Password Problems Solved

 

Remembering Passwords

After you have changed your password, note the new password with the date in a brightly coloured notebook which is kept in a regular place. 

Pin the opened website on your desktop.

Sharing Passwords

If you are chronically ill or elderly you might want to leave a file of passwords for your descendants or executors. After my uncle died, I had trouble cancelling subscriptions to magazines because their system would not let me into his account to contact anybody without a password.

One solution would have been to create a new temporary account for myself to get into their system, then tell them about my problem with the other account. 

The other solution was to return the unwanted goods with a note that the recipient had died. However, the company's mailing system did not catch up.

Security

For more security, select a random password protector.

Useful Websites

https://www.amazon.sg/Forgot-Password-Problem-Organizer-Journal/

How To Remove Labels From Jars - and recycle jars with new labels

Why leave on a label? Why remove it and how.

1 Why leave on a label?

To remind yourself of what needs replacing when shopping locally. To recall the name when ordering online. To remember to search for it on your next holiday in the country where you bought it. 

2 Why leave on a label? 

As a historic item to display in a museum or to sell to a collector. 

 3 Why leave on a label? You don't know how to remove it. 

To remove a label from a glass jar, wet the label and rub it with your finger. If you don't want to use your finger, anything else can be used to rub. For example, a cloth, sponge, a washing up brush. 

Why remove a label?

If the jar is labelled containing food or drink, after it is emptied, somebody else might use it as a container for something poisonous such as cleaning materials. You do not want somebody to thin a bottle contains whisky, or water, when it has been refilled contains bleach, or paint thinner, or limescale remover.

Now that you have removed the label, what can you do with the empty jar?

1 Use it as a vase for cut flowers or artificial flowers. 

2 Covering a Jar

You could tie a ribbon around it.

2 Use if for storing buttons or ribbons or string.

3 Use it as a pen and pencil caddy. 

Photograph your items on your mobile phone. Upload to your laptop. Print the picture in colour or black and white and stick it on the jar.

If  you are saving ink or the picture comes out small, print it in a frame, by printing a border, or use the window from a window envelope.  is Over it with wrapping paper or magazine pictures or birthday and Xmas gift wrapping paper. 

A tall jar can be used for taller flowers, rulers, kitchen brushes, salad tongs. Use it to store spaghetti.

4 Make A Label

The simplest and quickest is to write on it with pencil, then go over the writing more neatly with a felt tip pen or Biro. 

Improve on this, now or later, by printing a label. Simply type into your laptop, enlarge, choose a fancy or bold typeface, copy half a dozen times to have labels for several jars or all four sides and the lif of the jar. Print. Stick on using glue on the back, Blu-tac, or double sided sticky tape on the back, or photo corners, or clear or coloured sticky tape around the edges or diagonally across the corners.   

Uses For Lids

A lid can be used to cover a cup of coffee to keep it warm or to keep out insects in summer and hot countries.

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What is making holes in the lawn? This time, not squirrels.

 

Two foxes in back garden. Photo by Angela Lansbury.

The first time I saw holes in the lawn, I thought I had caught the culprits a few days later. I saw squirrels, nose down, clawing away frantically at the lawn. 

I thought that there was only one type of hole, and only one type of animal digging. Only one type of animal that likes lawns.

I took this picture on a mobile phone. If you look at this on a mobile phone you can hardly see the foxes. However, if you display on the screen, you see very clearly the two V shapes of their ears. They are listening and watching. To get them to look at the camera I bang on the glass. I had to bang three times.

I sent the picture to our WhatsApp group of family in different addresses and countries.

I said in my comments, I had the feeling I was being watched.

My son replied, So did they. 

One of the foxes left. The other one started digging.

You see foxes race across the road in front of you when driving at night. As we turn into our drive, one races out.

I had considered trying to get rid of the foxes.

Eaters

Our neighbours have a long back garden and put out food for their cat. The food kept disappearing and the cat was still hungry. Then the neighbours saw a fox. So they put out food for the fox when the cat was indoors and fed her indoors.

The fox must have been a vixen, or taking food to a vixen (female fox). It set up a set, if that is the right word.

This was a few years ago. The fox ate the rabbit of my other neighbours. 

Strong Foxes

The rabbit keepers thought they had had a strong wire netting around the rabbit area. Strong wood.

They underestimated a hungry fox. All that was left was white fur.

Anti-Fox

For the rest of that year they would not talk to each other. Not angry. Too embarrassed and upset. I brought them together at a New Year's Day drinks. 

Note the large shallow area which I had thought might be a nest. Just in front of the tree in the foreground. What do you see there? Nothing. A bit like an empty road at night. That doesn't mean there is no traffic.

Photographing Foxes

 Another fox had moved area to the distant right. Half hidden by the lower tree branches. I had to move to another window.

I have a video of one of the foxes.

Useful Websites

Wiki foxes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox

https://www.bbcwildlife.org.uk/urban-fox#:~:text=Virtually%20anything.,dogs%2C%20cats%20and%20other%20wildlife.

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Rusting White Clothes Rack Restored - with nail varnish

 

We have a rusting white clothes rack. I asked my husband if he could paint it.

He replied, "No. I would have to sand it down. Then paint it. The shape is awkward. It's not worth the effort."

I was painting my nail with white varnish in the bathroom. I thought to myself, it's a pity I can't get a tiny white paint pot like this varnish. It's a pity I can't use the varnish. Why not try. Nothing to lose. Just a few drops.

I painted over the rust. The rack looked a lot better. 

No rust to stain the clothes. Stops it getting worse. 

Some of the varnish dropped into the base of the bath. i wiped it off fast.

Problem - Overwhelmed By Problems? 20 : Reframing, motivational quotes, more

 1 My Husband's Solution

 I said to my husband: "I have too many problems."

He replied, "They are not problems. They are tasks. 

"Just make a list. Put them in order of priority and work through them."

2 My Son's Solution

I said to my son: "I try to get one major thing done every day. That way I get seven things done every week."

He replied, "Why not try to get three things done every day. Then you'd get three times as many things done. Twenty one things every week."

3 My Neighbour's Solution

I told my neighbour, Alice, who was a nurse before she married, "My mother worries a lot".

Alice replied, "Your other doesn't have enough to do".

Modern Solutions

1 Meditation

2 Water

Drink more water

3 Sleep

Get enough sleep. Set an alarm 30 minutes before bed to allow time to undress, clean teeth, shower or bath, make bed, read.

4 Eat

Snack on fruit, not sugar which gives a spike of energy followed by a decline. 

Go out for a good meal. A change is as good as a rest. 

5 Phone Friends

Phone a friend

6 Call the Samaritans

Keep their number handy.

7 Discard Prablems

Write your problems on a piece of paper and throw them in a wastebin.

Other solutions are burying or burning, but the wastebin is quicker and more environmentally friendly.

8 NLP 

Put your problems in the past. Don't say, I have a pain. Say, I had a pain.

9 Tapping

The tapping solution. Tap your wrist and say an affirmation.

10 Pinboard Affirmation

Write affirmations on post-its and place them on a pinboard to look at and cheer yourself up.

11 Pray. 

12 Advise Yourself

Say your problems aloud. Reflect. Answer as if you were a head teacher advising a pupil. Thank yourself. Nod and say you agree to follow the advice.

13 Pinboard Praises

Whenever you hear a compliment or praise, write it down. Put it in a book, or a jar. When you are sad or discouraged, read all the good things people have said about you.

14 Copy Compliments

When you hear somebody else being praised, instead of being envious, decide whether you would make the effort to achieve what they have achieved. If so, start doing it. 

If not, just write down the compliment, and remember to praise them and others for doing things and making efforts which you would not do. You will make them happy.

15 Pet A Pet

Get a dog. Or cat. Or pet. A fish tank.

If you can't afford a dog, or don't have the space and time, babysit or dog walk a dog for somebody else once a week.

16 Reframe your name

Name and describe yourself positively. For example, rape 'victims' are told not to call themselves 'a victim', but to think of themselves as 'survivor'. 

Do so alliteratively, or with rhyme. Active Angela. Brian the biker. Contented Chloe. Danny the dancer. Efficient Emily. Funny Freddie. Gorgeous Greta. Generous Georgina. Happy Harry. Humorous Hubert. Intelligent Indra. Johnny the joker. Jolly Jasmine. Kathy. Lovely Lucy. Modern Mary. Neat Nora. Organized Olive. Powerful Peter. Recovered, rested Rebecca. Rupert the runner. Sarah the saver. Smiling Sally. Swarna the swimmer.  Tidy Tommy. Early Ursula. Victor the victorious. Wonderful William. Excellent Xavier. Easy-going Yvonne.

17 Write A Speech

Imagine a local school or college has asked you to advise the school leavers on getting a job, studying, getting married, having children, and life. 

Write a list, two lists. Divide a piece of paper in half. On the left write down all the disasters in your life. On the right, write down all the successes. Opposite the disasters, write what you could have done better and differently. Does everybody face that problem, or is it something you faced which you hope they will not have to face? Regarding the successes in life, were they out of the blue? If so, you never know how your luck could change. Or did you work hard for them? If so, that shows hard work pays off.  

Summarise your speech with a catchy phrase. It can start with a bad thing and end with a good one. Think of the book title, Feel the Fear and do it anyway.