Post “puter crash and re-install Windows, formatting ‘C’ Drive. At first trauma and anguish about what has been lost, some items after 20-12-2006 were not backed up, but gradual dawning that we have had a forcible ‘C’ drive spring clean which has got rid of loads of programs that we don’t actually use but are nice to have. Also there were a few gremlins in the system that I worked around for so long that it became the norm (Brian Richerby must be laughing his socks off if he is reading this). I had so many ‘blue screens’ yesterday that in the end I couldn’t get anything other than a blank screen with a curser winking in the top left hand corner. Urgent calls to the family technical department in Essex and we decided that the system was too corrupt to repair itself so we decided that a complete re-install was the only answer.
Hey, did you see our almond tree in flower? Isn’t that amazing for the 7th January? Last night however, we had another quite windy night with the van walls flexing and banging a bit. We both laid awake for some time wondering if it was going to get any worse. It didn’t and suddenly it was sunrise and all is now back to normal i.e.,. Sunny, warm and very spring like.
We have had people working on site since just after nine this morning. They are putting the steels into the trenches and locking them all together. Elayne and I walked up whilst they were having their siesta and the steel re-enforcement frames are very big and heavy, they won’t rock and roll in the wind like the caravan. See pictures.