Have been very busy and will soon be away

[Veritee]

Dear All

I have had family and other committments and my PC broke - my fault - but I should have made an efforet to go on this site before now. Sorry.

Christmas usually is very quiet on the forum and I do not go on much at Christmas but in addition I have PC problems otherwise I would have been on before now to see your messages and explain.

I trashed my PC trying to get our new Christmas goodies installed - ie a pocket PC and GPS system for Barry and an I pod for Caja and a hard disk based digital video recorder for me!! Its gadget would here - We are now addicted to gadgets in our household but our computers are quite a few years old so are not really up to them.

My PC just turned toes up under the weight of these new items and while I have got it to work after a fashion my wireless broadband does not and in fact the PC is pretty useless as the keyboard refuses to work.

Basically it is a case of back to basics and having to reinstall it.

I am on a laptop at the moment using an old ASDL modem to get online.

It does not really work for me to go on the site using another PC as I have all my passwords the site management tools, software and contacts and info on my main one so I will not be back to normal till I reinstall.

But I have also not had the time as this happened xmas evening - teach me to be too eager to get our new toys working -

and all day Boxing day we went to visit relatives staying about 50 miles from us in a holiday place in Cornwall and did not get back till very late yesterday we went to St Ives for the day and then to a friends party and today we have been catching up with chores before going tonight to another friends New Years do tonight at 8pm till late, so I doubt I shall be on the site tonigh unless we come home early.

We also have to Drive 400 miles the on New Years Day or a day or so after - we are not sure yuet exactly what day we will leave, I will let you know -

to visit my mother - she lives on the coast of Essex and is blind and due to the distance and my accident I have not seen her for quite a while

We will be away 5 or 6 days so I just do not see my reinstalling my PC till the second or third week in Jan.

I will however go on the site when I can before we go away - and hopefully our hotel will have internet access for my laptop and I will put this on the site so everyone will know I will be away

All the best

veritee

PS I hope everyone got through Christmas OK and had a good time

[Veritee]

Hi everyone

I hope you are all OK - I have managed this moring to catch up with what has been happening by reading all the threads. But this took me all morning - I have lots I want to respond to but I can not as I must concentrate on getting my PC up and workign so on Monday I can resume the job of this forum properly!

I am now back - but not quite online properly.

I was unable to get online while away at all.

I live in a very remote rural place but I have broadband and a wireless network so I kind of imagined that every hotel I went to - I went to Essex to see my mum who is blind and confused and in a special home for the blind, and my brother who lives another 50 miles on from her-

would have a broadband connection I could access.

As it was this could not be further from the case.

I managed to connect to BT openzone in a service station going down but my husband wanted to get on so I could only read a few posts and then none of the hotels had any connection until one holiday inn where I could use a dial up - but for some reason to do with them and not my laptop - it kept losing my connection so I could not go on long enough.

So I am back now but my PC that was crashing all the time before I went due to loading on too much over Xmas - not will not run and I have to now reinstall this.

So still can not get on the form properly - I estimate not until tommorow/Monday after noon.

I could use the laptop but it is slow and if I do this I will not get my PC up and running again.

So in a minute I shall switch everything off and get on with backing up and re-installing ( and those of you who have done this will know what a tedious and boring task this is) then I can talk to you all properly again.

All I can say is 'normal service will be resummed as soon as possible'
See you all tomorow

Love Veritee