Burns' Monument.

It’s a long story but, I’ll try to keep it reasonably short. Herself has a tablet computer and it has had a lot of use but, not being gadget minded (she can solve most computer problems by saying, “Dave, how do I do this?) Whenever I pick it up, there are hundreds of windows open showing the same few web pages – not to mention every app that she knows how to use being open - together with several that she doesn’t. With all this abuse, the machine was running considerably slower than is ideal, so Jnr hit upon the idea of resetting it to the factory default. I must admit that it is something I have done to computers on many occasions as it is a very good method of solving all manner of obscure problems; in fact, it’s time I did it to my own computer.
 
Jnr did Google how to do the reset, and it did work – sort of; it left the machine needing to be restarted and all its customisable settings reset as expected, and all went well - until it needed logging onto the Gmail account that the TD household reserves purely for running its collective Android devices. Wrong password! Checked in my book of passwords (actually a computer file) and tried again. I was still wrong; it’s quite easy to forget to log a change in password and the easy solution is to reset it, which is a pain as it affects all of the other computers, phones and tablets in the house – but it had to be done. Tried to restart the tablet again and it said that it wouldn’t log on until 24 hours after a password change and, three weeks later it is still saying that.  The only consolation is that Google tells us it is a common problem with that particular model; it did, however, decline to provide a remedy.
 
This afternoon, we took the tablet to a young lad in our county toon who specialises in such tasks; he thought it would only take a few minutes so I sat down to patiently wait. He did try, and it took a good half hour for him to admit defeat; in fairness, it had taken Jnr and myself several hours to achieve the same result so the lad does earn kudos for efficiency. The moral of the story is, if you feel tempted to buy a Lenovo Yoga, take our advice and resist it.
 
A few yards away from the lad’s shop, is the incongruously eye-catching drinking-fountain-come-street-light that commemorates the hundredth anniversary of Robert Burns’ death. It’s not possible to appreciate the cherub from the overall Blip, so the extra shows a close up of it; I leave it you yourselves to make your own artistic judgement as to its suitability.