Today didn’t get off to a great start. I turned on my computer only to find that during the night it had decided to lose all it’s settings and had reverted back to accessing the old (redundant and almost empty) hard drive. Bugger. I tried all the usual things to get it to work: shout at it; shout at it louder; bang the desk; swear at it; tell it it’s a stupid bloody computer and it was working fine at midnight last night; tell it it’s a lovely computer and pretty please would it just work and I promise to love it forever; turn it off and on repeatedly whilst crossing fingers that this time it might work seeing as I pressed the “on” button ever so gently this time; hit random keys on the keyboard in the hope that one of them might be the magic one; curse loudly again and stomp off to school with baffled children in tow.
A brisk walk to school and back made me see sense so I texted Mr Computer Man Who Put The New Hard Disk In (who happens to be my friend’s husband). An hour or so later he arrived on his white horse (silver Skoda actually), turned the computer on, pressed delete repeatedly until a blue screen with lots of computer jargon came up, whizzed around with the mouse, clicked a few times, and hey presto it was fixed! He was here no more than five minutes, and what did he have in payment? Half a dozen eggs. Bring back bartering I say.
The rest of the day went by in a more relaxed fashion. I made seven more jars of damson jam (and still it doesn’t look like I’ve picked any fruit from the tree); froze the last of the runner beans from the plants that my five year old little Mutterer grew; went for a walk around the churchyard next door with Mr Mutterer and took some photos with my new camera; and I had two extra little ones come to play after school. And to top it all off, the three big ducks: Daisy, Maisy and Puddle had already gone into their house when we went out to put them to bed. I think we’ve cracked it!
A small Tortoiseshell butterfly in my garden
Our VERY noisy cat telling us exactly what she thought about us going off for a walk without her!
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