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>> I am only kidding (of course). Sarah is *exactly* the same - I mean
>> *exactly*. I really wish I had not fitted switched sockets. Many is
>> the time I have wasted 10 minutes as I waited for the kettle to boil.
>> One time when I went away to a QL show she turned off everything in my
>> office, including answer machine, phones (which all discharged their
>> batteries) and computer running my fax machine.
>
> I think it's possibly one of those OCD things. An obsessive (irrational) need
> to turn things off. When I'm having a bath, Alison comes in to make sure the
> taps are off - eh?
Good god are you sure they are not twins. Sarah turns my bath water off
when it is about 6 inches deep before I even get near.
>
>> OK - when did *any* electrical equipment in the house catch fire,
>> including toasters.
>
> April 2000 in Darwin. The Novatel. There are toasters in every room. On Good
> Friday at 06:30 ish AM, on the only day we were able to have a lie in after
> 05:30, some silly woman in another room started a fire with a toaster. So
> much for a 'lie in'.
Nothing at home then (8-)#
>
> A friend's washing machine recently went up in flames when switched off
> (plugged in and turned on, but off on the rotary switch!) - burned her house
> down :o(
Still not *your* house.
>
>> Give her more then. I see 40GB hard disks from CPC are now under £25.
>
> I'd go the whole hog and fit the biggest disc I could get my hands on. You
> never have enough disc space, not at 6 mega-pixies in RAW format. A 1GB card
> holds about 100 photos - so 40 GB would give only 4,000 photos and no room
> for the PNGs she generates for the Web and so on.
... then get a 250GB disk.
Mind you it would take a *very* long time to download that lot on the
internet (8-)#
>
>
>> Ah yes - Rawden is where Phil Borman used to live. I have corrected the
>> database. Funny how the eyes/brain are never to be trusted.
>
> I wouldn't trust mine any further than I could throw it.
I could have sworn you have two eyes. Maybe one is there only for throwing.
Tony
>
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