Oh, dear. The tale of woe just goes on................
George has now got an infection in his ankle so has to go back to the hospital from the rehabilitation centre to have the infection flushed out. The hope is it has not attached itself to the metal pin in his ankle.
It does delay the fight at Chez Bealman as to who gets the one pair of crutches Anne and George have between them. I know who my money is on...........

In the UK, you get tested for MRSA before you can be admitted to hospital, and then they make sure you actually do have it when you get kicked out

My 7 year old Epson XP 452 printer gave up the ghost yesterday.

It's final words were :

"The printer's ink pad is at the end of its service life. Please contact Epson Support."

Is this Epson's way of saying "go buy a new printer" or can the ink pad be replaced ?

Thanks in advance.

Many moons ago when Opera did play up I used 'Firefox' as a back up browser. I use Opera for precisely the same reason as you do, Chris

Keep it quiet, boys and girls, but I think I've fixed it.

As a backup I copied all the bookmarks over to MS Edge, which is already installed on my laptop, then uninstalled Opera, ran Ccleaner again, reloaded the program and sshhhh! it seems to be working...

Edge would probably be OK if I had to use it but I much prefer the way Opera displays bookmarks as thumbnails rather than just a list which is why I'd like to persevere with it.

Cheers,

Chris

Wow, I've not used Opera since the last century - didn't think it was still going!

Try a different browser and port your favourites over.

Quote from: Papyrus on March 24, 2026, 04:51:14 PMOpera has recently started refusing to co-operate. I can usually open one website, but when I try and open a second it crashes. Then if I try and close the first one it sulks and refuses to do anything,

Maybe it thinks the outsize lady has sung 

Very nice Martin @port perran - love the tight horns! More your thing than Ozric Tentacles me thinks!! RIP Lucky P.

Tim

the small 2mm layout has been untouched for maybe 8 years the cat has taken to using it as bed

It's the storage needed for those items I keep buying to 'finish it off'. After 5 years I've run out of storage boxes