The Fortight from Hell

It all started so innocently. The computer was proving to be a little slow warming up - it was taking anything up to twenty minutes to load! I went to the Apple Shop ( what a blissful place) and was handed over to a genius - very comforting. He said my hard drive was dead and I needed a new one!!!! Shock horror, not only financially but also my means of communication to the world would be interrupted. Still I bit the bullet, handed over my hard saved cash and and trusted to his genius skills - who am I to query a genius?

Two days later it was back together with the latest state of the art operating system - Lion - I believe.

Then the sodding dingle wouldn't work. I was stranded, out of reach of my friends - this was the computer nerd's nightmare scenario. turned out I needed a new zippier dongle - £40.00 pounds later I had it but it still didn't work!!!!

This was getting serious - I was getting text messages from friends of friends wanting to know if I
was aright. So - back to the Apple Store I went. Turned out the sim card in the dongle hadn't been inserted properly.

So there you are - I am back.

Oh yes and Peter the blind neighbour almost died form a bad attack of Crones so that's a two bus journey every day to keep and eye on him and make sure they don't just forget about him. The National Health service is wonderful but they neglect the more vulnerable if they think there is no one who care. But I do so all is well.

Oh - how I long for Calcutta at times like these - just to get away from what Tom Paine called. "the times that try men's souls".