The French idea of a Loo With A View

France holiday pictures part 3 - Fontaine de Vaucluse. Our trip to an unusual and very scenic natural spring, featuring a touristy but pretty village, fat ducks and the most amazing loo view in the world.

MC

Which side goes on the wall?

Our new house in Cambridge is nearly ready (yay!)and although we won't be able to move in for another few weeks the builders have given us early access to do some decorating over the weekend of 11/12 October.

The main job is to wallpaper the living room, and this is not an area we have much experience of. So, does anyone rather more familiar with sticking paper to walls fancy a day trip to Cambridge to help out? (Some form of nutritional compensation could probably be arranged).

Additional work which may be tackled includes putting up curtain poles and replacing dull ceiling light fittings with nicer ones.

MC

Computer-buying advice

My computer is full and I need a new one.

Well, it's not quite that simple. But my PC is about eight years old, and although only the case, PSU and floppy are still original it is getting a bit past it and on the basis of experience (mainly other people's, fortunately) I feel it better to replace it before it goes terminally wrong.

Under other circumstances I would be tempted to build my own machine, but we have a vast amount on at the moment and I really would just like to get a ready-to-go box before we move house in a month or so's time.

So, does anyone have any particular recommendations? I've always thought of Dell as suppliers to mass-market business buyers, but I've heard surprisingly good comments on them for home use from more than one direction. Mesh also seem to get a lot of good press. I've soured a bit on Evesham as both showrooms I've visited have been staffed by Dixon's rejects, and they do some very selective review quotations on their website.

Also, a few suppliers are starting to offer Athlon 64 machines - any feelings on whether it's worth going down this route?

[Incidentally, my apologies in advance to the Mac and/or Linux crowd. I was tempted, but for the reasons above I don't fancy a new learning curve right now. It's a pity, as I drool over Macs every time I look at one, but then if I want pretty I could always go for the new Cubit P4.]

MC