That’s unusual, Ann is away tonight (in Leicester helping to run a careers event – how ironic!!!) So, that gave me chance to fix her PC that had overheated last week. To make matters worse, on my initial attempt to fix it and whilst trying to clean the fan assembly near the processor, I managed …
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Month:March 2009
Boiler Problems?
It might be my imagination, but I think the central-heating is playing-up. I put it on when I got back from my meeting – two hours later, the radiators were only luke warm. I’ve booked British Gas to sort it out. Update: Yes, definitely a problem – the boiler keeps firing-up and then after ten …
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The gardening begins…
With the clocks changing last night and the lighter evenings beginning to appear, it was time to devote some energy to the back garden. …so I washed the car, whilst Ann did all the hard work!!! Well, that’s not quite true, I did rake the lawn to remove all the debris left behind by the …
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Rosi’s Get-Together for Ann’s Birthday
It was really great of Rosi to offer to host a get-together to celebrate Ann’s Birthday. We don’t need much of an excuse to meet-up with the neighbours – so this was just perfect!! We took Karen and Paul with us for the short drive and we arrived there about 7.45. All the gang was …
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Up to Downtown
We drove over to Peterborough first to pick up Ann’s new jacket from John Lewis and also for me to get a haircut. We then headed for Downtown for a spot of shopping and to meet Denis and Mae for lunch. The lunch area was packed-out but luckily Mae managed to find a table for …
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Last of the Red Hot Lovers
We drove over to Stratford to see Second Thoughts production of ‘The Last of the Red Hot Lovers’. I picked Ann up from the station at just after 6 and we got there at just after 7. Ann was hungry, so picked up some chips. Yum-yum! – then I remembered that I was supposed to …
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Ann’s Birthday
I can’t remember the last time I WASN’T around for Ann’s Birthday – in fact, it’s never happened before. I’m not sure how I ended up scheduling myself to work today! Still, Nicki has been with us for the past two days and they’ve had great fun doing ‘girly-stuff’ in my absence. Pressy-wise, I bought …
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Ann’s new phone
We realised that with Ann’s redundancy looming she’d have to give her company mobile back – a rather antiquated Nokia. A perfect excuse then to look for a replacement! Slim, attractive, easy-on-the-eye and brimming with technology – but enough about me 🙂 – what about the new phone? We settled for the ‘Nokia Classic 60 …
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Lee and Bertie’s for the weekend
I got up at 7.45 and Ann followed shortly afterwards. We had tea/coffee in the guest suite. I ate lightly at breakfast – brioche and jams, whilst Ann showered. After breakfast, we watched ‘Shadow Run‘ -on DVD – the one we started to watch last night. Starring Sir Michael Caine it tells the story of …
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Lee and Bertie’s for the weekend
We left early – at 7am – and that guaranteed we would have a good journey. It was actually a GREAT journey, hardly any traffic, no hold-ups and a beautiful morning to be behind the wheel. We filled us with juice at the local Total station and whilst doing so, a guy delivering newspapers to …
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Meal with David and Val
We went back to Edwards Restaurant tonight with David and Val for our regular monthly meal. For the past few, we’ve been eating-in together, so it was nice to see Edwards again as the food is always superb – especially the chips (which I’ve given up for Lent!) We left a little earlier than normal …
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TV: Being Human
Good news for fans of this series – Being Human. Not only has the BBC commissioned a second, but there’s a ‘special’ on BBC3 on 28 March. Digital Spy reports that it’ll contain interviews with the stars and the Director and Writer, Toby Whithouse, followed by a re-run of the first three episodes. Based on …
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Alan Parsons – The Album Cover that Never Was
For all fans of the music of Alan Parsons, the forthcoming Album by his ex-music partner, Eric Woolfson, entitled ‘The Project that Never Was’, is eagerly awaited. Spookily, a related item on Steve Martin’s The Avenue Online web-site talks of album covers that also never saw the light of day. Steve collaborated …
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Ann’s not well
Ann took the day off today. It looks like her ear infection has returned together with a raging sore throat. Fortunately, the doctor prescribed some anti-biotics, so we’ll see what difference they make. 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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Visit to London
I took the early train to London with Ann this morning. I met up with Anthony from A2O to discuss display stands for the OCA (err, that’s enough abbreviations!). We kicked off early and were finished by 11.15. I then jumped on the Tube and headed for London Bridge to meet Keith from the OCA – …
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Wire-free!
I’m not sure why it took me so long to sort this out – I’d been thinking about the advantages of buying a router-modem that had wireless capability ever since, well… forever. With three PCs and a and a laptop already wired in to my existing wired-router, I had run out of Ethernet ports. Daft …
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Busy…Busy…
I really must allow more time for actioning things after attending OCA committee meetings. I promised myself that I’d leave yesterday’s meeting with hardly anything to follow-up on – some chance! I was up at 5.15 this morning (and that’s crazy on a Saturday! – even for me!!). I worked on stuff like follow-up letters …
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OCA Committee Meeting
I travelled down to the BRIT School for an OCA committee meeting today. It’s over 100 miles, so I left early – really early (4.45am)in order to miss the traffic round the M25 and especially the south-side of the Dartford Bridge. The meeting was originally scheduled fro 13th February, but the snow and the general …
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The Cats are four years old today
Bon-Bon and Biscuit are four today! Compared to their previous Birthday, both are now equally affectionate to us – Bon-Bon had always been a little ‘stand-offish’, but she’s now much more chilled. Biscuit has even strayed onto my lap VERY occasionally! No chance with Bon-Bon though!!! Since discovering Patsy the cat-groomer over in Rushden, their …
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Biscuit and Bon-Bon for a bath!
We took the cats over to see Patsy of Rushden Persian Rescue for their six-weekly ‘bath-and-brush-up’. This is only their second visit there. Their first, back in January was because the previous groomer had been arrested for cruelty to animals after an RSPCA raid late last year!!! We made good use of time today, popping …
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Laptop Battery
I suppose I should have realised that the original battery on my Dell Laptop was ‘on its last legs’. Symptoms such as the battery only lasting 5 minutes after a full-charge and arriving at my Accountant’s today to find that it wouldn’t even boot-up on battery-power! Bugger! A quick search using Google found a suitable …
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TV: BBC Trailer for ‘Being Human’
Ahh, found it! The original trailer for Being Human on YouTube. The series has just finished on BBC3, but the good news is that they’ve commissioned a second series – great! Steve PalmerI got into blogging quite late in life, not publishing my first post until 2004 – well into my 40s! My lifelong love …
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TV: What? What?
Fans of Doctor Who, listen up! Digital Spy has some exclusive photographs of the next ‘Special’ (Easter 2009). What do we know so far about the story-line? Not much actually – We know that the title will be ‘Planet of the Dead’ (more info here) and that comedian and actor Lee Evans is in it. …
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Ann’s PC
I had a productive morning revamping an old Course and fine-tuning one for later this week, so I was well-ahead. I used the time to start work on trying to solve the problem with Ann’s PC. It’s been suffering from random re-boots and ‘forgetting’ drive ‘e’. I know for certain, it’s not a software problem, …
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Dubai and Oman photographs ‘re-done’
I realised that the photographs I’d uploaded to my site whilst we were in Dubai were too small to be fully appreciated on some large-screen monitors so I re-coded all the html. They’re a lot larger now. See them HERE Steve PalmerI got into blogging quite late in life, not publishing my first post until …
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