New Computer

I am typing this on my new laptop. After Ian spent the best part of a week taking a virus off my Dell, and with my high hopes of better performance, when I started using it again the power cable started to fail, and then the ‘t’ key fell off – and then the ‘y’ key stopped working. I decided that there was a message there, and decided to get a new one. I was going to get another Dell, however I had a problem ordering and they only offer customer service by telephone. I don’t like talking on the telephone at the best of times, and having to do it in Spanish is even worse, so I hung on and tried to get a response by email. While waiting I saw a good deal on a Sony, which is refurbished, but with a high spec – and pink. So I got that, bought it on Wednesday and it was delivered on Friday. So far, so good….

I didn’t really want to buy a new laptop just yet, but knew I would have to soon. I worked it out that I’ve probably written 1 million words on it. Something about monkeys and typewriters springs to mind.

We’ve decided that Wilbs is very clever. He likes to sit on the settee, something that was quite funny as I don’t know how he knew it was there to sit on – other than listening to Bentley faffing around as he spent a few days trying to work out how to sit on it (Bentley is a big dog with very little brains). When the settee gets full of dogs (we obviously sit on the floor), Wilbs can’t get on, so he has employed a rather clever strategy. He goes into the hall and starts barking, the others all run out to see what he is barking at, and while mayhem ensues, Wilbs comes back in and gets pride of place on the settee again.

Bentley is turning out to be a very nice dog, however I don’t think that brains will ever be his strong point. He is nowhere near as nervous as he was, which given that he was a quivering shaking mass when he first arrived, needn’t necessarily say a lot. One very funny thing is how he has bonded with Henry. They play together a lot, and Henry plays with him like he used to play with Basil. Happlily Bentley plays with Henry in a lot more gentle manner than he does with Rosie – as they are like two sumo wrestlers when they get together.