OI FAB ! DO PUT THE NUMBER ON PARCELS
OTHERWISE HOW CAN I TELL WHAT HAS ARRIVED AND WHAT HASN'T WHEN PEOPLE ASK, AND HOW CAN PEOPLE ANONYMOUSLY THANK THEIR DONOR IF THEY WANT TO
Ok so the latest installment in "nothing else can go wrong can it" (Never say that ever)
Finally got to scotland through some fairly interesting weather. We are in the borders in the middle of nowhere - not even any mobile signal etc.
They do have broadband, but will my little laptop connect to it? Go on, take a guess...
And the computer in the house is ancient so it won't recognise a USB stick, so I can't transfer all the matches onto the computer that is connected to the internet. (I had also forgotten the power lead for said laptop, just to throw in a bit of general incompetence on my part )
I have all these matches, and no way to send emails with the information in.
In the end, DH braved the valley roads and went and bought me a mobile pay as you go dongle thing, and a new power lead. Managed to get all the emails composed (5 am this morning) (using my new half-arsed ability at mail merge).
Do you spot the problem now?
Yep
It is a mobile dongle. There is no mobile signal
So I was planning to drive the 5 or 6 miles to the nearest place on the road that has mobile signal. But then it froze overnight. Then it snowed again.
So DH decided that the only thing to do was to trudge up the steep snowy hill carrying my laptop (a few hundred feet up), hold it up in the air, and hit send. (I let him go alone, I had decided that with my current record, if I had anything to do with it the laptop would end up in a 4 foot drift)
This post is already too long... more in a mo...