Today I've mostly bin...

[Bunnylump]

Aw...are we allowed a peek at a photo?

[Bunnylump]

My little duckling has just popped in after climbing. She was astounded at how well her newly fixed and serviced saxophone worked and we've just had a quick demo of "Sir Duke". She was also astounded at how SHINY it was (I don't think she cleans it much!! ) Flipping well should be good at a mere £80...

[giraffe]

A repair and a service for £80 that is really good. A full service alone can be more than that. Just be glad it's not a bassoon, £300 just for a set of pads. (I'm hoping we won't be needing pads for a long time)

[giraffe]

....playing with the google logo!

[Bunnylump]

Yes, it's good, isn't it?

Oh, this wasn't a FULL service. One of those would cost about £250. Mind you, he has repaired the broken keys, replaced one of the pads, tightened up some of the parts and replaced the cork in the mouthpiece. So actually, that's not bad. It's just when I think how long it takes me to EARN £80, it's quite depressing. K did say she would pay for it, but poor thing has a mortgage to pay for and a wedding to save up for, so I took pity on her, as she NEEDS it this weekend.

[giraffe]

Sounds twice as good!

[Bunnylump]

(Duplicated post deleted!) I keep getting those, don't know why...

[giraffe]

You hit send twice.

[kathlyn]

Why didn't they give you a Samsonite?

The airlines have a company that replaces damaged cases now. It's obviously all to do with stopping fraudulent claims. Though having been on the company's web site they can supply Samsonite. The company is called K2. Ebay is selling their suitcases at about £89.

[strep98]

Aw...are we allowed a peek at a photo?

Yes if I can find a way of not taking us a whole page with one photo

[Bunnylump]

Goddesses, Glastonbury resized.png (203.26 KiB) Viewed 1017 times

Open it in paint, then click on RESIZE, then change the horizontal and vertical numbers from 100 to 50, then save as whatever you can remember. That would come out like this. There are probably better ways to do this but this works for me.

[LAT]

I just open it in whatever microsoft uses for viewing pictures, click edit, then compress. And it gives the choice of compressing for documents, web pages or emails.
Here is one I did earlier!

snowface compressed.JPG (23.44 KiB) Viewed 1010 times

[Bunnylump]

Is that the frozen body in the garden you were telling me about/?

Mine open up in Windows photo viewer which doesn't have an edit option. I did this one by copying and pasting into word, then getting rid of all the white page.

[clvrlad]

strange how you've all picked up your own method

talented bunch :-p

[Scurra]

The problem with your method, Bunny, is that your picture is still enormous in terms of file-sizes (look at the number under each of those pictures - LAT's is 20k, but your two are 200k and 500k. There are two side effects of this: people with slower connections take longer to download pictures, and every time someone does open this thread and the picture is downloaded, that uses up some of our bandwidth (of which we have a limited amount.) This isn't much of a problem at the moment, but imagine if just 100 people all looked at a picture that was 500k - that would be 50mb of data being transferred just to show a single photo!

(And I imagine both MBH and SparkOut are boggling at the idea of copying and pasting a photo into Word in order to resize it... I know I am. )

[Bunnylump]

Oh, I didn't mean word, I meant paint. I don't seem to have any other things which will edit photos on here so I don't have any choice.

(I've removed the second picture, just for you...)

[LAT]

....becoming a great aunt!
While I certainly sometimes feel old enough to be a great aunt, I cetainly don't feel mature enough!

actually I didn't put much effort into becoming a great aunt, it just happened to me.

[strep98]

I tried you way Bunny and the photo went very weird. If she thought I posted it like that she would have gone into hiding for years, lets say she looked like one of the 7 little people snow white hangs out with.

Well done Great Aunt, becoming a Nanna will really do for my image in December.

Any how pictures are on FB if anyone is a member or interestred.

[Bunnylump]

Urgh, just went on FB and realised just how much I hate it and why I NEVER go on there. Sorry folks!! Will do it for PB but prob would need a new login thingy because I don't really want to be identifiable for PB purposes.

[Wulfruna]

Doing the Guardian crossword, which was described as "a centenary puzzle". The clue is in the Google doodle which Giraffe spotted (too late to view that now for those who don't see this till Sunday! It's all about Alan Turing and the answers were full of computer references. However, lots of the clues kept referring to "topline", which we couldn't understand - until we had completed the whole thing and then realised that if you read across the letters along the top line of the grid, it spelt out "COMPUTER" - and along the bottom line it said "LANGUAGE". Very clever ! Worthy of Puzzlebrains, we thought