Today I'm happy about......

[Lost Leopard Spot]

My old landline phone gave up the ghost on New Years Eve. I was just getting hisses and crackles out of it - which, as it was over eighty years old, was kind of inevitable one day. So, I went online and was looking for a retro replacement, something not unsimilar to the one that died, when my missus piped up with her objection. apparently she was sick and tired of the old heavy clunky thing ( ) and wanted something modern and useful, something she could walk about the house with. I pretended to ignore her and showed her the renovated 1920s phone I was going to buy on ebay, but I secretly bought a cordless phone instead, our first ever [have I ever mentioned I'm a bit of a luddite ].

Amazon just delivered it to work... that's the 'today, I'm happy' bit.

I've opened the box and experienced the dawning realisation that the base unit has both an electrical plug and a phone socket plug. My nearest unoccupied electrical socket at home is at least twenty feet from the phone socket. I suppose we could do without the phone when the tele's on, maybe. Feck.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

oh, and I like the matching coats, bish (in the photo, with the greyhound).

[thebish]

me and the dog always coordinate our outfits - brings a touch of class to dartmoor, I feel...

[TANGODANCER]

My old landline phone gave up the ghost on New Years Eve. I was just getting hisses and crackles out of it - which, as it was over eighty years old, was kind of inevitable one day. So, I went online and was looking for a retro replacement, something not unsimilar to the one that died, when my missus piped up with her objection. apparently she was sick and tired of the old heavy clunky thing ( ) and wanted something modern and useful, something she could walk about the house with. I pretended to ignore her and showed her the renovated 1920s phone I was going to buy on ebay, but I secretly bought a cordless phone instead, our first ever [have I ever mentioned I'm a bit of a luddite ].

Amazon just delivered it to work... that's the 'today, I'm happy' bit.

I've opened the box and experienced the dawning realisation that the base unit has both an electrical plug and a phone socket plug. My nearest unoccupied electrical socket at home is at least twenty feet from the phone socket. I suppose we could do without the phone when the tele's on, maybe. Feck.

Extension leads are quite useful at times....

[bwfcdan94]

Football still has a heart after all!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/25620878

[Lost Leopard Spot]

My old landline phone gave up the ghost on New Years Eve. I was just getting hisses and crackles out of it - which, as it was over eighty years old, was kind of inevitable one day. So, I went online and was looking for a retro replacement, something not unsimilar to the one that died, when my missus piped up with her objection. apparently she was sick and tired of the old heavy clunky thing ( ) and wanted something modern and useful, something she could walk about the house with. I pretended to ignore her and showed her the renovated 1920s phone I was going to buy on ebay, but I secretly bought a cordless phone instead, our first ever [have I ever mentioned I'm a bit of a luddite ].

Amazon just delivered it to work... that's the 'today, I'm happy' bit.

I've opened the box and experienced the dawning realisation that the base unit has both an electrical plug and a phone socket plug. My nearest unoccupied electrical socket at home is at least twenty feet from the phone socket. I suppose we could do without the phone when the tele's on, maybe. Feck.

Extension leads are quite useful at times....

I should really have drawn a plan of my living room (where the phone socket is), to show you the scale of the problem. Extension leads are one thing, but I'd have to lay the cable across at least one doorway, or tack the blighter up and around door frames etc. Electricity eh? whodda thunk it, I forgot that old style phones ran on willpower alone.

[Montreal Wanderer]

My old landline phone gave up the ghost on New Years Eve. I was just getting hisses and crackles out of it - which, as it was over eighty years old, was kind of inevitable one day. So, I went online and was looking for a retro replacement, something not unsimilar to the one that died, when my missus piped up with her objection. apparently she was sick and tired of the old heavy clunky thing ( ) and wanted something modern and useful, something she could walk about the house with. I pretended to ignore her and showed her the renovated 1920s phone I was going to buy on ebay, but I secretly bought a cordless phone instead, our first ever [have I ever mentioned I'm a bit of a luddite ].

Amazon just delivered it to work... that's the 'today, I'm happy' bit.

I've opened the box and experienced the dawning realisation that the base unit has both an electrical plug and a phone socket plug. My nearest unoccupied electrical socket at home is at least twenty feet from the phone socket. I suppose we could do without the phone when the tele's on, maybe. Feck.

Extension leads are quite useful at times....

I should really have drawn a plan of my living room (where the phone socket is), to show you the scale of the problem. Extension leads are one thing, but I'd have to lay the cable across at least one doorway, or tack the blighter up and around door frames etc. Electricity eh? whodda thunk it, I forgot that old style phones ran on willpower alone.

I'm assuming you only have one phone jack - it might be easier to put another jack in rather than another electrical outlet or extension. But clearly you have to solve the problem. What about an adapter on the tv outlet? Phones don't take much power.

[TANGODANCER]

Football still has a heart after all!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/25620878

Not football Dan, people. Great to see though.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

My old landline phone gave up the ghost on New Years Eve. I was just getting hisses and crackles out of it - which, as it was over eighty years old, was kind of inevitable one day. So, I went online and was looking for a retro replacement, something not unsimilar to the one that died, when my missus piped up with her objection. apparently she was sick and tired of the old heavy clunky thing ( ) and wanted something modern and useful, something she could walk about the house with. I pretended to ignore her and showed her the renovated 1920s phone I was going to buy on ebay, but I secretly bought a cordless phone instead, our first ever [have I ever mentioned I'm a bit of a luddite ].

Amazon just delivered it to work... that's the 'today, I'm happy' bit.

I've opened the box and experienced the dawning realisation that the base unit has both an electrical plug and a phone socket plug. My nearest unoccupied electrical socket at home is at least twenty feet from the phone socket. I suppose we could do without the phone when the tele's on, maybe. Feck.

Extension leads are quite useful at times....

I should really have drawn a plan of my living room (where the phone socket is), to show you the scale of the problem. Extension leads are one thing, but I'd have to lay the cable across at least one doorway, or tack the blighter up and around door frames etc. Electricity eh? whodda thunk it, I forgot that old style phones ran on willpower alone.

I'm assuming you only have one phone jack - it might be easier to put another jack in rather than another electrical outlet or extension. But clearly you have to solve the problem.

Yes. Probably. Correct-a-mundo although I'm right out of enthusiam for problem solving: it's bound to eat into my going down the pub time, sorry I mean walking the dog time.

[Montreal Wanderer]

My old landline phone gave up the ghost on New Years Eve. I was just getting hisses and crackles out of it - which, as it was over eighty years old, was kind of inevitable one day. So, I went online and was looking for a retro replacement, something not unsimilar to the one that died, when my missus piped up with her objection. apparently she was sick and tired of the old heavy clunky thing ( ) and wanted something modern and useful, something she could walk about the house with. I pretended to ignore her and showed her the renovated 1920s phone I was going to buy on ebay, but I secretly bought a cordless phone instead, our first ever [have I ever mentioned I'm a bit of a luddite ].

Amazon just delivered it to work... that's the 'today, I'm happy' bit.

I've opened the box and experienced the dawning realisation that the base unit has both an electrical plug and a phone socket plug. My nearest unoccupied electrical socket at home is at least twenty feet from the phone socket. I suppose we could do without the phone when the tele's on, maybe. Feck.

Extension leads are quite useful at times....

I should really have drawn a plan of my living room (where the phone socket is), to show you the scale of the problem. Extension leads are one thing, but I'd have to lay the cable across at least one doorway, or tack the blighter up and around door frames etc. Electricity eh? whodda thunk it, I forgot that old style phones ran on willpower alone.

I'm assuming you only have one phone jack - it might be easier to put another jack in rather than another electrical outlet or extension. But clearly you have to solve the problem.

Yes. Probably. Correct-a-mundo although I'm right out of enthusiam for problem solving: it's bound to eat into my going down the pub time, sorry I mean walking the dog time.

You cut off my adapter suggestion. You indicated the phone outlet was near the tv. The phone and tv could easily be on the same outlet as the phone pulls little power - not like a toaster. My kids bought me a new phone system for Xmas - one main base and six wireless receivers. They use electricity but need no phone jack.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

You cut off my adapter suggestion. You indicated the phone outlet was near the tv. The phone and tv could easily be on the same outlet as the phone pulls little power - not like a toaster. My kids bought me a new phone system for Xmas - one main base and six wireless receivers. They use electricity but need no phone jack.

I didn't see that bit (you sneaked it in, admit it). But ingenious though it is I'm afraid that the one double socket close to the phone jack already supplies the BT home hub, the TV, the Sky box, the DVD player and the Home entertainment centre (CD, radio, record player), the pre amp, and the amp. There aint any more room - electricity is being sucked out at a phenomenal rate, our living room is the poor electrons equivalent of the Bangladeshi sweat shop.

[thebish]

You cut off my adapter suggestion. You indicated the phone outlet was near the tv. The phone and tv could easily be on the same outlet as the phone pulls little power - not like a toaster. My kids bought me a new phone system for Xmas - one main base and six wireless receivers. They use electricity but need no phone jack.

I didn't see that bit (you sneaked it in, admit it). But ingenious though it is I'm afraid that the one double socket close to the phone jack already supplies the BT home hub, the TV, the Sky box, the DVD player and the Home entertainment centre (CD, radio, record player), the pre amp, and the amp. There aint any more room - electricity is being sucked out at a phenomenal rate, our living room is the poor electrons equivalent of the Bangladeshi sweat shop.

I thought you said you were a Luddite????

[Lost Leopard Spot]

You cut off my adapter suggestion. You indicated the phone outlet was near the tv. The phone and tv could easily be on the same outlet as the phone pulls little power - not like a toaster. My kids bought me a new phone system for Xmas - one main base and six wireless receivers. They use electricity but need no phone jack.

I didn't see that bit (you sneaked it in, admit it). But ingenious though it is I'm afraid that the one double socket close to the phone jack already supplies the BT home hub, the TV, the Sky box, the DVD player and the Home entertainment centre (CD, radio, record player), the pre amp, and the amp. There aint any more room - electricity is being sucked out at a phenomenal rate, our living room is the poor electrons equivalent of the Bangladeshi sweat shop.

I thought you said you were a Luddite????

They belong to the missus If they were mine, they'd be made out of wood and I'd have plenty of electricity left over to enable the phone.


Plus I've just re-read what Monty put... the man's got SIX phones!!!!! Why would anyone want six phones. I bet even the Queen hasn't got six phones. I'd struggle to know where to put them, hmmm one in the living room and one in the dining room and one in the bedroom and one in the kitchen and one in the conservatory... and one in the khazi

[Montreal Wanderer]

You cut off my adapter suggestion. You indicated the phone outlet was near the tv. The phone and tv could easily be on the same outlet as the phone pulls little power - not like a toaster. My kids bought me a new phone system for Xmas - one main base and six wireless receivers. They use electricity but need no phone jack.

I didn't see that bit (you sneaked it in, admit it). But ingenious though it is I'm afraid that the one double socket close to the phone jack already supplies the BT home hub, the TV, the Sky box, the DVD player and the Home entertainment centre (CD, radio, record player), the pre amp, and the amp. There aint any more room - electricity is being sucked out at a phenomenal rate, our living room is the poor electrons equivalent of the Bangladeshi sweat shop.

I thought you said you were a Luddite????

They belong to the missus If they were mine, they'd be made out of wood and I'd have plenty of electricity left over to enable the phone.


Plus I've just re-read what Monty put... the man's got SIX phones!!!!! Why would anyone want six phones. I bet even the Queen hasn't got six phones. I'd struggle to know where to put them, hmmm one in the living room and one in the dining room and one in the bedroom and one in the kitchen and one in the conservatory... and one in the khazi

Of the wireless phones, one is on the base unit (Living room), one in the office, one in my daughter's room, one in our bedroom and one in the dining room. The sixth phone was not part of the Xmas package, but an old fashioned plug in the jack kind in case all the wireless technology fails - it is next to the base unit in the living room. I decided not to put one in the kitchen or basement. Three floors means you need at least three phones. They are all hooked up on an intercom system as well so I can get my daughter up without going to her room. 4 or 5 phones is pretty normal in Canada - no extra cost.

[bobo the clown]

We have 5 ... and Canadianshireland is waaaay bigger

[Montreal Wanderer]

We have 5 ... and Canadianshireland is waaaay bigger

Glad it is normal in Wales too. Spotty is a bit behind the times.

[Athers]

Old people have a phone in every room in case they have a fall or something...

[bobo the clown]

Old people have a phone in every room in case they have a fall or something...

.... oooops. 'scuse me, I'm off for another 6 then !

[thebish]

We have 5 ... and Canadianshireland is waaaay bigger

yeah - but you also have his 'n her showers!

[thebish]

Old people have a phone in every room in case they have a fall or something...

surely it's more normal for them to have a panic button thing around their neck?