My mac has 'British English' as default. I use firefox. Can't find anywhere in its' preferences to set spell checking.

Some words here come up underlined if they're wrong which means there's some form of spell checking going on someplace?



Heh heh, teaching? Me? I'd be imprisoned before the first break.

I'm keen to help others see that there is a better way though, as often when kids don't see a future they act like they haven't one, and that's heartbreaking to see. I find it curious that there's something peculiar to the British psyche that tends to sneer at achievement, or at those who would reach further than their grasp.

When I gave up smoking and heavy drinking for three months back in the late '80's the folks in my local pub shunned me. These were people that I had drank with seven nights a week, and on both afternoons of the weekend, over a period of several years. I'd known 'em intimately for years, but because I decided to do something positive with myself those same people took it as a snub. It made them uncomfortable, so they treated me like a stranger.

Odd isn't it? Crabs do it too by the way, y'know the monkey thing. When crabs are caught in a basket they pull back those individuals that try to escape. Nowt as queer as folk as they say, except for crabs maybe.

Firefox want to do it their own way on a Mac and not use the system spellcheck... bit of a faff .... go to preferences - content - languages.... 'Choose your preferred language for displaying pages'... and 'select a language to add'... English (United Kingdom) Open source geeks are not interface designers! I took a little time to work it out! you may have to move it to the top too! you'll see what I mean!

No cancel that! ... doesn't work! Control click (right click) on a text box you have typed into and '>languages' appears in the contextual menu! and then 'Add Dictionaries!' wot a palarva!

Thanks for that Imo. Let's see if it works. Marvellous. Nope. Still the same.

Yep I just worked that out see above ^^^ ... most un-user friendly way to add an 'add on' proper English I'm staying on Safari!

Mind you, a spell check won't help much if the author doesn't know the difference between its and it's...

Wonder if running into its' would wake it up?

ken

Right. I've installed 'British English' language pack. See if it works. Marvellous. As well as installing it you then have to select it. You're right. What a palaver. Thanks for your efforts Imo.

101 pages, 1000 post and 15000+ views, you little ripper!

Harley

Ha! I have more than 15000 'views' of my own, don't get me started.

Well the bitter cold of winter has given way to a constant grey drizzle round these parts, it’s that very fine rain that gets everywhere - even it seems, into my locked garage. Ok so I know the garage isn’t actually raining in, but it might as well be.

Early each morning when I go into the garage the car is as wet as if I had let it stand outside. It’s condensation of course, but so heavy that I’m beginning to get concerned about rust. Look how wet the driver's door is on this photo. If you’re a 2cv owner and not completely paranoid about preventing rust then I suppose the chances are you won’t be a 2cv owner for very long - boy can these things fizzle away quickly.



As an added precaution, and a much cheaper option than buying a dehumidifier, I used one of my long handled paintbrushes dipped in Waxoyl to run around the crevices. Things like the drip rail, the boot lid hinge, and any of the seams in the bodywork got the treatment. The wax polish that I mentioned previously is still working fine and protecting the paintwork on the panels, so all I needed to do was add the Waxoyl in those places where water might gather, or become trapped.



Looking at that Waxoyl it reminds me of cholesterol, the thick gloopy fat residue that clogs up the arteries.
I mention this because just after the new-year I went in for my own MOT (not the cars) with the doctor, and I was told that I had areas of concern. The doctor tends to talk to me in numbers which mean absolutely nothing to me. “Your remaining kidney is functioning at 44” or “Your cholesterol is 7.5” I nod of course, as if '44' is an internationally recognised state for a kidney to be in, but I always come out none the wiser.

Apparently those numbers mean that I need to get more exercise, and eat and drink less less crap. Now why couldn't he just say that?
So it has been that for the last few weeks early each morning, at daybreak actually, I have been taking walks down the local country lanes. The trouble with this I find is that country lanes tend to have nothing beside them but a drainage ditch, and cars fly down them with abandon.

Many a morning, there I was - communing with nature, only to feel the rush of slipstream from a vehicle that had narrowly missed me. Last week a Toyota Celica came at me so fast that he had to swerve to avoid meat the last minute, hitting the car behind that was waiting in the passing place. 60 mph on a winding single track road is just stupid.

I have now taken to carrying a pocket full of small pebbles, the type that fish tanks used to have on the bottom. I carry one on the space created by sticking your thumb into your hand, and if someone shows a blatant disregard for my safety by speeding at me with inches to spare – I surreptitiously flick it!
If I time it right I can hit the windscreen using the force generated by the excess speed they are carrying, so the faster ones might need to visit Gavin from auto-glass. Hey don’t judge me, I’d much rather they slowed down but they seem to do that thing that HGV’s do to small cars; “Outta my way or it’ll hurt you more than it'll hurt me.”... Wanna bet? Heh heh?

All this walking around has made me do some other strange things, buying stuff off ebay for example. Have you ever sat there just seconds after pressing the ‘buy it now’ button and thought “What the hell have I bought that for?” Yep, well so did I when I bought a book on.....Trees.... Effin' TREES ffs!

So my early morning pebble flicking activities now take place amongst the Sycamore’s and Oaks, instead of the ‘just trees’ that they had always been. I’ll be burning incense and voting Liberal next! I mentioned previously that my windscreen fogs up just on my side, so how’s this for annoying? The passenger side's perfect!



This was taken in the supermarket car park this morning, the car having stood for only fifteen minutes. It’s little foibles like this that could seriously drive me nuts, which is why I’m probably buying books on trees and flicking pebbles, the first signs of insanity. It’s not only that though, on the way to the supermarket I was very nearly T-boned by a woman in a white van. She was a mobile ironing service, and on the side of her van it said “Iron-Maiden”

Life ay!