View from the Potting Shed

Jane returned to work yesterday for a few hours, then returned home exhausted and slept. Today she did almost a full day, and although tired isn’t as tired.
Tomorrow Jane travels to Glasgow to matriculate at Glasgow Caledonian University on a business course. *whispers* I’m not exactly sure what course it is.

Seven years ago today Jane and I started going out. And I love her more now than I even thought possible then.

Jane and I are just back from the engagement cèilidh and service of blessing for her cousin, Douglas Gilmour and his fiancée Rachel Dowsett.
What was lovely was that their act of blessing, carried out with gentle humour and kindness by brother-in-law (and minister) Paul Beautyman, was right there in the middle of the cèilidh. […]

One of the things that annoys me about MSN Messenger is its flashing adverts at the foot of the main Messenger window. The excellent Messenger Plus! used to be able to remove these until Microsoft got wise to it and changed the way that they appear in the window — they are now ‘hardwired’ […]

Most of today has been spent reinstalling Windows XP, hardware drivers and software.
I wasn’t overly worried about the Install partition going, as I’ve got much of what I had in other places … like on DVDs and CDs in various friends’ houses around the country! (Thanks to those who have offered to send them […]

I got my hard drive back today … and my initial fears were founded: I’ve lost everything. I lost my two key partitions: My Documents and Install. I feel empty, sad and angry at myself for not backing these up.
I now have the long, lonely task of trying to start again. First […]

Richard from PC Support Services (Scotland) telephoned me a few minutes ago to give me the good news that he has recovered my data.
He was able to recover all the partitions apart from I: (Install) and H: (Backup), however he was able to retrieve the data from those partitions.
I should get my hard drive back […]