Is @AM really carping or is this just a red herring?
I’m floundering between the two.
But of course, that’s just a sole opinion.
Mind you, without wishing to troll or spin a yarn, I like to think that I’m a dab hand at this sort of wordplay…
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Nah. The HP inkjet devices are cr*p as well. That’s what I,'ve had 2 of, and why I need to move to something better. The HP Inkjets are built like Chinese scooters you used to get in the UK, that my motorbike man said he’d never touch.
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Unless you regularly need colour, a cheap laser printer/scanner is a much better option. And if you want to print photos, you might find a local print shop is surprisingly cheap - ours charges €1 for an A3 print - we use a lot of these for reference material for my wife’s paintings.
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I get all my printing of whatever sort done by my local printers. I don’t need to do much and it works out a lot less faff than having a machine sitting around gathering dust.
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I suspect us foreigners have greater need of printing, but over the past nine months of our insurance claims after an elderly French lady lost control of her car and destroyed ours, I’ve regularly been signing five and six page docs and then scanning them to return to the insurance co.
I had similar over the few weeks in Oct/Nov/Dec when I was plastered up after being crashed into, but as I was stuck at home I just signed online by writing on the pdf (looked like a 4 year old’s writing)
Unfortunately due to arthritis in my RH, my handwriting looks like that anyway (though nothing in the left). I certainly can’t draw any more, but thankfully everything else still seems in good shape
OH is he same, except in both hands. She’s a career long University academic and researcher. Does it come with the job ?
Don’t know, love the look and feel of handwriting, but these days, keyboards are a lot easier to use.
A long time ago, before I was married, I queued at the Harrods Sale hoping for shoes, as one does when one is young and twenty.
A massive inflow of excited lady shoppers carried me to the first floor with apparently the exact same idea. Carefully laid out racks of shoes quickly became a zoo. I panicked and found my way on to the escalator again but not quite giving up the Sale dream I ventured upwards.
Needless to say, I left Harrods Sale with a mohair blanket and a runner rug. No shoes. Still have the rug forty years later.
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Have you not thought of walking? “mail it across the street”, probably cheaper as well.
No, Promos.
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I think @TFJWM means that La Poste is “just across the street” so they can do Amazon returns that way more easily than driving to a bricks and mortar electronics store - not “mailing it to a shop that’s across the street”? 
Oh, I’m here already!
Really! are you sure, 
I have re-read the original post and no mention of La Poste was made:thinking: could it just be I was fishing on line and seeing who I could catch:roll_eyes:
Sorry I didn’t catch your satirical tone.
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Ah, self-confessed trolling.
Spinning a line…
@Corona - I thought sales were ‘Soldes’ and ‘promos’ were special offers.
I’m beginning to feel the effect of arthritis in my hands and fingers when I do my cross stitching. But regarding handwriting, I remember when I was in college, one of our teachers who took us for calligraphy and shorthand had a stroke and was absent from teaching from the Christmas term returning at the start of the following school year. During that time, she had learned to write with her left hand. Anyone who has learned Pitman’s shorthand knows how difficult it is, especially when you have to use soft and hard pressure on the strokes. The same with calligraphy - difficult at the best of times but having to learn using your other hand must have been tremendously so. Needless to say, she managed to do both. She told us she also used her spare time to learn more about her favourite singer, Josh White, a black American blues singer and since then, I’ve listened to lots of his music and had fond memories of Miss French too.
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