Minor change

[tech]

FYI, we've changed the layout of the "active conversations" slightly so you can see who wrote the last message on each thread. Someone requested this some time ago. Now must get to work on "threads I'm watching" which is next on my list.

Gosh, Tech, you are working hard! And so late at night!

I hope they're paying you overtime, Tech! :o

My didn't work.

I do however seem to have managed to post that three times (lunacy striking).

Great! Thanks Tech.

Tech's changes to MN are like buses, aren't they? You wait ages and then about 5 come along at once.

LOL Jan

You see, Jan, here's the truth of the matter. I had the last two weeks off my day job, and had a big list from the mums of stuff to get done in that two weeks. But, I spent that two weeks partly on holiday in Spain with an old friend and her family and then she was here the following week so I spent it taking my just-five godson to the zoo and the cinema and babysitting him while his mother went to see madonna gigs and bought innapropriately youthful clothing for herself. She deserved a break, innit. Anyway, this babysitting and childcare lark is a breeze. Hamley's for a toy followed by happy meal at McDonald's followed by scooby doo on dvd. We sort of forgot bathtime, but we'd had a swim that day which involved a shower of sorts. Dunno what all the fuss is about. His mother wasn't all that impressed when he was still up at midnight when she got home that evening, but we enjoyed it. "He's on holiday" was my excuse. We did kind of pay for it the following day when he had a tantrum because it turned out that Scooby Doo2 really isn't on at the cinema anywhere any more. Cue sobbing in car. "I want to go to my house in spain. You're stupid mummy." The full works. I just gave his mother a look that suggested she was perhaps an unfit mother who had spoiled her offspring - to deflect any possible blame that might head my way.

Anyway, the upshot of all this was that few of the tasks on my list got done, so now i'm beavering away before the bosses get back from their holidays and get all cross.

Coppertop, as you've discovered, the other change is that the old style winkies etc ;) :) and so on don't work any more. We were getting them popping up unintentionally in all sorts of places as people who joined recently only know the new ones.

Cheers,
tech

If it's any small help Scooby Doo 2 is out on video, but whether that'll be enough for redemption I'm not sure.....

Aha! So it's not just my awful typing skills. Thanks, Tech.

Aw, tech, you are a love!

(Didn't mean the 5 at once as criticism btw - it's just stunning how many things have changed the last couple of days not :O)

Thanks tamum, i know. one of the possible solutions to the tantrum we explored was to call virgin to see if we could buy it and head home sharpish to watch it there. I'd said the night before we could go see it - some stupid internet site claimed it was on at the multiplex at bluewater. When I called, Virgin told me it came out August 24th. Sadly, the guests went home Sunday. I got a copy today to send over. Don't know whether to now as he's probably forgotten all about it. I still feel bad though. He was heartbroken (or seemed to be). We spent about 20 minutes in the car trying to persuade him that Shrek2 was just as good, or even better in some ways. (cue more wailing at this suggestion that anything could be better than scooby doo2) As it turned out of course, his best bit of the day was the big playground with the slide and the boats that they had there.

You sound like a brill godfather to me. And you're right about Shrek 2 being better

I would have said so too, tamum (not having seen either but, you know...)

I've seen both, sadly, Janh, I wish I could just do it by intuition like you. Shrek 2 was pretty good though, it has to be said. How are you anyway? Finished Frankie and Stankie yet?

Noooo, tamum, I abandoned it, you know that!

Have huge pile from Oxfam waiting to be read but keep picking up random other things. Must email you....watch your inbox!

tech, thanks so much for the last poster info on active conversations. This was at the top of my wish list - I love it.

Thank you, thank you