Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)

Will have to try and check that one out. I knew most of the street names but was unsure of their actual location. I think I used the History Hollow topic Barrington :- http://www.bedlington.co.uk/community/topic/654-barrington/page-2?hl=barrington#entry34128 using Barton Raffies tagged photos, and the http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/ to place all the streets.

Cheers Symptoms. Just working my way through all the possible unqualified answers/reasons i might get from BT help desk when I ring them back. Just want to prove to myself, even though I am 99.9% certain already, that none of the three devices in this household are inadvertently downloading anything that would up BT's calculation that bI have increased my downloading 150% since the BT Home Hub 5 was installed. Unfortunately, Sods Law, the BT usage monitor has now been out of service for 3 days already this month. BT say they are upgrading, perhaps they are getting it ti work correctly on my usage!!!! Although the rest of the world appears to require 'unlimited downloads' I just can't ever see me requiring, or wanting to pay more, for what little I use. I will keep monitoring, talking to BT etc., without changes, to see if I can resolve the situation before the end of this months allowance is eaten up. But always open to advice, or as I used to tell the trainees we used to get in at work when a problem arose - 'I'm older than you and seen, and probably caused that problem, before that's why I know the answer.

It certainly did, but can't remember if the manufacture was 'Princes' or another company - fish, salmon, beef, crab, chicken and probably loads more. Small glass jars with air tight 'tin' lids that just pressed back on.

Eventually found the BT Home Hub (activity) Log and discovered there was another WiFi address using my hub! So along with the 2 I knew about, my old Desktop PC and the newly fitted Sky WiFi Mini download/on demand box, was the wife's Nokia Lumia Windows phone that will have initiated connection when the hub was installed 5 weeks ago. Started monitoring on download usage via the BT Broadband monitor for the new calendar month on the 1st. On the 2nd - 0.93GB recorded over the first day - so if I keep at that average I will again go over, and be charged, my 29GB monthly allowance. Switched of the wife's WiFi. On the 3rd - sods law - BT decided to upgrade their Broadband monitor so it was down all day. On the 4th - 09:00 - monitor still down. On the 4th - 15:00 - monitor back in use and still recording my usage as 0.93GB. Roll on Monday - check usage and switch off Sky download box.

I think you should walk bast the 'Live' camera once per month, at a prearranged time, so we can check the body outline! You'll be telling us next you haven't got time to eat because of your 'Power walking' regime. Please to hear the job is keeping you busy.

Just have a quick peak almost every day, or night and I know I should grow up but when a person walks by the camera I just want to shout 'HOI'. Is it only when you use a zoom & focus facility that you require a special licence for this type of 'surveillance' camera?

1962-3 - can't remember the name of the farm - East Sleekburn - helping Alan Thompson (from Bolam Place) the farm milkman; potato and egg man; haystack builder etc. etc gathering in the eggs from the battery hen shed. My mate, Alex Third, and I thought we could cope with with any smell. Shovel up the cow patts from the yard, doddle. Next task to clean out the pig sty; three pens on each side of the building. Fork and shovel one load of muck from the furthest away sty into the middle sty - splat splat splat. Fork and shovel two loads into the end sty, double splattering. Fork and shovel three loads out of the first sty into the doorway to pile up with the three loads from the other 3 pens - splat and double splat. Fork and shovel 6 pen loads of pig mashed droppings onto the trailer. That was bad enough but when we were asked to go into the hen shed and fill an egg carton tray we found out what 'smells from the past' really was. Think the trays held 30 eggs so shouldn't take long; each cage with 10 hens and I think 3 or 4 cages stacked on top of each other. Each cage with it's own chute for the eggs to roll down into a collecting channel. Each of us just to go down one line and fill up a tray. The stench at the entrance to the shed made us cockle and stop - "If you want paying you have to finish the job" would be the cry. Empty egg tray balanced on one hand; breath held, into the valley (shed) of death strode the two workers. You couldn't even guarantee to pick up 30 solid eggs! Many of the egg shells, as a result of the forced feeding, had not formed properly and you occasionally picked up, what looked like a solid egg, a soft shell that split and 'slurped' over your hand. Each cage had approximately 10 hens and at least one, in each cage, was dead. So when you combine the hundreds of hens' 10% (approx) dead, piles of hen droppings, the heat in the shed; the rotting deformed eggs I have to put that smell down to the worst I remember from the past. Strange how I still enjoy an egg, with a runny yolk!

Thanks Symptoms - checking, learning, documenting, checking............................. will update as soon as I have an answer or solution.

Thanks for the reply Threegee - no BtTupdate this morning on their Broadband usage monitor so will have to wait until tomorrow to see what the first recorded download usage is for October. BT Hom Hub 5 - PC & Sky wireless. Sky connecting to Hub via On Demand MINI Wireless Connector. I will interrogate the neighbors (youngest 72 years old) over the garden fence with tea and Rington's Ginger Snaps.

Does anyone know of any software that monitors and logs all downloads? I am running Microsoft Windows Vista. Over the last calendar month my total download has increased from an average of 7.43GB per month to 20.56GB! My habits have not changed in the last month. I don't download music, videos, TV programs etc. etc. I do have Sky on demand and have tested it, just in case I ever need it, and did download three 1 hour programs = 3 x 644MB in the first couple weeks of this month. Never checked the monitor until I got the email on the 23rd from BT saying I had used 14GB this month. Then on the 26th I recieved another email saying I had used 18GB! So apart from the normal Windows and security software automatic downloads; the odd photo and pdf documents I don't download. Yes I play on community sites - sixtownships etc. and play one game - wwf on fb - but nothing that I am aware of that would suddenly start downloading at approx 3/4 to 1 GB per day. That's what the BT broadband usage monitor has been recording but I have no idea what is causing this sudden increase. New BT month starts tomorrow so I will be checking daily on BT's recorded usage.

Thanks Malcolm.

Thanks Malolm, So nothing new on the wind turbines then but I can't work out or find anything on SLAH. Is it Sheltered Housing?

Any updates on the Nedderton wind turbines? I've just had two friends ask me if I knew why there was so many properties up for sale in Nedderton. When they drove through, Nedderton last week they reckon they saw around a dozen for sale notices and were wondering if they were all trying to get out before any further decisions on wind turbines are made.

I remember someone (Tonyg!) posting this aerial photo from the britainfromabove.org.uk site and adding a comment something like - 'fantastic photo - I didn't know some of these streets ever existed'. Managed to find out some of the names and have added them to a copy, as allowed by English Heritage, off the britainfromabove site:- Can't find the original post.

Looks like a'll hae to move back haem. It's oot with the kilt = Moffatt toffee, sorry tartan, and The Ae Village here we cum.

I know I should take this more seriously but, just like everyone interviewed on the streets of Scotland & Berwick, it's too complex for my small brain to work out if it's a good move for either party what ever the public votes. When I found the video I was looking for on the main reason for the 'tubbiness' in Scotland couldn't help breaking down the web address dispaled on the video - www.mullo fkin tyre.co:- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vb_P46gNf_k

But now I've found you - Webly 0.22 reloaded - keep looking behind you!

Just for the younger viewers Symptoms I think we should mention we were dicing with death whilst nudging those machines. If one nudged too vigorously then one reached a sticky end sooner than expected, one had tilted the machine and no more balls would be ejected into the firing zone until additional payment made. Were the first machines 3d a go or were they always 6d from Moscadiins first introduced them? Was it just the snooker hall that ran a weekly competition for the highest score or did the coffee shop also have one?

Happy Birthday Malcolm - enjoy from now until December 20th.

Surely with 'King Crabs' on stage nobody would chuck themselves in. Will never forget the first time I saw King Crabs, Sunday lunch time - Benton Social Club - just before the strippers. It was no Big River. Probably many words wrong but the gist of the 'lyrics' was exactly as he introduced it:- 'Am ganna sing an fxxxxxx song aboot a fxxxxxx man that ganns doon the fxxxxxx toon ta buy a fxxxxxx newspaper...........' And he started shooting - 'There was a fxxxxxx man that ganns doon the fxxxxxx toon ta buy a fxxxxxx newspaper...........' - never went to see a stripper again!

Only from my own little world Tony. Fortunately wherever I worked the break times were good. Shipyard & Civil Service 1960's & 70s - pre Thatcher - 1979. Normal day shift in the Civil Service was 45mins. Before Thatcher got in and shift work started in the Civil Service the management staff going onto the shifts (October 1961) were allowed to define the shift patterns. They had a choice when two shifts first started - 08:00 - 16:00 & 16:00 to 24:00 for 12 1/2% shift allowance or 09:00 - 17:00 & 17:00 -01:00 for 20% shift allowance. They chose the latter and no complaints + 1 hour lunch break! Even when we went to 3 shifts in 1980 we were allowed to keep the same times for the existing shift and the first shift started at midnight, one hour overlap with the other shift, and at the end we worked an hours overtime 08:00 to 09:00. Once that precedent had been set, in our little world, it was never changed. Always told the staff if they ever went into 'the real world' they would realize how well off they had been.

1) So everybody, politicians and Joe Public, are looking after themselves. Is it not the only way? No matter what the subject there are many points of view, if there were not David Cameron and Alex Salmon would never say anything but the truth and we would back them all the way! 2) Agreed 3) Owen Jones - picks out the bits he agrees with winds you up with the bits he doesn't. Take your pick - make your choice - enjoy the rest of your life. Some things in life are bad They can really make you mad Other things just make you swear and curse When you're chewing on life's gristle Don't grumble, give a whistle And this'll help things turn out for the best... And... ...always look on the bright side of life... (Whistle) Always look on the light side of life... (Whistle)

How about a pub and we can watch the weight, go on! More house, more people. Unless you can get a business that can compete with Sky, Virgin etc. etc. then the people will stay in their own homes, with their cheap supermarket booze watching the TV on a surround sound 3D massive TV. A YMCA, that should attract some interesting groups. Fortunately the land is not big enough for a Nursing Home. Mcdonalds drive through.

1965 - 2011 Shipyard = 1 hour = Union rules, Ok. Civil Service 1966 to the start of FLEXI time (introduced in the UK 1971!) was always 45mins - DHSS Longbenton - start of day 08:15, Lunch 12:00 to 12:45 (not sure on exact start and finish times), end of day 16:24 - and that was all contrived to fit in with 37hr week. 8 hr shifts - 1 hr lunch Contracting - as long as you like and stay late to make up the time (money). 12 hr continental shifts - 1hr 30mins - to balance out to 37hr week over a 4 week period working 14 x 12 hr shifts Day shift FLEXI = max 2 hrs - min 30mins. So only had the 1 hour lunch for the 13 years I worked 8 hr shifts (First shift, Back shift and Night Shift). So my answer to your question Keith would be - Unions controlled most industries, Civil Service stuck to the rules, Contractors did what they liked, and charged for it.