I've just opened CA2 up again today, having been browsing on the Serif group page on Facebook, which reminded me to give it a go. 

Fingers crossed, it all seems to be working OK, even without disconnecting from the Internet first. Perhaps down to computer reboot, or possibly even the Microsoft update that came in when I shut down last night/opened this morning?

Thank you Ralph. This link proved very useful, and seeing these posts most timely. I used CA2 about a week ago, and then came to open it yesterday to sort and add prices to some photos of crafting supplies I want to move on, prior to moving house ourselves.

Sure enough, it just hung there, doing not a lot, but once I applied this fix, all was well again. Yay!

That was lovely to watch. The bees are enjoying the Lesser Celandine, so probably gathering pollen and possibly nectar as the colonies start to grow after the winter cluster. The Herbalist part of me always finds it amusing that one of the common names for the Lesser Celandine is Pilewort, because one of its actions is astringent and can be used in an ointment or infused oil for the relief of haemorrhoids.

The birdsong was delightful, too.

I hop on briefly most days to see if there is anything to which I can contribute. However, we are currently in the process of re-locating from the Midlands to my ancestral home turf of the north of England. House is on the market; we've found a lovely one we hope to get, and now just waiting for the ducks to line up in a row and receive an offer on our current house so we can go ahead.

As a result, we are having to de-clutter, and with both of us being squirrels there is a lot to go through. Keep? Sell/Donate? Tip visit(s)? All good fun!

Thank you, Alfred. I must admit it is one that has been on the go since 2015. I just go in each New Year's Eve and change the years and there it is, all ready to go.

Wishing everyone all the Blessings of the Season.

I have been on Win 11 for quite a while now, and use CraftArtist 2 Pro quite frequently. In fact, I'm currently using it to make scrapbook pages of my recent holiday in Northumberland, which included not one, but two nights of aurora photos (more than 300 in total ). I've already made up a scrapbook album of our Lindisfarne visit, which also had rather a lot of photos to incorporate.

I also used it back in September for another three sets of scrapbook pages (more than 50 in some projects) and on the whole, it's not causing any problems.

I do find it a good idea to save my work before attempting  to add any text to pages, as that does sometimes cause a crash. But it would do that on Win 10 as well, so no real change there. I am also in the habit of saving every time I finish one page before moving to the next.

It will crash at times, but I have now got used to saving my project whenever I've done anything I don't wish to have to re-do in the event of a crash, so basically I am very pleased that I can use it pretty much as well as I did when on Win 10.

Ah, that's good to know.

I still write a lot of things by hand, if I'm just making notes for myself. I've always got notepads at the side of my desk and pens/pencils to hand. It's far quicker and less frustrating than typing it out.

And I am indeed far more likely to remember what I've written, which is just as well as whether I can actually read what I wrote at a later time may be a totally different matter, of course.   It does often look like a spider has dipped all 8 feet in ink and scuttled across the page.

In the last few months I have got into genealogy (and a more than a bit hacked off to find I did have a forbear at the Battle of Bosworth, but, damn, the beggar was a traitor, fighting against his king ), and part of the 'fun' is deciphering the handwriting on the old census returns. On my to-do list is reading up on palaeography for when I get further back in time. My schoolgirl Latin may start to come in useful again, too.

I am in a number of Facebook groups for family trees and all that, and quite frequently people request help in deciphering words or names they have come across. Most of us oldies can usually recognise the word(s) quite quickly and easily, because we have had to learn and use cursive handwriting in our younger days.