Christmas Presents 2009

As we’re away this year, we only took a few of the pressies with us. Mum Vouchers – John Lewis Vouchers – Boots Jo and Janet Odeon Cinema Vouchers Carol Incense Burner Mae and Denis Blue-Ray DVD: ‘Snow White’ Blu-Ray DVD: ‘Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince CD – Carpenters Ultimate Collection Bev Spicy Sauce …
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TV: Doctor Who – “The End of Time (Part 1)”

Tomorrow at 6pm… (Part 2 is on New Year’s Day). 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 …
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Christmas TV

TV at Christmas is always a highlight for me, although in recent years, there seems to be less stuff worth watching (or is that me, just getting older?). Here is our short-list. Whilst we’ll be away over the festive break, suffering 30 degrees of sunshine (!!!), the SkyPlus box is also getting hot, hopefully doing …
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It’s built..!

Good news! Ann’s car is built and awaiting transportation. This means it could be here for when we get back from holiday on the 9th. 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 …
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Page 100

 Screen courtesy of mb21 Readers of a ‘certain age’ will remember a uniquely British technology that led the World, appearing on TVs in the early 70s – in fact, the service was first launched on 23 September 1974. It was called teletext and back then, it was a must-have for techy-nerds like me! In later …
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“Someday I’ll Fly Away…”

…or maybe not. After believing that we would probably be OK to fly on the 23rd because the Gatwick staff are on different working contracts, (and therefore the BA strike wouldn’t impact on us) when we spoke to BA‘s PR department they said our flight had been ‘flagged for cancellation’. They advised us to ring …
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The 5ive get together for Christmas

  My ‘eat-fest’ continues. I headed down to London for 12 o’clock to meet up with some of the ‘gang-of-5ive’, Well, actually there was only four of us this year. Antoinette, Angela, Philip and I met for coffee at ‘Les Pain Quotidien’ before trying out ‘des Pain’ just a few units along – a bad …
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