Sunday 17 January 2016

Winter Crick 2015 164


Friday 18th December to Monday 18th January

 Sunday 20th December

 We’re all still waiting for Winter to rear its ugly head, but we still have temperatures in double figures. I’ve heard that even Daffodils are opening out. I don’t mind the warmer weather, but I’m sure we’ll know all about it when the real Winter arrives.

 Today we’ll be attending the club as usual, but this time we’ll be bringing home a pack of sausages, which we won in last week’s meat raffle. This is the third time we’ve won the raffle, and long may it continue.

 26 December 2015
 
Well, Christmas passed as usual and in the usual manner; we popped into the club and, as you would expect on Christmas Day, it was pretty busy.

 For Christmas dinner we had roast beef, Yorkshire pudding and roast pork, along with pigs in blankets, of course. Naturally our Alex sampled some too, but not too much.

 27th December 2015

 I love my Christmas dinner, which usually comprises turkey and all the trimmings. However, just for a change we bought a good sized joint of beef and pork. Yesterday we enjoyed cold meat with bubble and squeek, along with pickled onions, gherkins and Pickled Lily. Lovely!!

 Today? Well, we'll pop along to the club again - well, it is Sunday and it would be rude not to. At the moment we have rain, but I'm hopeful that it will have stopped by lunchtime.

 Friday 1st January 2016

 Well, the New Year is here and it doesn't seem much different than 2015. Still, I've done one thing, that I may live to regret, and that's that I've joined Facebook. Having found umpteen people I know on there and, having also clicked on the films and music I like, I now have a page full of photos and comments from people and bands. Initially I was flooded with emails from Facebook, but they seem to have tailed off now. We'll see how it goes.

 Sunday 3rd January 2016

 I've been trying to reset the VAIO to its original factory settings, but without success. I've tried with a Repair Disc and I've tried using the Product Code and downloading Windows 7 from Microsoft, also without success.

 Having tried all that I then emailed the man I bought it from and they've asked how much I want to sell it for. They also told me that they have Windows 7 on a USB stick, so I may have to buy that first. Unfortunately I will first need to reset it, because there is sensitive info on that laptop which needs to be deleted. No doubt they'll make me an offer, I hope.

 Monday 4th January 2016

 Well, according to Dave, the man I bought the VAIO from, there's a button, next to the Power button, that should do the trick. There are actually three buttons in that area, one of which goes straight to the Web, another says 'VAIO' and the last one is 'Assist'. Neither of these last two do anything, not even in conjunction with Ctrl or Shift. So, I'm now back to square one. Our man Dave does have Windows 7 on a USB stick and I've asked him how much he wants for that. If I don't get this laptop sorted I'll be stuck with it forever. Failing that I'll have to take it down to Frank in Harlow.

 Thursday 7th January

 After checking up Argos for a new luminous bedside clock, and finding just the thing, we took the bus into Rugby and called into Argos for that clock. Not in their catalogue, which made me rather annoyed. So, first thing this morning, I once again looked on the Argos site and found the same clock there, but I also found a different on costing £5.00 less, which I then ordered and paid online and arranged to collect it from their shop in the Homebase store in Daventry, thus saving myself the £3.99 delivery charge. Job done.

 Friday 8th January

 This morning, on the advice of my GP I tried to make an appointment with Northampton Hospital, but there were none available. What a shame!

 Having already had an in depth eye test at Boot's, with the intention of having new glasses, I was told I needed a cataract removed. I have also received a letter asking me to book an appointment for a Retinal Scan, which is an annual event for me due to my diabetes. This I have now done. At that appointment I will ask if the cataract removal is necessary right now. Depending upon their answer, will depend upon if I have the removal carried out now, or leave it for a while. At the moment my eyes feel just fine, but, what do I know?

 Sunday 10th January

 After much deliberation I have now installed Microsoft Office 365. I now find that previous Word documents, that were written in Word 2007, are now opening in Compatibility Mode in the new Word 2016. This will probably happen with all earlier documents, unless I copy and paste from Word 2007 to Word 2016.

 Monday 18th January

 It has now been over a week since I brought this blog up to date, which just goes to show how ‘normal’ our daily lives are.

 Now, having downloaded and installed Office 365, I pinned Word, Outlook and Excel to the Task Bar. I then discovered that it isn’t possible to open and existing document and open a blank document at the same time. At least, this can’t be done from the Task Bar, but a blank document can be opened up alongside the original, but it must be opened from the Start Menu. Problem solved!

 Since arriving back at Crick at the end of October, we have won six prizes on the club meat raffle. I didn’t know we had such a large amount of good fortune. Happy days!

 To my eternal shame, it’s now been a month since I posted a blog and so, although this one is only three pages long, I’ll post it now and save you the agony of maybe thinking I had left the country, or worse.

 Cheers for now and have a good week.

 Dave, Sheila and Alex.