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Folks,

Sorry the fishing not as good on your side of the Atlantic, or is it called the Sea of Wales there? I personally had no trouble with Win 10 although I launched the installation prematurely by accident. he only difficulty I had with it was a few games that I could not coax it to run. Most did. You should do fine with it. I am back to Win 7 on this little notebook.

The game server was down you say. Well, that explains why you were available again. That is odd for the server to be down for weeks without explanation. Perhaps they were struck down by hackers or forgot to pay the electric bill? If the service isn't free I'd demand an explanation. This may also explain the radical change in your appearance manifested by your lovely new avatar. With more time on your hands you could finally squeeze in that metamorphic operation.

My own avatar has me looking quite different as well. Slightly younger, I mean. .

Do you recall that rather friendly nurse practitioner by the rather descriptive name of Winsey Doo? She used to help out old doc Ben Dover make house calls. He couldn't drive after that unfortunate accident. The one involving the horse drawn milk wagon and the local Vicar's outhouse. I'd say that if Winsey were a fried egg she'd be charitably be described as "over easy".

She had married early. Her husband was a respected naval officer with great promise. He put his wife through nursing school then got himself killed just before hostilities began. He fell off his ship into an Admiral's barge. Even though he landed on his bum, the small dud shell he was carrying at the time proved not to be such a dud after all. Though she loved her husband and was pregnant at the time, when she received the terrible news, Winsey took it all in stride. Within the hour she was seen walking down the high street in Studley Grange on the arm of Lieutenant (pronounced Leftenant*) Randi Kidde. A fortnight later they were quietly wed in a civil ceremony. Yes, sharp tongues did wag.

To say Winsey Doo was prolific would be like saying rabbits are mildly productive. That girl churned out a newborn once a year, more or less, until she was the mother of 12 from age newborn to age 11. It got to be so normal to be expecting that if someone should greet her on the street "Hello, Weinsey Doo." She would automatically answer something like " a week from Tuesday."

* Over time the word "locum" evolved into the French word "lieu", which is pronounced in French as it is spelled. It is possible that when the English heard the French pronounce the compound word "lieutenant" they perceive a slurring which they heard as a "v" of "f" sound between the first and second syllables. Or maybe not. What do I know about why the English do anything? I can't even figure out why I do what I do.