OK. That looks as if I’m fuming politely or have flipped but it’s the working characters I have on my laptop at the moment.\u00a0 No, the carriage return, a.k.a. “enter”, key doesn’t work, neither does the tab key.\u00a0 You can’t do much with that, the majority of my passwords can’t even be typed with that.<\/p>\n
“So how are you typing this?” any kindly readers persisting with this blog will be asking. Courtesy of a ten Euro USB keyboard bought in Auchan (one of the hypermarket chains in France) yesterday a.m.\u00a0 But it’s a French layout keyboard so I have to avoid looking at the keys and it too has some nasty habits so I’m not sure if the problems with the laptop are just with the keys or with the keyboard controller.<\/p>\n
How did it happen: completely my own fault. I was exhausted and not very happy with the campsite a couple of days back and finally settled down with a large glass of water and a coffee to catch up on Emails and the blog.\u00a0 In my tiredness I managed to knock 90% of the water over the laptop.\u00a0 I tried to dry it off quickly but should, I know, have switched it off immediately and dried it much more throughly.\u00a0 However, it seemed fine, I chose it partly as it was supposed to be near military in its robustness (an utterly implausible bit of advertising “puff” of course) and was also supposed to be student proof.\u00a0 Later it started misfiring as a typed and I realised I had a problem on my hands whihc I hoped would improve if I left it off and encouraged it to dry out.\u00a0 As it’s roasting heere I thought that would be easy but it travels pretty well wrapped up in waterproof panniers and it got worse over the first 24 hours and has only regained two keys in the last 48 hours.<\/p>\n
OK.\u00a0 I’m admitting defeat on trying to keep up with work (I had only managed to answer key Emails) and I think most of the site, e.g. maps, days, advice, will have to stay as a project for my return but I’ll see if I can bodge things here.<\/p>\n
I’m sure this is partly divine judgement on my rather defiant reply to Haroula’s recommendation of a smartphone.\u00a0 Oh, and that packed up completely for mobile data yesterday, not helping things as Iwas cycling pretty blind as as result. \u00a0 To be fair, when J and I had sorted out the fact that it’s registered in her name and got me in direct contact with Tesco, they fixed it in about five minutes. It still seems to be very capricious about uploading ‘photos by Dropbox, but that’s a different issue!<\/p>\n
OK.\u00a0 None of this is about life or death and I cycle on getting older, wiser (perhaps) and probably fitter, by the day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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