Joan's Morning.

As you may know by now  Friday is the day  I  have the morning to myself and i am supposed to get on with things but a certain  J-lander mentioned a addictive game last night  so i had to give it  a try this morning.  What a great game i got really hooked in the short trial  I downloaded ,was very disappointed when it cut me off.  I think I will have to  put it on my wish list as I have a wedding anniversary and a birthday  not to mention Christmas.  Have bought Luxor and Mahjong Quest from Ebay  great prices there but they do not have this game yet.  Well I better go and pretend I have been very busy Ha Ha. lol. by the way the game is called Hexalot have a look its great.  Love Joan.

Perth

   Congratulations To Perth

               Gold Medal Winners

                     Britain in Bloom.

 So glad to hear that Perth has won The Gold Medal again as they do such a wonderful job. The city has looked a real treat all summer long and it has been a joy to visit.  They were very late this year putting up thier hanging baskets but as the judging was not until nearly the end of August I now see why.  We were there today but all the flowerbeds were empty they must be getting ready to do winter pansies etc so we will have to wait for a few weeks to see what they have planned.  Sorry to hear that many of you out there in J-land are feeling under the weather hope you are all better soon. Will say goodnight now and Godbless.  Joan. 

Trip to the coast.

Good evening J-land, this entry should have been put in yesterday but we had not downloaded the software for my camera since we got the computer repaired so I will tell you about my trip now instead.  Yesterday was a bit windy up here so we thought a trip to the coast would be in order.  We don't live far from the coast so we are very lucky.  This is Kinghorn in the pictures which is a small town directly across the River Forth from Edinburgh.  It has this small harbour and is a very good place to go birdwatching not that there was very much there yesterday but it was lovely just sitting in the car watching the big waves.The picture  no 2 is of Inchkeith Island.  There are quite a few small islands in the Firth of Forth.  As we were driving to Kinghorn yesterday we saw the new car ferry which runs from Inverkeithing to Rotterdam and it was making heavy weather of the rough sea.  We did this crossing a few years ago but we had to go to Hull to pick up the ferry.  The other pictures we taken with Stuarts paintings in mind it will give him something to paint during the winter.  Today we have managed to get a 4 night break booked in Strathpeffer a lovely little village just north of Inverness, so I will get the camera busy.  The last time we were there the Autumn colours were spectacular so heres hoping they are like that this time.  I did not have my digi camera when we were  there last time  as I was given it as a long service award last year so am looking forward to having all these shot to take.   Well there is the usual queue for this pc so I will say goodnight and god bless. Joan.

Breakfast reading

Morning J-land, yesterday I was not very happy with the situation of the computer but I have decided its not all that bad although it holding me up as usual. Here I am with my morning coffee wet hair and not dressed the time is 9.20 and I've been sitting here reading journals its a good job I did not know about J-land when I was working or I would never have gone.  Thanks again for all the company you give me Love Joan.

Sunday Musings.

Good evening all, don't have much to share today as we had been a bit lazy.  We did venture out late this afternoon for a walk round our local park which happens to be on a Lochside so it is very beautiful with plenty of wildlife.  There is an old graveyard down there and some of the gravestones date back to 1650ish so we had a wee browse round there as well.  There is even wildlife in there as we saw a Grey Squirrel but as per usual I had forgotten my camera. The park was very busy with all the people out for walkies with there dogs. I have been looking around the game sites and ebay for a Mahjong game to buy as the one I was playing on Pogo is not working it will not give me a score or let me move up any more since the crash and I don't know how to fix it. Any ideas would be greatly received on how to fix it or which one to buy.   Its just about time for Corrie so i will close now wishing you goodnight and Godbless. Joan.

Lazy Saturday.

Good Afternoon J-land, glad to be back with you again have done a lot of reading and feel am just about caught up with all your news.  Don't know what happened to the computer to made it crash we were just deleting some programmes we were not using anymore when the whole thing jammed up and closed down never to return nomatter what we did.  Thats the first time I have seen this happening so it was most interesting.  the computer was giving us instructions to fix itself but this did not work. Monday morning bright and early the tower was taken by car to our computer repair shop.  We live in a small village with only a handful of shops but we do have one that fixes computers.  Kevin the computer man said dit would be ready on Wednesday or Thursday thats not long I hear you say oh its a long long time its not like the iron or the kettle we do not have a spare.  Tuesday we took ourselves off to St Andrews for the day to pass the time so that was OK.  Wednesday we did our weekly shop etc so that passed that day.  Thursday our beloved computer would be ready today oh no Thursday is half day in the village yes we still have early closing here so that ment that it would not be ready . Friday dawned today would be the day we thought. Stuart went off to his art class and i stood by the phone. Stuart arrived home still no news so he phone .......will phone you back in a while.  After a short wait the phone at last rang yes it was ready for collection YIPPEE  .I would not have believed just how much i   I would have missed our computer but we have been really lost without it and are very glad to have it back.  It is a new position for the time being as we are going to decorate the spare room where it normally is so we thought it would be as well to keep it down here with it all being unpluged and everything the only thing is the telly is in here too and I find it a bit difficult to consentrate,but I will manage for a while till we get sorted out upstairs.  Not been out much today as Stuart is not at his best and is very tired so will say bye for now and hope you have a great weekend. Love to all Joan.

Technical Mishap

Hello everybody, due to tchnical problems (PC crashing) have been unable to communicate with you since last Sunday.  Just got our PC back just now and have had to reload everything including our AOL Broadband connection but we are up and running again thank goodness. What a long week it has been I've been really fedup and lost for something to do.  I did not realised I used the PC quite so much.  Have got a lot of catching up to do and a lot of reading even I had 43 alerts and emails.  Will get back to you soon.  Missed you all Love Joan.