Annb
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Panic stations! My hard drive gave up on me. Right in the middle of reading postings as well. What to do? How to cope? Answer - call Neil. Unfortunately, when I went along to his room, it was in darkness and he was asleep, I realised, so backed off as quietly as I could and sat for the next 10 minutes feeling sorry for myself. Then lo and behold, Neil appeared, asking what it was I wanted. Bless. He checked and then started reprogramming the hard drive to sort it out. He has found the fault, put a patch on it (ring fenced it so it can't affect the rest of the drive) and got it going again. That was late last night. We went out and bought a new usb pen to backup all the files I had just left lying around on the desktop. I'm told I will have to get a new hard drive asap, because it won't keep going indefinitely and I really should buy a new external device to back up my files (the old one gave up the ghost a while ago). It will all have to wait until after Christmas now (and probably after the next car repair as well). But it is working and I am back in touch. Hurrah for Neil.
Along with that, the night before last, our oil ran out (I obviously misjudged the timing). So no heating or hot water. I ordered more yesterday but was told that they are very busy and I might not get any delivered before Christmas. I told the lady on the phone my tale of woe - cold, no heat, no hot water etc and she said she would try to expedite it. It came today. Now the boiler is back on and the radiators blasting out heat. Thank goodness. Thank Certas Fuels.
Yesterday I had chicken broth at about 12.30 and bacon and eggs at about 7 pm. Lots of tea and hot water, of course.
Today, at about 1 pm I had a couple of chaffles (made with ricotta because I couldn't get mozzarella) and a couple of slices of streaky bacon. This evening I will be making some veg soup and that will have to do for today. Fluids as well, of course.
@Chook - the cauliflower is still working on me - shouldn't have had quite so much but I bought another couple of them today and will put reasonable sized packages into the freezer for future use.
Along with that, the night before last, our oil ran out (I obviously misjudged the timing). So no heating or hot water. I ordered more yesterday but was told that they are very busy and I might not get any delivered before Christmas. I told the lady on the phone my tale of woe - cold, no heat, no hot water etc and she said she would try to expedite it. It came today. Now the boiler is back on and the radiators blasting out heat. Thank goodness. Thank Certas Fuels.
Yesterday I had chicken broth at about 12.30 and bacon and eggs at about 7 pm. Lots of tea and hot water, of course.
Today, at about 1 pm I had a couple of chaffles (made with ricotta because I couldn't get mozzarella) and a couple of slices of streaky bacon. This evening I will be making some veg soup and that will have to do for today. Fluids as well, of course.
@Chook - the cauliflower is still working on me - shouldn't have had quite so much but I bought another couple of them today and will put reasonable sized packages into the freezer for future use.
thanks to 2.5 kilos of skirt steak.
