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I'm using a desktop PC. I can't for the life of me understand how anyone can use a forum on a phone, I've looked in here and at others a couple of times when I've been away, but it's all just too small and cramped for me. There's no three buttons on my screen anywhere, nor on the main forum index page.

The *Back* button is indeed a feature of the browser (Firefox 77.01) and it literally just takes you back one page, or you can expand the button with a right click of the mouse and select which page to return to, it works perfectly well on every website I use except AN. I've just tried using AN from the main forum page and it is quicker, although having read a couple of topics I then clicked on *Unread Content* and it just whirred away for a good minute or so before loading the page. Which cache are you suggesting I clear - is that the DNS cache?

It did get better for a while, but it's now worse than it was before, the *Back* button in particular is so painfully slow I often give up now and just shut the tab down. The tab/bookmark itself opens in a couple of seconds, (which is still slower than most others).

I think you mean Lewis: now, what fix?

I was looking around for a camera part yesterday, (a mode dial cover for a Canon 80D) and the best price was from AliExpress, however, it said that they wouldn't ship to the UK. What am I doing wrong. BTW I've ordered it from eBay now, about a £1 more, but that's my pound!

I can still see all three of Tiggers posts, Chesters post reminded me of this:-

This Chesters; just cos you can't see it, etc. etc. :- https://www.insider.com/gigantic-flying-ant-swarm-mistaken-rain-clouds-uk-weather-radar-2020-7

There's no real story: ants take to the wing every year, usually during a spell of hot weather in July or August, there's always a lot of them, this year there happen to be enough to show up on radar.

Dumpsters

Chesters, save yourself a lot of faffing around and wear a boiler suit over whatever else you choose to wear, or just the boiler suit in warmer weather.

I have far too many books, among those that I enjoy reading again regularly are (in no particular order) :- Big Fish - Trevor Housby : Carp and he Carp Angler - George Sharman : Casting at the Sun - Chris Yates : Invisible Waters - John Bailey : The Carp Strikes back - Rod Hutchinson : The Fisherman's Bedside Book - BB. I'm not keen on pure instructional stuff, I want some atmosphere.

Hi Phone, I've been here, not much to say, internet politics is boring, Brexit and Coronavirus is boring now and there's minimal fishing talk. I'm physically well, but caring (for disabled wife) is like being mentally battered 24 hours a day 7 days a week 52 weeks a year, and if something's not soaked in p**s it's probably covered in s**t, it's absolutely relentless. If I want a day off, I have to pay for it. I'm not knocking the professional carers that are currently getting clapped every Thursday eve in the UK, but us unpaid carers get little or no recognition at all. The 2014 Care Act has been suspended due to Covid 19, so there go any rights which were already hard enough to enforce at the best of times. Figures suggest that there are over 5m of us unpaid carers and between us we save the government an estimated £132bn every year, and as soon as I got my State pension, they took back the laughable £62 per week they used to give me.

The supermarkets were all very slow to catch on to cleaning trolley handles. I've been wearing throwaway latex gloves to do all of my shopping and I was wearing them to do it for at least two weekly shops before the trolleys started to be cleaned at all. Likewise when I go for my walk in afternoon, there are gates to all of the New Forest enclosures, I've only seen two other people apart from myself using gloves (or some alternative) to open those gates.

That's been my way for a good few years now, ever since my workday pipe (a metal stemmed Falcon) and baccy was stolen by the feral scum at Turlin Moor Junior School. St Bruno in Liquorice papers is my chosen poison: the EU screwed things up a bit back in about 2011 when they decreed that pipe tobacco should be cut to a minimum size of 1.5mm instead of 1.0mm, but I've found ways around that.

It's a real struggle staying 2m away from everyone on my afternoon walks.

If you knew your way around the kitchen a bit better you could have had both! ?

In that situation there is at least the possibility to enforce its use: I took my wife to the Doctors yesterday morning for a blood test. The entrance door is automatic, so no need to touch that, I walked through and used the hand sanitiser just inside the door and then queued behind one woman to use the touch screen to sign in, she finished using the touch screen and then used the hand sanitiser! We sat and waited for my wife's call, (about five minutes), whilst there, I could see the entrance door and I watched eleven people come through, six went to the reception desk and left afterwards, five sat in the waiting room. Of those eleven people, one old boy used the hand sanitiser, but only on the way out, the rest didn't bother. It's really no wonder these viruses spread so alarmingly when 99% of the population is so incredibly stupid and lazy.

..........but they're riddled with adverts: I couldn't face watching a TV where every programme had adverts. The BBC has plenty of faults, but it's still one of the best out there, and there's no adverts, (too many bloody trailers though).

Buy a piece of Brexit history. Think of it as an investment Cod. https://www.thebrexitparty.org/own-history/?utm_source=The+Brexit+Party+Mailing+List+-+Mail+List&utm_campaign=150ab4d768-Own+a+piece+of+history&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b3a770ee92-150ab4d768-20449725

More newsworthy than a multitude of vacuous bints.

There's a ten year old down South here who recently won an under 21 tournament - Dylan Smith.

The facts are that Jean Charles de Menezes wasn't a terrorist, wasn't a suspected terrorist or even a person of interest, he was mis-identified, not in a split second, not even in a few seconds, he was followed for about 30 minutes before being shot seven times in the head, (and once in the shoulder). One of the reasons for misidentification was that the observing officer was taking a **** and didn't send a photo to HQ for confirmation.

No, don't fret yourself Phone, I was responding to Martin's rabid comments.

Absolutely not! They don't always get it right. You ignored my response the last time I mentioned this name, but I'll say it again now:- Jean Charles de Menezes.