Horrendous doings at Flat 1

Horrific is the word. Immediately after I got back, and I was getting the things ready for Ramster I needed to print out the items I was going to take found instead my HP printer refused to do anything, it just sat there, connected to the power and to the Mesh. But it kept telling cheerfully that it was not connected. I felt in a kicking mood pretty soon after. My good friend June, my guru came over on Saturday and even she couldn't get it to work, and if she can't - well there is no hope. We literally tried everything. And meanwhile I was unable to get onto AOL, there I kept getting the message that AOL needed to download some files, and that I would then have to restart the PC. This I did several times and each time I got the same message. It wasn't AOL as John downstairs had no such problem, and neither did I on 'the old faithful' my Mesh from 5 years ago. We also found I was unable to burn any CDs and several weird and wonderful message kept appearing. Finally we decided I had better contact Mesh as I have a 2 year warranty on site. At first they told us to disconnect the power to the hardrive, and this meant going inside the PC. June very bravely did this, but nothing happend so the Mesh people decided an engineer's visit was the answer. I was called fairly soon after to tell me that he would come on Thursday. This meant staying at home close by the Mesh all day, and ..............................

to cut a long tale short he didn't come. They had assured me that the engineers will take as long as it takes although the working hours are from 9 - 6pm. Mike and Rita came for a visit and as my kitchen was out of commission(more about this later) we had to go out to eat. We left the house at 19.30 as he still had not come. Bummer.

Next day however I was told he would definitely arrive, and he did at 12 pm, John just was taking the Jellies out for a walk and June was on her way here. He worked for nearly an hour and half, finally decided to put in a new motherboard only to find that the brand new one (we watched him unpack it from its cardboard box and plastic cover) didn't work at all and as he put it was D.O.A. All that time wasted, as he will have to come back again with yet another one. He thought possibly by Friday, but as I haven't heard yet I rather doubt it. We will see.

The Jellies are barking for their supper, so must go. To be continued........