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Looking back over the last few months I was trying to find something good to balance the bad times. 

My greatest achievement was a much needed weight loss, brought about by diet and exercise changes.  At my last annual check-up my BMI was way too high and I was warned that I was in danger of becoming Type 2 diabetic, so decided to do something about it - BMI's down, blood pressure's down. hurray!  Just need some new clothes now, a size smaller!

Since my children have been doing my shopping I haven't been tempted by any special offers or impulse buys, so have stuck to a list and have saved quite a bit of money by not buying stuff I don't really need.

My greatest failure, however, was not to complete my ambition to bring up to date and file and record all my family history research.  It has seemed an unsurmountable task, but I'm plodding along a bit at a time, so maybe I'll get there some day.

What have been your greatest achievements and failures?

I can't find this couple on the 1861 with their daughter Kate Maud.  They are probably living in Easton, Hunts or one of the surrounding villages.  Can anyone help, please?   

I assume that Trump doesn't wear a mask because he's too vain (although he did say that he had worn one once and thought he looked like the Lone Ranger - funny, I thought, since the Lone Ranger's mask covered his eyes and not his lower face), but what's the reason for our politicians not wearing masks?  Boris certainly doesn't wear one in his ghastly photo opportunities, nor does Rishi Sunak, nor as far as I can see from the papers and TV coverage do most, if not all of our politicians.  How can they then expect the general public to wear masks, especially as medical advice seems to increasingly be in favour of  the benefits from them?

Yesterday I made my first excursion into town  to have my hair cut.  The hairdresser had taken extensive measures to rearrange her salon and wore a visor and so on.  I wore a mask, too, and then went on to a very large farm shop nearby.  I was the only person in the store wearing a mask and there were no signs organising a one-way system, also no social distancing. There were, however, a couple of hand sanitiser bottles around.  I made my purchases rapidly and fled.

I should start this by saying that I am an absolute novice with computers.
 
A little while ago my husband (with my permission) wanted to log onto my Microsoft account on the laptop which we both use, but he must have made an error with the opening password, not once, but several times.  He then used the PIN as an alternative login, which worked fine, but since then I have never been offered the option of logging in with my password and have always been asked for the PIN.  I use Windows 10, by the way, and although he is the administrator, I'm the one who uses the laptop most, because he has another large computer..

This may or may not be connected, but sometime later I received two messages on my mobile from Microsoft, the first one giving me a 7 figure number for an account password reset code, the second giving me a 4 figure number for account security.  I have no idea how or where to use these numbers, but I would really like to either return to my original password login or create a new one and would welcome advice, expressed in the simplest of terms, of how to do so.

Many thanks.

I have the front cover of the discharge papers of Alfred Bolton Fairey in 1919.  He had served with the Northumberland Fusiliers, though an earlier record has him with the 4th Battalion Suffolk Regiment in 1915.  This info from Family Search.  I cannot find a birth record for Alfred and am unable to discover the names of his parents.  His army record says he was born in Caxton or Abington Cambs.
Can anyone help, please?