Good grief, two weeks since I last ranted and blethered here. Did you miss me? Well no one wrote and said they missed me so I asume that you didn't. Won't stop me though. The laptop's still at the mender's but today's good news is that they think it's NOT the motherboard that's causing the problem. Phew! That would have been expensive. Now they think it's a memory problem. Truth is, I bought a new memory chip myself before I sent the thing back last time and it still fell over when I put that in: is that one faulty too? I've been without this laptop so long that I don't miss it any more even though I was using Office 2003 ONLY on that, I was writing another blockbuster book on it, I use it in the evening when young Master D uses this desktop ... When it comes back in full apple pie order I'll still be happy. I now have a new web site ... I'm hosting it on this desktop but I have a non fixed IP address that has to be sorted out so just wait a while longer. I'm thinking of putting this blog on it so that I can keep full control of it. I don't control half of this blog if the truth be told. The weather's warmish for March but sunny then cloudy then chucking it down ... in circular waves! DW