Well at long last I finally have my old computer with me in Worthing. It took me another two days to track down what I had done with my external modem. It was in a box somewhere. Then another afternoon putting it all together and getting it to work. But oh god, the whole computer is so creakingly slow -it is unbearable to use. It's literally giving me headaches it's so bad. Then it has it's own mad way of doing things such as if I boot up with the modem in -Windows claims I haven't a mouse connected to the computer. I've had the thing open checking it was connected properly. Which it is. The only solution seems to be to boot up and plug the modem in afterwards. Bizarre. The whole thing is in danger of being thrown out of the window. And to think I could have bought a fairly decent working 2nd hand one for £275 I saw at a computer fare in Hitchin at the weekend. Sigh. I don't seem to have much luck with computers overall. Actually no, I got on very well with my Amiga 600 HD -but it's been downhill ever since. I just have to concede my poor elderly joke of a computer just hasn't the memory, the speed or the hard disk space to run Windows properly. Let alone any actual programs. Whimper.

So here I am. My home. I'm a bit bored now, very lonely and sick to death of all this rain. If it wasn't for cable TV... I'd be in a very sorry state.