IN BRIEF

19.01.09

Phoned oil company to sort out the bill. Invoice didn't show the credit that was owed to us. (It's a long story)

Jewellery Class in the afternoon was extra large including the Thursday students. Very busy but just enough helpers. Made wire coils and threaded them on organza to form a necklace.

20.01.09

Piano lesson in the morning

Card Making, Alfreton -covered the basics of Rubber Stamping and made a pop-up card. Went down very well.

Two piano lessons.

21.01.09

Not a particularly memorable day, except having left the computer for a while in the middle of working on the website, I returned to find it had developed a fault. Attached the the cursor was a block of small lines which alternated from horizontal to vertical depending what you were doing. These lines also 'shadowed' all the icons on the left hand side of the screen. Worst of all was when you pressed Apple & F and then the whole page was covered with a grey haze. Tried all the basics like restarting the computer,  but all the lines returned immediately it was switched on.

22.01.09

Asked Graham about the computer when he rang in the morning. He said it sounds serious and has advised I ask Lucy to check prices for a new one ... gulp...

On a lighter note, I received an email from an assistant producer of Blue Peter - Could I find them someone to go on the show to demonstrate knitting to children? After some consultation, a couple of names were recommended, the person contacted and the rest we'll have to wait and see...

23.01.09

Off to teach Crafts this morning, but with only one student and two helpers (makes a change) it's obvious that we have to call it 'a day'. I try not to think about the consequences. I've been teaching this class for the last 7 (?) years and we've always managed to scrap through before. So now I'm down £100 a week, £400 a month. On the upside I should have at least 16 hours a week of my life back...

Phoned Gordon Harwood's to ask advice about the fault on the computer. Apparently it's in the logic board (?), would take five days to mend and cost at least £200...

At 9.30pm, we (Lucy and I) made the decision to phone up and order the new computer. Apple have offices throughout the world so you can order 24 hours a day. Lucy did the ordering and spoke to someone in America where it was only half past 4...