Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)

3 hours ago, Canny lass said:

Thank you kind sirs! I am delighted, honoured and humbled to receive this prestigious award.

I coudn’t have done it without your help - and the help of Covid which gave me, and you, loads of spare time. There are a couple of others I’d like to mention and thank for their help along the way:

 

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Bedlington YMCA.

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Thank you once again kind people of Bedders.

 

 

Have you been practising this speech

CL - have I asked this before - Did you go to the YMCA when John Bygate was the leader? = when I used to go with Don, Walter and Dave who is taking the photo :-  

20 minutes ago, Alan Edgar (Eggy1948) said:

@Vic Patterson I agree Vic, very rewarding. I have never had any photo that I have restored printed off but I assume they should be Ok.

I have never had any of my old B&W photos, or any I have restored for others, uploaded to any of the coulouring Apps or services. It's just the way I think Vic; If the photo was taken in B&W I feel it's part of the history and I prefer to leave itthat way. Having said that I have seen some old B&W that look excellent when 'colourisation' is applied. I know the colouring procedures must analyze the B&W shades to determine the colours to add but some just don't look right.

There is a  Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs section on the genealogy site RootsChat. A lot of the work is excellent but, in my mind, some of the manual colouring of a restored old B&W or sepia photos is just over the top. You don't have to join to see the work they do, you can view all the original postings of the damaged photos and all of the responses from the group of restorers. I joined (and you only receive emails when you actually post a response to one of the postings) and occasionally post a restored photo. It has been a good way for me to practise my 'clarting'.

https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?PHPSESSID=h2au1lpfk82vgtfr1lue0rlae0

 

13 hours ago, Vic Patterson said:

It's very rewarding seeing the photos coming to back life again, I have also had some coloured using a Family Tree web site after I clean up using an Adobe program. All on my old Vista, I must try and use Gimp on the newer Windows!

 

@Vic Patterson I agree Vic, very rewarding. I have never had any photo that I have restored printed off but I assume they should be Ok.

I have never had any of my old B&W photos, or any I have restored for others, uploaded to any of the coulouring Apps or services. It's just the way I think Vic; If the photo was taken in B&W I feel it's part of the history and I prefer to leave itthat way. Having said that I have seen some old B&W that look excellent when 'colourisation' is applied. I know the colouring procedures must analyze the B&W shades to determine the colours to add but some just don't look right.

There is a  Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs section on the genealogy site RootsChat. A lot of the work is excellent but, in my mind, some of the manual colouring of a restored old B&W or sepia photos is just over the top. You don't have to join to see the work they do, you can view all the original postings of the damaged photos and all of the responses from the group of restorers. I joined (and you only receive emails when you actually post a response to one of the postings) and occasionally post a restored photo. It has been a good way for me to practise my 'clarting'.

https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?PHPSESSID=h2au1lpfk82vgtfr1lue0rlae0

The poll is now closed and this years Piper Award goes to @Canny lass who throughout this pandemic has kept us occupied with her weekly quiz and has done a load or family and historic research to help many members of the group. 

12 hours ago, Marlena Preece said:

Hi everyone,  my name is Marlena.

I am working in Howard House since July and I am reseraching info in relation to Howard House, surroundings etc. I am very much interested in the history of when the house was build, who build the home, and the purpose of the house.

I would be very grateful for any intresting facts, photographs etc.

Thank You

Marlena

Welcome @Marlena Preece. I know of Howard House, Netherton Colliery, but I never lived at the Colliery so don't have any info to give.

However there are postings, in the Discussion section and the Gallery section, of Netherton Colliery and Howard House.

As well as the other members giving info you could use the search facility at the top right hand corner of the screen. If you enter more than one word into the search bar then it is best to add quotation marks around the words otherwise the system will return every item it finds for each word eg "howard house" will only search for that phrase but - howard house - without quotes searches for every comment with either howard or house in it.

There are photos in the Gallery section under the 'Historic Bedlington' albums

This is a direct link to an album by @Carole and there are a couple of old photos or Howard House and the staff in the album :-

30 minutes ago, Malcolm Robinson said:

"Front Street News & Post Office

 

We’ve managed to get hold of a few more Bedlington Xmas cards. These will go quickly and we won’t be getting any more printed this year."

 

If they have all gone then people will have to send this years electronically - photo by Simon Williams, Church Lane :- 

2 hours ago, Vic Patterson said:

...............and after looking at the cost of the competitors like Photoshop etc..................

 

I did try photoshop for a couple of months. One of my daughters tried to move me on from my old software and got me a years monthly subscription to photoshop. That was two modules/apps - Lightroom and I can't remember the other one -  at about £20 a month. 

I played with it for the two months then went online to photoshop and convinced them I was too old to change and just had to cancel the contract. Told them, via online messaging, that I was 83 years old and that I just couldn't make the change from my old software. They wanted another 8 months monthly subscription to cancel the contract but I managed to persuade them to just cancel the contract without a cancellation fee of 8 months payments. Saved the daughter £200 and I just carried on with my Microsoft Digital Image Pro 10.

As one of my 'hobbies from home' is repairing old damaged photos for members of Facebook groups and Rootschat I can't see me learning something new whilst the old software works fine for me.

A couple of my recent repairs :-   

1 hour ago, Canny lass said:

Welcome! What are you like with raw fish for Christmas dinner?

I'm hopeless CL - very little I do like and the cooked food I do like has to be well done and free of sauces and spices.

I once had Mulligatawny soup (c1988, Indian restaurant in London) and my mouth was on fire for 3 days😰. Beef gravy is fine👍.

Raw fish! No chance - crispy battered cod is the only sea food I can stomach. 

18 minutes ago, Canny lass said:

I couldn't understand a word of that. I didn't know you were bilingual! Greek?

Just Bedlington twang and old technology - The first 8 words in my comment above are mine, the rest from 'GNU - GNU Image Manipulation........' was Copy & Paste from Google - but I thought Vic would understand it 

I have clarted with GIMP but even some of the commands from the menus I struggled to read. The text is so small.

12 hours ago, Vic Patterson said:

Same here Eggy, I got my Vista working again (my son did!) and have Windows 11 on my Acer, I only turn it on once a week, I just don't like it, I only use Vista for my photos as I'm using Apple for almost everything, Iphone, MacBook Air, iPad.

I'm al for change = advancing technologies but I can't stand the way we are bombarded with loads of applications. I know technology has to cater for the up and coming pioneers of the future (our gran children) but I just wish they would allow us more mature people of this world the opportunity to easily remove the applications we will never use😊.

I do all my 'clarting' with photos on my 13 year old Desktop PC with Windows Vista but I have backed them all up, memory sticks, and copied them onto my new PC ready for when the old PC packs in and I have to start working out how some new 'clarting' photo software works. I have Gimp downloaded on the new PC. Gimp - GNU Image Manipulation Program - is a free and open-source raster graphics editor used for image manipulation and image editing, free-form drawing, transcoding between different image file formats, and more specialized tasks. GIMP is released under GPL-3.0-or-later license and is available for Linux, macOS, and Microsoft Windows. 

So it's a toss up for who lasts longer, me or my Vista PC  

@Canny lass - can't find anything that just relates to the popup names. There is loads around about the file name McAfee LiveSafe but everything I can find says use the McAfee 'Dashboard' - and I am guessing you don't have that.

Your situation has me beat - but I will keep looking, when I'm not clarting

ps. Windows 11 installed on new PC (Vista still on the old one) - now I will have to find out all the extras that comes with it and see what I can delete 

1 hour ago, Joe McNally said:

Greetings and best wishes from Oz. (35 degrees here in Adelaide today). May you all have a wonderful and safe Christmas . 

30 minutes ago, Canny lass said:

That's a whole 51 degrees warmer than here! What's it like eating a hot Christmas pudding with Brandy sauce in that heat?

I think I'll move to Sweden - I melt in 21 degrees

29 minutes ago, Canny lass said:

Eggy, thanks for all the time and effort you are using on this.

McAfee is nothing I've downloaded. It just came with the new lap-top.

I removed:

1 folder named McAfee (no idea what was in it as I never opened it).

1 file named McAfee File Lock

1 file named McAfee LiveSafe

Those three appeared again yesterday.

Today the two files are inside the folder but it could have been that the folder was already open when I removed each item.

 

I'll see if I can find out anything but it might take awhile - busy upgrading my Windows 10 PC to Windows 11, Sep 1 of 3 currently 78% complete 

33 minutes ago, Canny lass said:

Update: McAfee pop-ups are back and so are the three files I removed!

Oh dear. What's the name of the files and we might be able to find out what section/program of McAfee is adding them to your system due to their virus protection having expired.

10 hours ago, HIGH PIT WILMA said:

Merry Christmas,and a happy new year to all,if we get that far!!

Hope to be seeing you all a bit more next year,past two years have been disastrous ,healthwise,with my Wife.

The NHS have been absoloutely MAGNIFICENT ,between Wansbeck,The RVI,The Freeman,and The Mount at Morpeth,all the Consultants and Staff,all the way down the ranks,deserve medals,solid gold ones the size of dustbin lids!

My Wife and me hope the NHS gets the Appreciation,and funding that it deserves Nationally.

ALL THE BEST! 

Bill.

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Underwater hockey is known as ‘octopush’.

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47 minutes ago, Maggie/915 said:

This is the Spitfires

 

IMG_0753.MOV 11.8 MB · 3 downloads  

 

@Maggie/915 although your uploaded file has a MOV = Quick Time Movies my system won't play it. I just get a few seconds of the group playing🙃 

9 minutes ago, Canny lass said:

Sounds nasty. I think I'd better leave it to the OH or one of the grandchildren!

Having said that, I haven't seen it today.

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3 hours ago, Canny lass said:

I spoke too soon! Just had another pop-up from them!

@Canny lass - it has me confused so I Googled - 'McAfee uninstalled but popups keep appearing' - and got :- 

Another attempt :-

Windows 10

1. Left click on the plain Windows logo at the bottom left hand corner of your screen and that will display all the programs you have loaded. 

2. Scroll through and find the MacAphee logo

3. Right click on that logo and you will get the option to uninstall.

47 minutes ago, Alan Edgar (Eggy1948) said:

 

 

If thay fails then it 

CL - all my attempts to add displays + text etc. for uninstalling on Windows 10 have failed and I don't know why they all failed to upload - I'm working on it.

2 hours ago, Canny lass said:

Can't help you there, I'm afraid, but while we're on the subject of computers can anybody tell me how to get rid of a Macafee pop-up that's been telling me for several months that their virus protection on my new(ish) laptop has expired.

This is just guess work and Google - it's a few years since I used McAphee = free version for a year.

Have you ever used the 'uninstall' command? Type uninstall in your 'Start/Search' panel and you should get a list of all the software programs you have installed and when you click on the program you are after you should get an option to Uninstall/Delete.

If you have access to the 'Control Panel' and depending on your Windows version you might be able to access the uninstall tool via the Control Panel that could take you to the Programs and Features option that when selected gives you a list of all your installed software and the option to uninstall :- 

If you still have McAphee dashboard then you could try :- 

Access the McAfee dashboard.

Select “Navigation” from the top-right corner.

From the “Next” tab, select “General Settings and Alerts.”

To manually turn off pop-ups, select the “Informational Alerts” and “Protection Alerts” option.

Uncheck the boxes to stop receiving pop-up alerts.

If thay fails then it 

Has anyone upgraded their system to Windows 11 and if so were there any problems?

19 hours ago, Alan Edgar (Eggy1948) said:

Oops - dived is not an alternative for multiply. Edgar boy, you must try harder

Can't even spell it. That will teach me not to divide into it, but it';s too late for me to change