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Hi, Rusty!
Yes! Success!
I have followed your excellent advice, and have downloaded the browser "Brave" on my Hudl.
I now have an ad -free environment there ...... it is wonderful!
All I need now is for the tablet to have a thorough cleansing of all the rubbish that I have some how accumulated (a job for daughter, I think, as I mentioned before)
"The Last Hillwalker" by John Burns sounds vaguely reminiscent of our friend Bill Bryson?
But perhaps without his somewhat wicked humour?
And what of the other book....the "Farthest North"?
To where is that referring?

Hello, Elle!
Well done!
You have chosen an excellent browser.
Very fast and no ads!
I am not sure what kind of rubbish you mean?
Is it shortcuts on screen, that you no longer need?
If so, it is very simple to get rid of them.
If it's junk files and stuff clogging the memory, I use an app fro Google Play Store to install and run it, and it cleans out all the junk and old files.
Most of the cleaners are free.
I use "Norton Clean, Junk Removal", but there are many more to choose.
"The Last Hillwalker" is Burns reflecting on his days in the mountains etc. Should be good.
Now the other book is about the voyage of the Fram to the North Pole.
Nansen was an astonishing man.
He was a champion skier, scientist, polar explorer, diplomat, Nobel Prize winner, and created the "Nansen Passport".
I think it will be a great book!

Elle, here is a wee bit about Nansen.
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1922/nansen/biographical/

Hi, Rusty!
Yes, I must admit to being quite pleased with myself!
I am not very adept at using appliances where I have to "swipe" rather than "press", which is probably why I prefer to use my desk top computer and my old-style Nokia 1100!
I do have Piriform (free) Cleaner and Piriform Defraggler installed on my desk top - both work well - but do not have anything set up on the Hudl.
Your two prospective books sound good!
Ah, thank you for the interesting link about Nansen,
I had been intending to ask you about him, as I did not previously know of the "Nansen Passport"
Google tells me that Novak won against Kevin Anderson, easily by the sound of it, 6-2; 6-2.
So Novak plays Alexander Zverev tomorrow.
Did you watch any of the tennis?

Hello, Elle!
There are loads of cleaners for your Hudl in Google Play Store.
If it is unwanted homescreen "shortcut icons" you want rid of, simply hold it down with your finger and "drag" it up to the top left hand corner where an "X" will appear, drag it onto the "X and it will disappear.
Nansen was a great humanitarian, too.
He was really a very remarkable man.
He deliberately got the Fram ice-bound in the pack ice as his theory was it would go very close to the North Pole with the currents under the ice.
I am really looking forward to the book on the Fram's voyage!
I saw no tennis today, and I missed the skiing, too!

Hello Pigale

I hope you enjoy the jigjag puzzles. Planet Puzzle are excellent. I have got 4 x 500 puzzles on the go at the moment.

Hello Elle

The surgery were supposed to ring with the blood test results -they did not so I suppose no news is good news.

I agree with you and Rusty that "limbo" was not a satisfactory clue in the Times final. The definition is wrong. Anyone who put Lambo could have challenged, claiming Lamo was short for Lamborghini, although it is usually lambo, with b in, and lambo as the definition.

A Very good morning to you, Rusty!
It is a beautiful day here, but very cold!
I am quite happy with this....'cold and dry' beats 'warm and wet' any day, in my book!
A great day for walking, although I have not yet ventured forth.
The cat wasn't feeling too well when I got up this morning....... the problem appeared to be a fur ball which he had trouble getting up.
He's now eaten breakfast and seems lively enough.
I shall keep an eye on him though for a while.
We shall have a leisurely morning, instead, and go out early this afternoon.
How are things with you?
Any plans for today?

Good morning, Elle!
Great day here, too!
No plans today, that I can think of!
Here is today's useless piece of information.
This new robot box thing, is called "CAPTCHA".
Apparently it is an acronym of,
"Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart".
Now, you know about our Dundee Law?
Well, a local university student has just cycled up it almost 150 times non-stop. That is climbing the height of Mount Everest in 140 miles. That was the challenge.
Sean did it for a motor neuron disease charity.
Quite an astonishing ride!

Hi, Rusty!
Ah, I had wondered where the name "Captcha" came from......
It seems a tad concerned that I might be a 'computer', judging from the number of images it presents to me!
I have discovered, though, that if one set of images is too difficult, then I can press "Skip" and get another lot of pictures.
I could amuse myself all morning!
What a taradiddle!
Well, done Sean!
That is quite some feat. cycling up The Law so many times.
A brave effort.
I have finished the Everyman.

Hello, Elle!
There are a lot of articles on the Internet about Captcha.
Many saying it does not work on Chrome, but.....!
I found another article stating that it works perfectly on Chrome.
Apparently the "spambot" places the "tick" exactly in the middle of the box, whereas a human places the tick anywhere in the box.
So a perfectly central tick from a spambot will be rejected by Captcha/Chrome.
Now to put Sean's performance on the Law in perspective.
I remember back in the Eighties, the Kellogg's Tour of Britain came to Dundee, with a hilly prologue from the city centre to the top of the Law. (It is a brute of a climb!)
The prologue was won by Malcolm Elliott, who collapsed at the finish, and was given oxygen to aid recovery.
Sean's was an astonishing ride!
I think he is doing physics at Uni.