Back in the swing

Back in the swing today with a game of golf. Although there are loads of lovely golf courses in Portugal we didn’t play, as you need a new mortgage to be able to meet the green fees.

Lovely weather today, warm, sunny and spring-like. Pity the golf didn’t match, but never mind, it’s early days yet. I haven’t played since Christmas, so it’s good to start again.

Meanwhile, a young man came to sort out Ed’s computer. His runs on Windows (mine is Linux), so when our daughter came over yesterday with a CD Rom to enable me to synchronise my mobile phone with my computer, I was thrilled. Problem was, the programme wouldn’t run on Linux and I don’t have the experience to make it work, so I borrowed Ed’s computer. The programme loaded OK and I was able to download all the photos from my phone, although I didn’t manage to synchronise my calendars, which what I really wanted to do.

Later in the evening, Ed booted up his computer – or tried to. Windows started to load, then went to a black screen. Whatever we tried – no results. So feeling somewhat guilty, I rang this guy to come and sort it out this morning.

When I got back from golf I fully expected to see Ed tapping away, but no. The guy couldn’t do anything either, and has taken the laptop away with him to see if he can do anything at home with a diagnostics programme.

Computers – I love them and I hate them in roughly equal measure. At the moment it’s hate…