A new what-I-did-today thread

All packed! Why does the volume you packed for arrival double when being prepared for departure?
Is this some obscure law of physics I have never met?
Perhaps bags can elucidate!
Home tomorrow with unlimited wifi! [ very expensive on board]

Lovely poem soop - Thank you

JO5 Sorry my previous post was in Technical jargon. I will explain!

I had a new toy for Christmas and I started to play with it today. To start with it didn't work at all and I thought it was a software problem, but it wasn't the software at all, it was the hardware that was a problem!
There was a lead which needing inserting into an orifice to get it to work, but although I had inserted the lead into an orifice on new toy I had not inserted the other end into anything at all!

When I discovered this I inserted the loose end into an orifice on my older toy but it still did not work.

I eventually realised that I had inserted the lead from the new toy into the wrong orifice on my older toy. When I put it into the the
Scanner and laptop now connected and working!
What did you think I meant!

soop That poem is special for us too - DD1 chose it for her wedding.
harri do hope you're better soon.
DD2 just popped in for lunch. I made a Delia thing with homemade pesto, fresh pasta, and green beans and Parmesan. According to Delia it's over 800 calories a portion

Has a bit of your post been deleted for obscenity, Nellie?

have I missed something....?

I became 64!

Happy Birthday Kitty

Happt Birthday, kitty. Happy, even! (it's Berliner Brot, actually; hope you like)

Happy Birthday Kitty. Hope your day is turning out well

Happy birthday kitty hope you're having a lovely day

Ok Nelliemoser. That's a lot clearer.

I don't think you should keep saying 'orifice'.

Happy birthday Kitty

Ana innocent double entendre! I posted a full technical explanation of my computer scanner interface problem this morning at about 10:50ish, but JO5 couldn't understand the "techie" talk so I explained in simple language.

Happy Birthday, Kitty. Cheers!

Nellie, I know that! But in your last post, explaining your first one, the sentence starting "When I put it into the..." was unfinished!

Hope you're having a really lovely day, kitty!

Happy birthday kitty hope it's. been a good one

Oh bother! should have read it properly, the gremlins stole the words from my post!
"I eventually realised that I had inserted the lead from the new toy into the wrong orifice on my older toy. When I put it into the correct hole in the old toy it worked perfectly."

It made me realise how much easier and safer it was to use the "jargon" .

Thank goodness that's been cleaned cleared up!

Good shooting (bow 'n' arrow) today. I hope I can keep it up for tomorrow's tournament at Bannockburn (never say die! ). Meanwhile, DH is thinking I should enter a barebow and longbow (i.e. traditional bow) outdoor tournament in Aberlour in March. It's called the Glenlivet Frost-bite Tournament. Prizes for the most 'petticoats'.

Goodness, Bags! Nellie's technical jargon was easier to understand than that! What's a 'petticoat' in shooting terms?

Well, I should really have said "Keep rubbing it in" instead of never say die, shouldn't I, since the Scots won?

A petticoat in archery terms is the part of the target not covered by the coloured rings.

Yes.