Martin

Aspiring coffee addict, ramble incoherently & easily distracted by shiny or techy things.

[Martin @OldYampy]

@KatieMagnet Congratulations! And to the family!

[Martin @OldYampy]

@authorgarystamp @aberdeenuni I sadly suspect that the Uni’s silence is probably an endorsement of this sort of behaviour, or maybe it’s just part of their culture in today’s academia.

[Martin @OldYampy]

@KatieMagnet Good luck! 🤞

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

Just to remind these same folk:
You’ve not lifted 1/2m kids out of poverty. You’ve just moved them over a bureaucratic line on a Whitehall spreadsheet.
Your ‘workers rights’ are destroying entry-level jobs, hitting young people disproportionately, where unemployment is now over 16%.
You have not transformed the NHS. It’s still the same old wheezing leviathan, just with a lot more dosh and still dismal productivity.
And you’ve nationalised steel and rail before. It was not the prelude to an economic or industrial miracle. Plus you will now have to include their demands for capital/subsidies among all the other priorities already crowding in on the public purse.
Other than that your reminder was useful. Thank you.

[Martin @OldYampy]

Wonder if the kids feel that every holiday is all inclusive if they bring dad. 😜

[Martin @OldYampy]

Think I’ve made a new friend…

[Martin @OldYampy]

@jwsey01 Happy Birthday!

[Martin @OldYampy]

@KatieMagnet Hey! Hope you’re ok?

[Martin @OldYampy]

After one of those weeks, flicked the TV ordered a takeaway, and popped on #ClarksonFarm series 5. With all those worries drifting away…. Have a great weekend all!

[Martin @OldYampy]

@mercede72928186 Happy Birthday! 🥳

[Martin @OldYampy]

@Beccy_1988 For me it wasn’t my home for a bit, just a house, then had to put my mark on it. Decorating, furnishings etc. after a couple of social events, felt better after that. Good luck in your new home!

[Martin @OldYampy]

Having sat chilling in the garden last night in the vain hope to get cool, it would seem the mozzies have feasted on me, must have tasted sweet, sadly even an antihistamine isn’t working. Little blighters. 😜

[Martin @OldYampy]

It’s been a long while, but it will be even longer before I use the bus again… it’s hot, no AC, it’s unpleasant, noisy, smashed charging port. hitting every pot hole on route, all because of the rail strike. 😳

[Martin @OldYampy]

@Geniustechw Not one person stepped in tks top here, but all would have criticised and then stepped in, when he finally retaliated

[Martin @OldYampy]

@jwsey01 Some banana…

[Martin @OldYampy]

Hi @AppleSupport would you have any advice please? Thanks.

[Martin @OldYampy]

Hi @AppleSupport could offer a little advice please , my elderly mother has recently updated to iOS 26.5, it’s now asking to verify her age, my mother is 74 (75 next month) and doesn’t own a credit card or DL, only a debit card. Is there any other way she can verify please? Thx

[Martin @OldYampy]

@jwsey01 @AppleSupport Cheers, probably bug with the iOS… I’ll see what Support suggest.

[Martin @OldYampy]

@jwsey01 @AppleSupport You would have thought, but sadly no, when she upgraded to 26.4, no problem, she updated last night to 26.5 now she has a warning to verify her age. She’s had an iPhone for around 18 years. So she’s panicking. It will ONLY accept a credit card, no debit card.

[Martin @OldYampy]

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