Coming out of Dartmouth on Oisin a 50 ft catamaran, we heard on the radio that a force 8 was imminent so proptly turned around and sailed down to a mooring by the Ferry Boat Inn for the rest of the day and night and got very drunk
Get yourself a Solid State Drive and put that in your laptop. It will rejuvenate it and make it much faster (the slow bit is an old and clogged dik drive)
There is software - free - that will take the image of your old drive and put it onto the new - faster - drive
Re. Concorde, How many have had the Consorde sonic boom experience. happened to us on a nice sunny day coming back from Cherbourg, we spent ages looking for our attackers then notice a Concorde with a perfect 'smoke' ring behind it. Sadly, no camera to hand