There’s nothing quite like Fish and Chips on a Friday is there? Maybe it’s the health benefits of fish combined with the naughtiness of chips? Or, maybe it’s because it’s just the end of the week? Whatever! it all tasted good!!!! – and I managed to squeeze in a battered sausage – oo-err missus!!! 🙂 …
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Mice will play…
Unusually, Ann’s away this weekend. It’s a work-do celebrating the company’s birthday – 10 years. All staff are invited…a few thousand…but no partners. So, Lee and I are fending for ourselves whilst ‘the cat’s’ away. I took Lee to have a look at a possible property to consider moving into later this year. It’s in …
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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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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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Ely Ely Oh!
The three of us (Ann, Nicki and I) took a drive to Ely today. I haven’t been there for a gazillion years. Parking was pretty straightforward – a dedicated car-park for the Cathedral, our first stop. As we walked from the car, we suddenly realised how cold it was – but worse was to come!! …
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Nicki here for the weekend
Nicki joined us tonight – she’s been on holiday this week and staying ’til late Saturday night and then driving home. I’d quite forgotten that we hadn’t ‘done’ Christmas pressies with her (as we didn’t see her over the Christmas period) and it felt really strange doing this in February! She also bought us some …
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DVD: Star Trek
I’d been to see it at the cinema in May last year. Lee’s a fan, and hadn’t seen it, so with Ann away tonight (who’s not a fan!), it was the perfect opportunity to see it in all its blu-ray glory. Having watched it again, I’d say it was a very watchable film – even …
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The Packing continues/Salvation Army Concert/Ice Age
We spent part of the morning continuing to pack. It all seems to fit (but the kitchen sink was a bit of a problem!!) – so we should get away with being under the weight limits for BA. Job done! We’re all packed apart from a few last minute bits and pieces. We’re ahead …
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Han or not to Han
Our original plan was to pick up Jo, Janet and Carol and head over to Han, our favourite Chinese restaurant in Market Harborough for a final pre-Christmas gorge-fest. However, the atrocious weather here put paid to that and we decided to have everyone round to ours. As it turned out, Carol wasn’t able to make …
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Anniversary Presents 2009
Given that it’s out 25th, we splashed out a bit this year! Ann, from me… Me from Ann… From Rosi and David From Paul and Karen 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 …
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Family Weekend
Saturday We started the weekend heading off to Roger, Jane and Oliver‘s. – and popped into see Anthony, one of Ann’s ex-JS colleagues on the way – he lives in Letchworth with his wife, Sue. We got to theirs about 2.45 after a couple of trips up-and-down their road trying to find the house. What …
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Play: A Streetcar Named Desire…
We drove over to Stratford-upon-Avon to see the Second Thoughts production of A Streetcar Named Desire. It was an excellent event and Ian did a great job as Props Manager, especially the part where Stanley Kowalski throws the radio ‘off set’ and we hear the sound of it breaking. Apparently a well-timed catch from Ian …
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Roger, Jane and Oliver here for the Weekend
Saturday The day didn’t start well weather-wise with rain, rain and more rain. Good news though, by the time they arrived at just after 11, it was starting to clear-up. Ann had already rushed down to Waitrose for 8am to get in the food for the weekend and we sat down to pizza and salad …
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DVD: The Young Victoria
Ahhh. a rare trip back to some old technology 🙂 – the NON Blu-Ray version of ‘The Young Victoria‘ starring Emily Blunt, Rupert Friend, Paul Bettany, Miranda Richardson and Jim Broadbent. A perfect film for snuggling-up on the sofa on a Sunday afternoon in October! Written by Julian Fellowes and released in March, 2009, it …
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DVD: Iron Man (Blu-Ray)
A (very) rare morning-off today as I’m well-ahead with my work. Time to catch-up with some DVDs. I bought this DVD a while ago and then forgot I’d got it! On inserting the DVD, it immediately accessed the ‘net and downloaded some extra goodies in the guise of a quiz about the film – neat! …
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DVD: Watchmen (Blu-Ray)
Watchmen was a very unusual film. The story is about an alternative USA in 1985 where costumed super-heroes are a normal part of society. Civilisation is on the verge of nuclear war between the US and Russia and Nixon is in his third-term. Someone is killing-off the super-heroes, most recently ‘The Comedian’ and those that …
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Visit to Lee and Humberto’s
Image via Wikipedia We drove over to Cromer today to catch up with L and B, primarily to get them on-line and into cyberspace! We had a really good journey time – just 2 hours 15 minutes and that included a driver-change just after half way. L and B hadn’t got an internet connection when …
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DVD: Taken (Blu-ray)
We watched Taken with David and Val tonight round at ours tonight. Starring Liam Neeson it was the ‘extended harder cut’ version … (ouch!). Just before we started watching the film, I served my chili-chicken for the main-course and Ann’s served her brioche and butter Apricot pudding about half-way through. The storyline? Neeson’s daughter is …
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DVD: The International (Blu-Ray)
We watched The International tonight and it was excellent! It’s also the first DVD we’ve bought that features ‘BD-Live‘ (more about that later). Starring Clive Owen and Naomi Watts, the story centres around a group of internationally corrupt bankers (very topical!) and Clive Owen’s attempt to bring them down. Initially a bit of a slow-burner, …
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Ralph and Karen – here for the weekend
Saturday We drove down to Bicester Shopping Village to meet R and K. The girls did a little some shopping, (but didn’t buy much) whilst Ralph and I pursued more manly activities by like heading to the BOSE shop to see the latest kit. Ralph and I then headed back to ours to chill-out and …
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DVD: “The Duchess”
We watched the 2008 DVD “The Duchess” this afternoon. It was a really good film – a lavish production in all senses…and even better on Blu-ray! The soundtrack was good too! Related stuff… ‘The Duchess’ exhibition: costumes and portraits at Chatsworth House (telegraph.co.uk) Steve PalmerI got into blogging quite late in life, not publishing my …
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Nick and Celina here…
Nick and Celina are joining us today – they’re here all day today and are leaving after brekky tomorrow – we’re really looking forward to seeing them again. Just after 1pm they arrived in their shiny new Honda. What a gorgeous looking car! We caught up with all their news including Celina’s ‘little project’ involving …
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Meal with David and Val
We went to The Old Bakehouse in Rothwell tonight. The service is always good and they’ve just updated the menu too! It was already busy when we arrived but the service was, as we expected, so we didn’t have to wait long for the menus. It was a warm evening but they’d thoughtfully opened the …
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Blu-Ray DVDs: Australia & Quantum of Solace
Having picked-up the new HDMI cable from Richer Sounds after yesterday’s error, I got it all connected up to our new Blu-Ray player and existing TV without any problems at all. At £89.95, the cable felt expensive, but apparently, it’s one of the best you can get. The blurb for the cable boasts: Apparently, all …
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Our new Blu-Ray DVD Player/Great Shopping Trip
It’s time to pension-off our trusty Sony DVP-S735D DVD player which is now more than 15 years old. Technically, there is nothing wrong with it – it still attracts good reviews on-line, but technology marches on!! After lots and lots (and lots) of research, step forward the snappily titled Panasonic DMPBD80, the most technologically advanced …
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David and Val’s for Dinner
We went round to David and Val’s tonight for Dinner. The food as always, was SUPERB. Tonight, we were treated to melt-in-the-mouth steak casserole followed by Ann’s delicious marmalade and banana bread and butter pudding with custard. Great grub – we were stuffed. After the meal, we watched ‘Lions for Lambs’ starring Tom Cruise, Meryl …
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Easter with Ralph and Karen – Friday
We set off just after noon. and arrived at Rockside around 2.15. It wasn’t a bad journey, but we did run into some road-works on the M1 an hour or so into the journey and Matlock high street was totally congested! Weather-wise, it was slightly overcast and a bit misty The sat-nav in the car …
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A Productive Sunday!
We started the day with a bacon sandwich and coffee – perfect! We then caught up with episode two of the excellent Edge of Darkness DVD. It’s amazing how well the plot has stood up to the passage of time. So much stuff from TV in the 80s looks horribly dated crap when watching it …
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The Benefits of having kids/Chinese by Candlelight/DVD: Edge of Darkness
We’re still covered in snow here, so we decided that at some point we’d have to clear the drive to get the car out for later in the week. Ahh, the benefits of having kids – watching them grow, acting as a 24/7 taxi service for them in their teens, providing financial support with no …
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