Ok so the laptop problem is a pain the neck, it freezes on the splash (startup) screen, it has done it for a long while now but it is intermittent. I phoned a 'specialist' laptop repairer a while back and his soloution was " if it's over five years old, throw it away and buy a new one" Well I don't happen to like that idea, my workaround discovered after many hours of googling and experimenting is a long winded affair that usually works, eventually.
Skip if you are bored already!
1: Remove battery and power cable
2: Hold power button down for 30 secs
3: Remove back panel and disconnect hard drive
4: Hold power button down for 30 seconds:
5: Plug in power cable and reboot
6: Ignore message that says 'hard drive not found' power down, remove power cable
7: Hold power button down for 30 secs
8: Refit hard drive
9: Hold power button down for 30 secs
10: Reconnect power cable and reboot
11: Pray to the laptop gods
12: If successful refit back panel
If it doesn't restart curse a few times then repeat all the above, this time using the 'recovery' key to enter Bios and reset all defaults, then pray again, it usually works by now!
And back to the blog!
So last night I poured a glass of wine instead of doing any of the above and used the tablet instead, but I have no way of getting images from my camera onto the tablet, isn't life wonderful :-)
So..... this morning I put a second undercoat on the doors to the wardrobe and glossed one of them, not enough room to gloss them both!
Just so this post has some pictures here's as far as I've got, yippee clothes are back hanging up !
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| Empty but all painted inside. The pipes are the hot and cold to the shower mixer and the waste pump is in the brown box on the floor. |
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| Door-less for now |
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