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Hi, Rusty!
That is a very good idea to take "Which" on a temporary trial basis, if you only need it spasmodically when researching a particular item.
I wasn't aware that you could do that?
But isn't it typical that once you decide to do something - like replacing the Hudl with an ipad - the Hudl now decides to work well?
Sod's Law!
Could you have been overloading/ overworking the Hudl, do you think? if it is now working once you "cleared the decks" of extraneous browsers , launchers etc....?
Could it have been blinded (confused) by "Science" so to speak?
I'm probably talking utter rubbish here - I haven't really a clue what I'm talking about!
Fingers crossed that the improvement lasts anyway!
Adblock works great on mine!
Yes, Lent begins tomorrow and ends on Thursday March 24th.
Easter is early this year!

Pigale, just a word of caution .......as I understand it here, tattooing will not be considered 'legal'- microchipping must be done too (or instead) as from April.
Not affecting cats yet but may do soon?

Hello, Elle!
I think this is the third £1 trial I have had with Which.
You can accesss everything on the website and they send you magazines. After a month, unless you tell them otherwise, they start taking money from your bank for membership.
Previously I have told them to cancel after three weeks.
Great value for a £1!
I do feel a bit of a chancer doing this though, as if I was taking advantage of Which, but it is their idea, so...
I think you are correct, Elle, regarding "clearing the decks".
Everything extra in Hudl is gone!
I had several browsers and launchers.
Only thing I had to do extra, was "configure" WiFi settings to "recognise" Adblock. But that was easy enough.
All good, so far!

Elle, Surely the Vet would have advised me, wouldn't you think?

Otherwise, I might raise my voice as you did yesterday about Hotpoint !!! But no, she did say it was either/or .

Pigale, I really don't know?
I only know that as from this April, tattooing is no longer considered legal tender for dogs - they must be microchipped.
Our vet has said that he expects the same to happen here for cats in the near future. But this is not the Law as yet.
I only mentioned it as I thought if there were a possibility that such might happen, it would save you more money in the long run, if you had your kits microchipped now?
Not wishing to alarm you but worth checking out ?
And could it be different here than in France? - or is this something that happens legally across the board?

Hi, Rusty!
It is good that your Hudl is now behaving itself! the only hiccough I get with mine is this continual "Server Error" that kicks in....it does happen fairly frequently, but I never have to take any action...if I wait a few minutes - sometimes annoyingly up to five - then it works normally again.
I keep meaning to run this by my daughter - either one - maybe the elder as she will be staying here for several days as from Tuesday next week.
If I hit on a solution, I will tell you!
I don't know what you mean by "configuring WiFi settings" for Adblock? I just installed Adblock on mine without doing anything?
Works fine!

Our weather has "blossomed" - the sun is shining, the sky is blue......the dog is ready and waiting.......
Off out now for a short walk...... back in a while!

Good afternoon, Elle!
The Tesco Helpline would sort you out with your "server error", if it was a problem? A phone call should do it.
Or, try a "soft" reset, yourself?
They fixed my BTmail problem by dumping BTmail and installing myMail which is much better than BTmail and their archaic system.
When I downloaded Adblockplus yesterday, it installed it, then told me it cannot "configure" wifi settings and would I please do it instead, or similar. So, me being an obliging chap, I followed Adblock's instructions and had to type "localhost" and port "2030" (I think!) into wifi settings and that was that.
Still great weather here.
The Lord is shining upon us!

Hello, Pigale!
Did you get the kittens home yet?
Hope they are recovering well!

Hi again,

No Rusty, I will not get the kittens back until tomorrow - The vet in the village is an antenna of the main clinic in a larger town 22km away - they got their op in that town and a Vet will bring them back to the village antenna tomorrow.

I took their food for to-night and tomorrow morning because I did not want a change of diet - I suppose they will be starving, they have not eaten anything since 11pm yesterday, and they are gannets !

I shall give the Vet a ring later on this evening anyway.

Weather still despicable and due to remain so until tomorrow evening ! The wind does not know from which direction it wants to blow; I hope the rain does some good to the garden as we were much too dry for this time of the year.

Hi, Rusty!
We had a lovely walk - the sun shone the entire time!
It isn't going dark as early any more, is it? Just gone 4.30 and still plenty of daylight!
What a sudden ( and pleasant!) change!
I've had the Adblock on my Hudl for over a year - never come up against Wifi?
I did have to reinstall Adblock a couple of times when it stopped working, but it was quickly solved.
I had a nice surprise when I got home....lying on the inside doormat was my replacement crossword book from World of Books!
A very clean Times Cryptic Crossword book totally untouched!! Nary a single crossword had been completed this time around!
Nicely packaged too!
W of B are good like that, aren't they?
Are you having pancakes for tea?

Hello, Pigale!
All seems to be well organised with the kittens.
You will be glad to get them home tomorrow.
Sorry to hear about your weather.
I am lucky. Been a smashing day here.
It is meant to get colder, though!