24-05-25

Morning, all.   It's Saturday and half term has started.  To be accurate, yesterday was a training day too, for the teachers, and this one is always devoted to writing those dreaded reports.  I still feel a slight shudder at the memory.  I expect most retired teachers do.  All that work for so many hours . . .

If you know a teacher, show them some love.  It's a stressful time.

And it is raining!  At last.  Probably not enough for the poor old farmers but my wee garden looks very happy indeed.  It's set to continue most of the morning so no line drying for me today.

Anyway!  Eddie and James (not Mike - I got the name wrong) came round and had a good look at my computer.  The C drive is knackered and the automatic back up hasn't been automatically backing up for quite a while, darn it.  I needed a new router several years ago and the external hard drive should have been adjusted and wasn't.  I just didn't know or I'd have asked Eddie.

Anyway, James has taken the C drive away and is going to see how much, if anything, he can salvage.  Fingers crossed, please, everyone.

He did ask why I actually need a PC and a laptop and he has a point.  'Because I always have' isn't really a sensible answer and Eddie said he could increase my laptop storage, connect my nice big monitor up and so on and so on and so forth so I think that's the end of the PC era.  In PC terms, mine is pretty geriatric anyway.  

And he will get the external hard drive sorted.

If James can't save certain things, then the drive could go to professionals who specialise in that sort of work but it would be expensive so I do hope I don't have to make that decision.

So that was yesterday morning.

Then Alex came round and, with guidance, made the Slimming World tomato soup in Thermione and, while that was simmering, some cheese and chutney toasties.  He did a jolly good job too, bless him.  I thoroughly enjoyed my lunch.  After clearing up, we say down at the laptop and looked through some recipes on Cookidoo, saving some likely looking ones into a new folder labelled 'Alex'.  When I took him home, I checked on their Thermomix and, yes, he can access the recipes from there so that was worth setting up.  

Sadly, we can't meet up for the next three Fridays, but the fourth one is in both our diaries so that's good.  We're thinking maybe mushroom stroganoff - much easier than it sounds and I will try it out this weekend..

I got the finances sorted out, moved money across and generally sorted it all out for this month so that felt good.

And that was yesterday.

Today is an easy day.  Nothing in the diary.  I can do some meal planning for the coming week, sort out the front a bit more (weather permitting, and generally chill.  No loaves this weekend.

Are you doing anything exciting or interesting - or just plain good fun?   Rain or no rain, have a lovely day.  xx