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[Chrissols]

Good Morning all Dict8 ladies

[Gally123]

@Chrissols when I worked at one of my local hospitals some years ago now there was a secretary who worked part time (and then was drafted in full time to cover sickness/injury to the third person in our office) she was 80 and had worked in the NHS since she was 15! When it was the anniversary of the NHS and each hospital could nominate 2 people to go to Buckingham Palace for the garden party she was nominated. She also worked in her son's pub and often would work the morning in the office and then disappear at lunch time to work in the pub and then return to the office. She was a very nice lady, very knowledge and with the new digital working the consultant usually found when he returned to the office with the notes after clinic she had already typed all the letters and they were ready for him to sign.

[Chrissols]

@Gally123 Fantastic.....they don't make them like that any more

[danblack87]

@Gally123: I think that is about right regarding leaving. I think I shall probably attempt to still do a bit when I am a pensioner, God willing

[Chrissols]

What age is everyone a pensioner.......it's all different now isn't it. I wish is was still 60 as I wouldn't be too far off, as it is I now have to go till I'm 67, my sister who is two years older gets to retire at 66.

[Gally123]

@Chrissols - yes my pension age will be 67 - I think we all wish it was still 60! I think my eldest sister, who will be 62 next month, can retire at 65 (if she can afford to). Not sure about my other sisters (one older, one younger).

[danblack87]

@Chrissols: my pension age will be 67, so a tad more years to go yet!!

[Chrissols]

@Gally123 four sisters!!! bet your dad loved it in your house 😂🤣🤣🤣

[danblack87]

I have a sister younger than me, only 15 months between us, and one brother younger than me by 8 years!

[Gally123]

@Chrissols - three sisters, (two older, one younger). four of us in all. I think my dad liked being the only male and bossing every one around, I don't think boys would have let him get away with it.

I need to have a rant now - plus a warning to others - just done updates on my laptop. I hate doing updates at the best of times (my other laptop had Nortons and the number of times it did not work afterwards...now I have McAfee then Avast). Started the updates at 11 am - finished 2.30 pm! What a waste of 2+ hours (okay so I did other stuff while it was running, even went out and posted a letter) but there was stuff I wanted to do.etc. I wish they would ask beforehand as updates are rarely helpful or useful. I had delayed them a couple of times as trying to update midweek and I try and keep it to the weekends to disrupt work as little as possible, but over two and a half hours.....

[Chrissols]

@Gally123 can you not schedule your updates to do overnight, I usually schedule mine to start around midnight and never notice they have been done.....except my PC usually runs a bit quicker afterwards

[Gally123]

@Chrissols - I don't know, I'll have to ask my niece (who knows about computer things) she might say it is not safe to leave as she told me off for putting it on standby to go out (even the the garden) and says it should be switched off when not in use etc.

[Chrissols]

@Gally123 I just put mine in sleep mode and instruct it to shut down once update complete

[Gally123]

@Chrissols, I am not sure I can do that.

[Chrissols]

@Gally123 when you click on your start button with your mouse, bottom left hand corner, then on the power, it will give you three choices, sleep, shutdown, or re-start. I just press sleep. When you have scheduled your updates previously it will have asked if you want to restart or shutdown once complete so your computer will just shut down once done.

[Gally123]

@Chrissols okay, thanks.

[danblack87]

@Gally123: I have taken to using 'sleep' the last four days due to my computer being slow. I have found it very beneficial (can log-in within 2 minutes rather than the previous 1.5 hours!!!.. It also did an update which only took about three minutes). I have had a few tasks today but, unfortunately, I had 'gin' night last night with my fella .. bit hung-over I have not had a hang-over for about 6 years

[Gally123]

@danblack87 - when my laptop was slow after I installed the new printer software and took ages to log in and log off my niece recommended "switching off" some items (such as Skype) in the start up settings and that did the trick.

[Chrissols]

@danblack87 you got tasks.....on a Sunday!!!! I cannot remember the last time I saw a solitary task on a Sunday, very rare on a Saturday too. What a difference a speciality makes 🥴🥴

[SamanthaBee]

I applied to Sterling and was accepted. They are very thorough with their recruitment and won't divulge their rates until you sign a confidentiality document. They then want train you for 2 weeks before you are taken on properly. I didnt continue with the process in the end because I have got some some work in the NHS to tide me over. I really hope Dict8 gets up and running again though.

[Gally123]

@SamanthaBee - well done on getting accepted with Sterling, they sound tough, even if you decided it was not for you. DICT8 is very quiet today....

[danblack87]

Work through Dict8 for me today has been fair although a lot were really intelligible at times and the speed of the tasks being taken has been very, very brisk. I am going to take Skype off (as I don't use it) as that seems to be the cause of the slowness in my being able to get started earlier than planned of a day.

[Chrissols]

@danblack87 my Dict9 has been extremely sparse today....and yesterday

[carosel2]

Had a busier day today and yesterday!

[Meha5]

I seem to have lost my typing mojo over the last few days 🤦‍♀️🤷‍♀️I think I need some freedom !!!

[Gally123]

@Meha5 - me too. There has been little work on DICT8 and Tpro this morning and I would have gone shopping if it had not been raining.