Just to report back.
I'm very pleased with the new lappy. Bargain at £150. A few small dents in the lid but I can't see them when I'm using it
Excellent screen, perfect keyboard and battery seems to hold up well. With a bit of private guidance from Robert of this parish, I'm finding my way round Win 10. Very very different from what I'm used to but the search bar is quite powerful I have have to learn to ask there rather than try and find stuff by browsing. Annoyingly a few changes of names of of key functions from XP for no apparent reason.
Best of all I found a cheap 64 bit version of my familiar 2-D drawing package Visio on ebay so that and the preloaded open office will do most of what I want.
Managed to bring 8 years worth of mail over from the previous lappy without tears.
It's not often I need to look back through mail but when I do its useful to keep it all after filtering out the dross.
It is a Dell Latitude E7240 12" 8gb ram 240GB SSD fresh clean install of Win10 and COA, Open Office, Edge, Chrome Acrobate reader all ready loaded.
Well pleased.
Bob