The fishermen were out in strength, but the catch was very poor. Probably too hot for the fish.
But the good news is that I have finally solved one of the issues on this computer - the dire lack of free space on the C: drive. GoogleEarth was using 2GB as cache. I did a quite complicated tweak and successfully moved the cache to a less critical place. Now if only I can do that with my e-Mail folders as well ...