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Mar. 29th, 2008
Hurrah, I think!
Mar. 29th, 2008 11:23 amHurrah!........... I hope!
MyClassicFM player seems to have miraculously started working. Mind you, I had started to write this post a few minutes ago, when it had a sudden hiccup, but it's started up again, which augurs well.
It's quite slow; there's an interval of at least a minute between recordings, but on the other hand, there's no aural advertising, except for that for Classic FM itself, so I think I can live with that! If I have the whole page showing there's a certain amount of visible advertising, but since I don't plan to sit at the PC gazing at the thing, that won't bother me, so long as it doesn't slow down the PC.
Now it remains to be seen what will happen when I get the hourly message asking whether I want to continue, or when I log off and log on again.
I did see something in the Telegraph yesterday about how some people, mostly those downloading whole films or TV programmes, are having problems with either Internet connection speed, or the charges they're incurring for downloading, so, although I don't pay extra for downloading, I am wondering how much bandwidth streaming radio takes up and whether it will affect my PC's performance.
Of course, I shan't be able to listen to it in bed as I fall asleep, which is a bit of a hooter, but beggars....................... etc. And it is free! I shall have to revert to Rajo3 for snooze time, but they often have some quite difficult music that you have to listen to at that time of night, as opposed to just letting it wash you out to the Sea of Slumber!
I haven't had an answer to my last e-mail to Classic FM about the problem, but they certainly seem to have addressed the issue, so maybe I was one of many.
I also see that they have streams of other stuff I might like to listen to. They have an opera stream, and a baroque stream, even a stream of Music for studying! Do I dare change over to another channel and then try to get back to the Jazz channel?
Oooo! Trumpet Tune by Purcell and Jeremiah Clark. One of my faves!
Ooops! I don't think that's opera!
Oh dear! I appear to have hootered the entire thing now. Serves me right for being greedy!
Phew! At least I've got the Jazz channel back, for now at least.
MyClassicFM player seems to have miraculously started working. Mind you, I had started to write this post a few minutes ago, when it had a sudden hiccup, but it's started up again, which augurs well.
It's quite slow; there's an interval of at least a minute between recordings, but on the other hand, there's no aural advertising, except for that for Classic FM itself, so I think I can live with that! If I have the whole page showing there's a certain amount of visible advertising, but since I don't plan to sit at the PC gazing at the thing, that won't bother me, so long as it doesn't slow down the PC.
Now it remains to be seen what will happen when I get the hourly message asking whether I want to continue, or when I log off and log on again.
I did see something in the Telegraph yesterday about how some people, mostly those downloading whole films or TV programmes, are having problems with either Internet connection speed, or the charges they're incurring for downloading, so, although I don't pay extra for downloading, I am wondering how much bandwidth streaming radio takes up and whether it will affect my PC's performance.
Of course, I shan't be able to listen to it in bed as I fall asleep, which is a bit of a hooter, but beggars....................... etc. And it is free! I shall have to revert to Rajo3 for snooze time, but they often have some quite difficult music that you have to listen to at that time of night, as opposed to just letting it wash you out to the Sea of Slumber!
I haven't had an answer to my last e-mail to Classic FM about the problem, but they certainly seem to have addressed the issue, so maybe I was one of many.
I also see that they have streams of other stuff I might like to listen to. They have an opera stream, and a baroque stream, even a stream of Music for studying! Do I dare change over to another channel and then try to get back to the Jazz channel?
Oooo! Trumpet Tune by Purcell and Jeremiah Clark. One of my faves!
Ooops! I don't think that's opera!
Oh dear! I appear to have hootered the entire thing now. Serves me right for being greedy!
Phew! At least I've got the Jazz channel back, for now at least.
Tired out!
Mar. 29th, 2008 11:37 pmI'm absolutely shattered!
We didn't go shopping until 5.00 pm, because I wanted to go to the huge Tesco's to see if I could get gluten-free flour and so forth for Charles, and I couldn't face the Saturday crowds.
I got an electric scooter to go round the store, otherwise it would have been pointless going. Even when I felt a lot better than I do nowadays I found it next to impossible to walk round the place, it's so huge.
What is it about people in wheelchairs that makes them invisible to everyone else? The number of people who just stopped dead in front of me and waited for me to manoeuvre around them, or the young men who took flying leaps over the front of the scooter all have a touching faith in my ability to come to a dead stop. Then there are the Geordie chains - families of people who all have to go shopping together and walk about five or six abreast and woe betide anyone who doesn't get out of their way! And their revolting children who play chase around one's wheelchair, without so much as a reproof from any of the vapid adults with them. And none of them seems to realise that it would be so easy for me to run them down and then apologise profusely with the pretense that I couldn't stop in time.
I could never understand why disabled people looked so cross all the time, but I do now.
On top of all that, although we managed to get quite a few things, we couldn't find any nice gluten-free bread. I was kind of hoping they might bake a gluten-free loaf on the premises, but we couldn't find anyone in the Bakery department to ask, and there certainly weren't any on the shelves.
I found that contrary to what I thought, the spelt flour does have gluten in it, but I did manage to get some plain gluten free flour and some rice flour, so I shall have to see what I can do. We got some GF bagels, too. And some Nan. Charles was upset to find that his favourite raspberry Pavlova ice cream has gluten in it, for what reason, I cannot imagine.
It was utterly exhausting, so rather than start cooking immediately we got home, we got some chill-cook curries for tonight's dinner. They were quite nice, but I would really rather have had a salad.
Last night I got a Lidl duck out of the freezer for tomorrow's dinner, but I don't really fancy it now. Let's hope I feel more like it tomorrow.
I wish I hadn't watched Sleeping with the Enemy. It's upset me a bit - I don't like films where women are being chased or stalked, and specially ones where they get beaten up, but I watched it anyway because I just love looking at Julia Roberts. Now I'm frightened to go to sleep, idiot that I am!!
We didn't go shopping until 5.00 pm, because I wanted to go to the huge Tesco's to see if I could get gluten-free flour and so forth for Charles, and I couldn't face the Saturday crowds.
I got an electric scooter to go round the store, otherwise it would have been pointless going. Even when I felt a lot better than I do nowadays I found it next to impossible to walk round the place, it's so huge.
What is it about people in wheelchairs that makes them invisible to everyone else? The number of people who just stopped dead in front of me and waited for me to manoeuvre around them, or the young men who took flying leaps over the front of the scooter all have a touching faith in my ability to come to a dead stop. Then there are the Geordie chains - families of people who all have to go shopping together and walk about five or six abreast and woe betide anyone who doesn't get out of their way! And their revolting children who play chase around one's wheelchair, without so much as a reproof from any of the vapid adults with them. And none of them seems to realise that it would be so easy for me to run them down and then apologise profusely with the pretense that I couldn't stop in time.
I could never understand why disabled people looked so cross all the time, but I do now.
On top of all that, although we managed to get quite a few things, we couldn't find any nice gluten-free bread. I was kind of hoping they might bake a gluten-free loaf on the premises, but we couldn't find anyone in the Bakery department to ask, and there certainly weren't any on the shelves.
I found that contrary to what I thought, the spelt flour does have gluten in it, but I did manage to get some plain gluten free flour and some rice flour, so I shall have to see what I can do. We got some GF bagels, too. And some Nan. Charles was upset to find that his favourite raspberry Pavlova ice cream has gluten in it, for what reason, I cannot imagine.
It was utterly exhausting, so rather than start cooking immediately we got home, we got some chill-cook curries for tonight's dinner. They were quite nice, but I would really rather have had a salad.
Last night I got a Lidl duck out of the freezer for tomorrow's dinner, but I don't really fancy it now. Let's hope I feel more like it tomorrow.
I wish I hadn't watched Sleeping with the Enemy. It's upset me a bit - I don't like films where women are being chased or stalked, and specially ones where they get beaten up, but I watched it anyway because I just love looking at Julia Roberts. Now I'm frightened to go to sleep, idiot that I am!!
