Hi Susan, Wow, that's great news for me. Off to research it all now. Many thanks. Elaine. ----- Original Message ----- From: Susan Curry To: vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 8:12 PM Subject: [vip_students] useful items hi folks, I have a talking timer from cobalt systems, I have it connected to my central heating boiler, it now means I can set my central heating my self, I can have it coming on and off whenever I like, also I am able to change the times I want it to go off and on. it has it's own thermostat, the date and time, there is a 2 setting timer or a seven setting timer. I have the seven setting timer for the central heating and the two setting timer for my lamps, which we find a great help as we can set the timer to turn on the lamp in the hall when we are out, this will let people think there is some one in the house, and also lets Joe find the front door and gives him enough light to turn off the house alarm on our return home, or in the dark evenings to turn the alarm on when we leave the house. we also have the talks on our mobile phones which we find invaluable as well as jaws on our computers which we are enjoying so much more now that we have joined this list. thanks again to every one. best wishes Susan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.472 / Virus Database: 269.8.9/834 - Release Date: 05/06/2007 14:38