In my case I’m quite happy with the ISP-supplied FTTN system wireless router/modem. It’s a French-built Thomson Gateway unit.

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Exactly.

Unlike the AirPort, it’s a modem & router, not just a router

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Quite tasty, that frozen microwave meal. Tender beef strips in a red wine sauce, with green beans, julienned carrots & garlic mashed potatoes. And cheap: $2.50 from a grocery clearance store.

It only hurts when I try to move it, the bad knee, that is. But it's complicated by the sore lower back, I can't sit or lie down for very long without either the knee of back being difficult.

Consider a Fritz!Box, then. Although they can be expensive, they're extremely good.

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Most frustrating. My arthritic left knee (the thing that restricts walking more than 800 metre in one go) is exceptionally bad today. I can't bend it far without great pain. And yet, once I'm seated in the car I have no trouble at all in operating the clutch pedal. Go figure.

Intended to buy a reverse-cycle umbrella from the post Office today but the bastards were shut due to a national post office holiday. Plus it’s New Year’s Day on Monday, so the joint won’t open again until Tuesday. A reverse-cycle umbrella is one that closes upwards & opens down, making it very handy for use in a car

Reckon I may have had a bit of a thirst to kill. Suffice to say, I’ve just polished off a full one litre carton of iced coffee-flavoured soy “milk.”

They offered a plain chevre goat cheese (fresh curd) and fresh curd cow's milk cheese, plus cow & goat fetas; semi-mature goat-milk cheese; goat & cow mould-ripened (brie/camembert style) & matured goat & cow cheeses.
I'd have liked to try the mature & mould-ripened ones.