Too cold to see

Can't see London Bridge this morning. Too foggy.

Lyme Regis

Visiting April's friends near Exeter popped in to the lovely Lyme Regis whilst there. Very lucky with the weather.

Operation fix Stuart's hand

Weasel slippers

I now know what I want for Christmas!

Snow!

Spoke too soon

Laptop switched itself off last night after over heating. Bloody thing. New one soonish I think.

Ho, Ho, Ho!

I've got another on the way from the states.

Dinner for one

Rib of beef for Sunday lunch with Steve's family.

Call me Mr Fixit

Or on second thoughts, probably best not to.  I think i've mentoioned before on here that recently my laptop has been overheating and shutting itself down.  Rather than get a new laptop just yet (every 3 years) I googled "Dell overheating" and low and behold it is a fairly regular occurrence.  Suggestions on the web were it could be the heat sinks being clogged up with dust. 

I'd opened it up before to clean the fan (this didn't help much) so wasn't too fussed about giving this a try.  Plus, there was an online video helpfully showing me exactly what to do.  Anyway, after opening it up, locating the heat sink and eventually prying it out the bloody thing was covered in dust!  Or more probably bloody cat hair.

A quick clean and reattachment later and my laptop is back to normal.  Well I hope it is.  It's suspiciously quiet so maybe the fan doesn't work. 

Watch this space.

Ouch... operation time

Here's the photo of my finger x-rayed on Wednesday.  I'm now booked in to get it operated on Thursday so wish me luck.

I badly hurt another finger about 5 years ago and this is the state of it a couple of weeks later once the bandage was removed.  I expect something similar.  Nice...