From: footlingagain	Date: January 21st, 2008 04:24 pm (UTC)		(Link)

The food was very nice but I ate too much!

Was the food traditional Welsh or traditional pub? I also love the idea of going to the pub after a Quaker meeting ;-)

BTW - I hope you don't mind me asking, but after a weekend of Eee use, do you find that the keys stick?

The reason I ask is that I've found toggling using the hot keys rarely works, or it works once and then won't do it again. I wanted to use the keypad rather than the touchpad because even at its most sensitive, the touchpad's a temperamental little beast, but the others seem to be following its example now.

	From: heleninwales	Date: January 21st, 2008 04:56 pm (UTC)		(Link)

To be honest, I haven't done much serious typing on the Eee yet. I haven't noticed keys sticking though. My problem is that I haven't quite got used to the distance to the right hand Shift key and keep hitting the Up arrow which leads to some cursing the Nth time I do it. Also I've never liked touchpads, so I'm still a bit clumsy with it and keep following links I didn't mean to follow! But I'm sure I'll get used to it.

Re the food: I suppose you could say it was traditional, though not necessarily Welsh. Traditional British, perhaps? I had home made veg soup followed by roast beef, Yorkshire pud, roast potatoes and veg. For my pudding I chose "ginger pudding", which was seemed to be exactly like treacle sponge to me, namely a faintly gingery dark moist sponge covered in syrup. The person who ordered "treacle sponge", on the other hand, got a pale sponge which had no sauce or liquid syrup and had to request custard for it!

	From: footlingagain	Date: January 21st, 2008 05:18 pm (UTC)		(Link)

Thank you for coming back to me so quickly!

I haven't got the hang of the keypad yet - that's why I've been trying to use the hotkeys. Maybe their not working properly is just nature's way of telling me I have to learn! I'll put a query into the Asus forum - try to find out if it's just me being clumsy. (It's so dinky, it's taking a bit of getting used to - it took longer to type 200 words this afternoon than 900 on the pc this morning. But I'll get there :))

The food you had sounds lovely - in the style of "traditional pub", I think. I can't believe your friend had to ask for custard to go with treacle sponge, though (which sounds as though it didn't have any treacle, either) - I thought it was sacrilege to serve it without!

	From: heleninwales	Date: January 22nd, 2008 09:14 am (UTC)		(Link)

The treacle sponge indeed had no visible treacle! As you say, sacrilege!

Re the Eee keyboard. You have to remember that I trained my fingers for many years on the Psion 5MX, which has a much smaller keyboard than the Eee. The Psion keyboard had to be powered by magic though because despite being so small, it was perfectly possible to touch type on it. :)