Latest Moan From You and Me 2024

We have used gmail for over a decade now tho I continue to view and organise my emails thru Outlook because I can create Folders and sort them - president of a dance club with 200 members and 7 dance disciplines in Belgium so important to organise and now, in France, president of the patchwork club and a member of the garden club committee and then friends, family and services to organise on top. Gmail is hopeless for filing all the various mails and categories.

Possum mocked me endlessly about my insistence on Outlook until she was told that her job at Bénéteau included handling all professional emails via Outlook. Ha!

 

I use outlook as well @Obelix-Vendée and when windows no longer would work with the old version, I upgraded to Office 365. It is nice have the latest of all of the office suite and I consider it cheap. $10 a month or 5 euros or about 6 pounds. It is well worth the money.

I have zillions of folders and like the way I can keep everything neatly organized.

That said, there are many "apps" that I can no longer use on my Samsung phone because Apple has bought out the platform and made them only available to Iphone users. That really irks me. One of them was a shopping app that I used for groceries. It was easy to peruse the fliers and one touch circled the item I wanted on my list and later one swipe would get rid of it. Well, the only app for this type of use and for androids you have to touch, select, "clip" item and then to get rid of it, the opposite. So, I am mostly back to writing on the heading of the paper flyers what I want from that shop.

I don't like speaking ill of the dead, but Steve Jobs, was indeed, a real piece of work!

 

Thunderbird is the free(-bird) of/for Outlook ....

 

Just to report the site is running smoother than a smooth thing for me this morning!

Better add a moan! Hmmm, lemme think! Nope! Can't come up with anything. All is fine and dandy in the ViewAhead cosmos.

Hope that's not tempting fate ...

 

It's a sad state of affairs when you can't think of anything to moan about.

 

Can I moan about the weather please … it’s ferdiddlin’ down here … the slug pubs are getting diluted

 

@pete, my internal curmudgeon has obviously decided to take a well-earned break.

 

Sun cream

No matter what brand or style I buy, it still gets so sticky I could glue £2 coins on my forehead. To add to the joy, my hair is too short to fasten up when I apply the darned plaster on my neck, and just long enough to mop it up.


Thankfully the Calypso stuff lasts all day and spreads well. Pity it smells like I have a dozen of long dead rats in my pockets

Anyways, can't be without it, not just because of health risks but I also happen to have thin skin and prominent skull bones. Careless sun exposure creates a huge letter M figure of freckles on my forehead- so much so that on one holiday young children ran away from me screaming, and older children ran to me asking if they would be allowed to join the dots.

Oh the days of careless youth when we still had a bit of an ozone layer up there...

 

I use sun cream (though I totally agree that the texture is horrible), but it often feels like I'm the only person who does.

 

Having a family history of melanoma, I slap on the factor 50, horrible or not. It seems to make me sweat more, so I have to keep applying it again, plus DEET in the evenings or when it's windless. The combined smell is disgusting but at least I'm not getting bitten or worse.

I've noticed an ad on TV for some expensive moisturiser, apparently being recommended by a "well-known model" (ie a woman I didn't recognise), which contains factor 50. So perhaps being pale and interesting is going to be the new fashion. I can hope...

 

Well, I thought you were interesting @Liriodendron

 

Lots of factor 50 here too @Liriodendron , especially when OH goes off to play golf and I head out to garden. Haven't needed it this year tho - yet - as we've been covered up.

Lots of my friends here use it religiously and also wear hats because they, or someone they know, have had melanoma scares and treatments.