Sunday 11th May
Again a very busy weekend, we never seem to have a quiet one. Yesterday I woke and disaster had struck. I had returned from Walton late on Friday and plugged my laptop in as usual. At 7.30 on Saturday the laptop was switched off; sometimes this happens, it just closes down on its own. I tried to restart and it simply gave me a message “Critical low battery level” and a flasing orange light and then it shut down again. And again when I tried again. I was sure I had plugged the cable in correctly and tried it in a different socket. Not a glimmer.
Later I took it back to the shop in Tottenham Court Road, and it was the wretched cable, which was faulty, had run down the battery and therefore the machine had closed down. With a new cable it started to work, and they charged the battery up in the shop. So not too much of a problem after all and no data was lost.
This did not stop us doing a few chores including re-turfing part of the lawn. A 60th birthday party in the evening, and on Sunday we had a bit of a spring clean and are out to dinner tonight. I may go in to work on Monday for a rest.