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Hello, Elle!
I am afraid I have no advice to give regarding your computer.
Just a bit too complicated for me.
One reason I got this Chromebook is that they are so much simpler to use (for me) than a conventional machine.
And much quicker....and cheaper.
But, that is just me, others may use their computers for many other uses.
I have an idea that the rangers at Loch Garten thought that Odin may have been killed by another male osprey.
They may have seen intruders in the locality.
But I do not know.
It is not unusual for golden eagles to be killed up here.
Often poisoned if they go near grouse moors.
Anyway this is EJ's 15th breeding season, they say, so she has done very well!

Hello, Elle!
My memory is not too bad.
I'll reward myself with a sticky bun!
https://www.scotsman.com/news/famous-osprey-killed-by-a-rival-fear-wildlife-experts-1-4459657

Hi, Rusty!
I shall just have to battle on (when technology permits me to do so) until my daughter can take a look .
I find my desk top generally easier to manage than I do my Hudl, though?
You remembered well about Odin......
Well done!
(I'll have a sticky bun, too, please!)
I hadn't realised that EJ has been producing chicks for fifteen seasons.....
Wow!
That reminds me of a memorial bench we have in one of our parks..........to a mother of thirteen children.........!
Did you do the crossword today? I thought it a good one?
One I couldn't do , though........
14d: Upstanding character, anti-beer, corrupted? (9)
I?E?R?A?E
And two I couldn't parse?
17d; diorama
20d: endless
The answers fit.... but I couldn't see why?

I don't think that I would describe your character as "upstanding" elle, - lying down seems more likely!

Hello, Elle!
There is something you can do to your computer but I can not remember how to do it.
You go back to a date when it was working perfectly.
Say, last week.
But I forget how to go about it.
The upstanding chacharacter, Elle, is the letter "i", with "anti-beer" giving "inebriate".
I'll have to go and find the clues to the other ones as I've forgotten, though I do remember being puzzled by "endless".
Back in a tick!

Actually, I don't see how it works - compiler error?

Where's the definition though, rusty?

Hello, Elle,
I'm back!
"Diorama".
The moon is "Io", inside play/"drama"
Io often crops up in puzzles.
The other one is puzzling me.
"Endless"
I think it is "misery" without the "y".
But I am not sure at all on that one.
I shall give best to setter!

Hello, Elle!
The computer thing I was telling you about is called "System Restore".
Type that into your computer and follow the instructions.
As I remember, it was quite straightforward.
But, you may be happier awaiting your daughter to fix whatever is it?

Hi, Rusty!
Ah, yes, "System Restore"........
Yes, that oftens works......and I do know how to do it....
I just hadn't thought about it in this instance, as this computer problem has been rearing its head for quite a while.....
But yes, thank you ...I shall give it a go....... going back a week might just lessen the problem, if not annihilate it!
Now I'm sorry I didn't include the clues...I was just being lazy, as I thought you would have your paper.
Re 17d: I don't understand the moon is "Io"?
I can see "drama".
I can vaguely see 20d, the way you have explained it....
Odd though - a clumsy clue , don't you think?
I'm being dim here but still don't get 14d... why is "i" an upstanding character?
Aren't all characters ( I'm assuming the setter means letters) regarded as upstanding?
And what is the definition here?
Sorry to be such a dimwit!




Hello, Chris!
I like the joke.......