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Backed up what I needed to on the flash drives, and the new external hard drive (which is tiny and beautiful!) then I was out into the garden, moving soil and pushing broken slabs of concrete or tile underneath the fence, after I'd moved some soil away from it. Another very recent bramble made an appearance, and got short shrift from me
The soil seems very fertile.
The side return, outside my back door, is full of bulbs, every couple of feet, there's a clump of a couple of dozen. I definitely want low growing herbs there, but I might also relocate little pockets of bulbs to that area.
Tried to carry on with the computer backup - stupid new computer is embroiled in a Microsoft plot to make me buy a copy of Office, rather than using the extremely cheap Open Office I bought (£2.39, even I could cope with giving Microsoft that level of money). I can't delete the existing documents on my older external hard disc drive, because it's read only, it says, and I have to format it to use it, and it won't format it. I'll see if I can delete it via the old computer; it should be useable, its the device I used to load my stuff onto this current computer, after all. Bleeping Microsoft. World domination is what they're after, I tell you!
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We have a hard drive wrapped up in a clear plastic bag and labelled with 'bad' in the salad drawer of the fridge. I am assuming dh had a good reason for abandoning it there...!
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apple_muncher said:We have a hard drive wrapped up in a clear plastic bag and labelled with 'bad' in the salad drawer of the fridge. I am assuming dh had a good reason for abandoning it there...!I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soulRepaid mtge early (orig 11/25) 01/09 £124616 01/11 £89873 01/13 £52546 01/15 £12133 07/15 £NILNet sales 2024: £203
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Extreme time out for the hard drive there!DFW (08/08) £64,346.53 Gone (02/19)
MFW (08/08) £118k Gone (09/23)3 -
apple_muncher said:We have a hard drive wrapped up in a clear plastic bag and labelled with 'bad' in the salad drawer of the fridge. I am assuming dh had a good reason for abandoning it there...!
Save £12k in 2025 #2 I am at £4863.32 out of £6000 after May (81.05%)
OS Grocery Challenge in 2025 I am at £1286.68/£3000 or 42.89% of my annual spend so far
I also Reverse Meal Plan on that thread and grow much of our own premium price fruit and veg, joining in on the Grow your own thread
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I'm on the Joe Wicks Facebook group and there's someone in there who has a tortoise hibernating in the salad drawer of their fridge 😂😂
Excellent backing up work there KC! What a complete faff with Microsoft though, the demons. Hope you sort it out soon and can get back out in the garden 😊4 -
Cheery_Daff said:I'm on the Joe Wicks Facebook group and there's someone in there who has a tortoise hibernating in the salad drawer of their fridge 😂😂
Excellent backing up work there KC! What a complete faff with Microsoft though, the demons. Hope you sort it out soon and can get back out in the garden 😊Save £12k in 2025 #2 I am at £4863.32 out of £6000 after May (81.05%)
OS Grocery Challenge in 2025 I am at £1286.68/£3000 or 42.89% of my annual spend so far
I also Reverse Meal Plan on that thread and grow much of our own premium price fruit and veg, joining in on the Grow your own thread
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Who knew about salad drawers! Hard drives and tortoises! I love that too
I haven't done anything with the old computer/backup yet, but that's first on the list. Not that I have a list yet, just ideas
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Apparently, the hard drive is a bit broke, and refuses to work when warm. So I reckon dh will have just minutes to try to recover the data he wants before it warms up and has a strop or one of those adult tantrums we mentioned recently. Why is it still in the drawer? Because it just ain't high enough up the list to be dealt with. It's on the long-term naughty step!!
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Apple, I'm loving it! My old hard drive is still having a strop, unfortunately. I'm left wondering if the cable was damaged when it was lost for a couple of months recently? That's that, really. My sister will take it (and my *very* old laptop, the one before the one before) to a secure recycling firm - she has stuff that has to go, and so does my niece, so we can share one (probably fairly hefty, for the amount of stuff!) collection charge. Sorted. Soon, anyway
Sister's getting her vaccine today, so we'll be free and clear by mid-June, if it's legal to have a UK holiday by then. Unbelievable. I haven't let myself think about it, to be honest, but other things being equal (new variants, zombies etc) things are going to open up. Which makes it all the more important that I keep on catching up with all this admin and gardening, so that all my attention can focus on the totally hedonistic
I've done some tidying, I'm cooking chickpeas, onions and garlic as we speak, and now it's time to hop out into the garden.2023: the year I get to buy a car4
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