In more ways than one, dear Reader.
SHE had booked herself a lesson at Apple with her iPad this evening, so SHE gave me MY high-tea and went to the Apple Store in Covent Garden. Having left in plenty of time, SHE got there, found herself a seat, set up iPad and along came 2 instructors at 7pm.
They taught HER how to do things and then SHE said "this is a really silly thing but MY whoosh has gone missing".. The machine no longer goes whoosh when I send an email", they went into settings and checked it was there, they turned the sound up and asked her to send an email. HER WHOOSH didn't WHOOSH.
So the senior instructor went into Cloud and said "ok, I am going to back everything up onto Cloud and restore your iPad. He did this and it failed.. Dear Reader, oh dear, oh dearie me. One very embarrassed Senior Apple Instructor with a MAJOR systems failure on his hands.
Off they went to Genius Bar and came back after 10 minutes with very apologetic faces saying "we are very, very sorry but there is a major fault in this iPad and we are going to give you a new one. Please book yourself into the Genius Bar as soon as you can and then we will give you a brand new machine and set it up for you and test it to make sure that Cloud is backing everything up". So do not fret Dear Reader, there will be no break in YOUR Daily Read of MY Blog.
All HER photos have disappeared, that flipping Cloud just gobbled them all'up. Luckily for Apple, the majority of the photos came off the big Canon Camera, and that, SHE is praying, still has all of her photos still on the Memory Chip. But others, well, have gone into thin air, as it were.
"Type about HAPPIER things", I shout to HER.. Like Debi coming to staying on Thursday.. WE haven't seen Miz Debi in oh, such a long time, it really is for ages, in fact, it must be nearly 30 months.
Such a lot has happened to Debi and Yowie Cat and Little Miss in this time, that I don't really know where to start. They used to live in a charming cobbled street in Deptford - where Peter The Great learnt the trade of Ship Building - and we used to see Debi whenever WE went to a workshop there.
After doing whatever had to done or discussed at the workshop, WE would go and find Debi and then eat delicious yumyum in one of the market restaurants, then MY two Gurls used to go to an excellent woman who would take whisk their whiskers away. Occasionally, they would jaunt even further afield to Lewisham or Catford, where there is an amazing Nursery Garden called Phoebe's, this was where SHE found wonderful Espaliered White Cherry trees for a fraction of the price quoted by HER usual fruit tree suppliers.
Debi's mother in law became very ill and Debi moved up to Sheffield to take care of her. Then mother in law died and Debi and her husband decided to stay up to Sheffield. Things went very wrong, Debi's husband died nearly a year ago and now Debi, who is an American, is selling the house in Yorkshire and moving back to America, where she has three sons, several grandchildren, a brother and his family and a lot of friends.
With the proceeds of the sale of the house here in England, she will be able to buy a place for herself to live in, another place to rent out for income plus some land for chickens, goats and pigs. It all makes very good sense.. Except WE will miss her, knowing that she is no longer just a train ride away will be very sad.. "Write of MORE happier things", I yell at her.
More Happier things.. Well, OUR local Butcher, Dickensons, in The North End Road has delicious meat because they are proper butchers. None of that disgusting pre-packed stuff is sold here. SHE has been going to this butcher since 1967, yes Dear Reader, the same year SHE came to live in London.
Wonderful, properly prepared meat. Hung for the right length of time. Great free range eggs and lovely, lovely staff. There is always a queue in which there are always every nationality waiting to be served and the service IS first rate. The prices are reasonable, what more could or would you ask for? Debi let slip that she loves Calves Liver.. Yumyum, so do WE, so SHE will get some for when Debi's here. I can taste it now. Oh, lick my beak time, for it is so good.
Tomorrow being Tuesday, SHE goes to the Studio, Wizard has said he will be there to fix some taps and that he is bringing back Acer who almost died last year, Wizard found that a board had burnt out, he's fitted a new one and so SHE is taking the desktop to be mended as well because it won't download iTunes or behave properly, so Wizard is going to have a look at Compac PLUS, the very, very norty, Miss Sony Vaio who just stopped one day.. She went black and never restarted, Miss Sony Vaio had been fine the day before... Very curious folk Japanese.
Lots of work for Wizard...
So.. We are going to bed now, it has been an the-top-too-over-exciting day. She'll tell you about the broken valve and gushing water tomorrow but now SHE is very tired so it is time for ME to stop and for US to wish YOU all a very "goodnight". Most of you will read this when you wake up in the morning but please know that WE wish you happy dreams and for many Angels to watch over you when YOU do go to sleep.
GeeGee Parrot.
January 16th, 2012.
I have been having 1 to 1 MacBook Pro instruction this last year. I find that when one gets beyond the usual, like special accents or music stuff, it's not so easy for the instructor. As you've noticed I haven't posted any photos. Sometimes I notice that something does get lost somewhere in doggie heaven. We'd never know what in the world happened to it. Nevertheless, these machines allow us to do things unthinkable before...
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