The Standring Faculty of Sheep Husbandry at the University of Milton North

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Well, this should guarantee us some visitors if it comes up on 'Most Active'.

one for the mantelpiece

Ok, the next 2 aren't John Standring, but it would be rude not to...

yummy!

UMN Rector!

Maud that Oh Johnnie vid is brilliant - he looks even better in sepia! Think it's about time I revisited North & South, although I ordered Shakespeare Retold last night after seeing some clips on YouTube yesterday.

Hi Spiro! Sounds like your DD had a fab evening with you - what a great mum you are, I hardly ever do things like that :( I did buy stuff for a picnic at the beach tomorrow - but then I ate it all.

So, listen, how the PLOP do you get audio on your phone?! I tried and tried a hil back but just couldn't figure it out. Would love to have his audiobooks on my phone but no idea how. You somehow get it onto the memory card in the phone, that much I get, but how?! What do you use to convert the audio files to something that the phone can recognise?

I just put it on the iPod bit Twigs but if you haven't got an iPhone then I have no idea.

Love the way Maud sneaked in Fix You for Spiro's phone-very crafty!

Spiro we have Alvin already, it has made many a car journey pass quickly.

Ok, audio books onto phone:

Rip cd onto pc using Windows media player

Plug phone into pc using usb cable - connect it as a disk drive then you can open and view files by clicking on My Computer

Use the sync function (should be one of the tabs along the top - library-rip-burn-sync...) to transfer files to phone.

I've found when I've done it I've had to then make up a playlist once it's on the phone to get the chapters in the right order, so am probably not doing it quite right myself, but the end result does the job

As for couch camping - these things are much easier with just the 1 dc, as my friends with 2 or more are frequently telling me!

I have an Android phone, Small - no iPod or iPhone.

Ooooh, Spiro, thank you so much, you are a star!!! What about the converting though - does the sync thing convert it?

I've not done anything else to convert anything so I presume it must do! Mine's Android too. I also transferred the download of Clarissa onto it.

Have just seen this in 'adviceforwriters.com'

Your best tools are short, plain, Anglo-Saxon verbs.

As Sir Guy well knows....ROFL

Yes pretty much what Spiro said, just save thr cd to your computer and it will save it as an MP3 file which you can save to your phone by connecting to the pc like an external drive.

Thanks Small, I will have a go later. But last time I tried it didn't work and my tech-savvy friend said "ah, that's because a phone can't recognise a CD format and you have to download software to convert it and blahblahblah". But then I did it his way and that didn't work either, so maybe he was wrong :)

How odd? My pc does it automatically, I thought CDs were wrtten with MP3 files? I am not techie though so I don't know ifthats true or not.

Morning all. Am just throwing shapes to the message from Kylie that Massive so kindly passed on.

I think I've posted the Oh Johnny vid several times before ::smiles innocently:: but I can't really claim credit for it as it was, as best I can remember, something that Massive brought once to a party. Certainly more welcome than a bottle of lukewarm plonk!

Today is a day of rejoicing in Chateau Maud, as the new telly arrives. We debated what to do with the old one. Bloke wanted to take it to the dump, but the telly looked upset and started to weep. So I said, "Don't worry, little telly. We will see if the TV repairman can ".

I have no idea about getting audio onto a phone. I have so far failed to get episodes 1 and 2 of Clarissa from the PC onto the iPod. I'm not sure whether I want to ask for Bloke's help with that.

And finally, on innuendo. Being very old, Twiggy, and having grown up in the era of Les Dawson and Larry Grayson and more recently Julian Clary, I am very familiar with the double entendre. But I have been rummaging in the basement for months. Why have you only just noticed?

Maud, I have seen you (or someone else) link to a YT 'Oh Johnny' vid of Athe Andrews sisters or somesuch so every time I've seen that title since, I assumed it was the same thing so didn't look further!

As for the innuendo, I have often smiled at your use of the phrase "rummage in the basement" but being a refined lady, like what you are, I hadn't realised that you meant it as a double entrendre!

How lovely on the new telly. Did you go for a gigantosaurus one in the end?

Are you saying, Twiggy, that you don't usually bother to watch the Andrews Sisters vid? Such dereliction of your Academic duties! It contains scenes which aren't so much smouldering as incendiary.

I never intended the expression rummaging in the basement as a euphemism - it's simply a description of my labours on the lower floors of the Resource Centre, looking for neglected research materials - but I'm aware that depraved individuals you might choose to interpret it as a double entendre. Almost anything can be re-interpreted if you're that way inclined.

As for the new telly, it has just arrived. I need to interrogate Bloke, who (foolishly) I left in charge of ordering while Girl and I did something else because I thought we were going to order an even bigger one. Hmm. Anyway, Girl has just started to watch RH again so we have some wide-screen high definition stomping and smouldering to look forward to. .

Hello ladiez! My ,haven't you all been busy today! I haven't time for a proper post as I am guest-ridden yet again and may not get in again till tomorrow.
I did have a lovely smirk at the mention of Anglo- Saxon verbs Although I have to point out that my imperative-obsessed Lord is of Norman blood and might not deign to use the vocabulary of the unwashed peasantry.

(Don't mind me, I am just warped by all the stress.)

Nice vid, Maud, may I wish you many happy hours of hi-def stomping and cravat porn. with your new telly.

Bah.

::Stomps round in Gizzy mode::

As I suspected. The [insert Anglo-Saxon word of choice here] shop has sent the wrong telly. So old telly is in the repair shop and new unwanted telly is staying in its box because ::proffers small gift to Twiggy:: it is 8 inches smaller than it ought to be.

Hugh can distract me any time

Bad news on the tv Maud, I would be unpacking it anyway. I forced encouraged Smallboy Major to watch RH with me this morning, he asked me if Gizzy had a sword to which I innocently replied 'oh yes, he has a very big sword' whilst keeping my eyes firmly on the screen.

Are you saying, Twiggy, that you don't usually bother to watch the Andrews Sisters vid? Such dereliction of your Academic duties! It contains scenes which aren't so much smouldering as incendiary.

I think I explained it wrongly, Maud! I had never seen the N&S video set to Oh Johnny until you posted it last night. Some time ago, one of us linked to a YT vid called "Oh Johnny" that had nothing to do with N&S and was just clips of the Andrews Sisters singing, or something like that. Ever since then, whenever a video with that title came up, I wrongly assumed it was the video of The Andrews Sisters so I switched it off before it started. But now I realise that all this time I had been missing out on the Mr Thornton version!

Small, LOL at "oh yes he has a very big sword" :)

Massive, I had recourse to refer to "big stompy boots" to Sir Guy on Twitter and I was going to include you in the Tweet but not sure if you are on covert ops on Twitter? I thoguht you might get a smile out of it, anyway :)

Twiggy, I only use my Twitter account for fangirl activities, so no one in RL will realise who it is, You would have been okay.

LOL from me too at ''very big sword''. Unlike Maud's telly, it is certainly not 8 inches smaller than it ought to be

Glad to see we're getting some mileage out of 8 inches smaller than it ought to be. How much longer until the guests depart, Massive?

We're having takeaway for dinner tonight and staring at the empty space where the shiny new telly ought to be.

::weeps gently into lace-trimmed hankie::

Oooh, takeaway, yummy! We have an M&S meal deal, cunningly bought last week so that we could have one this week (they only do them every other week).

I must get myself a fangirl Twitter account :) I have to attempt to remain vaguely sensible on mine.

Monday afternoon, Maud, now. They were having such a good time they decided to stay on and extra 24 hours. No, there was a problem with their booking.

I apologise for the size-ist comment. In the sort of mood I'm in I couldn't resist. Have you any idea when the proper telly will be along to sit in its appointed place?

Off I scoot again -- I needed to give the coffee a really good long brew, you see. But any longer in the kitchen would stretch credibility a bit.

Sorry I was just giving the kitchen table a load- bearing and stability test with my lovely assistant here...

Don't apologise, Massive. Having deliberately created the double entendre this time, I want to know that it's being appreciated across the globe.

Sadly, no news about when obscenely large telly (as compared to indecently large telly) will arrive. The [Anglo-Saxon word of choice] store was supposed to ring this arvo with their proposed remedy for this problem. Did they? Heck.

I shall take refuge in the Chateau Gizzy. Would anyone care to join me?

evening all, I have the Tetley tea folk here tonight but have escaped to bed!

My foot is sorrrrrre did one of you stomp on it during a tantrum?