DON'T MENTION THE 'R' WORD

Yes, its me, I really am back after 11days and 12 hours of nail biting, hair tearing, misery, cut off from all my cyber friends, wondering what is happening out there. What happened? Well that's the strangest thing no one, not one techie or computer geek can tell me. I switched on my computer and had a message from Windows saying it could not open as it was protecting my files! At first I thought it was a repetition of last year, when it closed itself down as the fan was over heating, so I took it to my techie who thought the same. I was to return the next day and take the computer home, ready to use again. Phone call the next day, it was not the fan, the darned computer just wanted to protect my files! Eventually even my techie, who tried everything was totally baffled, he said he had never seen anything like it. So the hardrive had to be sent away and put in another computer to be mended then returned and the boards put in my computer. So back home it came to me today and here I am, hopefully, for a long time before anything else befalls it.

Strangely enough just before it crashed I had been reading that Mercury goes back into retrograde on 14th February, and you know what that means, yes computer, headaches, media headaches and various communication problems. As this time it is in retrograde with both Acquarius and Pisces, apparently the effects will be felt many days earlier, and guess who hit the first day right on the head, yes poor old me, so I warn you be extra careful and don't mention the 'R' word and prepare yourselves.



Well, what's been happening out there in cyberland, come on everyone get in touch with me and get me up to date on happenings. Things I must mention before I forget are, and I will post photos at a later stage, the following. Thank you Janet for the lovely ATC card that turned up in the post one morning, Maryellen for the two beautiful pieces of artwork she sent me, the sassy postcard from Violette, the wonderful spirit dolly from Robyn, who kept me calm in my computerless days and the wonderful socks and beautiful crocheted slippers from Tammy, they certainly keep my tootsies warm.

My Mother has moved into her sheltered accommodation and is already settling down there well, the neighbours are friendly and once she has recovered from the stress of the move I think she will be happy there, she already loves her flat. We go to take the final pieces out of her old flat and return the keys this weekend and then I shall slowly sort out my house, perhaps start some early Spring cleaning and sort out my new pieces of furniture etc. My days until now have been filled with sorting, packing, unpacking etc but now I shall enjoy going through all the old family belongings I have found. I have have got lots of interesting family records and old photographs that I cannot wait to go through at a leisurely pace, as I am now keeper of the family history and records.



One thing is that I have got lots of projects sorted out in my head and ready to do and am now pushing forward with things kept in abeyance such as Daisy Lupin Designs and the Virtual Art Gallery some of you know about. All I can say is watch this space for news over the next couple of weeks.

This is just a short posting to say here I am back, as I want to go round all my favourite blogs and catch up with a over a week's worth of posting, I will get round to you all bit by bit. Oh I am just so glad to be back.