While I was sorting folders I came across some pictures from long ago.*

Thought you might like to see them :)

So, here I am drinking my coffee and actually doing the computer housework I’d sort of not got round to the other day when I was supposed to be taking time off.

Because the internet is taking time off – too much time to load any pages. Yes I checked my internet connection settings. As usual, I don’t understand them. But you never know, one day, one of the interminable updates may include one that says “this is what you want your settings to say and here is the problem explained in simple English and here is the funny code us computers use which you can now quote to any clever computer person who will then be able to make your internet work again”

So I’m typing this while the computer moves files. It seems unusually happy to do this and once I’ve got all the June stuff in the June folder and all the July stuff etc etc, I may even start moving the whole lot into the back up disc.

Or working my way through the folders deleting junk pictures and, you know, all the ones that really look exactly like the ones I’ve selected as the best. The ones I couldn’t decide about.

What’s more I am seriously thinking about getting a new computer before this one has a fatal incident. One with a dual core thingie. Far be it from me to brag but I really do think faster than this one responds (I’m sure it’s thinking a lot in there and doing a lot more stuff than I could think about at all but hey! I want performance here!)

Well something I just typed reminded me of a rhyme the children used to recite at playgroup. It went: -

One fine day in the middle of the night
Two dead men got up to fight
Back to back they faced each other
Drew their swords and shot each other

Eldest delighted us all by finishing, “drew their swords and shot their chothers”.

As children learn the rules of grammar they uncover anomalies and peculiarities in the language. Probably you could identify children with particularly logical minds by the number of weird grammatical errors they produce.

Wow! While I was typing this, the computer has moved all the files.

I got side tracked again. It seems there's a number of products on the market designed to warn drivers of the presence of speed traps. the one I looked at started by saying "you're a mug if you ever pay a speeding ticket".

True! I mean how hard is it to stay within the speed limit? Well sometimes you miss the sign or forget what it said or just forget how fast you're going so some help would be useful. But the object of these gadgets seems to be to help you to break the speed limits while avoiding being caught by speed traps.

Uh, hello???? We have an industry devoted to helping drivers to break the law without being caught????? And this industry is legal?????

See, I'm so naive I thought it would be a good idea to have a gadget that warned you when you entered a changed speed limit and then warned you if you were exceeding it. Silly me.

*that's only long as in about two years!