1 October 2026.

Good morning.

I say Good morning but a good morning it is certainly not.

I am currently on a data recovery exercise with the 12TB external hard drive, which I put all my images and animation on.

Literally thousands of hours of work.

I kicked the fucking thing up this morning and more than half of it looked like it had been wiped.

I thought there was something a bit wrong yesterday, when I hooked everything back up to the main system.

What happens is that when I go to Cyprus, I take the laptop along with the 12TB  external drive, which I uncouple from the main system.

For the past 600+ days it has served me well, with no real glitch's.

Today, however it has made up for it.

Everything that can go wrong, has.

My thoughts?

I reckon that the DELL laptop I use for Cyprus is the culprit.

The Disk Drill software is only 2% through the recovery process and has found thousands of files so fingers crossed they have not been totally deleted.

External hard drives.

It's like having a promiscuous wife.

They lead you into a false sense of security in that they work brilliantly and build up a great trust, only to go and fuck you over the first time you turn your back.

It has happened countless times in the past.

OneDrive or Dropbox is an alternative, but they are so fucking slow it is unbelievable... plus there's the fact that when you are storing hundreds of thousands of pounds of valuable data, you don't know who has access to it.

Anyway, gripe done for now.

Bar 10-15 minutes stuck in the traffic on the M1, the flight and journey home was uneventful, the only bugbear was me having to fill up at Watford Gap services as I'd not topped up the car before I went down to Luton.

Petrol: £2.00 a litre.

That stings when  you drive a 5.0 litre car.

Whether it's at the petrol pumps or in the supermarket, I feel sorry for the average working man and his family. They don't half get ripped off.

Right. I'm currently 4% into the recovery with another 16 hours to go, although the timing will drop substantially as the recovery continues.

Seeing as I can't get into the external drive I'm going to have to give you what is on this computer.

So, here is Gaynor - dressed down, in a navy Lacoste sweatshirt and leggings and with her hair in the standard bob cut that she has through the majority of Series 1.

And as an added extra...

The actual series of The A's can, in places, be very adult...

Bar a few tongue in cheek clips with partial nudity, nothing has really been put up on here... yet.

She may well have that self-destructive nature, but it often makes for weird scenarios... and at times she is very matter-of-fact in her delivery.

This is the Gaynor Mellor character just doing Gaynor things.

Day 637

(Series 1) Gaynor eating Rice Krispies, putting a Dyson vacuum cleaner together and doing a shop for some essentials.