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So yeah, I got tagged by the adorably talented badbastion and why not, hey?

  1. The horrible bastard malware scare from yesterday seems to be resolved - yay! No more random tab closing, no more .dmg files downloading themselves without me touching ANYthing, no poor laptop fans whirring like they were hovercraft engines. Phew. Definitely a reason to be cheerful. It seems that it was 'infecting' Google Chrome, not my actual Macbook, so once I cleared it out of the settings there (where it had somehow installed itself, the ratfink) everything seemed to go back to normal. Anyone with a Mac - be aware do not go anywhere near the Mackeeper software. Touch ye not anything called MplayerX. Ever. I didn't download any ot these things yet they somehow piggybacked on (I think) a font I downloaded from dafont.com. Apparently that is how they work - they latch onto something else, legitimate or otherwise, that you are downloading. An uninvited guest of the worst kind.

  2. Found a castle/fortified manor house we never knew existed, virtually on our doorstep. Well, six miles away but who's counting. So we spent a couple of hours looking at 13th century wall paintings in the church next door, taking photos (one of my fave things to do when out and about) and generally enjoying the local scenery in the late summer sunshine. The photo below is Castle House (as it's called now), a provate residence so this is as close as we could get without waltzing up their drive and having them set the dogs on the peasant trespassers.

Little Wenham 13th C fortified manor
        3. My favourite photo of the day (I think) was this one. In Little Wenham church, now redundant but being cared for by the Suffolk Churches Trust.
Dusty devotion

Finally, not a positive note to end on, but I did think it was bloody funny - this morning I finally did it. I poured fizzy water on my cereal instead of into my glass of lemon squash. Senility, where is thy sting? LOL!

Date: 2014-09-13 10:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] badbastion.livejournal.com
lol, I cleaned out my malware just this morning! Now Firefox is running great, no weird links or pop-ups. It feels nice.

That's a gorgeous picture. I wish I lived that close to beautiful scenery.

Date: 2014-09-14 10:27 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] amberdreams.livejournal.com
I think my Firefox was buggered too, but I am not using it any more because it wouldn't run my emails and kept crashing, so I'll leave it to fester. Sticking to Chrome and Safari for anything Chrome won't run. It's a mystery why some things just won't work on one browser but work fine on another...

The town where I live is quite picturesque in parts, but there are loads of lovely chocolate box villages round and about which we don't visit often enough.

Date: 2014-09-14 02:37 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] kalliel
Whoa!! :D That manor house is epic. I love that you live so close to it, too--that's awesome.

Date: 2014-09-14 02:41 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] amberdreams.livejournal.com
We live even closer to this manor house - it was gifted to the town along with most of it's grounds and is only a 2 minute walk from our house! http://www.cimuseums.org.uk/Christchurch-Mansion

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