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Thanks for all the warm wishes, I will see tomorrow with both eyes

I have Ubuntu running on a mini PC, streaming all my video collection from my NAS with no problems, for my main PC I am using Mint which did work 99% out of the box, using bottles for the couple of windows apps that I have not yet found...

Bummer! We get something administered via IV, too.

When you say anaesthetic Marianna, all we get is eye drops to numb the eye

I've put in a request for a discount on the first day but what with his bad eye and all he probably hasn't read it.

I don't think you'd have much trouble with the peripherals and the 3rd party (Wine/Bottle etc) support to run Window$ $oftware is improving almost daily. (Though a little legwork would be needed)

Best wishes, Terry, and quick recovery. You'll be able to make photos with that eye to the view finder with no chance of accidently overexposing them. When I had my first cataract removed, as the surgeon pulled out the clouded lens and...

My choice would be a Seymour episode, my preference is great lines, you still have Wally, unfortunately no Sid but we do have Pearl, Howard and Marina. One with a great monologue beautifully spoken by Compo is Codfanglers, " I'm telling...

I'm still on the fence. I like the idea, mostly to get away from a company that's all but a monopoly, but all of my peripheral devices work by default with Microsoft. So does nearly all of my software.

And the cellar walls are infested with stoneworm

After a cancelled appointment for the 23rd of this month, I had a call today that they will do my Cataract surgery on this Sunday the 22nd, I have to travel to Grimsby instead of Brigg, okay another 12 miles away but I just want to get...

Hopefully the changeover shouldn't take too long, as it's costing me 1.36p for every day of my membership !

I think Hill Street was such a great choice for the move, it ticked all the boxes. Off of a main road and on a quiet dead end road so no through traffic or pedestrians. Out of the centre of Holmfirth so not as busy or noisy. Loads of...

If they mixed them, they would have a killer teacher

I remember reading about the BBC infuriating Alan Bell by doing a voice over during the broadcast of compos emotional bugle scene at the end of Last Post and Pigeon. Very disrespectful and in bad taste!!