How come?

How come this week didn't happen?  At least I don't think it can have done because it went so fast that there must have been a mistake.  On the other hand, I know that the school sports day was last Wednesday (Karon says it's not as much fun as it used to be on account of that dreaded "Health & Safety").  So that means that Wednesday happened.  It's always the same at this time of year.  You would think that with the long days and non-stop sunshine it would be all lazy and slow but not a chance.

On another subject, I'm having awful trouble with spam - over 1,000 (yes - one thousand) an hour!  It started overnight on Friday.  I've always got a lot of spam - it comes of having a website and there's no way round it - but this is ridiculous.  Does anyone know any way of stopping it?   I'm spending literally a couple of hours getting rid of it.  The spam filter doesn't start working until the stuff comes into the inbox and now it's only dealing with 50% and that very slowly.   What I can't understand is what satisfaction the senders get out of it.   Are there really that many people out there who simply enjoy making life difficult for other people?   

Anyway, I'd better get on.  Being Sunday, I'm heading off to St John's Kirk in Perth.  When I get home it's going to be domesticity while I listen to "Humph Sunday" - a repeat of Humphrey Littleton on Desert Island Disks and then a tribute to his chairmanship of that wickedly funny programme, I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (or "The Clue" as it used to be known amongst friends of mine).   Then a siesta and a walk - I'll probably go off to check on the welfare of the Ospreys again - it's a beautiful walk and just about the right length for me.  At this time of year, and in this weather, there really is nowhere more beautiful than Scotland and Perthshire has to be one of the loveliest parts.   Not that I'm biased or anything!

Comments

[Neil MacLean]

Hi Libby
That's an awful lot of spam.
There are quite a few anti-spam programmes out there but one of the best is free. This is what I would do:
Grab a free email account from Gmail - I'll send one over - and get your regular email forwarded to your Gmail account. Then either get your Gmail account into your main email programme (do you use outlook?) or else forward your Gmail (it's easy via the settings) to another email address.
Sounds like a lot of effort but it isn't: just a couple of actions. You can check Gmail every so often for false positives but I find it makes very few mistakes.