There are all sorts of ways to take risks and get whatever thrills, or death, you might out of them. But for the ultimate risk, last night, I hate half a biscuit. Containing 16% wholewheat flour and some wheat flour. Today I've been fine, so at some point I need to eat more biscuit. But not tonight because I have to drive back tomorrow.

This morning we went to The Deli for sausages. Bournemouth was hideously busy, unsurprisingly. It's strange, though, that although The Deli is a lot smaller, they have a lot better choice of sausages than Kosher Kingdom in Golders Green. So now I have a variety I have to work through and decide which I like best.

This afternoon me and mum spent hours reading a diary written in 1872 by a man in Cambridgeshire who knew some of our ancestors. He just had an ordinary pocket diary, which had some really interesting stuff printed in it - including telling us that the exchange rate for the dollar was about 4 shillings - which works out to about 20p in today's money.

He wrote about ordinary things - letters written and received, what trains he got on when he went to various places, when he went to church etc. But it's a life that's completely different from the way we live today, so it's really interesting. Plus there are the times when Aunt Sophie came to visit unexpectedly (she lived in Llandudno) for a few days, and stayed for the best part of two weeks. What took the time, though, was deciphering his handwriting - some of the words were definitely debatable and some we still can't work out.

I had a play with Vista, as well, and discovered that Windows Explorer has no buttons on it where in XP it has back, forward, up, etc. It still has back and forward, but there's no way of adding buttons. I always put cut, copy and paste amongst other things on my computers, so it's one less click to do that. So not being able to is a complete pain.

But, thankfully, dad's computer magazine had the answer: PowerDesk. There's a pro and a free version and I'm loving the free version. You can launch other programs from it and add & delete which ones you want on there; you can have a button for just about any menu command; you can have two windows in one; and best of all, it recognises my pen drive when I plug it in (sometimes Windows Explorer does, sometimes it doesn't). It also hasn't crashed yet, but since Explorer's currently going through a non-crashy phase, that doesn't prove anything.

And now it's dark, I'll actually get round to some writing...

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