Weeping, Wailing & Gnashing of Teeth … and a smile

All of the above occurred recently. Oh, joy.

We had a duff ‘net connection for weeks, yet BT kept telling me – after testing the phone line – that there was nothing wrong with it. Grump. I changed the microfilters. Then I changed the cables. Then I went to a lot of trouble to connect the router directly to the master socket in order to eliminate internal wiring. Then I changed the router. Finally, risking a big bill from BT, I called in an engineer. Guess what? The line from the pole to the house was in such a poor condition that he said it was a miracle we had any connection at all. Grump. Line replaced, great connection, no more crackling on voice calls. Happy Gill.

For a while ……..

My hard disk died and refused to cooperate with anything I did to try and repair/recover it. Sighing loudly (Who, me? Shurely shome mistake. Ed) I got a new hard drive installed and set about the laborious task of reloading all my programs. Then I set to the task of copying over all my data from an external drive I use for backup. Which is when I found out that my “system” for backing up had failed me badly …. my UF parameters hadn’t been backed up for about 8 months. Eight sodding months. All those images, all that work. Argh.

All is, possibly, not totally lost as I may yet be able to rescue the file by mounting the ‘dead’ drive as an external one, but I’m not holding out too much hope for that. Watch this space.

On the cosmetic front, I still haven’t decided on a new look for the site, partly due to being sidetracked by the stuff above and partly due to my inability to make my mind up. Maybe it would be good to plan for this to happen on the site’s second anniversary, that might just give me enough time

Managed to get out and about with my camera on the best day of the long weekend just passed: nice to see Spring has finally arrived! I’m working on some pics from Friday (and a few others) which will hopefully make a proper appearance in a new gallery here soon. In the meantime, here’s a taster.