One thing after another

Decided to do an entry today.  Aol was having none of it!  The Add New Entry button had disappeared from my journal completely.  Nothing could restore it.  Someone suggested I clear my cache, I had done that five minutes earlier only to find that all my buttons had disappeared.  No Add Entry, no delete entry, no edit entry - absolutely nothing.  In desperation I decided to system restore to yesterday.  Lo and behold all the buttons came back but.........................my text has now gone very small and nothing I can do seems to change it.  Last time that happened I was able to change the size of the text by using the wheel on the mouse, this time that has not worked so here I am peering at the screen and wondering what else can go wrong!

I have been busy working on the family tree and getting over a horrible flu type bug that I picked up from the family.  Received some documents from Germany that make me wish I could speak and write German.  Lots of interesting information though and  because I do understand the word "kinder"  I was able to work out what children belonged to whom. I am slowly piecing it all together.

The rain here has been almost endless.  There are great pools of water lying all over the garden, it just starts to dry up a little when another downpour comes along.  It is all churned up like a motor cycle scrambling course!  The dogs do not mind but him indoors does,  having to constantly dump them in the bath.

Not much else going on around here except for last night when in the middle of the evening we heard a rumbling sound and saw flashing lights.  It seems that the gas board were digging up the road right outside our house.  We have no idea why because there has been no smell of gas as far as we are aware and it all centres on the property directly across the road from us as workmen were going in and out of there.  Anyway around 11 p.m. they packed up and went leaving a red and white barrier surrounding the hole.  This morning along come two men in a van to fill it in.  It had rained heavily in the night.  The hole was full of water.  We then witnessed the typical British workmen.  They stood and looked at the water in the hole,  they scratched their heads.  I noticed they had a pump with them.  They looked from the pump to the water in the hole. They examined the pump from all angles, even looking underneath it. They scratched their heads again.  They tried to start the pump.  They obviously had no idea what to do.  They stood looking at the pump for a long time as though it was some alien creature.  They gave up on the pump and came back to look at the water in the hole.  They walked around the hole, they went to their van and sat inside for a while.  Then they returned to the hole and stood looking at it again as if expecting that some fairy had sucked all the water out for them.  Then they shrugged, got in their van and drove away.  We still have the water-filled hole with the barrier around it.  Obviously far too difficult a job for them.

Nathan and Daniel are coming on in leaps and bounds, Nathan seems to learn new words everyday and Daniel now says "Oh no" all the time, something he learned from his Bob The Builder toy mobile phone and also says "goodbye" very clearly.  They are very good boys on the whole and get on well together apart from the occasional spat.

Well, I had better get off here.  I intended to come on for half an hour, do a journal entry, catch up on some journals and then go and get some work done.  The best laid plans.......... I did not anticipate being on here for hours trying to sort out problems.

Thanks to the other Jeannette (Travels) for trying to help.  Whether the buttons are going to stay on my journal or not remains to be seen.  I am just glad that I have been able to post this entry.  Fingers crossed that I can sort the fonts out now.  Have a good weekend dear readers and friends.