I think mummy is jealous of my lovely, tasty, chewy fur coat.

Every morning and evening she plonks me down on the photo wall and plucks my loose fluff out. It's very fine and in the damp weather it sticks to her. I think she's trying to look like me.

The problem with having such a pretty, soft and fluffy coat is that I just want to eat it, but then I get bunged up with fluff...

Down here in Burrow Court we've been biting our claws waiting for the Dame to come and tell us whether her 'puter is werking again. But she's gone quiet. She hasn't been seen since yesterday and there have been hushed and whispered mutters of her having been taken away on what she calls 'LIA business' (see the responses to her previous journal entry).

Anyway, her news is that her puter werks! It's been a frustrating 12 days since it died and it seems the problem was due to three fings:

1. Dead RAM - awaiting a warranty replacement
2. A dodgy AVG anti-virus program update (don't use AVG v.9)
3. A dodgy file on an XP-SP3 installation disc

Now the puter has been restored and mum's made a back-up image on an external drive as well as preparing a spare internal hard drive loaded with XP, the latest drivers and essential software should there be any further problems.

It's running slooooowly now on its original 2GB RAM but has just about managed to put together a short slideshow with a few video clips of my quintuplets who live in the apartment above my own. My twin sooty-fawn butterfly daughters will be staying - beautiful, aren't they?

Mummy is STILL installing hopdates onto my puter to, we hope, bring it back to life. So far, unlike previously, all of the system files have installed and all of the hopdates including the .NET file, whatever that is, that kept refusing last time.

Once all the hopdates are done, I will ensure mummy stays up all night to install the software and IF it installs then my Pee-See may werk again.

It's taking ages but mummy says that everyfing looks right this time.

If it doesn't werk, then it becomes spare parts fur its successor next year.

I have my paws, ears and whiskers crossed.

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Today is my 'puter's last chance.

It crashed 11 days ago and hasn't werked since. At furst we thought it was caused by an AVG auntie swine-flu update but this was probably just a coincidence.

A system restore taking it back to early hopped-over saw it running again, albeit limping along fur a few days but suddenly freezing, shutting down or rebooting at 3-25 minute intervals. When it rebooted there was an error message to send to the nice people at Microsoft who responded saying that the 'error report was corrupted', that this was 'very rare' and that it usually meant there was something 'very seriously wrong' with the puter. This hasn't been good for my nerves.

Over the weak-end, mummy has been re-fur-matting the hard drive (4 times) and reinstalled Ex-Pee (4 times) each with different results but lots of error messages, mostly being unable to install any Windows software yet some others would but with lots of error messages about 'failed to create C:\a3435d50gibberish39457349b0nonsense3980549e90rubbish4t54928f... directory'. A RAM test showed that both chips were dead but even after replacing them, reformatting the hard drive and reinstalling Ex-Pee yet again it has continued to produce errors and software can't be installed - but I can go online, surf, read my online email and shop, shop, shop!

There is a suspicion that there might be a corrupt file somewhere on the installation disk so todaymy puter is going right back to an Ex-Pee installation using the very furst launch of Ex-Pee to see if that werks. If it does, then my Pee-See could be saved and run again furpectly. If it doesn't then it means the BIOS is corrupt. My fursonal Tec-knee-call adviser told me gently that he can make me a boot disc to write to the BIOS but if it fails then it will kill the motherboard. That would mean my Pee-See is scrap and joins its predecessor on the landing for mum and Uncle J to step over every mourning.

It's Paws Crossed Tight day today. If it fails then I'm barred from shopping fur a new one meaning no more shopping fur me so this has to werk....

Sweating, tearful, nervous, anxious Dame Maddie Bun CBE
Profeshunal Shopper who's banned from doing what she does bestist.

My puter still won't werk.

Following advice from my fursonal technical support Buncle, Mummy has reformatted its hard drive and reinstalled Windows three times, discovered the RAM is shot but still my puter won't werk properly.

Mum's been trying to resuscitate it since last Friday and its survival chances are probably 50:50 and then that might only be limping along (like it is now).

I wish she'd get her act together because I'm getting waaay behind on my emails. I can only hopologise to everyone who's sent me (and her) messages (and there are a lot) and promise to reply as soon as I can. The same applies to everybun else who's awaiting things from us.

If no progress is made then from Monday I'll have the loan of Uncle J's old laptop so will be back online again then and catch up (but it won't do videos).

Sniff!

That's about all I can say at the moment.

Where's my Prozac...?

My puter's still pawly.

It won't boot, not even in safe mode and none of the so-called 'disaster recovery' drive image backups mummy made will restore it. I keep reminding her that it's 3 years since I bought my 'puter and developed my taste fur shopping but she just holds even tighter to her piece of plastic and looks sternly down towards me. I've tried distracting her and looking at her with my big brown pleading bunny eyes, but still she clings onto it and holds it out of my reach.

At least I'm back online, sort of... Mummy's patched it up with a hard drive taken from a 2002 masheen which she sold to Uncle J in 2006. It was bad enuff then and he eventchewally gave up with last year when, generous bun as I am, I bought him a nice new one using his magic numbers. It's very small, very slow, very cluttered disc, full of errors and ancient software which can't be removed, but at least it's werking'ish. Mummy says that when she has a copy of an Ex-Pee disc she'll try to do a restore on this and if it fails, as she expects, then she'll start again by reinstalling windows.

I keep trying to tell her that even if she does get it going again, and it's been a full weak now since it crashed, then it still won't do what I need it to, but will she listen??

I'm losing pay-shunce....

I was supposed to respond to some of my friends this evening but I cant and I couldn't do a status update on Facebook so here goes in the hope that my friends will see it.

I've had puter probs since Frying day and now my puter is locked into a fruitless loop of trying to reboot but can't - not even in safe mode. The good news is that this has almost certainly confurmed what the problem is.

Mummy has locked away my nice, favourite shiney plastic and hidden the magic numbers so I can't go shopping.

Luckily, after my nice Buncle made my 'puter better than new in August, I have a backup image of the hard drive so should be able to do a system restore and hope to be back online again soon - but I will NOT be installing, uninstalling or reinstalling AVG Internet Security 9.

Good luck to my friend Teddy fur tomorrow.

I can access email on my netbook but I can't update my website. I hope mummy sorts it soon. My puter holds a speshul place in my heart because it was my furst ever purchase ...

Dame Maddie Bun CBE
Profeshunal Shopperer - but banned from doing what I do bestist

I'm all of a dither today following the siege. With all the talk of guns, home-made bombs, police-wuffs, armed police, the SAS, negotiators and more guns, Inga had to sedate me for the night. I'm still a bit shaky on my paws this mourning even though it's all over.

The Burrow Court residents have been looking at the pics of the event  but the only way I can get it out of my mind is to go shopping....

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Help!  I can't leave my burrow.  We're all trapped.

We don;It seems a stewpid 2-foot has made a bomb, got a gun and locked himself in his flat with his doefriend and has been making threats since this morning.

We'd noticed there was a bit of bustle outside earlier then everything went quiet but it wasn't until mum went out that we realised what was going on.  There are lots and lots of metal boxes on wheels - some belonging to police 2-foots, others to ambulance 2-foots, there are big wuffs sniffing around, 2-foots with megaphoney things brought in to negotiate (shopping bargains??) and rumours that the SAS have been drafted in.

It's been on the News: news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hereford/worcs/8353096.stm and mummy went along to have a look - she only had her low-resolution camera phone with her because she didn't know anything was going on outside.
I'm frightened.

I'm in trubble.

I've been on and on at mum over the last 3 weeks to get the Live Hay'd DVD finisherated and it's worn out the 'puter.  It's been steaming away day and night, rending videos while mum was shovelling poo in Burrow Court or flopped in her nestbox, and it's never had a break - not even fur a few hours and it had had enuff.

After the last of Cedric's nicely printed disks was written a big colourful message popped up on the screen in bright red saying something like 'Malware Error' and then it shut down.  Mummy rebooted it but then it shut down again.  And again.  Then again.  This continued all Friday evening, night and Saturday.  A few times it would stay on for 3-20 minutes but then it would shut down again, reboot or simply freeze.  When it rebooted there was an error message to send to the nice people at Microsoft saying that the error report was corrupted, that this was very rare and that it usually meant there was something very seriously wrong with the puter.

I hadn't installed anything new, or updaterated anything so there was no reason for this but mummy still glared at me while I scurried away. Feeling hopeful and clutching her plastic in my paw, I showed her a nice new shiny bargain at PC Whirld but mummy just glared at me even harder so I ran away and hid under Una.

Mummy spent the weak-end restoring and re-restoring it.  I think it's OK now,.but I don't know fur how long.

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The furst Live Hay'd DVD has been safely delivered to Kent.

Daisy and Earl watched it last night and told me it was buntastic. They espeshully enjoyed my Una's byootiedful dew-wet with Boogey and said she was a star. I couldn't agree and am very proud of her.

Here are Daisy and Earl - thrilled to receive the furst Live Hay'd DVD hot off the drive and the furst to view it in full (lucky buns!):