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All the emoticons. I'm just on a laptop, worked fine before. I can get the emoticons, it's just that they don't come up as pictures like they did before the upgrade, so I can't always tell which is which until I select one. I get a series of very faint black dots, with the emoticon abbreviation such as a colon and a bracket for , hope that makes sense.

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Circle in the Sand - Belinda Carlisle

No, exactly the same as before.

Dull and dreary again, looks like rain. I'd like it a bit warmer, sick of the cold wind.

Yes, still waiting for spring, never mind summer!

I can no longer see the emoticons, I just get the symbol and a dot. Any advice please?

Think it's 16 or 17.

We didn't have the elections here. Been dull and dreary all day!

Loved Line of Duty and Big Little Lies - there are now voids in my TV viewing schedule! Grantchester is easy, The Legacy is a bit hit and miss and I haven't watched TLK. Glad to see that Hinterland is back on BBC4 this Saturday, lots of Welsh melancholy, lovely!

Yes it's much better, series 5 was pretty boring (bit like the book!).

Just read your review Will, I don't think the writing is florid at all (which you've quoted some reviewers as saying), and I like the quirkiness that it has too, and there's some sly humour in there, and great characters, especially Cracknell with his earwigs (and moles, ugh). Certainly not the usual Victorian novel.

Today was so cold, and rainy!

One of the best series I think, much better than series 5!

Had today off to recover from my weekend away, back to work tomorrow, sigh.

Sunday was the best day, rained a bit yesterday morning but then was dull most of the time, today started off sunny but then got dull, and it's meant to get colder again!

I don't have much luck with seeds either Athena, I have a few growing at the moment but not sure how far they'll get! Good luck with yours. I've bought some proper plants as a back-up, although it's still too cold to plant them outside. Congrats on your graduation, Virginia, and meeting up with your friend after all this time. I went away for the holiday weekend, to Norfolk for a few days, it was nice but short breaks aren't really a holiday, I find I'm just starting to get into the holiday, just when it's time to come home again! But it was nice to have a few days by the sea and in the countryside, away from London.

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I enjoyed The Team too, I'm also watching The Legacy but don't think this series is as good as the others. Loved the last Line of Duty!

Hi and welcome.

Quite a way into this now, for some reason serpents and sea monsters have figured in my dreams since I started it! Enjoying it though.

Just started it.

Just finished "A trail through Time", the 4th in the Chronicles of St Mary's series, and whilst I enjoyed it, I did find the constant going along the timeline a bit confusing, and the return of a former enemy wasn't that convincing ( and a bit like going backwards to me, that storyline had been dealt with, and resurrecting it just feels a bit lazy) - however apart from that it was another enjoyable adventure with some very funny episodes; suffice to say that I will never look at the Empress Matilda's escape through the snow in Wallingford (Oxfordshire) in quite the same way again, thanks to the St Mary's re-enactment, which as usual goes horribly and hilariously wrong. 7.5/10

Just managed to avoid a downpour, got to Waterstone's just in time. Luckily it had stopped on the way back. No hail yet.....

It's the 80s all over again!