A small visitor

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Date: 11 May 2008 17:54:39

On sitting down at my computer just now, I felt something sort of tickling up my left sleeve. I put my hand up there to take it out, and it turned out to be a ladybird, which I then had to painstakingly take to the window to release it. I'm not very good at handling small crawly things not because they scare me, but because I dread finding myself left with a leg or a wing in my hand. However I managed to womanhandle it across the room, dropping it a couple of times, and eventually get it to the fresh air which it availed itself of by flying away. Sweet.

By the way I am typing this on my brand new very flash silver iMac keyboard, which has replaced the one I spilt tea into. Meanwhile my mother has my old black keyboard along with the Graphite iMac that goes with it, which is my old machine. We took it round to her yesterday as a delayed 93rd birthday present (her birthday was last Wednesday) . She was really excited and got the hang of the internet and email fairly quickly, under the expert direction of her grandson. Unfortunately the cheap dial-up connection we got for her ceased to function the second time we switched it on, so now we will have to think about getting her broadband. She really wants to email friends in Austria and America. I am so impressed with her enterprise.

While on the subject of changes of technology, I am still driving the courtesy car (Nissan Note) which I picked up last Tuesday, as the garage hasn't yet finished doing cosmetic surgery on my Punto. The Nissan is a really smooth drive but feels a bit like a truck to me as it's very high up and longer than the Punto. I am quite proud of myself for adapting to it.