Peter’s Hospital Diary

Home again after another fairly intensive week, looking at aspects of computer networking – and again with exams at the end of it. I think I did OK, but I have a feeling I may have made a couple of basic mistakes, I hope not too serious. The week wasn’t helped by a rather unpleasant […]

And finally everything is back as it should be! Full raid, disk layout fine, all burning and turning! I was talking to fellow blog master Mark about it, and he commented that this episode was hardly a good advert for Linux, which rather got me thinking about the last couple of weeks. The initial failure […]

And the end of another busy weekend – which started on Friday with a visit to the Opticians for a contact lens check. I normally use 15 day disposable lenses, and I needed new supplies, but when the optician looked at the ones I was wearing (new the day before) she was horrified at how […]

Well, no – it was exactly the same Guy’s that I went to yesterday, with pretty much the same routine – arrive – give blood, do the crossword, see the doctor and then leave! However there were some slight variations yesterday – I had longer to do the crossword as the blood order (the order […]

And indeed it was – yesterday was a really soggy day – the sort of day when you stoke up the fire and settle down with a book or something – so that is what we did! That sort of wet and windy weather will forever be associated in my mind with my week in […]

A bit of a mixed bag today! Living in the country, we do occasionally get bothered by mice, which are fine in the garden, but I do start objecting when the encroach into the house. I think they climb up plants growing up the wall into the kitchen attic and then into the cavity walls […]

I am delighted to report that the stomach bug has cleared up, and the anti-fungal lozenges I mentioned in the last post have had an almost miraculous effect! My mouth is much much better, and my appetite seems to have returned with a vengeance! Not only has the soreness all but gone, but my sense […]

The work in getting the computer back as I want it is progressing. The problem with reloading an operating system is not the reloading, it is re-creating the configuration! Fortunately I can get most of the configuration files off the old disk – it just takes time! Vicki brought Olivia over today – and as […]

Pheww! That was a bit of a tense week, but all is (I think) restored and the blog is up and running again with no loss of data! So what happened? Well, after I got back and started looking at the computer, I found I was getting some erratic behaviour, nothing serious, but a few […]

How quickly a week passes! We left mark and Sue early yesterday morning (about 7:30) for the trip up to Caen. There was a frost on the car, and it felt very cold (about -2C) but we left the wood burner blazing away! We had lovely clear skies on the fairly leisurely drive up to […]