Hmmmmph.
My laptop, in the immortal words of Monty and his Pythons, has “Ceased to be! ‘it’s expired and gone to meet ‘it’s maker! ‘it’s a stiff! Bereft of life, ‘it rests in peace! If you hadn’t nailed ‘it to the perch ‘it’d be pushing up the daisies! ‘It’s metabolic processes are now ‘istory! it’s off the twig! ‘it’s kicked the bucket, ‘it’s shuffled off ‘it’s mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin’ choir invisibile!! THIS IS AN EX-LAPTOP!!”
So I am now at the tender mercy of Mrs Bangordub in terms of access to her Laptop which for some unfathomable reason she seems to consider a competitor for my attentions.
Service will therefore be intermittent until Thursday next when my independence will be restored. Any strange postings or rude replies to comments in the meantime…..well you know who to blame 😉
"We in coming days may be" 
I am off on a three day break and Mrs FitzjamesHorse has told me NOT to take my “thigh pod” (as Peter Kay’s granny calls an ipod). We are therefore both disconnected from Tinternet.
Let us hope nothing interesting happens while we are disconnected.
The Czar of Russia could be getting up to all kinds of stuff ……without my eye on him.
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You should get a Apple IPad Bangordub far better than a laptop.
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Thanks for the hint!
I am probably a bit of a philistine in that regard. Although I like the idea of an IPad I am not a fan of app based computing. Perhaps I am not giving it a fair chance. I still use Windows XP as I prefer its layout and stability. Also I still use Office 2003 as I detest the user interface on newer versions, particularly in excel and outlook.
I like chrome or firefox rather than IE which is a nightmare.
Anyhow I am now back up and running again. Hard drive had given up the ghost but at least I had files backed up.
Strangely, given that I have no new posts for the past week, my readership actually went up, probably due to the economic spat going on between Sammy and Footballcliches.
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