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Bill’s Tunisian Rescue Elizabeth was at school again and “And those machines we had to the toys were sitting around in her go through where we could see bedroom chatting about some of each other’s insides,” Francis the adventures we had had. said. “But tell the story James, and I will chip in if you forget anything.” “Do you know,” Francis said. “These adventures really only “OK,” I agreed. “It all began when started when you joined us Elizabeth came home and told us James.” that we were going away on holiday, and we were going to fly I was surprised and said so, but there. But I didn’t understand and the other toys agreed with him. thought I had to be able to fly myself, I had never seen an “It was pretty exciting when you aeroplane.” Everyone laughed, rescued me,” Bill agreed. they had all been confused themselves when they first went “And we had a big adventure on holiday with Elizabeth. catching those thieves afterwards,” Francis added. “Anyway,” I continued. “Once we were all inside the aeroplane it The other toys wanted us to tell the story again. It had raced down what I thought then only been Francis was a large road but Francis and I that had told me it was called a gone on this runway, and then leapt adventure, although into the air. It was very once we had exciting and a bit scarey rescued Bill he was at the same time. Then with us for the big we went up through the adventure of course. clouds and into the bright sunshine. I will always “Do you remember how remember that, it was very excited you were and how you beautiful.” had hidden in Elizabeth’s case “Do you remember when we landed?” Francis said. “There was so you couldn’t be forgotten?” a great big bump and you were worried in case your stuffing had Francis reminded me. come loose.” “I remember being worried about “I do,“ I replied. “I was really quite the aeroplane as well,” I said. worried but you checked for me in “There were so many people all wanting to go inside and I didn’t think we would all fit, but we did.” 60
that thing at the airport when we and cafés and bars. We sat at a came home.” bar and had drinks,” I continued. “There was one boat that was “But tell us the story about how offering to take people out to see you found Bill and how you the dolphins. I got very confused rescued him,” one of the other about its name as Elizabeth said it toys asked. was a cat and a meringue. But that soon got sorted out when she “Sorry,” I said, “I got carried away. explained it was a catamaran, a Well we arrived in Tunisia and special boat with two hulls so it after meeting up with the lady from was wider than normal and rocked the holiday company, we made about less than a normal boat. our way to some big buses which then took us to “And then we our hotel. It walked back to the was very hot hotel and went to and the there bed.” were some very strange “But, of course, we looking trees didn’t sleep as well. because we were too excited,” ”Everyone Francis said. “And changed their once Elizabeth was clothes so asleep, we made they were not our way out to the as hot and we went down to look balcony to see what we could at the sea. I remember falling see.” asleep and waking up at the dinner table in the hotel - I must “There were hundreds of stars I have been very tired after the remember,” I said. “And then we journey.” noticed a small teddy lying in the corner of the balcony that was “I fell asleep as well,” Francis said. below ours. He looked like he “I think it was the heat as well as might be hurt, so we needed to the journey.” find a way of getting to him.” “After we had eaten, we went “I had been there for ages,” Bill down a road to where there was a said. “I had hurt my leg and the port, with lots of great big boats. boy who was supposed to look There were shops there as well, after me just threw me onto the 61
balcony and left me there.” “When I got to the balcony below, I found Pete looking very sad and “We decided that we needed a he had a wonky leg, where it had rope so we could climb down to been caught on something and get him and see if he was alright,” ripped.” I continued. ”But where could we find a rope? I then remembered “That was why he threw me out,” that film we had seen on TV Pete said. “I am so glad now where some people had tied because I have such great friends, sheets together to climb out of a but I do feel sorry for any other window.” teddies he might get.” “But you couldn’t really go and get We were all silent then for a while, the sheets from the beds without thinking of how lucky we all were waking everyone up,” Francis to have such a lovely owner. pointed out. “So we went and found some towels and between It was Pete who spoke first. “I was us we managed to get some tied feeling very much better then, with together. We then tied one end to James with me, but my wonky leg the railings on our balcony and meant that there was no way I threw the rest over the side.“ would be able to climb up the towels, so James tied the corners “It’s a good job we teddies and of the bottom towel together to soft toys can’t get hurt if we fall,” make a bag at the bottom and Gerry the giraffe said. “It would not then he helped me into it.” be a good idea for a person to climb down a rope like that.” “I then climbed back up the towels, it wasn’t easy for me so “No,” I agreed. “We might find it Pete really would have had a upsets our stuffing, but no human problem. Once I had got to the should try what we did. top, Francis and I pulled with all our strength and managed to pull “Anyway,” I continued, “I then the towels back up with Pete suggested I should be the one to safely inside.” climb down as I was the youngest and might find it easier.” “We then all climbed into the spare bed and fell fast asleep,” “I was very happy to agree to Francis said, yawning as he that,” Francis agreed. 62
remembered how tired we were. We teddies decided to go and explore the sand hills just behind “Elizabeth was really surprised us. when she woke up in the morning to find me there,” Pete said. “It was from there that we saw a man walking along behind the “Yes, but she was pleased to see chairs where Elizabeth and her you. We told her how we had mum and dad were sleeping. He found you and she was worried as reached down and took something to how to tell her parents, do you from Elizabeth’s mum’s handbag. remember?” Pete said. “And you suggested she say she found us “We called out but they couldn’t on the balcony, she didn’t need to hear us so we rushed back and say which one.” woke Elizabeth up and told her what had happened.” “They were surprised when they came to wake Elizabeth up,” I Francis joined in then. “She woke said. “But Elizabeth’s mum said her parents and told them she she had a small sewing kit in her thought she had heard something room and she would soon have and had seen a man walking away Pete’s leg mended.” from where they were. Her mum check her bag and told them her “It was so good to have my leg purse was missing.” mended,” Pete said. “I was soon able to walk properly again.” “She was very upset of course,” I said, “and we went to the hotel “But that wasn’t the end of the manager who phoned the police adventure was it?” Francis said. who came and talked to us. We had told Elizabeth what the man “No,” I replied. “And Pete proved looked like and she told the himself quite a hero. policeman. “After breakfast we had all gone “When the police had left, down to the beach and Elizabeth’s Elizabeth’s dad suggested that we mum and dad had fallen asleep in all went for a walk as there was the sun. Elizabeth was reading her nothing much we could do unless book and was also falling asleep. 63
the police caught him. So we “Elizabeth called out then and headed along the beach towards her dad and the waiter sat on the port where all the lovely him until the police came.” boats were. “And luckily Elizabeth’s mum’s “We went back to the bar where purse was still in his pocket and we had sat the previous evening her bank cards and other things and asked the waiter for some were still there,” I added. “So drinks. He had just brought them Pete really did save the day.” when we saw the man who had stolen the pursecome in to the “But then we had some more bar.” adventures,” Francis said. “We went out and saw the dolphins, “I noticed him first,” Pete said, and then we even managed to “and managed to tell Elizabeth. stop some smugglers. But that is As the man was leaving he had another story for another day I to walk right past us and I think. Elizabeth will be home jumped off Elizabeth’s lap and soon. managed to trip him up. 64
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boot the computer from. But to get Then you just need to head for the computer to choose the USB Save and Exit and the computer drive to boot from does require a will restart. If the USB drive is still small change to the BIOS of the plugged in then it will boot into computer. This sounds far worse Chrome OS and you can enter the than it really is and you only need setup information it needs. to make one small change. Be aware that it will only be using The way you access the BIOS the computer’s RAM for storage so varies from computer to computer it might have very little left for so you will probably need to running anything useful. But it will Google it for your particular allow you to experiment and see if computer. Just do a search for you like Chrome OS. “Access the BIOS on my XXXX computer”, where XXXX is the Because the computer was name of your computer. basically only of any use as a doorstop it was so slow, I then took Common ways are to press F2 or the next option to install Chrome Del as the computer starts up, OS as the permanent OS for the normally when the logo appears. computer so it could have the Other ways include starting the entire hard drive to use. computer, then holding down the Shift key as you do a restart. Just To be honest, I wish I had done it look it up for your computer. months ago. True, Chrome OS will not run the software I use to make Once you are in the BIOS you can the magazine, but it does let me use the arrow keys on the get on the internet, use Microsoft keyboard to move around (the Office online, edit websites, play mouse will not work) and select the games and write books (using my BOOT options. Then change the favourite app Wavemaker). options so it looks at the USB first, then the Hard Drive as a second If you wish to use the USB drive for option. On most computers there anything else afterwards, you need will be instruction on screen as to to use the Chrome OS recovery which button moves the options app which you can download and forward or backward and you will run on the new Chrome OS see them move up or down in the computer you now have or on any list. You should end up with USB at pc. You will see an option to the top, then the Disk drive. So if recover the USB drive when you the computer sees a USB drive run the utility. plugged in when it starts it will use it, if not it will start as before. [email protected] 67
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