So I hear, David.  However,  the laptop I just broke was a relative cheapie, although still a lot of money in my  book.  It had insufficient memory capacity even to update itself and the battery started to give out after a year.  I'm told that even a $500 machine is considered "cheap" and a second-hand one will almost certainly have a defunct battery.  I'm fed up of buying expensive items that only last a few years and then malfunction especially as I have no way of recycling these electronics, which now pile up like last year's leaves, because I can't bear to send them to landfill.   Shirley has given me a little old tablet she had and I can do most things on that.  One thing I cannot do without the ability to swop from screen to screen,  is the copy editing and proofreading for the magazine.  Well, with 850+other members, many of whom are twiddling their thumbs in lockdown, I'm sure someone will be capable of and prepared to take over one or both of those tasks.  In many ways it would be a relief to get rid of another expensive, electricity-greedy device.  Certainly I can't even think of buying something until the financial sitation settles down again!!

However, the little tablet should be easier for updating my blog!

Thank you, my friends.  I can't help thinking that I'm spectacularly fortunate in being able to carry on with something that is constructive, absorbing and time consuming , while we are all in lockdown and worrying about what the world will be like in time to come. 

I am endeavouring to come to terms with the camera on my phone, while duplicating the photos with my camera, which is much more wide angle. They say it's good to learn new things!

What a wonderful place is the JRA website.  It's good to be in a different world for a while.

Keep it up Annie, nice work, thank you . keep well  :-) 

Haha!  Reimbursement tab - the joys of predictive text.  It should have read "trim" tab.

Thank, you, David.  I have to say that I do feel we are better off in NZ than in many other places.  You take care, too: lie low and makes plans.  One day ...

I have managed to post a wee blog.   I reckon I need a bigger screen.  (Or new eyes!)

With absolutely incredible timing, I managed to crack the screen on my laptop the other day.  (Don't ask: it was one of those freak accidents that are sent by a malevolent spirit to make bad worse.)  I usually write several emails every day, work on articles for the JRA magazine a couple of days every week and, of course, write up my blog every 3 weeks or so.  Shirley writes her blog on her phone, and I might post something; however, I take my photographs with a camera, having an apparently-incomprehensible preference for using a viewfinder rather than waving the device around and pointing it in vaguely the right direction.  So the pics aren't in my phone and my phone is anyway a cheapie with very limited memory

I have a notice up asking if anyone has a laptop they can lend me for the duration.  However, thus far none of the score or so of boats here has been able to assist, although two have tried to get ancient machines up and running, bless them.

So probably no SibLim updates until we Kiwis emerge from our bubbles and I can source a second-hand laptop.

I have nearly completed both rudders and bilgeboards and the next job is to shape the reimbursement tabs.  after that the rubbing strake - I'm I have enough wood!

My apologies to all of you who might have been looking forward to a little virtual boatbuilding to help pass the time.  Keep well!