I took my big old beast of a laptop into the repair shop.

The keyboard was only working in certain area's.

I needed a new keyboard but due to the age of the machine it was going to be expensive and chances were that I would only get a second hand one anyway.

The blue screen of death keeps appearing.

It has 3 viruses and the fan was not working. It needed reformatting and a new fan.

Reformatting could be a problem as it was the original hard drive that was at least 8 years old.

It was a fairly large estimate for repairs.

I had the money for it, but if the hard drive needed replacing then I was going to be in big trouble.

I asked and he had a reconditioned laptop that he had been testing for 2 weeks.

It had a new hard drive and had been reformatted.

It was about 4 years newer than my old beast.

It had windows XP on it.

It was too good to be true so I bought it!!!!!!!

Now I am armed with a dongle and a new laptop.

My evenings will never be the same……..