Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

Angela Woodford wrote:Hmm, let's try..

Devoré velvet -

Craig, this is wonderful!

I've puzzled over this for ages. Thank you so much! Old Blue helps Older Blue!

Vive l'homme en anorak, even if worn in bed!

Munch

Useful tip (along with most of the other european accented characters) learnt from having to type too many emails to the French in Airbus - although they do appreciate a brit who tries, rather than Americans who can't be bothered - opps slagging off the yanks again!!!)

Hi Amy

I really like the sound of your bedtime outfit, it will certainly ensure that the firemen don't lose their concentration, so much better than all this black lace nonsense which is being bragged about.

Personally I find bedsocks a little too heating even in winter, though I do keep a Bearded Collie called Jess in the bedroom, she comes in very useful if the husband is late coming to bed. The normal canine body temperature is 101.5 degrees (is there An Anorak out there who does degree signs, you know those little high rise oooos?????), just warm enough to take the chill out of a bed on a frosty night.

So far this year I haven't needed her but the Hot Flushes can't be produced on demand so I will no doubt be inviting her up before too long.

I've rarely been cold enough in my whole life to need an Anorak in bed but as a student often made use of my Afghan coat. MUCH less savoury than a well-groomed Bearded Collie but it was very warm!

Love

Still summer nighties, but all-night electric blanket too.

Liz Jay wrote: The normal canine body temperature is 101.5 degrees (is there An Anorak out there who does degree signs, you know those little high rise oooos?????), just warm enough to take the chill out of a bed on a frosty night.

Doesn't everyone know ALT and 0176

That's what working in Engineering does for your social life........

So far, I've managed to keep out of this one! However, I have noticed that it is the girls who are more imaginative when it comes to night apparel. I wonder why when I have spent so much of my life thinkinking about ...... things.

My only visit to hospital did entail a quick visit to M & S but normally I just improvise if we have visitors ....

Thank you Amy,

For once a sensible young lady here - and a leading example of what we should all be doing! it's 4C here - argh!!!!!!

Had to put the heating on - only to 15C though - it seems stuck at about 13, which is fine.

Craig, may I pick your brains again? Will I find more accents on a character map? How do I get to this map? I imagine it's like all the additional punctuation I have on my mobile phone.

Went to bed after scented bath in black devoré camisole and shorts, but woke up in pyjama bottoms and a teeshirt!

So Jude, took your advice!

Brr!

Munch

Liz Jay wrote: (is there An Anorak out there who does degree signs, you know those little high rise oooos?????)

Ouch!!!!!

Hold the Alt key down and use the number pad to key in the numbers 1 6 7 to get º

Somewhere there should be an ASCII key table; every character has a number like that but I cannot remember the full 240.

With security in mind, in the old days I used to create file names which included the non-showing character/blank which had to be put in to call up a file name. Enough to fool everyone where I worked - including the IT staff. (From distant memory it could have been Alt-240)

Typically (if you are using windows) the character map is a programme you wil find under the Accessories or System tools menu. Is shows all 240 characters for each ASCII code for each of the fonts installed on your PC. Most of the accented characters are the same in each font, but there are some differences - it also includes greek and latin characters and constructions such as æ (ALT+0230) and œ (ALT+0156).

When you go into the programme, you can either select the character in the table and 'copy&paste' or look in the bottom rH corner and it has the ALT coding

Don't ask me where it is on a Mac, I have forgotten

It seems that the girls are taking the advice and the boys are not - well isn't that just typical - well girls, when they all go down with flu and colds later you have my permission to laugh at them!!!

Pj's forever!!

Craig, I can't find "accessories or system tools menu", but, thanks to you I can now write negligée!!

And, talking cooking with another friend, was able to talk about oven temperature in º! Thank you so much.

Liz, what's wrong with black lace, hmm? Always alluring.

Munch

Steady Girls !!

I tried to sleep in the nice silky nighties but i get so tangled up and cold they had to go.Despite having someone else in bed with me, i'm still frozen most of the time and therefore warmth is all that matters.

When at uni we couldnt afford to have heating on a lot (6bedroom, three storey victorian house) as it took ages to heat up and therefore costly. We would often sleep in tracksuit bottoms, hoddies and on occasion tights to keep the warmth in. I was lucky though my room was smallest and above the boiler therefore first to warm up!

[quote="cstegerlewis"]Typically (if you are using windows) the character map is a programme you wil find under the Accessories or System tools menu. Is shows all 240 characters for each ASCII code for each of the fonts installed on your PC. Most of the accented characters are the same in each font, but there are some differences - it also includes greek and latin characters and constructions such as æ (ALT+0230) and œ (ALT+0156).

When you go into the programme, you can either select the character in the table and 'copy&paste' or look in the bottom rH corner and it has the ALT coding [quote]

thank you, I bet this is the most printed section on the whole forum.

To Munch

Start
All Programs (Programmes)
Accessories (probably the top one)
System Tools (the bottom one on mine)
Character map (the top one on mine)


DaDaaaa

I fear that my dear daughter will be suffering this year! ha ha!!! She moaned all last year that Uni accomodation was TOO HOT!!! She is now in a 5 bed 3 storey terraced Victorian house, as what seems to be a very prestigious address until you add Leeds to it! And well lests just say they are NEVER going to be warm as there are HOLES in the brickwork, single glazing and no attempts of insulation anywhere - in fact the 2 top rooms are in the attic and they are permanently freezing - and hot air rises!!! LOL ha ha ha ha!

(sorry but she was a manipulative little cow this summer!)