tomferry
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I actually just text my wife 10 minutes prior to reading that saying, we are out of candles buy £10 worthIf the threatened daily power cuts come this winter, best of luck using your keyboard. ;-)
I actually just text my wife 10 minutes prior to reading that saying, we are out of candles buy £10 worthIf the threatened daily power cuts come this winter, best of luck using your keyboard. ;-)
Will cell towers work in a power cut?I actually just text my wife 10 minutes prior to reading that saying, we are out of candles buy £10 worth
We used to have a landline we could rely on, until our "provider" went digital. Now our phone signal comes through the router so our landline won't work if the power goes down. That's "progress" for you.You may need a fixed landline: https://www.ofcom.org.uk/phones-tel...r-consumers/problems/landlines-and-power-cuts
There will be few mourning the demise of Faecbook.Some algorithm flagged this up; I wondered if it was relevant?
I have added loads of information to three Forums. Two were collector's forums and the other South West Mafia a diving forum. Hundreds of hours work and 1,000s of images gone. In a sense Wrecksite made the diving forums redundant as all wreck research should go on there. It needs a subscription though. Sadly more diving info goes on Facebook to be lost forever but I still keep nagging. Whilst this forum still seems popular that does not guarantee its future. Its still light on photos and dig reports. Not much here on latest Mendip finds and there have been a few. All on Facebook should anyone need to know.Indeed, this forum does seem to be in good order.
The most popular scuba diving forum in the UK in the 2000's (Yorkshire Divers), was sold on to a spam-generating US firm around 10 years ago. The membership revolted to the change and a new forum was established (The Dive Forum), hosted by some actual divers in the uk, which thrived for the last few years and had some excellent reports, advice & debates. Sadly, I've seen yesterday that they have also now chosen to close up shop due to lack of activity. The on-going running costs are not justifying it's on-going membership and contributions. A terrible shame, there is a fantastic archive of discussion & debate held on there. This isn't just some small niche forum. Over 10 years, there have been 472,000 posts.
https://www.thediveforum.com/showthread.php?29323-TDF-is-Closing-Up-for-New-Management-amp-Ownership
I think facebook may have won that one. Terrible.
Times change, the forum has certainly changed. Support from cavers from all areas of the UK (and beyond) is welcomed - encourage your friends to get involved with UKC, as I've said previously what YOU can do dear forum member and especially lurker is engage 😁.There is only so much Tim and I can do to promote UKC, if you value this unique caving resource don't just read it - add to it in whatever way you can from clicking the like button, posting a photo to starting a new thread. If you can do it on facebook, why not here???Not much here on latest Mendip finds and there have been a few.
I will. I'm on several botany related sites which enable me to ask advice and have discussions with some of the leading botanists in the UK. Not all the problems are down to facebook; some of them are to do with how people use it.There will be few mourning the demise of Faecbook.