Awake and up all night

Thank you Gill (H). The Garibaldi is branded Sainsbury's. I'll be investigating the three stores but they are all about 7-12 miles away. My daughter shops in Lutterworth, I think, about 40 miles from me. I'll do my best to hang on for another year for the DPD hugs, provided they don't return them to you saying I was not in, they could not find my house and the address label was upside down. xxx  

Actually, I thought about using my laptop only an hour ago. This had all my editing software and other resources I subscribe to set up on it last week, so when I am in hospital for 5 weeks of radiotherapy I can still work. 

Interesting that looking at emails from when this was supposedly fixed last time (1st October), using an incognito version of the browser worked.

The platform is part of the client's website; I don't know if that is relevant.

I doubt I will sleep for a while and as for 'pestering me with questions', please feel free to continue if you are not too tired as I really appreciate your replies tonight. xxx

(Off to make s mug of decaff tea)

Ha! Love the DPD comments!

Good morning/night, hope you get to grips with the phone soon, I always struggle with a new one!

Shortly after I was diagnosed with bladder cancer in 2017, I was dealing with the evil symptoms which were lowering my haemoglobin to dangerous levels. I stooped over the loo to empty yet another bag of red wine and my phone slipped from my shirt breast pocket into the loo. Oh gosh, I thought, with different spelling. I was  unsteady on my feet but drove into Argos to buy a new phone of what I thought was the identical model. My wet one was totally dead. I arrived home to change the sim card from the old to the new phone, only to find that they'd gone micro sim. It was not identical! I sat down, completely deflated by the phone trip, the symptoms and the seemingly incompatible sim card. I drained and cleaned the old phone as best I could, put it in the airing cupboard and went to bed. Next day the old phone woke up and worked perfectly. I carried on using it for a further year but by then the battery was failing. My son bought a sim card cutter and chopped it down to micro size, popped it in the new, 1 year old phone. Amazingly it worked. The old, old phone still does sterling duty as an alarm provided I charge it on alternate days. I'm very careful when I bend over these days . xxx

Everyone's nightmare, dropping the phone in the loo. My phone is kept in a back pocket when I am up and about in case I need it in an emergency such as a fall. Bathroom trips always involve placing it somewhere safe first (usually on the lid of my laundry basket).

I didn't know you could cut a sim card and it still worked! I have heard of phones coming back to life after being soaked though, usually involving an airing cupboard and/or dried rice.

I hope the decaff tea is having a soothing effect. 

You mentioned clients in Italy. I have had a holiday or two in the top end of Italy when my parents were still around. Lake Garda was nice, as was the caravan site at the top end of the Adriatic. We visited Venice as well, all whilst dad was based in Germany, making such trips a bit less time consuming because no ferry time to add. When I was at work (I retired in 2008), I did attend a conference in Sardinia. Fascinating Roman ruins there. Unfortunately I was called away halfway  through the 3 day event by our dear? French potential clients who wanted a face to face discussion at their facility in Cannes, so we flew back via Rome. That's all I've seen of Rome: the airport. It was cloudy so the view coming in was largely obscured. During the resulting French stay, Phil Collins' mother was staying at the same hotel as us - he's the drummer from Genesis as well as having a solo career. We spoke to her a few times. She was a nice, straightforward person without airs and graces.  xxx

If you have managed to go to sleep, I'll quietly creep upstairs so as not to wake you. I'll listen to music for a few minutes in case you still want some company, then do my stair creaking to bed. xxx 

Happy Birthday Ray. Hope you have a lovely day!  xxx

Thank you Julie. How are you feeling now? Do you get disturbed every hour to have your vital stats measured - BP, temperature etc? The sun will soon be rising although today heavy rain is forecast so we are unlikely to see much sun. xxx