The Christmas decorations are up!
No, don’t worry, not in our flat. I mean in a street which I use on my way home from work.
They aren’t switched on but they are up.
And, talking of Christmas, I have still to do the cards. This weekend, is the plan.
At the moment, F is talking about doing a house-warming party around the middle of December – when he has decorated the flat! 
Bless him.
As an aside, I tried, on Monday evening, to get my computer to display films on the TV. We already have the HDMI cable punched through the wall and I had bought an adapter to attach to my MiniDisplay Port. So, it should have worked just by connecting. Although the picture was fine, the sound only came from the computer which, being in the next room, wasn’t really any good. After hunting around, I found that Macs built prior to 2010 didn’t have a proper HDMI slot and no audio was passed through.
Wednesday, I found an adapter that WAS supposed to do the job for Macs of the age of mine. Except that the company making them had stopped making them. However, I found one on Amazon and bought it. It’s “on its way” now. Should be here by Monday but I’m hoping Friday – then I can try it at the weekend!
In the process of trying to make the sound work on Monday, I found, on Tuesday night, that one of my programs wouldn’t work anymore. After hunting around a bit, I decided to re-install it. So that was that.
Except, on Wednesday night, I found that, as a result of my re-installation, Firefox wasn’t working properly and what-seemed-like-spam pages kept coming up. After much pratting around, I found the solution. Let’s hope that the new adapter I’m going to be getting doesn’t end up messing up other things on my computer. It’s not that I can’t fix it, it’s just that everything then takes so much longer.
It will be nice if we can watch films in the lounge, especially for Christmas!
Hi Andy – I learned a new word from you – “pratting”. I am going to use it and see if any one notices. Love it
I get very frustrated w/computer programs that require readjusting or whatever, to work properly. grrr. We just got new phones – “Android Vision2″, Good Lord – between the two of us most of what it can do is so hard for us to grasp. We just aren’t wired to understand the workings easily.
Happy carding this weekend. we will be doing the same
Love to you, and a mid-December house warming party sounds wonderful – what should we bring??
Love, Gail
peace…..
Hi Gail,
It’s a phrasal verb – to prat about – to do unimportant things or almost nothing or things for which there is no solution. I suspect it may not be a real verb
I usually only use my phone for speaking to someone and messaging – occasionally the Internet. I am fast becoming one of those “old” people who can’t get the hang of the new technology
Just bring yourselves, Gail. I can assure you that it’s enough
i would love to come to Milan –
It would be great to meet you both