Technology gone wrong

You’re so right, Julia. We currently enjoy seeing friends with Zoom, and I can talk to (and see) my Aussie family on Skype. It would be so much harder without the technology!

Jolly old BT and Sky at it again I see! We played this game, one blames the other, threats of massive charges for an engineer to call. Phone too close to the input and the router, new phones - no different. End result, a faulty line by BT, changed onto another and no further problem. You have to keep nagging, however frustrating and time consuming it can be.

OH is like a dog with 2 tails now that BT has finally installed 150Mb broadband this week. He's only been waiting 35 years...

I often wonder what we did without it ! I say "we" as my hubby doesn't even like using the phone and wouldn't know what to do with a laptop or mobile phone ! Hahaa!

We would have been lost Waddy, every second Saturday we have Family Quiz Night on Zoom, not just us but family from all around the country join in, its helped get all of us through the last weeks, something for everyone to enjoy, even the grandchildren and great nieces and nephews join in, obviously they don't stay up until the early hours for the drinking and laughs that go on afterwards....Glad all is well again now...

I'm glad you got it sorted out, people depend so much on technology now. It's a lifeline for most people ....
Personally I am almost as bad as Rose's husband :D

IT is great until it goes wrong & then it's so irritating you begin to wish you never had it. I'm glad you are up & running again. It reminds me of the little girl in the nursery rhyme. " When she was good, she was very very good & when she was bad she was horrid."

Thank you for all your comments
Sheila, I use WhatsApp or Facetime to speak to my family, especially the grandchildren I haven't quite got the hang of Zoom,I think I need to rectify that.

Honeysuckle : I have to admit to having to bite my tongue a few times, but everyone I spoke to were so polite it was hard to tay angry for too long.

Angel: If I understood what a mb was it might help!! Glad your husband's happy though.

Rose: My OH is just as bad. His mobile phone is so old I think they stopped making them years ago. It's a PAYG, and costs him a max £5 for the year. As for his computer, it's an old one of mine and is at least 20yrs old. He knows how to turn it on and off and how to find his recipes, but he can't print them out or save anything..that's left to me lol!

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Lincslass : I have a friend who had to isolate during the whole of the current situation. The one thing which has kept her sane has been the weekly Zoom quiz with her family. They all 'share' a drink and a meal together. It all sounds marvellous and such fun.

Hywel: Is it a man thing do you think :-))

Feverfew : You're so right!

At the risk of being laughed at I will confess I have an old Pay as you go NOKIA mobile phone, our desktop computer is about 10 years old and, as for husband's mobile, it flips open like something out of Star Trek! Beam us up ..... ha ha!

As our daughter may be moving to New York next year, I feel I really should invest in a Smartphone, learn all about Facetime/Skype/Zoom etc. ... anybody else ready to confess their ancient technology?

I don't think it's to do with gender Julia, it's just that some people are technically minded and some people are garden minded :)
I know which one I am hahaha

At least your hubby has got a computer and mobile! Rick wouldn't get one even if his life depended on it ! Hahaa!

Rose, our neighbour is just the same. As he says, what do I need that for when I've got a perfectly good telephone in the house!

Shirley, I think Richard's phone is an old Nokia and a flip phone is still fairly modern lol!
I have a smartphone, but I must confess there are things on it I've no idea how to work. ..but keep that between us will you? 😁

Hywel, I agree. I try to keep up with technology, but have to admit it does leave my behind a lot of the time,

Rose, to be honest, Richard's mobile is rarely charged up. In the past, pre-Covid if I went out I use to ask him to make sure his mobile was charged if he went out, while I was away...he didn't often take much notice! I know he wouldn't have one at all if I didn't nag him. The computer is so old, I think it's steam driven!!!

Waddy, your secret's safe with me! ... :o))

I have an old mobile phone (not smart!) and love my iPad. If anything goes wrong I have a “techie” OH to ask ... well, computers came in when he was 17 so he’s grown up with them and is never fazed. I’m hopeless 🙂.

Thanks Shirley, I owe you😁😁

Sheila, how lucky are you? You're own private reckie!

Looks like the the Techies gremlins are at it again Sheila lol!!

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