A warm welcome to Eric Hardy

[ideasguy]

Hello again, and welcome to the forum Eric.
I'm delighted you have joined us here.

By way of introduction, Eric is a Bank Genie user, and in our exchange of emails Eric tells me he only began using a computer when he retired in 1992. As you all well know, I'm full of admiration for our "champions" who have the bravery to tackle such a beast -having managed to get through their working days without them!

Eric and has been experiencing some problems with his computer, trying to reload software to XP.
If you wish to explain those problems here, Eric, perhaps someone can help. We have an active section on the forum for dealing with computer "issues" 

I hope you enjoy it here Eric.  Please feel free to chat about anything and everything!

[Kathy & Laurie]

Hello and welcome Eric.

I wholeheartedly echo what George has said.

Our Forum is a very friendly place and full of very knowledgeable people, who are always willing to help in whatever way they can.

Have fun.

[ideasguy]

Just received another email from Eric.
Eric has a very nice garden!!
Mind you, he has a whole team of people to help him (tee hee)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/erichardyuk/180821535/in/set-72157594186256751/
I'm in stitches!

[Kathy & Laurie]

Excellent piece of artwork there Eric. 

I see we have another budding graphics artist in our midst.

You'll be cloning your garden next to show it the size of a small continent. 

Good bit of fun Eric.

Laurie.

[Eric Hardy]

Thank you all for your really warm welcome. I spend a lot of time on Flickr too, as you can see. Thanks! Now I will go a little bit quiet because I am busy getting to grips with the Bank Genie, but I will be back soon.
Eric

[barryl]

  Hi Eric. As I said in my email to you I am offering my help to resolve your problems with QUicken and XP and eventually to help you convert.

[Eric Hardy]

You invite me to tell you a bit about myself.
 
I was born in 1926 in a small market town called Barnard Castle in Teesdale, which is in the North of England. I spent all my formative years there (my parents lived there all their lives). After three years in the army I went to the Bartlett School of Architecture in London where I met my future wife Anthea. After qualifying in 1951 we got married and have had over 57 years of very happy married life. I moved to south of England after our marriage and have stayed in our present home in the Chilterns, Buckinghamshire for the last 53 years. I retired from my architectural practice in 1992. We are both very keen on our garden but are finding increasingly difficult to keep under control.
We have three sons and seven grandchildren. Our middle son Mark married a Canadian girl (whom he met at Medical School in London). He lived in Ottawa from 1979 with his wife and three sons but has recently moved to Calgary. We visit them frequently.

Eric

[Eric Hardy]

Oh, and a question. I would put a little picture in my profile but haven't worked out to do it. I tried an URL from my Flickr site but that didn't work. Any tips plese?

[Kathy & Laurie]

Eric, you need to specify the image file extension - it should be a gif, so you should have filename.gif. (Obviously replace filename with your image name.)

I've checked your profile link and it is missing.

Laurie.

[Eric Hardy]

Thanks Laurie, Unfortunately I haven't got round to Gif files, unfortunately. I seem to be stuck on jpegs like this one http://www.flickr.com/photos/erichardyuk/190301827/in/set-72157594186256751/
Eric

[Kathy & Laurie]

It shouldn't be a problem for you Eric, considering what you've already accomplished in Photoshop. 

Get the image you want to use and open it in Photoshop.

Resize it to the required size for the Forum Profile photo - which is 65 pixels x 65 pixels.

Then Save As, and select the GIF format.

Give it a try and see how you get on.

Laurie.

[Eric Hardy]

Great Laurie. I now have a picture icon. I seem to be using you as my mentor. As you can see I have taken in all you have taught me

Eric

[ideasguy]

Yes, you are doing a great job there Laurie! Nice to see the happy couple in your user profile Eric, and looking forward to seeing your photos.
I'm delighted to see we now have an expert in Architecture in our midst.
I have to say I love to see the older building here in Belfast. As for modern designs - well... I for one am not impressed.

[Kathy & Laurie]

Great Laurie. I now have a picture icon. I seem to be using you as my mentor. As you can see I have taken in all you have taught me
Eric

Glad to be of service Eric. 

Laurie.

[Eric Hardy]

I thought I would like to show you the sort of gardening Anthea and I are interested in. We established this in a decaying orchard 53 years ago. One or two of the trees are quite old and others we have planted. You can see that we do not go in for neat gardening and leave wild areas to give shape to the garden. We like it to look natural but it is surprising how much work there is in leaving it "natural". It is just beginning to get a bit beyond us 

We limit our veggies and they are out of sight. Runner beans, tomatoes, courgettes, cucumbers, lettuce, rocket and herbs we usually don't have problems with. Greens and root crops are never very successful and we have lots of pests.

We have roses round the front but the bed is now very old so we have problems now. I will post some questions about this later when I get a moment.

Here are a few pictures to give you the feel of the back garden.











I think I am going to enjoy this forum

Eric H