Julie's Boggle

Tom’s been out helping a friend choose a new computer today. They weren’t necessarily going to buy though – because we’d had a look at PCWorld’s website the other evening and their online prices were very competitive. So today was more for looking so they could make some decisions after seeing the real thing.

Their plan was to drive out to the big PCWorld shop at Brentford which would offer a nice wide range to look at and a site easily accessible by car. I had a few calls from Tom while they were out there to check prices for them against the web page. After they’d found a good computer on special, the next call was about the monitor – which turned out to be significantly cheaper online. Happily for Tom and Michael, with a little convincing, the salesman let them buy it for the online price.

Things were less happy when they got all the kit back home and discovered the monitor (a Samsung) was faulty. Back in the box and back to PCWorld.

Even more unhappiness followed when they got the second monitor back home, and discovered that in the box was a second-hand Philips monitor! Huh?!? Back to PCWorld again, where apparently the staff were equally surprised to find that monitor in the box; and at last they got one home that worked.

We got an early-morning call on Wednesday, all the way from Australia. This was to let us know of the much-anticipated arrival of Angus – the first of the next generation on Tom’s side!

We’re dead keen to see some photos of the wee lad! Hopefully some will be forthcoming once the household settles down, because we’ve got a long wait till July when we’ll get to see him in SA.