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The easiest thing to do, if you've been misled into creating a MS login, is to create a local login with admin rights, log into that and then delete the account with the MS login. I've got Win11 Home and Pro on different computers. Both versions dance to my tune, more or less, apart from a sudden insistence on downloading Windows Updates at the drop of a hat. In Settings->Windows Update you can tell Windows not to update as soon as one is available, to pause updates for a number of weeks and not to update when you're in your busiest working period. After that, be prepared for occasional system sluggishness as Windows gets fed up of waiting... So far I've also managed to nobble Edge, Bing and Clippie2 (or whatever the AI helper is called). Fingers crossed...

His battery is going to be flat when he comes back to collect it... 🤣

They used good steel back then, if it wasn't for the tree, it could possibly be cleaned up and put back on the road! Unlike its 70s decendants...

The thought never crossed my mind... and that's a 1964ish Ford Anglia, built in the Ford plant at Halewood in Liverpool. Someone has gone overboard with the detailing! (I can see its being used as a rally car, its got an aftermarket rollcage inside...)

A tea, steak and ale stew? (ducks and runs....) I'm doing a beef casserole in the slow cooker, works out rather cheaper than running the oven for the same amount of time. It was going to be a beef&ale one too, but I forgot that I had a bottle of beer set aside for the purpose, so it ended up with wine instead... Its not reached the gorgeous smell point yet, but by 4pm it'll be getting my stomach rumbling in anticipation! It's there... It was lovely!!!

Mrs Grizz obviously pays more attention to your efforts than you thought!

Is this what the aspiring motorist of today has to put up with? Words fail me! (I'll come back to this when I'm on a proper computer...) Ok. My first car. It's a J40. A recognisable replica of a real car (an Austin A40 Dorset*), in solid steel, with working headlights, a proper horn, and real inflatable tyres too! But a bit of a pig to pedal about... My first road-going vehicle. I wouldn't dignify it by calling it a car. Like Monkeys toy car, it was a bit plasticy but everything worked and it kept me dry. It could even manage a white-knuckle 50mph and had an 8-track tape deck... Funnily enough, it was exactly the same shade of blue as the pedal car! I then returned to the sanity of 4 wheeled metal boxes. 🫣 I won't say "and I never looked back" because I've got a rear and wing mirrors and practice M-S-M, unlike BMW, Audi and Tesla drivers... * Apparently a large number of the Dorset variant A40s were exported to Australia...

Not just the bonnets, but pretty much whatever was originally underneath them too...

Extensively detailed in Terry Pratchetts "Monsterous Regiment"...

Does it play tunes through those horns above the engine? 🤔🤪🤣

Someone has been told "Get rid of that effin heap of carp". They may have included the layout too....

I hope for Fraggle Rocks sake that there isn't a breeding pair. It'd be worse than having Mink.....

I was entertaining yesterday, so tonight I caught up with QI and Digging for Britain from yesterday, followed by a mug of drinking chocolate and so to bed, as Peyps would say (though not via the serving maid)...

It has often been noted that the NCOs run the British Army and are there to tell the "ruperts" what to do...

Tars seems to be pretty safe. "Carry on Jack" was on the telly over the christmas period and from that it seems that the Georgian Royal Navy was riddled with women pretending to be men...

Aiming at the binge-watchers, I suppose... At least with iPlayer, there's no mandatory ad breaks to sit through, unlike the ITV, Ch4, Ch5 and so on streaming services when the best you can do is mute the sound. Thats why I prefer to record programmes on the commercial services. You can skip the ads!

Light blue touch paper and retire?

You've just transferred from one software ecosystem to another, each has individualistic ways of doing things. I'm typing this reply on an Android tablet, which also has its own software environment. To get most things done on a Windows laptop, the basics are probably: Libre Office (productivity suite) Firefox (web browser) Thunderbird (email client) and then add other software as needed. A question. Why the move away from Chromebook?

I imagine its a question of storage, and visitors refusing the spare bedroom because its propped up in the corner. When radiograms were popular (late 60s/early 70s) I used to think that a coffin would make a good case for one, a bit of a conversation piece...

Ok, just ONE prediction. If one or two other teams show competitive improvement, then Mr Bean will have his elbows out on all corners and woe betide anyone who gets in his way. Oh yes, and Whinger will get shriller too.

One careful owner...

I've both versions of the 71. The Hornby is a flier, the DJM is a plodder, which is fine for a terminus to fiddleyard style layout where maximum speeds are not essential. I'll admit, I bought both at bargain prices. My BR Green "Booster" stands well with the two 71s, I'm very pleased with it!

But at least it will be beautifully constructed rubbish!

I think I was off the week we were taught about grammar. I certainly don't recall any formal instruction.... Eh? 🤔🤪🤣

The garage on my early 70s build house is "slightly" larger than that, I'd say it was designed around the dimensions of a Moggy 1000 or a Triumph Herald*, or at least that class of vehicle! The rooms are also of reasonable size and ceiling height. Houses of the late 80s onwards are designed by people who think that ceilings that can be touched on tiptoe are perfectly adequate and that garages are thinly disguised external storage units, to make up for the lack of space within the house or the "garden" space surrounding it. New builds, I've noticed recently, have even less floorspace than those of the previous generation and are overpriced to boot. God help their inhabitants when they need zimmers, wheelchairs and other aids to living. * On the dimensions of a 1920s Austin 7, my garage is, in fact, a "two car garage"...