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Thunderbox

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About Thunderbox

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  • Birthday 04/07/1957

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    South Yorkshire
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    art & crafts, anything holistic
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    sales assistant

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  1. Did anyone receive a Red Copper 5 minute Chef for Christmas? Would you recommend it? What kind of recipes do you use it for? I was wondering if it would be worth spending £40 on one.
  2. Thanks everyone. I'm going to check out some of these as I'd never heard of them before and, probably unsurprisingly, the Jobcentre never comes up with any of this type of information. Thanks again everyone.
  3. Yes, the Dummies books are good but these days, I pick things up better if I am actually doing specific exercises in whichever application it is. Just reading things like "press this key, select that, press enter" and so on, just doesn't stick in my memory any more. Plus the fact that my pc is quite old and I'm unable to afford anything more up to date with better spec, which is why I was looking at actual courses. It would be handy if I could get a kind of placement within a company for a few weeks, at no cost to the Employer, but in return for being taught the latest edition of MS Office. However, I very much doubt the Jobcentre would approve and would stop my JSA.
  4. My MS Office skills are out of date. I've been looking at various online courses, which vary from a couple of hundred pounds to almost two thousand pounds which I can't really afford at the moment. Can anyone recommend a cheap course that isn't just an online book. I need to be able to actually do the exercises rather than just read about them. I've had several books from the library but the screenshots are too small to be able to read easily.
  5. Previous posts seem to be over a decade old. Has anyone been paid for online surveys? Is it worth doing? I'm interested in it as a supplement to the day job. Anything helps these days but if it means spending hours online for pence then I'll forget about it.
  6. I was under the impression that inkjet printers use dye based inks in small format and giclee uses pigment based inks on large format printers and that pigment based inks were less likely to fade if placed in direct light.
  7. I'm on a bit of a mission for my cousin. She is wanting black and white photos, taken around mid 50's to mid 60's of Bramhall Lane and Oak Street Heeley. Also a decent one of the Train Station of that time. She is wanting these to frame and have on her lounge wall. Any help would be appreciated. I have looked on quite a few historic photos websites so far. Thanks.
  8. I'd be happy if drivers bothered to use indicators. Countless times I've driven behind someone who goes for miles, turning left and right without ever using indicators. I must admit I very rarely use the horn. Mainly because I'm one of those boring old biddies that tend to stay within the speed limit so are able to brake before needing to sound the horn. Either that or I'm too busy cursing people who don't indicate.
  9. Hi, can anyone recommend a good, reasonably priced, printers that can do giclee printing up to A2 size?
  10. The tabloids don't help either. They seem hell bent on stirring up tensions between the young and old, the rich and poor, the well educated and the not so well educated because it sells newspapers. I'm sure all of those mentioned have something good to offer but I guess everyone needs to get things off their chests, to rant and rave and at some point, maybe two or three months time, we might actually roll our sleeves up and get on with it. The referendum itself turned into something dark and nasty. Let's not carry that forward.
  11. Any petition with over 100,000 signatures has to be mentioned in parliament. It doesn't mean that they accept it, or act on it. I once signed a petition and then got inundated on my email with other petitions. They must receive thousands each week. They'd rather stand there insulting each other than look at how the electorate feel about different issues.
  12. I don't think either majority could have been classed as a 'win' due to the fact that the EU still have to be negotiated with. Juncker's first comment on hearing that we had voted to Leave was that the 'negotiations' that Cameron had done earlier in the year were 'void and ceased to exist'. It had been said many times that if we remained in the EU, those negotiations would have been thrown out any way because Juncker said they were illegal. So the fact the Cameron always referred to a 'reformed EU' was wrong. Whichever way the vote went, the EU would punish us simply for having the audacity to hold a referendum and also to deter any other member states from doing the same. I believe that the only thing the EU liked about the UK was the huge weekly contribution to their slush fund. As soon as the referendum was announced, Juncker was calling us 'deserters' so it was obvious they would not welcome us with open arms if we stayed with them. Maybe the true benefit of this referendum is that the EU will be forced to take notice of the remaining members and start to reform otherwise others will try to get out. I know this doesn't help us but bleating about 'poor us' ain't gonna get us anywhere. We have a huge amount of youngsters with degrees in busines studies and the like, so perhaps if they stopped worrying whether their holidays to the med are going to get expensive (probably not) or whether they can work abroad (most likely can) then we need to move on. Most of the med make billions from us holidaying there. Does anyone, honestly, think they will price themselves out of the market to prove a point? Probably not.
  13. I don't do water kefir any more. My kefir grains are for milk. I've also started making kombucha now although I'm still learning how to do this. You can buy water kefir grains from http://happykombucha.co.uk/collections/water-kefir but they are quite expensive. Will be much better if you can find someone who can give you some of their surplus water grains.
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