A VERY QUIET WEEKEND

The relentless pace of travelling has slowed down somewhat. Friday was a very quiet day which I spent either sleeping or working on my photos and blog. And then disaster! All of my photos are on a memory stick, and late on Friday there was a funny little "plunk" and the memory stick along with all its contents simply vanished. As well as photos, the stick contained all my accounts and password details as well as every photo I have taken here and I had deleted from my camera.

So Saturday saw me walking through suburban streets passed all sorts of districts and local markets, looking for a PC World shop to see if they could fix the stick. The walk was interesting enough. The markets were busy places with all sorts of people doing weekend shopping. I was in the Mile End Road and all around me were women in burquas and men in turbans and people shouting their wares in English and Hindi and Arabic and God knows what else. And more importantly everybody rubbing along cheerfully, side by side.

Eventually I found the PC place but they said they could do nothing because the USB wouldn't even load up.

Home again with a new 4GB stick. I realised that I could recover some photos from the recycle bin of Fritha's laptop. And then Anthony found a free download designed to recover deleted data from the camera card. So I have now saved every photo I have ever taken on this camera. Success!

Last night the three of us had a pleasant dinner at an Italian place near F& V's and got home after a few glasses of wine. The only downside was a tummy upset which hit me just before bedtime. I spent a slightly restless night alternating between bed and the loo.

It's Sunday and I am feeling much better. Today we might go down to Beckenham in Kent to see Fritha and Antony's new house. They haven't actually got it yet but the paperwork etc is under weigh. More later.