Category:Holiday

We left home at around 2.10 heading for Ralph and Karen’s. We had a much better journey to theirs than we expected given that it is a Bank Holiday Friday! We arrived just before 3.45 and left for Bath around 5. We arrived at the hotel – The Tasburgh House Hotel – bang on 7pm. …
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We left the Guest House around 9, heading for Roger, Jane and Oliver’s for lunch. Ken and Celia were there – we haven’t seen them since Oliver’s christening. We had a great time – Oliver’s certainly growing and his conversation skills are developing too! We left for home around 4.15. We’ve got to get unpacked …
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We met up with Ian and Sharon as planned, to become ‘tourists for the day’. Drove down to Arundel Castle and stopped for a drink at ‘The Black Rabbit’ (just down the road). It was frantically busy and the queue for ordering lunch was 30 people deep! We decided just have a drink and skip …
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The taxi picked us up to take us to the airport. It took longer than expected due to the extensive roadworks. Although technically we were too early for breakfast at the ‘hutch’, the owner made one specially for us – nice! We also grabbed a coffee and pastry at the airport. Forgot to mention yesterday …
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Took the ten o’clock train to Nice today. The weather is slightly cooler than yesterday, but it’s a good temperature for the twenty-five minute walk to the station! The day got warmer. Sitting by the sea-front at Nice in the blazing sun was gorgeous! Then off for lunch at ‘Buffalo Grill’ – very French!!! – …
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We ate at ‘Le Romarin’ last night. It was a short walk from the ‘hutch’ we’re staying in. The food was excellent! The ‘hutch’ is growing on me even if it’s not growing in size. The guys who are running it have a fantastic eye for detail. At breakfast we had freshly squeezed juice from …
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The taxi picked us up at 6am to take us to the airport – just a short 20 minutes drive. No time for breakfast at the hotel, so we opted for the ‘big’ petit dejeuner at the airport. The plane boarded at 8.15 – we were just about awake by then! We landed safely in …
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Ahh that’s more like it! Up at 7am for an early breakfast. We then plan to take the tram to the station and then jump on the ultra-punctual 09.23 TGV to ‘Agen’. Agen is the French capital for rugby and prunes! (According the guide-book though, ‘Prunes D’Agen’ don’t comes form Agen). Looks like I’ll therefore …
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We left around 7.15am (hooray, a lie in!) and had a really good journey to Birmingham Airport. Parked easily and got a bus straightaway. We checked in and were air-side by 8.50. We were surprised to learn that those little Ambrosia rice pots were not allowed onboard – there goes breakfast! I wonder how much …
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That’ll teach me to get smug about the alarm problems sorting themselves out on my PDA. Today, for no reason, the alarms stopped working again. The last time this happened was on the 30th January and I was convinced that the original problems had been down to my faulty PDA back-up program. Obviously not! Still, …
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Met up with Ian at Coventry University today. We decided to try out the local Lebanese restaurant just up the road for lunch ‘Aqua’ – excellent food!! 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 …
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We took a drive up to ‘The George’ in Stamford with Lee and Bertie. We also had a quick look round the town. The service in The George was very poor, but it was good to chill out! Steve PalmerI got into blogging quite late in life, not publishing my first post until 2004 – …
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No not ours! We’re off to Stratford-upon-Avon today to meet Dermot and Caroline (Ian’s daughter) and then visit the Registry Office and the Reception venue in our capacity as ‘official wedding photographers’. The Registry Office was ghastly…so was the woman who met us – Hey! it’s their special day, try a be a little more …
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Well, this is becoming a regular weekly occurrence! Got up this morning to find that alarms weren’t sounding again on my diary. It was all OK last night. Here we go again… – Hard Reset– Restore an old backup– Delete all the PIM data from the restored data– Delete all the diary-related stuff in the …
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Bugger! Got up this morning to find that the alarms aren’t sounding again on my XDA. Here we go again! Update 4pm. Restored a backup from a few days ago – deleted all the PIM data using SKTools – renamed device – resynced with desktop. All is working fine now but there is high count …
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Lee and Bertie joined us for a few months whilst their caravan park is closed 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 …
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So, having spent a good two hours yesterday reinstalling everything, I get up this morning to find that the alarm function isn’t working AGAIN. I’m positive it was functioning properly last night. OK, OK, this now requires some serious thought! In between all the other work I’ve got to get through today, I’m going to …
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When it’s working it’s a fantastic piece of kit..but when it starts to go wrong – it’s a nightmare! Over the past few weeks, the alarm function has been very unreliable – sometimes working, sometimes not. See blog HERE Even using Bruce Jackson’s ‘pmclean’ tool (which initially solved the problem) didn’t seem to work its …
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Lee and Bertie returned home today. We’ll be seeing them for an extended stay in mid-January 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 …
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It looks as if I may have solved the problem with my XDA. In truth, I’m not sure what I did to fix it though… 🙂 I rolled back to an earlier version of ‘PhoneAlarm’ (although I’m pretty sure that wasn’t the problem). I then restored an old data backup after hard resetting the device …
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Oooo-errr! My XDA has stopped popping up reminders. It’s been playing up for a few days now. After the first hard reset it seemed OK and then today, it reverted back to its bad behaviour. If that’s not enough, the alarm function has stopped working too! I’ve hard reset the device three or four times …
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We drove to Leicester this evening to see and hear David in concert (in a very nice building owned by Leicester University). He is the Chairman of the ‘Cecilian Singers’, a small group of very professional ‘Sally Army’ choristers. We think there about 100 or so people there in total. It was a great mix …
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So, the back-up that I started last Thursday using Mozy has completed. No glitches and considering there’s quite a few files ‘up there’, the ‘test’ restore process worked quickly and effectively! 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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An excellent meal and a chance to catch-up as I haven’t seen Mags for quite a while! 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 …
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  I started to backup all my Client data to Mozy today. It’s obviously going to be a BIG job! It’s around 13 Gigabytes of data and we only have a sloooooow broadband connection here (1 Meg). I reckon between four and seven days running 24 hours a day… Steve PalmerI got into blogging quite …
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Although I’ve been quite busy with work, I’ve managed to thoroughly test out Mozy and install AVG’s latest Security Suite on all the PCs Mozy is an online back-up service that gives anyone 2Gb of online storage for free. That’s not enough for my needs so I chose the MobyPlus option that offers an eye-watering …
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We’re taking it easy today. Unusually for Ann (VERY unusually), she was unwell during the night. We can’t determine whether it’s a bug or something she ate yesterday. We’ve mostly eaten the same things and I’m unaffected – strange! Inside, we finished the Christmas cards today – almost 200 of them! Phew! Outside, the weather …
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