Done and dusted

So as it’s officially spring now – and from my window I can see blue sky, sunshine and pink blossom – I suppose I ought to take a break from writing and get down to some serious spring cleaning.

Time to banish the gloom of winter (not to mention the dust and cobwebs).

Oh, how virtuous I’ll feel when I’ve cleaned my home from top to bottom! All that scrubbing, dusting, washing, polishing ….

Hmmm.

 Well, I’ve made a start. Do you like my bright, new computer desktop?

Back to New!

Do you know the story about the old woman who boasted that, apart from two new handles and four new heads, she’d had the same broom for 50 years? I’m feeling like that with my computer …

After two weeks of ‘repair’ it was returned to me with more faults than it had before. So, it was sent away for another ten days and this time came back with a new hard drive, a new motherboard, more memory installed and some different software.

It’s working beautifully (I’m touching wood) but it’s like starting with a new computer again. I’ve had to adjust settings and rearrange everything so it looks something like my old, familiar computer.

Oh, well, it keeps the brain working – but I wish I could have some more memory added too!

Logging on

When I am Rich I will have a spare computer – no, make that half a dozen spare computers – so that when my main machine has to go for repair I won’t feel quite so bereft.

I thought I was only going to be computerless for a couple of days but it’s stretched to nearly 2 weeks now. The withdrawal symptoms aren’t getting any easier, but there are some compensations:

I’ve rediscovered the joys of writing with pen and paper
I’ve talked to people instead of emailing
I’ve spent more time in the garden
I’ve gathered my news from the radio instead of the Internet
I’ve done research in a real library - with books!
Even so, many, many thanks to the generous person who has let me borrow his laptop!