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Thanks Sue.
The little chicky died last night but I sorted out my big monitor yesterday - it was just the fuse in the plug adaptor!
Everything looks huge now. Instead of buying new glasses every so often I am just gonna get bigger and bigger monitors
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Poor bird.
I was wondering recently what we would do when the iMac packs in. It's doing fine but will inevitably give up the ghost one day. It has a big screen.
I'm the one who uses it.
I don't really want a PC with Windows. People seem to get so many problems.
This Mac has never been a nuisance since 2008.
Of course they cost so much.
So the only thing I think I might do is to buy a cheaper Mac Mini which has no screen with my keyboard and mouse and use the TV as a monitor. I'd just need an adaptor.
Of course I'd have to sit close up to the TV.
Well I hope that won't be soon.
In France we don't have fuses in our plugs. There's a fuse board in the basement.
We don't have switches at the wall plug holes either.
I much prefer the English way.
We have piles of extra bars of plug holes and course they have switches.
When the house was built in 1976 it was thought that just a handful was enough. They put three in the sitting room and one is just behind a central heating pipe!
For a while we could use it for a lamp with a small flat plug but now new plugs are too big to fit behind the pipe!
I have a clever husband who fixes every problem so there are extra cables everywhere.
Glasses are a pest. I've worn them since I was eleven. I hate them.
I recently found how to do Italics, underline and bold. Hi Hi!
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The thing with Windows is it gets targeted by virus creators and, if you are the type of person who wants the latest version, then you will always have problems.
I run version 7, mainly because it was already installed on this refurbed Dell, but they are all much the same.
The monitor I bought at Cash Converters, secondhand but still in the box at a very good price. When I got it home I discovered it had three round pins on the cable so put it on one of those adaptors we English carry when we go abroad. I hadn't even noticed it had a fuse duh! I was going to buy a new power adaptor which would have had to come from America and would have cost a lot in postage so was really pleased when changing the fuse worked.
For a few years the government banned doing electrical work yourself unless you were a qualified electrician but they seem to have gone back on that one. Our "Nanny state" is laughable, everything you buy here nowadays has a government health warning! I have put in quite a few spurs over the years but don't fiddle much nowadays.
I started wearing glasses in junior school 
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Me too, they discovered my myopia at school. I sat in front too.
The first free specks I had were like Hitler's!
I saw a Chinese doctor every six months who barely spoke a work to me. It was in a darkened room and rather scary.
Health warnings wouldn't bother me but it sounds as if they want to put the responsibility of accidents on each person instead of properly controlling what is sold.
Our first computer came second hand from a work colleague of my younger son. It still had his photos inside.
After a little while we bought a new Dell laptop with XP. I think it was on sale.
My husband still uses it. He's reinstalled about six times. Of course XP is no longer updated and he had a job recently finding virus protection.
Recently I tried to put Apophysis7X on it but it wouldn't go in!
It seems there are a few bugs that attack Macs but I've never had one. It was my son who suggested we bought a Mac in 2008. Normally it was for us both but in the end I use it alone. I feel spoiled!
I feel so pleased I pushed to get a computer. Our sons both work in IT and I wanted to keep in touch with that part of their lives. I mean wanted to be able to talk to them on a similar level.
We have friends our age that seem allergic to computers. Our neighbours, who are in their eighties, don't use theirs much at all. They don't know what they are missing.
I don't play games but I read the press and we can research any subject we like.
My husband has found considerable useful information for us and for others.
We have hundreds of photos while before we had stopped taking any.
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