What are you reading at the moment?

[Horus]

Me too Kiya, I was finding the site very slow yesterday, so a belated Happy Birthday

[Kiya]

Thank you for the birthday wishes my new computer is going like a dream

The only thing I need help with at the moment is........how to make the text bigger ? its not just this forum but everywhere........help please

[Ruby Slippers]

To increase or decrease the size of objects and text on your screen
Open Display in Control Panel.
On the Settings tab, click Advanced.
On the General tab, in the DPI setting list, click the dots per inch (dpi) setting you want to use.
If you choose Other in the DPI setting list, you can set custom options in the Custom DPI Setting dialog box either by selecting one of the percentage options in the drop-down list or by clicking on the ruler and dragging the pointer to specify a setting.
Restart your computer when prompted.
Notes

To open Display, click Start, click Control Panel, and then double-click Display.
If you want to increase the size of text on your screen to make it more readable, use Font size on the Appearance tab in Display Properties.
The dpi size you specify on the General tab affects all monitors attached to your computer and all users that log on to the computer.


Hope this helps you, Kiya!

[Horus]

Good reply by RS, thanks for that
Sorry Kiya but I forgot about this one, then I typed up a longish reply then lost it all again .
Another way is to just hold down your 'Ctrl' key and press the + key as many times as you like, each press will increase the page and text size. To reduce the size again hold down the 'Ctrl' key and press the - key, good quick method as sometimes you do not want the larger text sizes.

[Kiya]

Thank you RS & Horus have printed out your instructions & will give it a go & let you know later

[HEPZIBAH]

Kiya, belated birthday greetings and thank you for enabling me to impress my boss tomorrow. He is always complaining about the size of text/view etc and because we are working on different systems the various on screen gizmos are in not all the same so when I say 'what I do is...' doesn't always work out for him - not helped by the fact that his is set in Japanese! Now I can just say 'ctrl +/-' .

Big thank you goes to Horus as usual.

[Horus]

Its as simple as that Hepzi, but don't forget to do it with that "I thought everyone knew that" look on your face as you lean across his PC and confidently hold down the Ctrl key whilst repeatedly hitting the + key until three words of text fills his screen.

[HEPZIBAH]

Its as simple as that Hepzi, but don't forget to do it with that "I thought everyone knew that" look on your face as you lean across his PC and confidently hold down the Ctrl key whilst repeatedly hitting the + key until three words of text fills his screen.

Liking your thinking there Horus.

[Winged Isis]

Ooh, what a handy shortcut, Horus; many thanks! I'm working on "the look"!

Getting back on topic, I just bought The Wordsworth Collection of Classic Short Stories, selected by Rosemary Gray, Wordsworth Editions, el cheapo from a sale table. It includes famous authors such as Wilkie Collins, Conrad, Gaskell, Hardy, James, Kipling, Lawrence, Trollope, Wharton and Woolfe, most having three or four included. I had to force myself to put out the light and sleep at 1:00am, having started at 10pm! I don't think I'll get much done today, but hey, I'm retired, so..... so what!

[HEPZIBAH]

Its as simple as that Hepzi, but don't forget to do it with that "I thought everyone knew that" look on your face as you lean across his PC and confidently hold down the Ctrl key whilst repeatedly hitting the + key until three words of text fills his screen.

Liking your thinking there Horus.

:d2: I got a GOLD STAR today! :tu:


Last night I started reading one of my free Kindle downloads - A Weekend with Mr. Darcy by Victoria Connelly. I think it will be fun bit of chiclit - something to enjoy but not get too involved in.

From Amazon: Book Description
Publication Date: 16 Sep 2010
A romance-filled page-turner for any Austen fanatic who’s ever dreamt of spending a weekend with Mr Darcy…

Katherine Roberts is fed up with men. As a lecturer specialising in the works of Jane Austen, she knows that the ideal man only exists within the pages of Pride & Prejudice and that in real life there is no such thing. Determined to go it alone, she finds all the comfort she needs reading her guilty pleasure - regency romances from the pen of Lorna Warwick - with whom she has now struck up an intimate correspondence.

Austen fanatic, Robyn Love, is blessed with a name full of romance, but her love life is far from perfect. Stuck in a rut with a bonehead boyfriend, Jace, and a job she can do with her eyes shut - her life has hit a dead end. Robyn would love to escape from it all but wouldn't know where to start.

They both decide to attend the annual Jane Austen Conference at sumptuous Purley Hall, overseen by the actress and national treasure, Dame Pamela Harcourt. Robyn is hoping to escape from Jace for the weekend and indulge in her passion for all things Austen. Katherine is hoping that Lorna Warwick will be in attendance and is desperate to meet her new best friend in the flesh.

But nothing goes according to plan and Robyn is aghast when Jace insists on accompanying her, whilst Katherine is disappointed to learn that Lorna won't be coming.

However, an Austen weekend wouldn't be the same without a little intrigue, and Robyn and Katherine are about to get much more than they bargained for. Because where Jane Austen is concerned, romance is never very far away…

Edit - a bit of trivia on a wet afternoon...I fairly regularly walk past the house where Jane Austin spent her last few days and died, but I have yet to visit the house where she lived at Chawton (which is really only a short drive away!).

[Horus]

@ Hepzi, was that for showing your boss the above method? If so I hope that you looked suitably smug as you sashayed away again. I always find that a staccato stabbing at the plus key whilst at the same time turning your head to look them in the face as if to say “use this key you Wally” always looks good.

[Kiya]

Text size is looking better.............I did know of Ctrl + & - but for some strange reason it wasn't working.

Thank you both again

I have something else to ask but won't do it here

[Ruby Slippers]

I have just started reading Kate Adie's autobiography. Mmmm! I have a tremendous admiration for this lady but whether it's tinged with anything else at the end of the book I can't say yet.

[HEPZIBAH]

I'm currently in the middle of Cinnamon City by Miranda Innes. I'm enjoying it so much. Lisak sent it to me to read before I went to Morocco at the beginning of the month, as she knew it was on my to read list. I ran out of reading time before I went but managed to get it started this weekend. In fact, if I start reading it tonight I somehow don't think I'm going to get much sleep as I don't want to put it down until I finish it (but I don't want it to finish).

It tells the story of an English couple living in Spain who drive to Morocco to help a friend who is buying a riad in Marrakech. Among the souvenirs they buy, the least expected was a riad, or dar in this case, of their own. It then goes on to tell of the mechanics of buying the place and the restoration - or maybe that should be demolition and rebuild - of the property.

I was with this book from the beginning as it brought back so many memories for me from my own first ever journey through Morocco from Ceuta to Marrakech - I could see clearly all that she described and even the smells came back. Now that I have recently spent some time in Marrakech I can easily recognise the restuarants, the various souks and even many of the street names in the book. I can most certainly recognise the characters and characteristics she describes of the people, particularly in and around Djamaa el Fna Square.

So...enough of this rambling here...I must go...I have a book to read ................................

[Lisak]

Just finished Playing Cards in Cairo by Hugh Mills. ISBN.... 978-0349119809

PLAYING CARDS IN CAIRO is a fly-on-the-wall account - like THE BOOKSELLER OF KABUL - of life (for western readers) in a strange and exotic environment. Hugh Miles lives in Cairo and is engaged to an Egyptian woman. Twice a week he plays cards with a small group of Arab, Muslim women and through this medium he explores their lives in modern Cairo, the greatest of Arab cities. It is a secretive, romantic, often deprived but always soulful existence for the women as they struggle with abusive husbands and philandering boyfriends. The book is a window onto a city - and a way of life - which is at a crucial juncture in its history. Hugh Miles, who knows the Arab world intimately, is the perfect guide.

I really enjoyed this eye opening account of modern life in Cairo....extremely eye opening after seeing life in Luxor....seems worlds apart! Also interesting as this was written before the revolution, but they knew the revolution was coming. Well worth a read.

[Winged Isis]

This sounds familiar.... did I read about it, or has there also been a movie, and that's what I read about??? Either way thanks for reminding me; it goes in my letter to Santa!

[LovelyLadyLux]

Am sure the book is based on true story but I shudder to think that if an Egyptian woman has an abusive husband what HE would become if he finds out his wife is out and about playing card WITH another man present especially IF said man is not even Arab and is NOT a Muslim - course if the other guy WAS a Muslim he wouldn't be playing cards with a Muslim women without her husband, brothers, father and other extended men friends standing by to guard her honour!

[Winged Isis]

Not all Egyptian men live in the Dark Ages.

[LovelyLadyLux]

Maybe Egyptian men don't live in the Dark Ages but they're not exactly known for being forward thinking, cutting edge and/or advanced with regard to women's issues.

[Ruby Slippers]

Just read 'Aegean Dream' and found it extremely good. It's about a couple who fall in love with one of the Greek Islands (Skopelos) and up-sticks to move there from their home in California. The red tape; bureaucracy and general attitude of "let's rip the foreigner off" reminded me of a lot of the comments on the Blue side! So not just Egypt with this attitude then! It's a true story and a fairly recent one. Recommended.