Just bought two more Li-ion batteries from Amazon to suit my growing range of Ryobi One+ power tools. These are not genuine Ryobi batteries but are fully compatible with them if my experience with a previously-purchased compatible battery pack is a rteliable indication.
The will replace the old & tired Ni-Cad batteries that originally came with the hammer drill 15 years ago.

Since the family Easter gathering will be at my sister’s newly-renovated house I had to make sure my emergency bed was operational. There are enough rooms at my sister’s home just not enough beds.
The bed I intend using is a double sized inflatable unit. It has its own mains-powered inflator/deflator but I wanted to try my new purchase, a Ryobi One+ tyre pump & low pressure inflator/deflator powered by an 18-volt cordless tool battery.
I already have three lithium-ion batteries & two older NiCad one to go with my existing Ryobi One+ tools*, so I grabbed the big one from the chainsaw in the garage.
It works, albeit slower than the mains-powered unit but its also quieter, which is handy if more air is needed during the night.

*Existing One+ tools: Hammer drill; flourescent light; wet-dry handheld vac; chainsaw; line trimmer & a multi-fold LED worklight.

Well, look wot the cat dragged in……. Hell, matey.

jpa.10centuries.org.

Operation “Restore internet connectivity to MacBook Pro” has concluded successfully. Booting from the latest clone made on Monday was exceptionally slow. I found one (deliberately deprecated) ext SSD installation of Mojave – which will be used to run my old software that won’t work in the successor to Mojave. This one booted quickly and could get connection, so I used it to activate SuperDuper app, using the restore feature to copy the ext SSD to the Mac’s internal drive.
I wasn’t expecting the result to work well at all, just wanted to try something different since a Time Machine restoration & an attempt at reinstallation over the internet from the Recovery Drive both failed.
All's well, though. Internet is active again

: what must I do to get my avatar to show up on v5?

Desperation time. Commenced Time Machine backup restoration on the c MacBook Pro. At least its covered by warranty?

I was rebuilding the Photos library via the internet when it went mental.

Nope. Didn’t work. Clones won’t connect to internet either. Have to try a Time Machine restoration most likely.

I have booted the MacBook Pro from an external drive. Now all network interfaces are recognised. Most odd. Going to try it from a clone made yesterday morning. If all is OK with that, I’ll restore from that drive. Bloody frustrating.