The netbook is a little slow and awkward compared to my laptop, but it’s still charging, which is more than you can say for the laptop.
I’ve even managed to put some photos on, starting with the Fat Rascals from Wednesday. I’ll put some others on as I go along.
It seems that there is a USB port on the netbook, but I had failed to see it. – I’m not the sharpest tool in the box.
I tried downloading from the camera, but the netbook kept trying to reformat the card. Reformat sounds like an improvement, but as most of you will know it really means destroy the several thousand photos I have carelessly stored there. I don’t want to do that.
I’m going to have to improve the way I store my photos before something bad happens to them.
Eventually I loaded some photos onto a flash drive and transferred them that way.
At work, amongst other things, I loaded up some engraved coins., known as Love Tokens. They are quite common on Victorian coins and often crop up in mixed lots of coins. They were, it is usually said, engraved by young men for their girlfriends. If that is true there were a lot of talented young men out there.
Engraved sixpence
Engraved farthing
Well done for persevering with the technology. I am beginning to think that storing photos is a mug’s game as we will never have the time to took at them all wherever they are.
I should say so! Perhaps the young men had them engraved.
It’s possible. Some of them are bad enough to be home made but others are quite professional.
I like the Fee one
It’s one of the best I’ve seen. It’s very like the designs of Victorian collar studs and similar things.
I’ve never seen these before
One of the common sorts is the “crooked sixpence” as in the nursery rhyme. They are not normally engraved but they are distinctively bent – I have one or two somewhere and will add a photo if I find one.