[Delkaetre]

Just been on a stupidly long coach journey from London to Northern Ireland.
I have slept on about three half-hour occasion throughout the night. No actual sleep since waking at 9am Saturday (note, it is now 4pm Sunday). The coach broke down fifteen miles from Preston, leading to a rather extended wait at a rest stop while the mechanic was called. Some time later, late enough for us to miss our scheduled ferry connection, we were on the road again. We missed the 4.55am sailing by one hour, and had a four hour wait for the next one.
I will be wanting a refund, I think, after all this frelling delay.
On the other hand, I'm now at home, in a nice big double bed, typing away on the replacement laptop that arrived while I was in England. Admittedly the laptop has vista, but I'm going to wait and see how it plays out after a few people have assured me that it's effectively a ripoff of OSX.
I have installed Firefox, am pointedly ignoring Outlook and Internet Exploder, and have downloaded AVG. The machine is operable. I also have a new graphics tablet, which I shall install and test forthwith.