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Lothlorien
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Originally posted by Joyeux:
Changes in barometric pressure and/or temperature result in old injuries (wrenched ankle, knee, etc) hurting again. Why?
OK, showered, fed and drunk coffee. Sort of ready to face the day. I've also done some sock knitting as therapy for the fingers. Lovely morning on our huge west facing balcony, but it will be very hot later.
Here's one site which really is non-committal about the effect of the weather. As always, I guess some sufferers are affected by one thing, others by something else.
This site definitely claims a link between the two. I often feel worse in hot humid weather, but cold does not seem to have such a strong link. I do know that I need to keep the affected parts exercised as much as possible. I knit a lot. I like it, I use it as gifts but it's good therapy. I always have something going and as it's summer down here, it's been laceweight scarves, stoles etc and socks which are small and not hot in my lap. Lots of walking too. Short distances regularly work better for me than nothing for a few days and then a long walk.
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Originally posted by Tea gnome:
Mm. Also, I am given to understand that men use their hand(s) to um, aim with. Whilst urine is/should be sterile, what they're holding into certainly isn't. Hands should be washed.
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I don't have any answers for anyone now that the handwashing issue has been resolved. But I do have a question I've always wondered:
What's the difference between a grove and an orchard?
Why do we call orange groves, groves and apple orchards, orchards?
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Firenze
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Originally posted by Thurible:
Can pigeons swim?
No.
I remember walking by Leith docks on very still day - one in which the water was a perfect mirror. The only disturbance of its calm surface was a struggling pigeon, unable to swim, and too wet to fly.
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Originally posted by Thurible:
Pigeons, like raptors and song birds and such, just have those skinny little toesies that would get them nowhere.
And even then, many of them have some of those skinny little toes missing! Not, I once read, due to amputating accidents but due to some horrible, foot devouring virus endemic in urban pigeons.
Just thought you'd like to know ![[Razz]](tongue.gif)
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your quote was me, rather than Thurible. FYI
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Indeed - not sure I'd use 'toesies'. ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
Thanks for confirming my suspicions.
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Joyeux
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Thanks for those links, Lothlorien! After reading those articles I remember reading somewhere that injuries and/or natural changes (i.e. arthritis) can allow miniscule pockets of air into joints and other sensitive areas. Those air pockets then react to changes in temperature, barometric pressure, etc.
Oh, yeah. Exercise... Guess there's no getting around than. ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
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Thanks Firenze and Lamb Chopped
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Originally posted by Tea gnome:
Mm. Also, I am given to understand that men use their hand(s) to um, aim with. Whilst urine is/should be sterile, what they're holding into certainly isn't. Hands should be washed.
But surely no less sterile than the rest of the body? In fact, since the part of my anatomy that we do not mention in polite society only has contact with the insides of my undergarments, whereas my hands have contact with all sorts of rubbish, surely it would make more sense to wash my penis than my hands ...
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Well, for a great many people that particular bit has contact with... other people's bits... and some very fugly people don't clean properly afterward. Not to mention wearing the same undies for days on end. Make that weeks. Did I say months?
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Originally posted by Ricardus:
But surely no less sterile than the rest of the body? In fact, since the part of my anatomy that we do not mention in polite society only has contact with the insides of my undergarments, whereas my hands have contact with all sorts of rubbish, surely it would make more sense to wash my penis than my hands ...
On the one hand, you got a point.
On the other hand, the nether regions pose troublesome bacteria problems, whether you have panis or not--
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I've said this before: your boxer-shorts region--from belly button to mid-thigh--is crawling with germs known as coliform bacteria. These bacteria originated in your intestine, and some of them are deadly.
Cecil Adams, from this article.
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Seeker963 in an AS thread posed this query:
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Does anyone on The Ship know how I can reliably check out whether a UK-based Money Service Business (Bureau de Change) is legitimate and not about to go bankrupt?
My understanding is that MSBs are regulated by HMRC and not by the FSA. I can't find any lists published by HMRC which lists registered MSBs and I don't just want to take the company's word for it.
Thank in advance - I do realise this is very much a 'specialist subject' but I'm hoping that one of The Ships 10000+ members may have a clue.
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Emma Louise
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I'd like to print off some photos. At the moment its probably about 100 or so photos, but at other times I'm guessing it will be more like 30.
Is it as easy to take the memory card thing to an ASDA store or is it cheaper to upload them to an online site and get them delivered? I'm still not used to the whole digital thing and realised we have tons and tons of pics but they're all on the computer !!!!
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Not sure about there, Emma, but here the cheapest way is to upload them and then go to the store to pick them up.
Check your store to see if there are any special offers. I went in to develop about 60 photos one time and there was a special for 100 photos that was about half the cost of developing 60. So I got 40 more photos for half of what I was going to pay anyway.
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Esmeralda
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What is the difference between an 'economic downturn', a recession and a depression? Is it just a matter of degree or are there acknowledged criteria?
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blackbeard
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Originally posted by Firenze:
quote:
Originally posted by Thurible:
Can pigeons swim?
No.
I remember walking by Leith docks on very still day - one in which the water was a perfect mirror. The only disturbance of its calm surface was a struggling pigeon, unable to swim, and too wet to fly.
I was once on a boat in mid-Channel and we were visited by a pigeon which circled around us and then, exhausted, flopped down on the water. It managed to get airborne again but then flopped back, totally exhausted. It was a very soggy pigeon which we hauled out of the water. They do not float very well.
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Originally posted by Emma Louise:
I'd like to print off some photos. At the moment its probably about 100 or so photos, but at other times I'm guessing it will be more like 30.
Is it as easy to take the memory card thing to an ASDA store or is it cheaper to upload them to an online site and get them delivered? I'm still not used to the whole digital thing and realised we have tons and tons of pics but they're all on the computer !!!!
We use Snapfish, who deliver. Might be useful when you can't get out of the house so easily! They also have lots of special offers, and lots of items with pictures on. Let's face it, you could sort out next year's Christmas list now - mugs with the baby on, mouse mats with the baby on etc etc!
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Matt Black
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Why can't humans eat raw meat (as a general rule) like other animals?
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We don't use our tumble drier very much at all, because of it being The Most Evil Thing On Earth obviously.
But the last week or so, what with potty training and wet weather and stuff, we've run out of drying space more than once and had to do a load in the dryer just to create some room to cook and breathe and suchlike. And what I noticed was, the stuff that had been tumble dried needed much less in the way of ironing. In fact I'd say about 70% of the stuff I'd normally iron could just be folded and put away, especially the kids' stuff.
So my question is: what is the cost\environmental trade off between tumble drying and ironing? If, say, 80 minutes of tumble drying saves you two hours of ironing, what's worse for the world at large?
[ETA: are there issues to be taken into account apart from the simple electricity usage?]
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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Originally posted by Matt Black:
Why can't humans eat raw meat (as a general rule) like other animals?
Hand me that steak tartare...
I am sure that we could, it's just that cooking makes it taste more interesting.
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The Great Gumby
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Chiming in to say that there are lots of online digital photo print services, and most have introductory offers and special deals at various times. We took advantage of one to create our own calendar of the K-Glet's first year for Christmas 2007, which delighted the doting grandparents.
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Originally posted by Esmeralda:
What is the difference between an 'economic downturn', a recession and a depression? Is it just a matter of degree or are there acknowledged criteria?
An economic downturn is when unemployment goes up.
A recession is when your neighbour loses his job.
A depression is when you lose your job.
Seriously, it's very difficult to determine, because politicians have a habit of defining words in their own interests. Once upon a time, any contraction of the economy was a "depression". After the 1930s, no one dared to use the word because of the memories it stirred, and started to call smaller economic blips (let's face it, just about anything's smaller than the 30s) "recessions". This was the standard until the 60s, when LBJ's economic advisors, trying to spin a bleak economic outlook, defined a recession as two consecutive quarters of negative growth of GDP.
That definition is the most commonly accepted definition of recession, even though it's generally regarded by most economists as somewhere between unhelpful and laughable. Now, with memories of bad recessions in the 80s and 90s, and a PM who claimed to have ended boom and bust, I think we're seeing a new chapter, as a recession is increasingly being called an "economic downturn" to soften the blow.
Which brings us back to my initial facetious definition. There is a clear hierarchy of severity, so in terms of economic damage, downturn < recession < depression. "Downturn" these days tends to fill the old meaning of "recession", reflecting the fact that there has been some slight drop in output, however temporary, without scaring the horses. "Recession", as I said, tends to be 2 consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth, which is irritating but probably too settled to be changed now. "Depression" even has a new commonly accepted meaning, which is that from the peak to the trough, real-terms GDP reduces by more than 10%.
So for most purposes, these definitions should do the trick. But if for some terrible reason you end up talking to any economists, you'd be best advised to define your terms.
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Rat
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Originally posted by Firenze:
quote:
Originally posted by Matt Black:
Why can't humans eat raw meat (as a general rule) like other animals?
Hand me that steak tartare...
I am sure that we could, it's just that cooking makes it taste more interesting.
Yes, I don't think there's any reason why we couldn't. But generations of not doing so probably means that we have less resistance to the various bacteria and intestinal parasites we'd encounter than regular raw-meat-eaters do. But, on the other hand, we probably suffer a lot less from the annoying bacterial infections and intestinal parasites that raw-meat-eaters regularly put up with.
But I suspect the issue is mainly an aesthetic one at root.
Though we don't really have very good teeth for ripping into raw carcases all the time, which might suggest that we'd be better off eating less meat than cooking allows us to.
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Matt Black
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Has it anything to do also with the fact that the raw meat we get in the supermarket isn't exactly fresh?
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Thurible
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My mother always discouraged us from eating chicken, pork or prawns out as they might not be cooked properly, might give us horrible diseases and all that sort of thing. Even now, I struggle to order anything but beef or lamb when eating out.
That said, I am a great fan of raw bacon.
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Joyeux
Ship's Lady of Laughter
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Maybe this question should go on the tech thread...
I have an optical mouse, and sometimes the cursor will move on the screen, even when the mouse itself is stationary. Why? This isn't a big deal; in fact, I find it quite amusing. I'd just like to know what causes this.
My optical mouse at home is wireless, and it happens. The optical mice on campus are not wireless, and it happens as well.
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Roseofsharon
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I don't have a tumble dryer, (although I did have one back when I had terry nappies to deal with), and rarely do any ironing.
When I empty the washing machine I give each item a good shake and pull it into shape before I peg it on the line - or drape it over clothes horse/radiators in inclement weather - where it dries to a wearable condition. I then fold it all carefully and put it tidily away immediately.
Clearly, this works better with some fabrics than others, so over a few months I do collect a big ironing pile, which gets tackled 3 or 4 time a year.
Unless Mr RoS hangs the washing out!
He sort of throws the washing at the line and pegs it how it lands, so I do need to iron everything then.
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Drifting Star
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Originally posted by Joyeux:
I have an optical mouse, and sometimes the cursor will move on the screen, even when the mouse itself is stationary. Why? This isn't a big deal; in fact, I find it quite amusing. I'd just like to know what causes this.
My optical mouse at home is wireless, and it happens. The optical mice on campus are not wireless, and it happens as well.
My laser mouse does this too. Sometimes it dances across the screen, and once it put a whole website into the wrong folder while I was uploading some files... ![[Ultra confused]](graemlins/confused2.gif)
It only seems to do it when I'm on my laptop and using it on the arm of the settee, which has a self-coloured and slightly textured pattern - some bits are just a little shinier than others. I've assumed it was because it was responding to something in the pattern, but I'd be really pleased to hear a firm theory as to what's happening.
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Joyeux
Ship's Lady of Laughter
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Further info on the cursor independent movement: it happens whether or not I use a mouse pad.
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Lamb Chopped
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I found at my old job that the same thing happened, and we traced it to interference from the monitor (being too close). I had a number of wireless thingies on my desk (keyboard, etc.) but can't remember exactly which were wireless.
Still, moving the mouse away from the monitor helped.
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New question, for the UK peeps, about WiFi in Travelodge hotels. Going away to Scotland next week, and have booked cheap rooms in 3 different Travelodges. (we managed to book during one of their sales, so we have 4 nights away for £56!!) Debating taking the laptop along, to keep in touch, as there is WiFi available in the rooms, at a price. Has anyone used this before and do you know how it works? The website has minimal information in the FAQ, and if you use 'contact us' to ask a question, it says they can take 10 working days to answer, but we haven't got that long before we travel on Monday 16TH! It costs £5 an hour, £10 a day or £20 a week, so we thought we would book a week, so could use it every night. BUT as this will be in 3 different hotels, would this work? Does the service you buy only work in the hotel you book it for? Or can I use the same package at the next place as well?
I'm rather hampered by never having used public WiFi before, so no idea of the 'mechanics' of what is involved in activating the service. Maybe someone who was more familiar with using paid for WiFi would know whether it was even technically possible to pay for a week's service to be used in several different locations, or if is it tied to an individual wireless access point. (Even if noone has used it in Travelodges, that still may answer my question.)
Furthermore if anyone HAS used it in Travelodge, it it necessary to book it before your stay, or can you book it on arrival? If so is it the same price?
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Drifting Star
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My only experience of wireless internet in a Travelodge suggests that you should definitely contact them in advance and find out exactly how it works.
We arrived at one and asked, and the staff hadn't got the faintest clue as to what we or they needed to do. We had to give up and do without. That was a couple of years ago, and they may well have improved a bit, but if I were you I'd make sure I had as much information as possible in case I needed to explain it to the staff...
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Firenze
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Originally posted by Matt Black:
Has it anything to do also with the fact that the raw meat we get in the supermarket isn't exactly fresh?
Some meats - notably beef and game - are supposedly better for being hung for a week or three.
I would say it has always been the case that the majority of meat was not eaten fresh. Even when you farmed or hunted, you'd seldom tuck into an entire pig or antelope all at once. Hence the large repertoire of drying, brining, curing, pickling etc.
As Rat points out, fresh and uncooked is not that brilliant, given that it usually means a livelier class of parasite (I read of an Artic expedition that perished, it is reckoned, of undercooked bear).
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Not seeking medical advice, just a straightforward question and answer:
Does an ECG show up palpitations if you're not having palpitations at the time?
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I will, if all goes well in the next few weeks, be moving into a flat that has almost complete wood laminate flooring. I have no experience of this, what is the best way to clean/take care of it?
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Use a good laminate floor cleaner.
Check out this site, for example.
The key is to never, ever, let water sit on the floor.
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Sparrow
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Originally posted by sharkshooter:
Use a good laminate floor cleaner.
Check out this site, for example.
The key is to never, ever, let water sit on the floor.
Thanks, that will be worth following up. But how often would I need to use that kind of cleaner? I was thinking more about day to day week to week care.
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My own experience with wireless away was at a Premier Inn. If I recall correctly there was no need for the staff to know anything at all. The information on connecting was in the room and gave you a connection to a single site, at which you paid a toll by credit card and then told you how to connect to the rest of the internet which was via password.
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New question that Mr Google doesn't seem to want to give me the answer to:
I'm getting on a flight on Thursday with hand-luggage only (Ryanair and too tight to pay for checked luggage when I'm only going for three days). That means I need to abide by the regulations on liquids and gels. Is make-up included? I think mascara is, but I don't know about foundation, lipstick etc. Does anyone know?
I'm going to the ballet in Rome ![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif) and I want to be able to put a face on...
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Originally posted by sharkshooter:
The key is to never, ever, let water sit on the floor.
Or wee. Especially wee. ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
Oh sorry, did you think went without saying?
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Originally posted by Rat:
Or wee. Especially wee.
Oh sorry, did you think went without saying?
Maybe, but there is no harm in adding erm... depth and richenss to our information. ![[Devil]](graemlins/devil.gif)
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Originally posted by lady in red:
New question that Mr Google doesn't seem to want to give me the answer to:
I'm getting on a flight on Thursday with hand-luggage only (Ryanair and too tight to pay for checked luggage when I'm only going for three days). That means I need to abide by the regulations on liquids and gels. Is make-up included? I think mascara is, but I don't know about foundation, lipstick etc. Does anyone know?
I'm going to the ballet in Rome and I want to be able to put a face on...
Here is it 100 ml containers or smaller and all must fit in a closed one litre ziploc bag.
(One time I packed three lunches with 60 ml soft cheese/yogurt containers in each and they had to go into the ziploc bag too.)
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Hope you get your flight - Paris doesn't seem a good place to fly from at the moment!
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The Kat in the Hat
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Regarding the optical mouse - I worked in a school where the ICT suite all had optical mice. They were getting a bit old though, and some of them would go bonkers - jumping all over the screen. The solutions for us was to use a piece of plain white paper as a mouse mat, as it seemed the glossy paint on the desk was causing some kind of feedback.
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Joyeux
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Hmmm... The mice at school are NOT wireless, although they are optical. I've had the drifting problem even when using a BLACK mousepad.
Maybe the problem is me... I'm a technological disruption!
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Furthermore if anyone HAS used it in Travelodge, it it necessary to book it before your stay, or can you book it on arrival? If so is it the same price?
I booked an hour at a Travelodge last year, following the instructions on the information card in the room, and it worked fine. What I hadn't appreciated was that it ran for literally one hour on the clock from the time I started to use it, and it could not be split over a number of sign-ons totalling one hour but over several elapsed hours.
As far as I recollect, it implied on the information card that the service ran across all (most?) Travelodges, but as I was only staying one night, I didn't really take much notice. I would have thought that the desk staff at each motel would know if they had Wifi available, even if they didn't know how to use it, so perhaps you could phone the other sites after you read the card in your first room.
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Originally posted by Joyeux:
Hmmm... The mice at school are NOT wireless, although they are optical. I've had the drifting problem even when using a BLACK mousepad.
Maybe the problem is me... I'm a technological disruption!
My optical mouse doesn't respond at all on black surfaces.
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The Kat in the Hat
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Like I said, we used plain WHITE paper to stop the jumping.
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Other things to try for optical mice is batteries and also that the mouse pad is level. Also check your mouse driver is up to date and the right one. If using a laptop try disabling the touch pad.
Unfortunately viruses (or should that be virii) can also do it. This was all found through Googling.
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Thanks for the advice about WiFi in Travelodges. It turns out that I won't need to use it, due to the kindness and generosity of my boss who has lent me her USB mobile modem thingy that she is not using now that she has a broadband connection - it works anywhere there is a mobile signal, and it's brilliant.
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