Caution

Doris is a lovely lady but very unreliable. Doris is our Sat Nav. I should say right now that the box that contained her brain does say that she knows Belgium like the back of her hand, or would do if she had any hands but with the rest of Europe she only thinks she knows the way.
"Im' not sure, but I'll give it a go!"
We first tested her powers of navigation when we visited the South West of England this past July. I wasn't too bothered because like her, I thought I knew the way as well and so with both of us only fifty percent sure that would ensue that we arrived safely in Wells, which was our final destination.
Doris took us the long way round. It involved circumnavigating the city of Bristol and driving down the coast towards Weston Super Mare. I looked at the kilometres counting down to zero with a mixture of interest and horror because suddenly we were driving around a roundabout and Doris announced somewhat smugly:
"You have arrived in the general area of your destination"
"What!?...no we haven't!"
Doris was silent.
"Doris?"
The car was silent execpt for the clicking of the indicator as we drove around and around the roundabout.
"Doris!"
The tiny screen was a blank with a little red arrow in the centre of the screen. The little arrow was us and the blank bit was terra incognito.
Luckily, I knew the general direction we had to take. We happened to be around 20 miles from our destination.
General area of your destination was a tad optimistic in my opinion.
But, Doris can be funny. We spent this weekend in dear old England. Most of the time she keeps quiet, happy to throw in a:
"Caution, traffic disruption"
However, leaving the ferry at Dover on friday evening she suddenly announced:
"Caution, ferry!"
Which had both my wife and myself laughing. We were leaving the ferry, surely Doris meant:
"Caution, England!"

While we were in England I loaded the car up with part of my music collection, hundreds of cassettes which I bought over the period of 25 years. Anyone of a similar age to me will have music in many forms, vinyl, cassette, cd and digital. I found free software called Audacity, which allows you to transfer your old tapes to itunes. I set up a tape deck to my pc this morning, took a cassette, placed it in the deck and pressed play.
Ah, the memories came flooding back...wibbly wobbly sound and then nothing. I pressed the eject button and gently coaxed the cassette out, found a pen and twisted it until the tape which had billowed out of the cassette returned to its proper place. You can't beat the good old days!