6th November to Saturday 28th November
Monday 9th November
Yesterday went as normal; read paper, worked on puzzles, paid a visit
to the club at lunchtime, etc, etc.
This morning is somewhat colder, although not yet frosty. Shopping at
Sainsbury’s later.
Tuesday 10th November
Well, did the shopping, but the weather has not been good. It seems
that we are now naming storms, as well as hurricanes. I think this first one is
called Abigail and it’s supposed to hit us hard, here in the U.K. But all we
have is strong winds at present, nothing to be worried about just yet.
Saturday 15th November
Nothing much out of the ordinary has happened during the past week,
hence the lack of entries. Although there is one thing troubling me, I am
unable to email my RAF pal Alan. All attempts at sending or replying result in
my emails bouncing back as being unable to deliver.
As a last resort I tried emailing from my Yahoo account yesterday
morning and, as yet, that one hasn’t been answered or returned, so I’m hopeful
that it was received. This morning I emailed his son Ellis, to see if he could
help.
Yesterday I had an appointment at St. Cross Hospital, where the nurse
there checked my legs and feet for problems associated with diabetes. Although
I do suffer normal aches and pains, she found nothing untoward and has signed
me off A-OK.
Monday 17th November
Since upgrading our WiFi we have enjoyed faster email downloads, but
this has come at a price. We now find that, when booting up the laptop and
attaching the WiFi cable, the ‘Three’ home screen pops up. Not only that but,
when we’re online this screen still pops up and we have to shut it down before
we can continue with whatever else we’re doing.
So, as you would expect, I emailed ‘Three’ about this problem and have
had a reply, telling me to shut down my laptop, take the back off the WiFi unit
and stick something sharp into the Reset Button. This I will do later today.
Meanwhile, my emails to Alan Oxley are still bouncing back. I wonder if that is
also caused by the new WiFi unit!!
The nurse who attended me at Outpatients at St. Cross Hospital on
Saturday afternoon, told me to rub cream into my feet on a daily basis, because
my skin is very hard. So, off we go to Rugby this morning for that and to have
a new zip put into a pair of my trousers.
Wednesday 18th November
Yesterday morning, after paying a visit to the nurse for a medication
assessment, we drove over to South Kilworth to redeem our £10.00 meat voucher
that we won at the club. After that we chose to have a lazy day.
I had intended to visit the ukulele club the same evening, but with
Barney about to rear its ugly head, I decided to leave it until next week.
I am still unable to send emails to Alan using Outlook and am having to
use Yahoo instead. I’ll try again in a few minutes, but first I have to make
some tea.
Thursday 19th November
After much deliberation I finally committed to buying a new laptop. I
should be collecting an Acer Aspire from Argos in Rugby on Monday. I could have
had it delivered to the marina, but the office is shut on Mondays and would not
have been delivered.
All I have to do when I collect it is to install any other programmes I
need and get used to Windows 8.1, which I will upgrade to Windows 10. I’ll also
upgrade Office if it has been installed. If not then I’ll have to install my
Office 7 Home and student and then upgrade. Simples!!!
Saturday 21st November
Winter has finally arrived, in the form of overnight snow, added to
which is a very cold wind.
I have just received notification of the despatch of my laptop, which
was sent out yesterday, so it should have arrived by Monday morning.
I’m still having problems with sending emails to Alan in Germany. This
appears to be a permanent error; that’s according to Mailer-Daemon. I’m going
to forward this message to my server, Absolute Email and see if they can solve
the issue.
Monday 23rd November
Our weekend went just about the same as usual, including an hour at the
club Sunday lunchtime.
This morning we took the bus into Rugby, hoping to collect our new
laptop from Argos. This has been arranged as a ‘Click and Collect’ from eBay.
We were advised by Parcel Force that the laptop had been despatched on Friday.
But it hadn’t arrived yet so we spent an hour wandering around Rugby until the
next bus back to Crick.
I have just accessed my emails and have a message from eBay telling me
the laptop is now ready for collection. I do hope the rest of this week doesn’t
run according to some nefarious plan!!
Tuesday 24th November
I’m not entirely sure what we’re doing today; we could go into Rugby
again and do our shopping, and then collect the laptop. Or we could drive over
to Daventry and do our shopping at Waitrose and collect the laptop tomorrow.
I have decided to place and ad on the club notice board and, to this
end I’m doing a cartoon portrait of Sarah and her son Tyler. Sarah works at the
club and I’m working on a good, hand drawn cartoon portrait first, from which
I’ll create the ad. Hopefully this will attract some queries from club members
and earn me a few quid. Hope springs eternal………… etc.
At this point I apologise for the lack of postings. Whilst moored here
at Crick, the days kind of run into each other and don’t throw up much of
interest. I work on the assumption that what counts as a normal day for us,
will count as a normal day for you and won’t be of much interest.
Wednesday 25th November
We took the bus into Rugby and collected our new laptop. It’s an Acer
Aspire with Windows 8.1 installed. Oh Boy!!! What fun trying to set this thing
up. Perhaps I’m just not very patient, but it didn’t take long for me to put it
aside. I’ll have another go tomorrow, but I’ll make sure Wifey is sitting
beside me when I do.
Watch this space.
Saturday 28th November
So, we sat together, side by side and had another go at setting up the
new Acer. The first thing we had to do was update files, which took several
hours. So, we really didn’t get much done.
Today I’m working on a Cartoon Portrait for one of the bar staff at the
club. This has taken the best part of a week so far, because I’ve had to search
for some clipart that I didn’t have. I’m hoping to finish this one and copy it
to an A4 sheet of Watercolour or Pastel paper. I’ll then be able to deliver it
to Sarah tomorrow lunchtime.
Now, as the weekend is already upon us, I’ll wish you all a great
weekend.
Dave
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