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chrise

1st December 2015, 10:53
This should be bold, italic, underlined. .

Let's see if it was.
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chrise

1st December 2015, 10:55
Only the ones on this page, not all 4000 odd!

Don't know the answer to that one, elle.
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elle

1st December 2015, 10:57
I did manage to do all three on my second attempt - -see 4534
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chrise

1st December 2015, 11:00
Yes, but turning off the italic seems either to have a lower case L or an upper case i - lower case only for the "tags". Hence you wouldn't have turned off the italic - though it's the underline that seems to have escaped!
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chrise

1st December 2015, 11:02
Actually I've just noticed that you can see the tags in the "In response to" box.

I think it was not having a lower case i that was the (minor) problem.
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chrise

1st December 2015, 11:08
The Tate Britain (that's the one on Millbank?) had a great restaurant back in the 70s. We only ate there a few times, but I remember being impressed that, when we ordered some nice white wine the waitress removed the generic glasses and replaced them with proper hock glasses.

Tate Modern did good food when we were there last as well, but the atmosphere wasn't as relaxing.

The best example of food far better than required or expected that we came across was at the Eden Project (soon after it opened). The place was heaving, and one would have thought that they would have wanted to get people through as quickly as possible, but the reverse was the case. We had an excellent and relaxed lunch.

Another unexpectedly good place to look out for is the Sala Mascagni at Pisa airport. Unfortunately our last couple of visits haven't corresponded with its (rather restricted) opening times.
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rusty

1st December 2015, 11:16
Good morning, Elle!
It has been very cold overnight here.
Think we are up to 3C now.
Pavements and roads are treacherous.
Sleet falling on ice!
Coolmax are great socks! I have them too.
Bridgedales last "forever", I have found.
Made in Newtownards, Norn Iron!
Nubucks are the biz!
I am wearing my Craghoppers fleece lined Kiwi trousers.
They are very warm indeed!
Do you not have a local radio station you can get news on?
Or a local radio website?
There are two or three here, but I won't listen to them.
Music and commercials mainly. Not for me.
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rosalind

1st December 2015, 12:03
Can't have made myself clear- the café I went to was at the Houses of Parliament, not Tate Modern. The latter was just to fill in the extra time we'd been landed with, which would have been better spent in the coach to avoid the long, long drag back. 2 and a half hours to Oxford!
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elle

1st December 2015, 12:16
Hi, Rusty!
Oh dear, it is indeed cold in your area! Our temperature was supposedly 12C when going out at 8 o'clock. Four times warmer than yours! If you go out, be careful you don't fall if sleet is falling on ice - it's probably very treacherous underfoot.
Did you see my attempts at using bold, italics and underlining earlier? I disastrously managed to underline the entire page! ( No idea how that happened!)
However, I CAN now do what is required - after a few abysmal efforts!
But let's definitely stick to exclamation marks from now on though - much less hassle!
My cousin just rang from Kirkintilloch. She says they haven't had any snow there as yet. Her grandson goes to Strathclyde University - he is reading Maths and Computer Science. He will be about the same age as Miss La Bamba.
He is enjoying life at Uni!
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chrise

1st December 2015, 12:23
Hi elle
I can't resist putting my scientist's hat on to correct a common misconception. 12C isn't "four times warmer" than 3C, because you are starting your scale in the wrong place. You need to start at "absolute zero"(-273C) to compare temperatures meaningfully, and thus use the "Kelvin scale of temperature". On this, rusty is at 276K while you are at 285K - nothing like four times warmer!

It's not just semantics. Roughly speaking, if the temperature is increased by a factor of 4, the average energy of the molecules will be 4 times greater, whereas your molecules' average energy is only 1.03 times greater :)
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