Category:Holiday

We landed at Narita Airport around 9.00 (25 minutes ahead of schedule) local time, which was a good start! Once we’d got through the elaborate security (photograph and fingerprints!) we collected our bags and headed for the coach. To our surprise, we could see a local Representative with our names on a card, and after …
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John, our taxi-driver arrived at just after 9.30. We had a reasonably trouble-free journey down to Heathrow and about two-hours later, we were walking into Terminal 3. We’ve booked with Virgin and splashed-out on ‘Premium Economy’. I’m not sure what that gives us over-and-above the economy passengers, but I guess it’s greater leg-room and posher …
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Paul and Karen invited us round for one of their legendary feasts, so as soon as we got back from the film, we headed straight there. We’d estimated we wouldn’t be there until 9, but the film finished earlier than we thought and we were soon chatting and drinking with Paul, Karen, Tom and Julie. …
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What is this new phone that the ‘net is talking about? – it’s supposedly the ‘iPhone killer’ – the ultimate in mobile phones/PDAs. Dubbed the ‘Firestone’ by its makers HTC, there seems to be two images ‘doing the rounds’ but they may of course both be fake! Allegedly, the specs are: Quad-band GSM/EDGE connectivity Dual-band …
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Well that was a pleasant surprise! I had a problem with my PDF creator on the main PC – it worked fine on all the other PCs on the network, but not the one I use the most. Every time I tried to create a pdf file, it threw up ‘cannot load options’ error message. Reinstalling …
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We popped down to J and J’s for tea tonight – a Chinese takeaway – Scrummy! It was a great opportunity for Ann to let the girls know about her new job! Steve PalmerI got into blogging quite late in life, not publishing my first post until 2004 – well into my 40s! My lifelong …
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7.00am. What a right pain in the posterior! Just when I was getting ahead and I had nothing pressing to do work-wise, I discovered that for some unknown reason, my NetBook was booting-up and then freezing. Several re-boots later, nothing much had changed, so it was obviously something serious! After a bit of detective work …
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After a shed load of research, we settled for the Panasonic HDC-SD200. We tried John Lewis, but they wouldn’t match the internet price we’d found. Another quick search revealed that Photobox had suddenly become the cheapest by a mile! Key Features: Full HD recording Dolby Digital 5.1 sound Records to SD and SDHC cards Smaller …
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This appears to be pretty useful! It’s also completely free too! It’s a piece of software that installs to your mobile phone. You go to the web-site – www.Dashwire.com – and set up a FREE account and then download a piece of software to your mobile phone. Once that’s done, your phone automagically backs-up all …
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I wasn’t his biggest fan, but like most of the population I do own a copy of his album, Thriller and I respect him for the impact he had on the pop-music scene. Singer, songwriter and dancer – what a talent! I can remember back in the early 80s, going to a business meeting at …
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Microsoft Live Mesh finally got dumped in favour of Microsoft Live Sync today. I’d been using Mesh for almost nine-months but I’d had my suspicions for a few weeks now that Mesh wasn’t automatically updating files across the network – even though the software itself said it had. New files were OK, but changes to …
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Some nice ambient/chill-out albums for those lazy hot summer nights – if we ever get enough of them to get through four albums!! All downloaded from the MP3 store at Play.com 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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We booked the BA flight tonight for our holiday in Barbados later this year. There are still some HOLIDAY-odds-and-ends to sort out, but all the main bits are taken care of.   Steve PalmerI got into blogging quite late in life, not publishing my first post until 2004 – well into my 40s! My lifelong …
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Lee and Bertie left us around 10.30 today, returning home. We’ll be catching-up with them in a few weeks’ time. 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 …
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The replacement Router arrived from O2 as planned. I plugged it in and guess what? – it made no difference! After about an hour on the phone to BT and a further 45 minutes with O2, I was no further forward. BT pushed me back to O2 whilst O2 said there was nothing more they …
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The girls popped in to see Lee and Bertie and we forced cheese and biscuits on them – it wasn’t too difficult!!! 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 …
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Val and David popped round to see Lee and Bertie – a perfect excuse for a cuppa and some cake! 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 …
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Ann finalised the details for our holiday to Japan later this year. 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 …
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…actually it’s NOT. I ordered a wireless router and a basic Internet package from O2 last week. The communication process has been excellent to date with regular texts and emails to keep me abreast of the progress of my order. The Router arrived on Monday as promised, and ‘766’ line went live today as promised. …
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Lee and Bertie have joined us for a week of R and R 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 …
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Demon our ISP, announced a week or so ago that we’d been upgraded to ‘ADSL2+’. Being so far away from the Exchange, I expected it to make no difference at all, so I binned the letter. Then, towards the end of last week, I noticed that things were indeed faster. Time for a bit of …
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5.05 am. A great start to the week! The Demon connection went down this morning. Demon’s help desk couldn’t work out why even after re-setting the Router. It shouldn’t make any difference, but this is also the week when the second line in the house is activated for broadband by a different supplier – coincidence? …
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We’re off to Nicki’s for the weekend. We left just after 1pm and stopped off at Basildon Park on the way there. This was an interesting National Trust property and one that we had not visited before. We had something to eat as soon as we got there (we were both starving!) and then had …
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I drove over to Fosse Park to meet up with Dave Barthorpe. No specific reason apart from a catch-up and a gossip about the state of the profession. Dave also took me through his i-phone – an impressive bit of kit! We decided to eat in the Food Court there and pigged-out on McDonald’s! Steve …
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We travelled over to Ian and Ann’s for a social get-together. We don’t see them often enough, and it was good to catch-up with all their news. Ian was the chef for the evening and we enjoyed home-made potato and leek soup, chicken casserole and lemon cheesecake to finish. Super scrummy! Caroline and Dermot popped …
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Roy and Susan and Janine joined us for supper primarily for the five-of-us to plan in some detail, how we’re going to take photos of Roy when he runs in the London Marathon on 26 April. Ann made two pizzas – one vegetarian and one spicy-meat – all accompanied with salad and washed down with …
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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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