We’re off for our regular monthly-meal with David and Val tonight. It’s a return to the excellent Han, a Chinese Restaurant in Market Harborough. Coincidentally, we were there with them both around the same time last year! As usual, the meal was excellent and so was the service. We left around 9.30 getting home at …
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Month:October 2008
David Tennant leaves Doctor Who
Well, as many newspapers speculated some time back, David Tennant has decided to leave Doctor Who after the four ‘specials’ next year. I guess this was a difficult decision as he has really made the role his own – and even if you are not a Who fan, you can’t fail to be impressed by …
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BBC iPlayer
I haven’t used this for a while and after the short download of the updated version, the picture and sound seemed to be much better quality. It gave me an opportunity to watch Series 7, episode 2 of ‘Spooks’ that I’d forgotten to add into the SkyPlus yesterday. Steve PalmerI got into blogging quite late …
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Impossible Holiday Pic!
Last Sunday we got together with Ralph and Karen to swap holiday photographs from the group-holiday-that-never-was! The photograph shows how it should have been, but the cock-up with the dates meant that Ann and I went a week prior to Ralph and Karen. As a laugh, we agreed to take a photograph of us in …
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Visit to Bristol
Here I am in the City-Inn in Bristol in preparation for my visit to a new client tomorrow. Nice room! Free wi-fi plus and iMac in every room!!! I’m meeting up with Angela tonight who by a strange coincidence is also in Bristol tonight and tomorrow. Steve PalmerI got into blogging quite late in life, …
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CD: The War of the Worlds – Collector’s Edition
In preparation for the 30th Anniversary Tour in June next year, I’ve blown the dust of this very special version of Jeff Wayne’s ‘The War of the World’s’ CD and converted them to MP3s. A spectacular SEVEN disc collection (6 CDs + 1 DVD) featuring all permutations of the Album, including Spanish, German versions too! …
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Track information and MP3 capability on my Mondeo
I suppose I knew this all along, but I never got round to following it through. Ever since one of Ann’s CDs showed the track information when it played in the Mondeo, I’ve been wondering how it was done. Well, it’s called ‘CD-text’ and I’d vaguely heard of the concept, but had never found a …
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Ralph and Karen for lunch
We met up with Ralph and Karen for lunch. It was good to catch up with them both – it feels like we haven’t seen them for ages. They were heading back from Matlock, so we arranged to meet at The Chequers in Swinford for lunch. The food was good (We both had the Steak …
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Film: “The Illusionist”
We’d recorded this film and it had sat on the Sky+ box for over a week. I don’t think we were expecting it to be as good as it was. We certainly don’t remember coming out at the cinema in 2006. Starring Edward Norton as Eisenheim and Jessica Biel as Sophie, it tells the story …
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No Internet!!!!
Woke up to discover that we lost all Internet connectivity! I guess it just goes to show how we (err, I) have come to rely on it!!! It was off from 7am until lunchtime. Steve PalmerI got into blogging quite late in life, not publishing my first post until 2004 – well into my 40s! …
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Music: Cascada
Picked up a couple of Albums by Cascada from play.com Lots of good tunes as well as a few slow versions of the dance tracks. “What Hurts the Most” video is HERE Latest video “Everytime we Touch” on YouTube <img src="https://www.stevepalmer.com/blog/uploaded_images/MusicCascada_BFD6/video65ec8b53a237.jpg" galleryimg="no" onload="var downlevelDiv = document.getElementById('5597ec18-db78-47ab-9e5e-b98c850df557'); downlevelDiv.innerHTML = " https://www.youtube.com/v/GUsb5HP7Ajg&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0x006699&color2=0x54abd6&border=1″;” alt=””> Cascada’s web-site is HERE …
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Music: Ne-Yo
Stumbled across this artist whilst surfing the music channels on Sky and on impulse, bought the album – ‘Year of the Gentleman’. Loved it!!! (and I’m not normally a fan of RandB) The single – ‘Closer’ can be seen on YouTube HERE Wiki info HERE and the official Ne-Yo site is HERE Steve PalmerI got …
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AGM for the School
I travelled down to the School today for the AGM (and dropped in to see Mum on the way through). The School closed in July and we’re now in residence in the gym at the BRIT School next door. At least they had painted it since we had the Reunion there earlier this year – …
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Felt Tip Thieves
We joined Julie, Tom, Karen, Paul, Chris, Debbie, Stefan, Trish and John to see Julie and Tom’s son, Nick play bass in the Band – Felt Tip Thieves at Soprano’s Bar in Kettering. We got back about 11.30 – knackered and deaf, but it was a great evening Check out their page on MySpace! …
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Alison for lunch in Peterborough
I drove over the Peterborough today to meet Alison W. We used to occasionally work together when running management courses for Nokia in the UK. We reckon we haven’t seen each other for almost 10 years!!Alison is now working part-time and has two kids – Rhys and Bethan. We had lunch at John Lewis’ and although …
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Manchester again
Another trip to Manchester for one of my clients. Wet and foggy this time! I’m on the 11th floor of the hotel – I seem to be moving UP the floors on each visit! Steve PalmerI got into blogging quite late in life, not publishing my first post until 2004 – well into my 40s! …
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New series on ITV4 – ‘Sanctuary’
This new series started on ITV last week starring Amanda Tapping (ex Stargate, ex Stargate Atlantis) as Doctor Helen Magnus – who turns out to be 157 years old! I only caught up with Episode 1 today, almost a week later – Episode 2 is on tonight. First impressions are encouraging. The acting is very …
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Soup Kitchen
Ann’s always been excellent at making homemade soup, but this one was special. A vegetable soup with chicken added to it. Top marks!!! We’ll probably have it everyday this week for tea!! Souper!!!! Steve PalmerI got into blogging quite late in life, not publishing my first post until 2004 – well into my 40s! My …
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Sunny Sunday!
It was a gorgeous day here today – wall-to-wall sunshine. Ann started preparing the garden for Winter, whilst I started to write the Christmas cards* (In October???? 😲, well, there are around 300 to write!!) It was the perfect day for polishing the car too! *Totally organised or totally sad? (delete as applicable) Steve PalmerI …
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Trip to Lincoln to see Bev
We took a drive to Lincoln today to meet up with Bev, who we haven’t seen for a while. We arrived at 12.30 – after a frustrating journey that diverted us via Oundle. After a brief introduction to ‘Smokey’, Bev’s rabbit we headed for the Wharf for lunch. Bev suggested we tried ‘The Ultimate Burger’ …
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Birthday Meal with Jo and Janet
It’s Jo’s birthday today! We went to The Old Bakehouse in Rothwell for our table at 7.15pm. I think this is the third or fourth time we’ve been there. Service was excellent (as normal) – and so was the food! We got through two bottles of red wine plus a bottle of sparkling water …
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Losing the network – Finding the Network – Losing the Network?
Hhmmm…this is strange. Over the last few weeks, I’ve noticed that randomly, I seem to be losing the ability to connect to other PCs on the network. The biggest problem is that it is random! I thought I’d narrowed it down to a faulty router-modem, but having taken delivery of a new one today, it …
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Meal with Mags and Ian
We met up at Georgetown in Stratford-upon-Avon. I’d been round at Mags’ helping her set-up her new laptop in readiness for her six-weeks of work in India. I’d not heard of the restaurant before and the decision to go there was based on Ian discovering it was 3 meals for the price of two! It’s …
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Felt Tip Thieves
Nick, our neighbour’s son, is playing bass for The Felt Tip Thieves. Check out their page on MySpace! Some great tunes especially ‘Lovelife’. 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), …
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Charity event
Last night’s event on behalf of the United Foster Carers’ Association was great! – Sharon’s on the Committee. We met Pete and Diane, who were part of our table and we had a good laugh for a worthy cause. The event was based around a three-course meal (good food for 12 quid!) and a disco. …
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Trip to Worthing
We drove to Worthing today too have lunch with Ian and Sharon and to attend a ‘charity do’ that they’re involved in. We didn’t visit Mum on the way through as she’s got some sort of bug and so have we. None of us wanted to share! We stopped off at Pease Pottage Services at …
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Meal with David and Val
We drove over to Wollaston tonight to the ‘Wollaston Inn’. A short journey of about 30 minutes got us there in plenty of time. It was an unusual setting with the Restaurant ‘bolted on’ to the side of the Pub. It looks as if the restaurant may once have been a Bank or something similar. …
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Julie – Promotional Leaflet
Julie popped round. She wanted some help with the pdf promotional leaflet for her web-site. 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 …
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The Laptop lives…
I ran all of the spyware software I could get my hands on overnight – and they found nothing – so it looks as though we’re back up-and-running. Thanks Dell! Steve PalmerI got into blogging quite late in life, not publishing my first post until 2004 – well into my 40s! My lifelong love of …
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The Laptop dies…
Bugger! The laptop started playing up today – very slow and then it wouldn’t boot at all! Those very helpful people at Dell helped it to boot again, but it was still very sluggish when loading programs. I also found some suspicious activity in the start-up routine (various dll files with random letter-strings as their …
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