Adjusting Order within a Topic

PeterO · Post by **PeterO** » Wed Apr 06, 2005 7:59 pm

Mark

Is there any way to adjust the sequence of reading replies (on my browser) so I get the newest replies at the 'top' not the end?

Peter

Duncan MacIntyre · Post by **Duncan MacIntyre** » Wed Apr 06, 2005 8:35 pm

Disconnect your monitor, turn it upside down, and reconnect. This may help, but only if you stand on your head to read it.

andy · Post by **andy** » Thu Apr 07, 2005 6:11 am

Now we know how you got to be a vet Duncan!

Andy

P.S. Duncan's method may not be necessary for those of you "down under"

PeterO · Post by **PeterO** » Thu Apr 07, 2005 4:22 pm

A fairly typical response to a simple IT request (have you considered retraining as an IT expert Duncan you appear to have all the required talent eg 'thinking laterally' (or is it vertically) 'out of the box' etc etc). Can I assume the answer is that this bulletin board can't be tailored this way?.

Peter

Duncan MacIntyre · Post by **Duncan MacIntyre** » Thu Apr 07, 2005 4:31 pm

Sorry I am not noted for my advanced computing skills, as my despairing son will tell you. The only other suggestion I can make is to post the answers first, and finally arrive at the question

Sorry, I know the question was asked expecting a serious answer, and I can see why - sometimes I would like it to be that way myself, but I think as a default setting it has to be the way it is. I just took the chance to give a totally non-serious answer - I don't often have that luxury on this site!

I expect someone will give us the proper answer in due course.

Duncan

Inger · Post by **Inger** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 3:04 am

We from 'Down Under' actually read things the same way up as you do Andy, we just do things a day earlier than you guys. :p :;):

Kathy Millar · Post by **Kathy Millar** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 4:12 pm

...and we read things 8 hours later here on the West Coast. What ever you do, Duncan, DON"T deprive us of your humour. I'm having the lambing from hell and I want humour, I need humour, right now :laugh:

Kathy

Duncan MacIntyre · Post by **Duncan MacIntyre** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 5:20 pm

Kathy,
how on earth do you expect to get humour RIGHT NOW if you don't read it till 8 hours later? Keep your expectations realistic and you won't be disappointed!!
Alternatively you could get up early and read stuff as I am putting it on at half past midnight, which I frequently do. This is going on at about 5pm though since the surgery is very quiet this afternoon.
I do hope your lambing improves. I used to enjoy doing lambing for my father in my late teens and university days. we had about 120 ewes on low ground and 250 blackfaces which lambed on the hill, spread over 630 acres which I was supposed to check sveral times every day. Lambings and calvings are always the most joyful events to me if they go right, but they don't half change fast if something goes wrong, and there is not always anything you can do to stop the bad bits happening.

Best wishes
Duncan

Sylvia · Post by **Sylvia** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 6:32 pm

Well I can tell you something to make you laugh Kathy and Duncan, we have have 7 ewes lamb today (so far) and trying to juggle the pens, get the right lambs with the right mums, put some into the creche after eartagging to free up more pens and making a note of who has had what is quite enough for me. Hundreds of 'em at it at the same time - the stuff of nightmares!! We've only got 40 lambing in all, pitiful isn't it? :p

Saffy · Post by **Saffy** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 8:07 pm

Sylvia and Duncan,

I too have loverly memories of lambings past.
But don't forget the past lambings are always the best!
A favourite memory is of 600 very unfriendly sheep, before we lambed in the barn, the rain was heavy and horizontal as I took 1 step forward and slid straight back in the mud and the half in half out but stuck lamb appearing to be waving at me as its mother bounded off at speed.
Then when we did start lambing in they found new tricks, the absolute favourite was to wait until the dopey farmer went for a desperately needed kip and all would choose the same corner to lamb in, this was always followed by having no idea which lamb was thiers and running around in circles bleeting and treading on lambs. It always raised my blood pressure especially as I would spend ages carefully matching lambs to ewes until they were all content.But the next day you could guarantee one would be turning some pathetic little scrap into lamb pate on the side of the pen and would insist on having nothing to do with it until several mind numbing days in the adopter adjusted her attitude.
For some very odd reason I really liked lambing!!!
However I think it is necessary for farming stock to have this defective gene or farming would eventually die out all together.

Stephanie .....who now owns only 3 friendly quiet sheep that aren't even keen to break out. :D

Kathy Millar · Post by **Kathy Millar** » Sun Apr 17, 2005 3:59 pm

Well, Duncan, it looks like the only way I'm going to get my humour on time is to put you on my visiting list when I'm in the UK next. There, you are now duly warned!

Kathy

PS Loved the lambing tales. I have just discovered what an "adopter" is although it does require a bit of fine tuning. I had to knock something together pretty quickly.