Later....

After the soup and phone call, I managed, with the help of telephone support from elder son, to put the laptop together.

After that, what do you do but power it up and get going. I changed the language to English (UK) and the clock to GMT, and set the time as well.

So then I decided to switch off.

I tried Start Shut down but it would not do that it just put it into Change User. I tried it twice but still the same. I don't like to switch it off at the wall or close the lid, so it is sitting there staring at me balefully

I had also tried to set up a wifi connection but that does not work.

Okay, back to the stone age, where I belong.

After that battle, I found I could not get up to stand again.

I found on investigation that the cushion I had used to give me a little extra height to make getting up to stand easier had slipped behind me onto the floor.

I became a bit desperate, but then hit on the fact that I was wearing my lovely thick jumper and tucked it under me.

It worked!