I had a very deprived childhood - none of these

WRONG - Mr Spider - that was done some 3 years back and everything was worked round our beautiful bath with its black Vitrolite [ I think ] panel of fishes swimming .

Major work is now DONE - the next job is simple maintenance - my front porch needs its wood treating - and that will happen in about 2 weeks time

I love the Tamron - it was Mike's

He can show you shots taken with it - mince are not a patch on his

Try under the floor

Unlocker - I run 2 MacBook Pros - both are 13ins ones bought at the end of last year .

Both have Desktop external Drives and I back up to each of them using both SuperDuper and Time Machine using Fire Wire 800 . The machines are not yet synced to each other but are almost identical

I have one 320GB portable external - which is dedicated to one of my MBPs and I back up to that using SuperDuper and TM and that comes on holiday with me. [ firewire 800]

I have this other external USB Hard drive , at present with my Aperture Trial Library - and this will be wiped once I have Aperture set up on both MBPs

I do have PSE 6 set up on one of the MBPs but I never got to grips with it - couldn't work out where it was storing my pics so I decided to go to Aperture

That extractor was very good in the old kitchen - somehow , despite being newly serviced, it's he..... noisy - one of the fan blades must be catching on something - will have to be investigated and sorted / replaced - John is coming back to trace 1 underfloor cable which has got us totally featherlegged as it just seems to vanish

The unit over the cooker is good - light is surprisingly effective and the fans are 3 speed but again the motor is rather noisy but they did work well while I was making stews , mince and chicken casseroles [ 2 of ] the other day .

Glad you like the azulejos It's a very early pic of our town's main street which we found in a book and it was scanned and given to the artist in Portugal . The result is what you saw

Thanks John - I was fooled by his bumping the last time hence my comment

Hmmm - how big a skip will you need for that Gwyn ?

I'm a bit in that stage of trying to tidy things up too - I'm moving to Aperture 3.xx and will really need to sort things out . While in Belgium in August I bought a 500GB external which will just be used for photos and since then I've acquired a 1TB desktop External as a general back up disk .

I've still to decide how I'm running Aperture - will the Library be on my Hard Drive or will it be permanently external ?? Decisions , decisions .

Sorry about that HG

The original kitchen dated back to 1957 [ when the house was built ] and had never really been finished properly , just altered from time to time , nothing matched and it was just a jumble of cupboards etc .. Apparently there was originally a table in there too , round which they all sat and ate - and I can't imagine HOW you got a table for 4 in there and cooking stuff as well . The original sink was where my cooker now is - where the cooker was I have no idea .

All pipes are lagged - and they are actually all on internal walls

Ceiling now has 6 ins of insulation - which it didn't before

The whole kitchen was rewired and the fridge freezer comes off its own circuit , not the kitchen one. Oh we also had to re-route all the water and waste pipes [ another horror from the past ] AND we had to bring gas into the kitchen for the very first time. I had had an elderly part Halogen hob and the Microwave/combination Convection oven for the 10+ years I'd been in the house

You really don't want to know the horrors we found once the walls etc were stripped , we were horrified and I was sooooooo thankful that nothing had actually gone wrong in past years.

I was very thankful that my precious azulejos was saved - yes it IS Portugese and was made for us .