I should have posted about my poor sad Kindle when it first failed in March. I bought it in January with some birthday money and having loaded it up with half a dozen books it was my constant companion while on holiday in Egypt. I didn’t use it as much at home, but one day I went to turn it on and it wouldn’t respond – the Kindle screen was frozen on the screensaver. After charging it and rebooting it and getting no response I visited the Amazon website and clicked the link to return it. One click later and I had someone from Customer Services on the phone – very impressive. He took me through various rebooting processes and then asked me to leave it plugged in for a few hours and he’d call back at 2.30pm. Yeah, yeah, I thought – that’ll be the last I hear from him! But to my surprise, bang on 2.30pm the phone rang and it was the Amazon guy. He tried one more reboot and when nothing happened he arranged next day delivery of a new Kindle. It duly arrived the next day (a Saturday) and I was sent a return label and instructions on how to have the faulty Kindle collected by a courier. Everything went smoothly – the faulty Kindle was collected, and I was happy with my new one. OK it took me ages to manually put all the books back on it and sort them back into collections, but I had a working Kindle again.
Until now. Continue reading
. It’s out now on Kindle for a bargain £2.99, and will be out in paperback very soon. I won’t go into too much detail about the origins of his “Boxing Day” (you’ll just have to buy the book to find out!) but basically it’s a day when you do exactly what you want, when you want. You don’t pre-plan anything; instead you simply ask yourself “what would I like to do, right now?” and unless it’s physically impossible to do, you do it! 
