Posts by ColinGrey2 2 publicly visible posts • joined 26 Jan 2018
One Christmas my mother in-law microwaved the custard for 20 minutes instead of 2 minutes. The smell of melting plastic wafting from the kitchen gave it away. We took the microwave outside, but the smell persisted, so we had pudding with the windows wide open, wearing thick coats and woolley hats.
The silver lining was she got new microwave which was very simple to operate, instead of a complex one that did everything.
Working with an aged parent on the end of a phone was sometimes a challenge.
(This was 10 years ago)
"Double Click" was Click - (silent count to 3) Click
He used to keep a book of his video tapes - so tape 3 was "gone with the wind". This worked well. Why change a winning system?
When he used a spread sheet, he filed the data under Spreadsheet1, then wrote in his little book Spreadsheet1 was Golf Society accounts.
It took him several months to get him trained to save files with a relevant name.
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