Brown said:
Oh I see, it's the cycling that's difficult.

I'm kicking myself now, because for a number of years through my 30s and 40s I didn't do much exercise and kind of let things slide. I used to walk a lot, and spent the occasional weekend doing construction and DIY jobs for friends, but that was it. I came back to exercise just over 10 years ago, and it's difficult to recover the power and stamina of youth.
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My story more or less completely.
Did nowt from the age of 19 odd until we took this place on in 2006, apart from occasionally helping my ex s-i-l out on a building site. (I don't count working on cars, maybe I should.)
It came as a shock and lots of pain.
 
Stanleysteamer said:
Jeezo that is pricey to just be on tinternet!!!! :eek: :eek: :eek:
Can't you get a landline to your address?
Can't the lady-friend chip in seeing as it is mostly for her?

If we had to do this, which we would have had to have done before we got a landline, I'd have gone into town to an internet café. Or borrowed a friend's as we did in emergencies or when W had to work sometimes during her hollibobs!
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Well, I'm a long way from services at my place in Wales. Hence the solar panels and satellite system. Mobile voice coverage is possible on some parts of my place but the mobile internet signal has disappeared over the time I've been here. The internet signal is carried on a higher frequency than voice calls, and as some of you might remember from school science, there's a lot less diffraction around obstacles with higher frequencies. Whilst, the last time I checked, BT advertised that it could put a new phone line to your property for £126, that presupposes that you're in a street with a phone service. In my case it would be of the order of thousands. Yes, there are cafes and pubs with wifi networks for customers to use, but then that's a 20 mile round trip plus you've got to buy drinks or coffees to justify your presence on the premises, so not cheap. Plus if I've got my own I can have a look at stuff whenever I like. Pictures of excavator mechanisms so as to aid my repairs, queries about the white bloom on oak leaves, internet meetings with work colleagues - it all gets a whole lot more convenient.
 
Stanleysteamer said:
My story more or less completely.
Did nowt from the age of 19 odd until we took this place on in 2006, apart from occasionally helping my ex s-i-l out on a building site. (I don't count working on cars, maybe I should.)
It came as a shock and lots of pain.
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Yes, that's what I did. In 2007 I did a job for a friend of mine which involved installing a set of gates for a friend. Heavy wooden posts and large gates, plus punching post holes into the bedrock, mixing up cement to set them into and suchlike left me with considerably more aches and pains than I would have had as a youngster. So I started doing a bit of resistance exercise every day and have gradually built it up.
 
Brown said:
Yes, that's what I did. In 2007 I did a job for a friend of mine which involved installing a set of gates for a friend. Heavy wooden posts and large gates, plus punching post holes into the bedrock, mixing up cement to set them into and suchlike left me with considerably more aches and pains than I would have had as a youngster. So I started doing a bit of resistance exercise every day and have gradually built it up.
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I forgot to mention, and this'll make peeps laugh, that when I was recently separated from W #1 I thought I'd better do stuff to make myself more attractive.
So I joined a (cheap) gym and worked out on the multigym a few times a week. I also went running until I did my knee in and gratefully gave it up.
It made a little difference, but I was very happy to discover that I didn't need it, I'd reverted to my ways as a young man and the world became my oyster again.
So I gave up again!

Wish I hadn't though as I hate seeing my reflection now, especially sideways on!

But I still hate doing excercise for the sake of it.
 
Brown said:
Here I am coming to you by satellite. As I suspected, on transplanting it to Wales it wasn't easy. Plugged in and switched on and nothing happened. Well, the aerial moved itself around so I could tell it was looking for a signal but there wasn't anything there to get the internet with. So I connected via the cellular network and Elon wouldn't let me log into the customer account bit of the Starlink website, even though I was using exactly the same password and username I'd set the account up with a couple of days ago. It either froze up or told me I had invalid credentials. But I think that was their problem rather than mine. Eventually it let me in and it occurred to me that maybe it would help if I changed the 'service address' in case it was confused that I was no longer in the East Midlands. Of course, addresses in remote parts of Wales are not in their database, but I managed to find one in a village about ten miles away that it recognized as a valid address and after a further hour and a couple of reboots I have a signal. Phew. Interestingly the speed isn't as fast as it was in Leicester. Only 150Mbps. Even though there can't be very many other users to create 'contention' on the network round here.

Fighter aircraft fly over the area regularly, so no doubt the computers on the planes will identify me as an enemy radar beacon and launch air-to-surface missiles.

The monthly cost of this is in the region of 70 pounds a month. Once again, a bit pricey but comparable to what a lot of people spend on mobile telephony. I've just had a pay rise at work which gives me almost exactly this much more take-home a month, so it's just like not having a pay rise this autumn. The mobile signal boosters I'd need to be in with a chance of strengthening the cellular signal are in the region of 1,000-2,000, plus more for aerials.
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An interesting read for me as I am wondering if a system like this MIGHT give me a signal. :(
 
derwendolly said:
An interesting read for me as I am wondering if a system like this MIGHT give me a signal. :(
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It most likely would do. Starlink has brought the internet to many rural areas in the US and Europe.
Here's a map of the coverage.
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Brown said:
Here I am coming to you by satellite. As I suspected, on transplanting it to Wales it wasn't easy. Plugged in and switched on and nothing happened. Well, the aerial moved itself around so I could tell it was looking for a signal but there wasn't anything there to get the internet with. So I connected via the cellular network and Elon wouldn't let me log into the customer account bit of the Starlink website, even though I was using exactly the same password and username I'd set the account up with a couple of days ago. It either froze up or told me I had invalid credentials. But I think that was their problem rather than mine. Eventually it let me in and it occurred to me that maybe it would help if I changed the 'service address' in case it was confused that I was no longer in the East Midlands. Of course, addresses in remote parts of Wales are not in their database, but I managed to find one in a village about ten miles away that it recognized as a valid address and after a further hour and a couple of reboots I have a signal. Phew. Interestingly the speed isn't as fast as it was in Leicester. Only 150Mbps. Even though there can't be very many other users to create 'contention' on the network round here.

Fighter aircraft fly over the area regularly, so no doubt the computers on the planes will identify me as an enemy radar beacon and launch air-to-surface missiles.

The monthly cost of this is in the region of 70 pounds a month. Once again, a bit pricey but comparable to what a lot of people spend on mobile telephony. I've just had a pay rise at work which gives me almost exactly this much more take-home a month, so it's just like not having a pay rise this autumn. The mobile signal boosters I'd need to be in with a chance of strengthening the cellular signal are in the region of 1,000-2,000, plus more for aerials.
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Crikey are box cost 50€ and 25€ a month no contract 4G
 
It might well be possible to get a Starlink signal where you are @derwendolly because there are a great many of them and they're about 342 miles up, so at that height your place and mine look quite close together. If you're willing to pay that much it's worth it. Plus there are around 4,500 of them so there's usually at least one in the arc of sky visible to the dish. That diagram above is just a snapshot of where they are. You don't need a personal one directly overhead.
 
Stanleysteamer said:
My story more or less completely.
Did nowt from the age of 19 odd until we took this place on in 2006, apart from occasionally helping my ex s-i-l out on a building site. (I don't count working on cars, maybe I should.)
It came as a shock and lots of pain.
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Works both ways your body can be knackered at are age if you have had a heavy physical job the door swings both ways its a fine line
 
Been at the dottirs bung this week, getting into removing the old ceilings (fibre board tiles) and replacing them with plasterboard. Along with mapping out the existing cable routes and heating pipes in prep for alterations. Found a certificate pinned to a roof truss, from ten years ago, when British Gas did the roof insulation. But those muppets didn't insulate in the hard to get at areas in the eaves. Result - all the heat - and especially straight from the radiators - goes straight through the roof. So I have been remedying that as well. And my skin is a bit itchy :eek:. On the plus side, we got one of those there plasterboard hoists. They are cheap as chips, and make the job of placing and holding the sheets in place a doddle while yer get the screws in.
 
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