Well, not literally 🙂 I drove over the Cambridge today to meet up with Katrina and Sally. I haven’t seen Katrina for, I think, around 5 years, and it was great to catch-up. It’s fair to say that K has a lot going on in her life at the moment (I’m not going to spell-out …
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Author:Steve Palmer
I 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 online community. But I'm no Samuel Pepys! If you're looking for deep and meaningful comments on a variety of subjects, then you've arrived at the wrong site! I only pen for pleasure! On average, my posts appear about twice per month, covering family & friends, cinema visits, eating out, holiday experiences and techy stuff. Oh, and as this is my hobby, there are no sponsored links nor adverts here – it's all done with love!
I hope you find it enjoyable, interesting and occasionally, even helpful!
Crikey! It’s a carpet!!!
I spent the morning alternating between a bit of prep work and clearing up the office – especially the floor! After an hour or so, I could see the carpet – amazing! We caught up with the gazillion of Lambing Live episodes shown last week on the BBC. Luckily, we had beef for lunch! Steve …
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Catch up with Karen and Ralph
We’d forgotten that it was Mothering Sunday coming up (well, we hadn’t actually, we did send flowers to the Mums!), but we couldn’t get a seat in a pub or restaurant anywhere half-way between R+K’s in Matlock and us for Sunday. So, we decided to simply bring the date forward and meet-up tonight. Ralph found …
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Meal with David and Val
It’s that time again and we’re off for a meal with David and Val. This time, we’re going to try out the Collyweston Slater in err, Collyweston. The table was booked for 8pm, so we left around 7.30 to give us a none-too-hurried journey there. On arrival, the bar area was already very busy and …
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Lunch with Steve S
I popped over to Oundle to meet up with Steve. We’d previously met just before Christmas, when, amongst other things, Steve was making plans for being father-of-the-bride for his daughter, Kelly, on Easter Saturday. I’ve lent him some books on speeches! We walked to The Ship, as normal, and as part of my giving-it-up-for-Lent thingy, …
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Normal Service will be…
Cough and splutter!
Now that was weird. We’d had an early night, but at just after 11pm last night, I woke up, coughing, spluttering and unable to get my breath. A few coughing fits later, I was fine, and I went back to sleep. Strange! Steve PalmerI got into blogging quite late in life, not publishing my first …
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DVD: Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid (1982)
Took the afternoon off as I seem to be well ahead with my work. Lee and I watched Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid (1982). An unusual title with an even more unusual cast: Steve Martin, Rachel Ward, Alan Ladd, James Cagney, Barbara Stanwyck, Humphrey Bogart, Ray Milland, Kirk Douglas, Ava Gardner and James Cagney – …
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The Cats are 5 today!
It’s official, Biscuit IS a lap-cat!!! ..but only under specific conditions: 1. Only if one of us is sitting on the settee, not on a chair, not in the kitchen….just the settee and the front-room 2. Only if it’s on the right hand side. 3. Only if she feels like it Cats huh! Bon-Bon meanwhile …
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Photo shoot
Well, that made a pleasant change from my normal day-job. I was invited to attend the Awards Ceremony of a key client and take the official photographs of the event. Apart from a small techy-glitch towards the end, it all went very well. I now just have to get the photographs printed & framed and …
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Flat Hunting
We took a drive down into town today to revisit an apartment in ‘The Woodyard’ off Wellington Street in Kettering Well, initial impressions were favourable. It’s a two-bedroom apartment, pretty close to town with its own parking space. Although the place was a bit grubby and the colour scheme was pretty depressing, we think it’s …
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It’s been a bad week here for technology!
First, my NetBook dies and now the four home phones have more-or-less all deteriorated beyond repair. The replacements turned up today courtesy of John Lewis, and they look pretty good. The best thing about them is that you can program in someone’s number on a single phone and then copy it to all the other …
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New NetBook up and running…
Phew! Well that didn’t take long. I’ve managed to install all the necessary software on my new NetBook and it’s all fine! I’m sooooo pleased that everything is now back to normal after ‘wobbly Sunday’ Steve PalmerI got into blogging quite late in life, not publishing my first post until 2004 – well into my …
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Size Matters…
Some of you will just be old enough to remember the original Polaroid camera. Remember how we all marvelled at the fact it could print pictures instantly? For younger readers, this was in pre-digital days and the Polaroid was a true miracle, because the only other way to get your pics developed was to rush …
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Test Blog from new NetBook
Hello world! 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 …
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TV: Being Human (Series 2: Episode 8 of 8)
Well, what to make of series two, now that the final episode aired last night? I had high-hopes of the series, after series 1 just blew me away. I guess my expectations were raised as soon as the latest series began, two months ago. All-in-all though, I’ve found it all a bit disappointing and uneven; …
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My NetBook throws a wobbly!
It’s been a constant companion of mine now for nearly 18 months , but yesterday, it finally had enough of being shoved into dark places, left in training rooms all alone and forced to travel in the luggage area on planes! At 3pm yesterday it was fine – windowing away nicely, thank-you. By 5pm, this …
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DVD: Pride and Prejudice
We watched the 1995 BBC production of Pride and Prejudice in all its Blu-Ray glory this afternoon (five episodes today and one yesterday!). In my view, it’s still the best adaptation ever produced Not sure about the transfer to Blu-ray though – it looked decidedly grainy in places, and it also had a very strange …
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Lazy Sunday Afternoon
…and the morning too! Unusually, neither of us had that much to do today. I got the books ready for Nick, my Accountant (it’s my end-of-year), whilst Ann attacked the shower-room armed with an elbow full of grease – and the oven, with a chicken full of err.. chicken! Lee and I caught up with …
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Lee and Ann go Flat hunting
After dropping the cats back, Lee and Ann went flat-hunting in Kettering. The reality is, we think, that Humberto will never come out of the care-home. So, our suggestion is that Lee will move out of Cromer once she has found somewhere suitable round here. Steve PalmerI got into blogging quite late in life, not …
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Cats in…Back out…
Image by Steve Palmer (UK) via Flickr Lucky pussies ehh! Ann dropped them over to Patsy‘s for their regular bath, blow dry and comb-out – as always, they put a tremendous fight when we tried to get them into the cat carriers! Patsy had pulled her back, so we were only expecting her to comb …
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Julie’s Rules
Popped around to Julie and Tom’s to try and deal with a problem Julie was having with all her emails automatically going into the deleted bin! It turned out that a ‘rogue’ rule was to blame. Technology is wonderful, isn’t it??? Steve PalmerI got into blogging quite late in life, not publishing my first post …
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Result!
BA is NOT our favourite airline! Over the years they’ve consistently managed to fall well below our expectations whenever we’ve flown with them. Against better judgement, we chose to travel with them for our recent holiday to Barbados. When the return journey went t***-up and we had to find another way to get home, they …
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Chris, Gill, Steve and Denise – Get together
I was out all day in London. Meanwhile, Ann and Lee performed miracles in the kitchen. The gang arrived just after 7 and as a result, we stuffed ourselves silly on all the homemade grub that had been prepared. Scrummy!!! Steve PalmerI got into blogging quite late in life, not publishing my first post until …
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TV: Doctor Who – Series 5
The trailer for the new Doctor Who series premiered tonight just after Total Wipeout. Apparently the new series starts on April 3rd. It all looked a bit weird and ‘too busy’ for me, but when I heard that it was best appreciated in 3D, where it’s currently being shown in cinemas, I could see why …
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London calling!
What a busy week! Six-days too. Today, I’m off to London for one of our regularish LNG meetings. Luckily, Denise has managed to find us a semi-permanent home in Holborn (at least for this year), so that’ll help preserve the LNG funds. Nice one Denise!!! Today, we’re recapping assertiveness techniques courtesy of Angela. Steve PalmerI …
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TV: EastEnders at 25
The soap celebrated 25 years on-air tonight with a live episode. The BBC hype machine went into overdrive leading up to the event – you couldn’t go anywhere on BBC TV without a reminder at every possible opportunity!!!. Viewers were heard singing the theme tune and being asked for their opinion on the ongoing plot …
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PC Fix
Popped over to Paul and Sue’s to attempt to fix Sue’s PC. For no reason at all, it had started to pop-up warning messages about viruses and spyware attacking her machine. No matter what they tried, they couldn’t get the message to stop appearing. What was interesting was, that it wasn’t their normal AV program …
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Lent Boy (2010)
I’m in ‘Lent Mode’ getting ready to give up all the things I really like to eat, for the 40 day period. This year, the list is longer than 2009 and includes: It’s been 15 minutes and so-far, so good! 😉 Steve PalmerI got into blogging quite late in life, not publishing my first post …
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Film: Avatar 3D
We finally got around to see Avatar in 3D at the Odeon in Kettering. UNBELIEVABLE! Even if you’re not a sci-fi fan, or you never go to the cinema or you only see one film a year…check it out! ..and be careful you don’t trip over your jaw on the way out!!!! Steve PalmerI got …
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