The current state of play.

I left you, this morning, with news that my external hard drive had failed me, and you will recall that I was almost blase about the whole thing.

I left it for an hour; then tried it again. Still no joy. I have taken it to PC World, and the best tey could do was to firstly agree that it had broken, and offer me the option of having the data retrieved, with no guarantee of success, for the cost of £100 and the time of a week to ten days. This is time I don't have and money I am loath to spend.

So I have the taken the only recourse of action left open to me. I have copied all of my pre-Easter work to my data stick, and I am to start re-drawing all of my work and saving it to my computer hard drive.

I anticipate starting just as soon as I finish this; I have my printed drawings, a scale rule, a calculator and tea bags by my side.

And so, onward ho.