i have heard from someone who knows a lot about computers (i dont!!!!) that not to touch Norton with a bargepole. dont really know why this is but was told that if you have norton on yr computer and you want to delete they make if very difficult to get rid of it- why it has a variable reputation i dont know maybe someone on here with better computer knowledge than myself can solve this mystery.

Couldn't be happier about this:

Okazaki Fragment's first recorded Schritte

(finishing off w/ the world's second-largest Gosh)

I was referring with Andyis post about Norton.

Had a great day yesterday. Had my son over for a large part of the day(still getting over his knee op). Me and Mrs BBM are going to Brighton today. Getting things for our holiday!

 

(Thanks all for the "best of luck"s too)

Um. Holey carp.
I shut a(nother) savings account last week and while the balance book said I had £370 in it, it actually turns out that I've just had £730 transferred! Have they got the numbers in the wrong order or is their interest really that good? (in which case, damn!)

Hello, everybody . Many thanks to everyone who wished me and my son well for The Wedding the day before yesterday. I was very touched by your messages.

The wedding went pretty well. Weather wasn't wonderful, as all Londoners will know, BUT it didn't rain, which we and the Met Office thought it might. It wasn't entirely without incident. My son at one point went on with the vow before the registrar had said it (well, he knew what came next!) and then the registrar actually forgot (for a moment) about the necessity of signing the register. She signalled to the string quartet and they launched into something or other, then stopped. Registrar said "My fault", everyone laughed and  all went on normally after that. We all enjoyed the mistakes. I found the whole thing incredibly moving, far more than I expected to, and I cried much more than I expected to. Both bride and groom looked absolutely beautiful. My son said afterwards how glad he was that they had decided against the white wedding dress look, because Katherine just looked like Katherine, in her simple dress (variously described as "oyster", "magnolia", and "very pale browny-peach" in colour) and ballerina hair-style with one flower.

The string quartet was from the RAM, and turned into a quintet for part of Chopin's 1st Piano Concerto. Please don't sneer - it had to be an extract, and it had to be a "reduced score". There wasn't space for a whole orchestra, even if they could have afforded it! It was a piece that meant a lot to them, but they do usually listen to the whole thing . I was very impressed by the RAM students. They were extremely professional, and had a whole repertoire of suitable things to fill in time with when necessary. There were a couple of poems, read quite well (though I think I would have done it better, as neither of the friends who read them really knew how to project the voice). Then all was done, and we had a relaxed reception, with some very good speeches. My son said to me, twiddling his wedding ring, "I feel grown up now".

I am so relieved it is all over. I'm terribly tired, but I think the stress is beginning to roll away. It is rather nice having a daughter-in-law, I've decided, but there is something really strange about two families who barely know each other suddenly being thrown together in such emotional circumstances.

(Oh, and I met a friend of my son's whose father had grown up in Aldeburgh and used to swim in Benjamin Britten's swimming pool. He was disappointed to learn the pool had been built over, to make an exhibition area.)

Glad it went well Mary and that you enjoyed it. It sounds as though the music was lovely.

Mary, that's lovely!