Who knows - and truthfully who cares ?

This is where we all gossip and catch up with each other's doings ?

Beer and booze generally are normal topics .

Glad you are both safely home now Barrie - just take life quietly for the next wee while whilst you both recover from the anaesthetics [ can take a month for that ]

Since the weather's not nice - keep warm

Sorry about the various catastrophes - but you seem to have them more or less under control.

Finally been and gone and done it

All suggestions have been considered and cogitated upon . Even discussed it with the kids [ well the bride will want some photos I'll take printed I have no doubt ]

With a wee contribution from the kids I'm ordering up an HP Photosmart 6510 e All in One . Incredibly it's cheaper buying it directly from HP than anywhere else I've spotted. OK the boat has been pushed out a bit - but this machine should dae me all my time [ as my granny would have said ]

If I order it on Monday , I'll have it on Tuesday with free shipping too - taa HP

John - those was the first things I tried - I swapped the leads about from Deskjet to the PSC - deskjet worked [ apart from the nonsense with the paper feed ] so it proves that the problem with the PSC is in the machine not its connection. All gadgets like that are connected through surge protection blocks so I know if 'juice' is getting through.

Ideas needed please

2 printers have suddenly died on me - my own HP PSC 1410 - which got accidentally switched off the other day when I must have brushed my hand over the control panel - can't switch it on at all Tried the old unplug stunt - left it for over an hour - still can't kick it into life

Pulled out my husband's Deskjet 380 [ seems to be exactly the same as the PSC 1410 ] it's had no use for over 2 years now . It fired up no problem but paper feed is decidedly dodgy - and I'm using the paper we have always used - can't rely on it so count that as defunct . I will soon be doing a lot of back to back printing and a machine that prints one sheet dragging another with it , then spits out 4 blank sheets and tells me it has no paper[ when there's approx 100 in the tray ] is not what's wanted .

My needs :-

small in size,
able to print decently and quietly in black and/or colour ,
must have a photocopy facility ,
not worried about wireless printing [ never tried that but I doubt my ability to set it up ]
Has to be reliable and would prefer it to have reasonably large ink cartridges.
Has to work with Macs.
Do not want to pay a fortune for it - this has come up at exactly the wrong time - Road Fund tax , Daughter #2's wedding in 2 weeks , new hearing aids to be paid for .

Ideas please - have used Epson , HP and Pixmas in the past.

but think of the cheap high quality wine

Well the lady who had her triple bypass last Friday comes home this afternoon

We should be seeing Barrie back on next weekend with any degree of luck

Good Luck Barrie

I've been to see Isobel today - she was done last Friday and hopes to be out tomorrow .

She's looking remarkably well

Friend of mine had a Triple Bypass done today at the Golden Jubilee Hospital in Clydebank this morning.

Hopefully she will be able to come home next weekend .

She had been kept in hospital since her last little scare 2 weeks ago , and was transferred to Clydebank yesterday .

Hope you get your date soon Barrie.

I love the first one - those delicate colours, then you spot the three boats and the sharp contrast of the green and red , and then the reflections - fabulous .