All stop at Great Haywood..

Sun 16th, Mon 17th and today – Moored Great Haywood, Trent & Mersey Canal

Tim of Staffordshire Canopies measured up NP’s stern on Sunday, and by Monday the paper pattern was taking shape..

After a very long discussion on Sunday night, we decided to have the back cover a foot lower than originally planned.  This, we hope will enable us to be able to travel quite happily with it up under all the bridges, or at least most of them. The top of the canopy will be the same height as our chimney less it’s hat!

Yesterday we had a surprise visit from Paul Balmer on his way to a meeting further north.  It is always great to welcome Paul aboard, we never seem to stop chatting!!

Although we are moored at the moment, I have kept myself busy.  I have been doing some research on the internet, and found that Orange are giving a rather good deal out at the moment which, in fact, might suit other boaters who have an internet connection and a phone that will take an Orange sim card.

On their PAYG sim cards they are giving an ‘extra’..

 “get a day's unlimited browsing to Orange World for only �1.”

Orange World is for the internet.  All you need to do is phone 450 from an orange PAYG and choose the orange world extra.  The �1 is deducted there and then, and you can browse the internet downloading as much as you want until 11.59pm.  Now this actually works out to be the same price almost as the monthly price plan that I am on.. but the difference is that I have as much bandwidth per day as I want, and am not restricted to so many MB per month..

If anybody wants more detailed information, please leave a comment with your email addy.

Friend Keith up in Scotland has confirmed that the hard drive in the old computer has in fact broken.. but he has very kindly sent me another out of an old laptop that he has for spares for the ‘Computers for Africa’.  I would have received it today, but there has been a power failure in the Post Office at Stafford, so no mail was delivered to the local post office.  Hopefully I will get that in the morning.

In the mean time, the new computer has a fault would you believe!

The cd drive is broken.. it will accept a disc, but immediately ejects it.  I phoned Acer, the maker, and I had no fight.. straight away they said “New replacement computer”.. great.. except that I will have to wait till we get back to Tamworth, the nearest Comet.. plus… I will have to reinstall all my programs AGAIN!!