Michelle Styles:

My normal computer is out of action for a little while. The fan went. It overheated and now there is a problem with the monitor staying on. A trip to the computer store got me the new fan. Only the same thing happened with the monitor when I returned home. SIGH. It is NOT just the fan.
Everything is backed up on the media drive -- auto back up EXCEPT do I know where the cable is to connect to this computer?
Luckily, I have been able to get hold of the full I sent my editor last week, so there are no worries there. Simple expeditent of forwarding my email to my editor back to myself and downloading that. My daughter will be able to access her history essay in the same fashion. To the children's relief I have finally caved and put Windows Office on the Acer.
I have several critiques to do. They were half done when disaster struck but I will get to them. I can access the bits that were sent! 
It will be good to get the thing sorted.

After a hellish journey up from London on Friday (stuck a row behind a stag night group who had definitely been hitting the booze early), I arrived home to find my computer in the death throes. I managed to transfer most of my files on to portable hard drives. Then my eldest and I purchased a new computer.Absolutely fine, UNTIL I discovered that my old router did not work with the AOL system. A huge pain. I finally convinced AOL to send out a new one and they have done so.

Thus, it will be back to normal service.
In the meantime,I have been revising the Viking, the paineters have arrived to paint among other things my study and things are just happening.