About 10 days back my home laptop finally gave up the ghost. I'd been thinking about replacing it for a while but its demise hastened my purchase. I now have a new all-singing, all-dancing laptop in the house - unfortunately Mr Gates is still controlling the play-sheet - but am having trouble getting my old email files back into accessible shape.
So, if you've written to me in the past month and wonder why I'm being so rude as to not reply, there's your reason.
Rest assured I'm working on it, but I'm not holding out much hope.