Well, in the end.....
.....I couldn't stand the permanent niggling popups any more and bought the next years subs. Does it make me like MS any more? NO it bloody well doesn't!
My 15 yr old grandaughter, however, can make the system sing and at enormous speed. I watched her, late in the evening, divvy up round 400 photos from Mum's camera and her iPad between the iCloud, her iPad, Granny's iPad special friends, facebook and some for her school art project. The pointer was flashing around the screen like, like - I don't know what. All the while explaining to me the complications of being a teen age girl in the 21st century.
They didn't make 15 yr old girls like that in my youth - I'm certain I couldn't have coped.
The Ancient Mariner