Today, the ceiling was sorted in the ‘new’ bedroom. I’d like to say it was all my own work – I’d like to, but the hard work was sorted out by Chris and Shayne! If you look carefully at the picture above, you’ll see the rather fashionable artex look (well, fashionable in the 90s anyway!). …
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Month:April 2013
Journey to the Centre of the Tardis
A great episode on Saturday – with some good references to the Doctor’s past. Steve PalmerI got into blogging quite late in life, not publishing my first post until 2004 – well into my 40s! My lifelong love of technology and communication (in all its forms), together with a fondness for the art of writing …
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Miracle on Oxford Street/Britain HASN’T Got Talent
We travelled into London today to see our fave Opera: The Magic Flute. We would have normally travelled from Kettering but engineering work meant that there was no way of getting back tonight due to a lack of trains. And so, a new railway station has now been added to my recently visited list: Huntingdon. …
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Gift Man meets Voucher Woman
It’s official: I AM turning into a Pensioner as I find myself becoming attracted to money-off deals for food! It was off to London today to meet Sally B for our regular ‘catch-up and for me to handover the last of my management books. We met at King’s Cross and then took the short walk …
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Sea-Dogs, Cider and Elbow Grease
Having practised my ‘poirate’ accent all week, David and I took the short drive to Buckden Marina to spend the morning cleaning and preparing Osprey One (David’s boat) for the sailing season ahead. It was a gorgeous day, probably the warmest so far this year, and that made the morning even more enjoyable. We met …
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Voucher!
David and I drove over to Market Harborough for lunch. In common with most of mankind, lunch at Pizza Express was financed by vouchers, courtesy of Mr Tesco! The food and service was spot-on and we even had a chance to wander around the town in the sun, sans jackets and pullovers – cor! what …
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Job Done!
OK, that’s it! The Home-office, like the dodo, is now extinct. Only the fittest survive, and the old black-ash furniture won’t fit with our new plans. Hats off to Bob, our local carpenter, who custom built all the office furniture (desks, bookcases, printer stations and concealed storage) over 20 years ago. If the furniture was …
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Speedy DoDO!
Yummy! Steve PalmerI got into blogging quite late in life, not publishing my first post until 2004 – well into my 40s! My lifelong love of technology and communication (in all its forms), together with a fondness for the art of writing seemed to be the perfect combination to contribute a few words to the …
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Chris and Pete’s for Lunch
We picked up Jo & Janet and then headed of to Chris and Pete’s for lunch at theirs in Rushden. We haven’t seen them since our wedding – far too long!!!! The food was delicious (they’d really laid on a feast for us) and the conversation, deep, meaningful, frivolous and fun – before we knew …
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Judging, Pussy and the Plasmas
Judging, Pussy and the Plasmas – no, not a Cowell-esque moment for a feline rock-band with a preference for protons, but a snappy title for today’s activities! The day began with me dropping Ann at Kettering Station so she could re-visit John Lewis in Leicester and make a judgement on bedroom furniture, carpets and wallpaper …
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The Fox and the fish
We don’t eat out spontaneously (unless it’s in the diary!), but tonight was an exception. I picked Ann up from Peterborough Station and we headed for The Fox Inn at Thorpe Waterville. We must have driven past it hundreds of times – and it always looked busy – but (Ann) had only managed to eat …
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New Web Site
Today, we signed-off my latest web-site design for a new Theatre Group based in Bishop’s Stortford. Over the next few weeks, they’ll be all sorts of testing going on, just to ensure everything is working. There’s still a few hyperlinks to sort out, but we’re 99% there. https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=contexture+theatre Steve PalmerI got into blogging quite late …
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The Office Transformation – Clearing the C***
David and I made short work of the office transformation today. Within an hour, most of the office storage furniture – a bookcase, two filing cabinets, two printer stands and one of the desks had been removed and deposited in the resident super-skip. Now all was needed was somewhere to put all the stuff that …
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Skippy…
The bushed DoDO! We ordered a skip to help us dispose of a lot of bits and pieces around the house and some significant business waste. Having carefully considered the skip size before ordering, we clearly abandoned all common sense, and a skip almost the size of Northamptonshire was delivered on Friday. Even after gutting …
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Downtown Fabby
Lee, Ann and I took a trip up to the fab Downtown department store today to meet Denis for lunch and to purchase some more bits and pieces for the Office-Bedroom conversion. Having bought the bed a few weeks ago, we now needed to buy a mattress for our room and then cycle the existing …
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Has Bean – The End of an Era
For almost 20+ years, my good mate Nick, who is also our family bean-counter – sorry, our Accountant – has made the annual pilgrimage here to finalise the business figures for the business-year-just-gone. So, today was a bit of a milestone as this was his very final visit – ever! as I had retired on …
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It’s tall… very tall!
I travelled down to London today to meet up with Peter J. We planned to take a tour of The Shard – 72 floors and 1016 feet of vertical architecture close to London Bridge and Guy’s Hospital. We weren’t quite sure what to expect as we turned the corner from the Tube Station, but nothing …
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Scarify and Convert!
Probably the only disadvantage of the now, lighter evenings, is that it’s a lot easier to see how much work there is to do in the garden! With the sun (almost) shining, and no sign of snow, we spent significant time in the garden today, picking-off the jobs. The big one was to scarify the …
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Lighter in Leicester
Today was a day for losing weight – weight in my wallet! We picked Lee up at 8.15 and sped over to Highcross in Leicester for a shopping spree. We planned to browse, but that didn’t last long. Thirty minutes in and we’d acquired a bed (for the home-office transformation), and the most complex (and …
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Rothwell 2 Turkey 0
I don’t go to Rothwell that often – it’s only normally to eat with friends. Strange then, that somehow I managed to eat there twice in the same day! My first trip was with David at lunchtime. Now that we’re ‘gentlemen of leisure’, we decided to do lunch at The Old Bakehouse. The food and …
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Topless
Val, our neighbour, had her new car today. WOW!! It’s an Audi A3, and unusually, it’s a cabriolet. The clever bit is that the roof doesn’t retract into the boot, it sits above it, so there’s no loss of luggage space. It’s got beautiful light-coloured leather upholstery and looks very sporty from all angles. A …
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