I remember the excitement of going to our MS in France when we still lived in the UK. The trip to the ferry, the crossing (usually not much sleep) and the drive down to the house with some trepidation of what may have happened since the last visit. I do miss that excitement now.
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Wishing you a safe and comfy crossingā¦ 
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We have a gardner now since I arrived once to find the grass at head height, took two days strimming
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Know what you mean, but OTOH donāt miss the depressing trip back every September, when the only thing to look forward to was our final French dinner in Calais.
Thankfully havenāt been north of Paris since Feb 2020.
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Less than 2 weeks to go for us, travel via tunnel for a change. Hope you arrive safely and all is well with the house.
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I have been using Word 2007 since its launch without a problem. Recently it has failed when saving a document resulting in me shouting expletives at my laptop.
I still have the original disk so reloaded it to make a repair. All went well for a few days then same problem.
Being from Yorkshire I really didnāt want to spend money on something that I have had free for 18 years but yesterday in sheer frustration of losing another mornings work I subscribed to Word 365.
What a game changer!
There are one or too differences but soon got my head around them. I see there is voice recognition typing too, canāt wait to try that.
I am sure that all you computer boffins will tell me I should have gone with xyz programme but so far this simple soul is well chuffed with my Microsoft purchase.
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Is that lovely lady still working in the cafe? When she realised that I was volunteering transporting the dogs she granted me ālorry driver statusā along with all the reductions that went with it. Once she even rushed out to where I was at the head of the queue to donate a sausage roll to my passenger. I thanked her but explained that I had delivered and was heading home empty so she said āok, well you have it thenā. And I did. 
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You wonāt hear any criticism from me. Iāve been using the family plan for a few years and it works well. You can find it quite cheaply if you keep your eyes open and you donāt need to wait until the renewal date so, if you see a bargain, you can just queue them up.
The 1TB of storage is quite useful too.
If you are on Windows then using Office probably makes sense - although there are free alternatives like LIbreOffice if you donāt need every single bell and whistle that Microsoft provide.
On the Apple side of things, I do have the Office suite on my admin Mac, but I use it less and less - I find that Appleās free programs Pages, Numbers and Keynote do what I need. When I retire and don;t have clients sending me documents I will probably ditch the Office subscription.
Iāve been impressed by how well the Apple programs read Office documents with no translation errors.
Since I retired (and lost all my free university software) Iāve been using a 2010 Student version of Word from an Office bundle that was marked down to a tenner long ago. I no longer need PPoint, so this is fine for my needs.
Your post prompted a rough calculation that made me realise Iād been using Word for around thirty-five years; this explains why my hand writing is now really awful and ugly.
Well, you are a āDoctorā and they are famous for bad handwriting ! 
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This Doctor of Philosophy has far worse hand-writing than our local MT.
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Not just doctors, my handwriting becomes illegible after around 2 or 3 words, perhaps I know it and try too hard. 
My handwriting has improved since I bought a fountain pen.
(Well, a bit anyway).
When I was at school we had a teacher who had the most perfect handwriting, it was like calligraphy. heaven knows how long it took him to learn to write like that.
My wife came in this evening and said āthat smells niceā.
āFish and chipsā I said - she usually does aerobics on a Monday night, and this is our one night of junk food.
āNoā said she āit smells like lemonā. That was the lemon oil I was using to treat a guitar neck while re-stringing it. My guitars sometimes smell fabulous. 
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You can thank the Romans for that 
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Isnt everything better after a good nights sleep
Despite the cabin its the break in the routine and the 5 hour drive. This morning the dogs out playing with her ball, the cats out exploring and wife sleeping in. 
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Yes but apart from calligraphy, roads, public health, a stable currency, decent drainage, law and order, and the aqueducts - what have the Romans ever done for us?
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I did tell you, its the 24 hour syndrome.
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Times then, not Gothicā¦
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