought I'd catch up on here and upload some pictures. Couldn't get an internet connection ALL DAY. Bummer. So here I am this morning - and everything is fine. But of course I have jobs to do today...

In brief - we had a great long weekend. Managed Monday in the garden doing all sorts of tidying up jobs. Finally got the veg plot planted up - mostly with onions (we're giving these a try this season). Bought some rainbow swiss chard while we were away and decided to try that in a tub (as the books said this was good in pots and we can have it by the living room window and enjoy the colour!). Peter bent a spade digging up the fuchsia that had died. I have netted the redcurrants. The birds have already stripped quite a few fruit (still very green) and I wanted to get at least some fruit off the trees this year.

Off to catch up, then do jobs. Hopefully I'll be able to be back later *waves*.

Action man!Richard

msb66 — Wed, 26 May 2010 10:14:56 GMT

For anyone who hasn't seen this yet... tanuja knows the person who has made this vid. We are all lucky to have friends of friends like this! We haven't watched 'Strike Back' yet, but it is stored on the hard drive ready to go.

YUM

msb66 — Tue, 25 May 2010 10:02:33 GMT

The weekend was HOT. We got up into the 80's - which is more than we should be for this time of year. Our weather patterns are most certainly changing... I was trying to get some of my plants potted up into outdoor tubs on Saturday - which meant working in the greenhouse. I gave up at lunch time as it was WAY too hot to be doing much - let alone under glass. On Sunday we didn't even attempt to do stuff, just sat and ate and enjoyed the sun.

Peter's project for the weekend was re-staining the garden bench. We've done it in neutral wood preserver stuff previously. Decided to stain it to match the two tubs on the patio (that it sits between). He did the work in the garage, simply to prevent getting a furry cat stuck to the varnish. It was ideal 'baking' conditions in there, so he got two coats on and it's all done and back out.

Yesterday was also gloriously sunny and hot, but today we have dropped 10 degrees C and are back at normal temps for May (back down to the 60s F). When you think that only two weeks ago we had frosts you can understand how hard it is to predict what is going to happen with weather over here.

I am just heading out to the garden to carry on planting out tubs. This is one of my favourite jobs of the gardening year. The cold winter does seem to have killed off a lot of slugs and snails as there are far less than the last couple of years. Thank Goodness.

Casualties from the hard frosts we had include the two lovely holly bushes we had in tubs on the patio. Yet the pansies that were in the same tubs survived - so I can't understand that at all. I've lost two fuchsias. One was a gorgeous one we got from Hidcote gardens over ten years ago. To be truthful it hasn't been as good the last couple of years and I think it was probably waning before the frost got it. Also one of our shrubs (I don't know what it's called) which is usually evergreen lost a lot of leaves this winter. They are coming back, but not as densely. I've put more soil around it to encourage growth and am hoping it bulks up eventually.

AND the cherry and plum trees I planted last year are setting fruit! I am so pleased as they were Aldi bargain ones. They have put on a lot of growth this season too. I am especially pleased with the cherry as we moved it when we put up the shed, so it got disturbed.

msb66 — Mon, 24 May 2010 15:23:33 GMT

I've only just got online today as there was a strange clicking on my phone line which appreared to be stopping the Broadband dialling up correctly. All fixed now so I can say

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO momsalive1. You are the best friend anyone could have and I love you lots, OK?

(I just got into my email, so will read your mail presently!)

A week is a long time in UK weather. And ash

msb66 — Thu, 20 May 2010 11:21:02 GMT

The lowest temperature here last night was higher than the highest daytime temperature for the whole of last week.

And several of you have asked about The Ash Cloud. Iceland is a Very Long Way Away. But weather conditions have been bringing the ash down from the north. Mostly it is at high altitude - hence the problems with air travel. The only real way we have seen it (apart from quiet, trail free skies when there are no planes) is that the rain is very dirty. In the past we have had saharan sand come down in the rain (caused by similar air movement thingies, but from the other direction). So Peter washed his car on Sunday - there was a shower and the whole thing was covered in dirty rain drop marks afterwards. The windows are dusty from the residue of rain (which is annoying because we only recently washed them, and that doesn't happen all that often).

Last week we were covered by a northerly airflow that brought ash and cold air from the north. This week we have a south westerly air flow and we have warmth and a little humidity. Such are the joys of living on a small island between a large land mass and a big bit of water.

For the Ladies in Melbourne...

msb66 — Thu, 20 May 2010 10:01:47 GMT

...THIS is what you are looking for.

http://community.livejournal.com/cliveowen_daily/221027.html

For those who might be interested

msb66 — Tue, 18 May 2010 21:39:21 GMT

Thanks to a link from chelseagirl I have found the following:

clameron and uk_lolitics

Both these give a pretty good account of the joining of Mr Clegg and Mr Cameron *cough* in every way possible. I confess I haven't read any fic yet but you have a choice of mainstream media coverage, YouTube clips and idle fantasies to go at there. Not sure how long I can keep both on my flist as I am already inundated with entries after less than 24 hours. Who said nobody is interested in politics in the UK? Oh sorry, of course we're not really talking politics here, are we? *wink*

This particular post caught my eye. Interesting to ponder.
http://community.livejournal.com/uk_lolitics/38741.html

I'm pretty sure I still have the copy of Attitude magazine containing Nick Clegg's interview - they interviewed the 3 major party leaders prior to the election to see how the gay vote should go. Must rummage it out as I never read that particular article, see if there are any pointers.

Filament info

msb66 — Wed, 05 May 2010 10:03:08 GMT

An interesting article on Filament Magazine - an interview with Mrs Editor.

http://www.whackmagazine.com/2010/05/filament-magazine-mainstream-porn-is.html?zx=6f82423ec720aad1

I've lost Lost

msb66 — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 13:01:55 GMT

Where has Lost gone this week? I thought it was my recorder playing up but I can't see Lost listed in the viewing thingies at all this week. Has it moved from Friday? Or is it just missing a week for some reason?

How DARE They make me wait extra time for anothe episode!

Peter Steele

msb66 — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 10:54:16 GMT

I just read that Peter Steele SEE HERE lead singer of Type O Negative died this week. I first noticed him in a video of 'My Girlfriend's Girlfriend'. I bought the album 'Ocotber Rust' and enjoyed it. Here are a couple of tracks for those who don't know the band. [What can I say? I like anything from Erasure to this - I like diverse!]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgkBWZXVLyk
Sorry - can't get an embed for this vid

Be my druidess

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

msb66 — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 10:15:39 GMT

julie709!!!!!!!!!!

I hope you get the day off today and do lovely things! Are you doing anything with M?

HAVE A GREAT DAY and we all send lots of love (Fluffy can purr you a Happy Birthday!)

Alice T shirts

msb66 — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 10:29:36 GMT

For chelseagirl

I saw these featured in a magazine and thought of you. I see the 2nd from the right has a top hat in the image too...

http://blog.missselfridge.com/weblog/2010/02/alice-in-wonderland.html

Major Confessions. Part 1

msb66 — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 10:23:10 GMT

Here I begin a series of posts where I make a confession to the Universe (represented by you, my readers). The topics will be varied and unrelated, save for the fact that I feel I am generally going against the grain. Discussion is great but the main purpose of these posts will be to unburden my soul. Deal?

My first Major Confession is...

I don't find Johnny Depp sexually attractive. He is a great actor. He is not unattractive. But he does absolutely nothing for me.

When I set up celeb_shag_list I did contemplate keeping a record of who was chosen on people's lists of 10. I also felt that if I was doing this I should record where on the list of preferences the person had been chosen (No 1 being the fave and No 10 being the least fave of the names selected). Or whether the chooser had not been able to state a preference and had simply chosen 10 people. I am nerdy and get on with statistics, what can I say?

I never undertook my statistical analysis. I have, however, read all the lists that have ever been posted on the site. From a purely non-scientific and top-of-my-head stand point I would say Johnny Depp has been the most chosen person. And that if the choices were ranked, he would be at the top end (most favourite) of most of the lists on which he has appeared.

I know there are several of you on my f-list who would rank Mr Depp in your top 3 celebrity loves. I do not fault you in any way. I am just saying that I don't feel the sexual chemistry between us.

msb66 — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 10:42:00 GMT

I am slightly late - I'm sorry!.

A VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY to agdhani. Thought you might like these

Twingo ad

msb66 — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 11:02:32 GMT

I have been meaning to look for this advert on Youtube for ages. Finally got round to it. I love how all three men look round when 'Dad' is shouted. I can't imagine this theme would have been accepted as a possible selling medium until fairly recently.

It's a shock!

msb66 — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 17:59:34 GMT

What I am about to tell you will come as a shock. If you don't feel physically sick you may feel at least a little faint. I want you to be prepared, OK? So you've got to be sitting down and have no sharp objects in front of you. Done that? *Deep breath*

I went passed a hotel in Salford Quays today that had a banner outside saying:

'Book now for Christmas and New Year.'

Fortunately I was stopped at traffic lights when I spotted it otherwise I may have swerved trying to get a second look. And it is new (not just left over from last Christmas) because they had a 'book for Mother's Day' banner there previously.

WTF people? I mean seriously, WTF?