Disaster struck on Sunday evening when the other computer in the house developed some very nasty corruption and stopped working! Quelle horreur - a computer-less household. P did his damndest to get it working again but no luck, so yesterday I was ringing round to find someone to come and fix it. After a fair bit of trouble to find someone, this morning a very nice chap came from Basildon and spent over three hours reloading everything back on to the computer (not Finepix as yet though so no photos at the moment). He's not sure that the problem isn't linked to the hard-drive (which apparently only have a life of 3 - 5 years - and this computer is over 5 years old) but for the time being all is working again. He also had a look at my computer (which went 'bang' with a vengeance a few weeks ago) and found it was working fine. He thought that the problem might have been caused by, ahem, excessive dust in the works. Judging by the amount of dust in the back of the base unit I think he may have been right. Obviously need to up my cleaning and dusting regime a bit!! For all that time and effort he only charged us £25, which I thought was extremely cheap.
I went to the car boot sale again on Sunday as it was such lovely weather. I didn't get much but did come home with a lovely double duvet cover for £1.00, which when I examined it was a Designers Guild one and these seem to retail new for a lot of money. I was really pleased with that and also with the travel-size Body Shop shampoo and conditioner which I got for 20p each. My sister, DN and I are off to Legoland for a few days at the beginning of April so they will come in very useful then.
After the car boot, we called in at the farm shop which is just across the road. My goodness me that is a cheap place to shop. Amongst other things I came away with a bag of six Jaffa grapefruits for £1.00, two packs of organic biscuits for £1.00 (and very tasty they are too), a huge bottle of Shloer white grape and mango juice - £1.00, three Boursin cheeses - £1.00, and a luxury Christmas pudding for £1.00 (I thought it would make a nice pudding on Easter Sunday). The shop was packed, despite it being Mothering Sunday, but judging by the amazing prices I'm not surpried. I think I'll certainly be going there again.
Hopefully I'll be back tomorrow with a few photos too.
What great frugal finds! You have a talent there.
Hope the computer situation is solved relatively easily!
Posted by: Frugal Trenches | 03/24/2009 at 05:38 PM
Blimey, what a load of finds! Computers are such a pain in the bum aren't they. Let me know if any computer magazines will come in handy - my husband works for a publisher of them. They used to be my bread and butter, computer magazines!
Posted by: Catherine | 03/24/2009 at 07:42 PM
That was a cheap computer mend!!
Your farm shop sounds like a cheap one... most are expensive round here. LOL I had to laugh about the christmas pudding at easter comment- I've got one in the cupboard and was just thinking we can have that at easter when I've lost weight!
Posted by: sharie | 03/24/2009 at 08:52 PM
I've never heard of Mothering Sunday. How cute!
Posted by: Darling Petunia | 03/25/2009 at 01:16 AM
I too was amazed at the fee of £25 as he seemed to do a lot for you.
Your farmshop sounds absolutely wonderful, bet you'll be calling in again after the next Boot.
Posted by: Wendy | 03/26/2009 at 12:09 AM