It was a gorgeous day here today – wall-to-wall sunshine. Ann started preparing the garden for Winter, whilst I started to write the Christmas cards* (In October???? 😲, well, there are around 300 to write!!) It was the perfect day for polishing the car too! *Totally organised or totally sad? (delete as applicable) Steve PalmerI …
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Category:House and Garden
Bye-Bye TV, Hello TV
We drove over to John Lewis at Peterborough today to buy a new TV for the bedroom. We’d done lots of research (as usual!) and in the end settled for the Sony Bravia 20 inch LCD, Model KDL20S3000. Best news of all was the price we paid was cheaper than the one shown on display …
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Family Weekend
Another hot day. We had brekky in the garden and then started to get ready for Denis, Mae and Bev who are due for lunch. It’s a themed lunch – ‘Cowboys and Indians’. Oliver meanwhile wanted to watch Doctor Who on DVD but only got as far as episode 2 before he got bored! (sorry …
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Family Weekend
Woke up to an already very warm day. A great day to discover that the toilet downstairs was blocked!!! Luckily the Plumber turned up fairly promptly and fixed it in a few seconds!! We all had a lazy breakfast in the garden and during the morning, chilled-out and read the papers. Ann and Jane had …
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Leisurely Saturday
It turned out to be a very warm and dry day today. We headed into town for a few bits and then over to Northampton to pick-up Ann’s leather jacket. We then spent a few hours in the back-garden tidying up. Steve PalmerI got into blogging quite late in life, not publishing my first post …
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Cats for a Brush/Gardening
We took Biscuit and Bon-Bon in for their normal six-weekly brush and then spent the rest of the morning and part of the afternoon in the back-garden tidying up. On our way to pick up the cats we dropped into Waitrose to pick-up the food for tomorrow’s family get-together. Steve PalmerI got into blogging quite …
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Bye-Bye Garden Clock
The garden clock that we finally got around to putting up on the 5 April, decided to go ‘walk about’ today bouncing across the patio and into the flower bed. Loads of glass and broken plastic everywhere! It’s been pretty windy here the last few days, so we guess that it must have got caught …
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Alloy refurbed/Estimate for Ann’s car/Pond Clearing
Alloy RefurbedTook the Mondeo in to have the alloy refurbed that Ann accidentally kerbed last week Estimate for Ann’s CarPaul dropped the estimate round – youch! Looks like the cost of repair will exceed the value of the car. So, we’re in the lap of the Gods now as to which way the Insurance Company …
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Clock this!
It’s been a wintry day here today, such a change from the last three days where it’s been quite warm. We thought we’d ignore the weather and so we finally got around to putting up the clock on the side of the house. We’ve had it for months, but the weather had been so bad …
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Wall hanging – Ann’s Office
Finally, we located a suitable wall-hanging for the Office downstairs – we think it looks great! After many shopping trips we finally tracked this down on the ‘net. It was reasonably proced and a breeze to hang. Steve PalmerI got into blogging quite late in life, not publishing my first post until 2004 – well …
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The Earth moved…( a bit!)/Omid Djalili Live in Cambridge
Wow! Woke up at 1am to the sound of the whole house shaking. Felt like an earth-tremor of some sort. When I got up later, BBC News 24 had reported an earthquake around Grimsby. A scary moment as we don’t get them that often! Off to see Omid Djalili at Cambridge Corn Exchange tonight. We …
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Wrapping good time!
Got up at 6 to set about clearing up the kitchen after last night’s ‘do’. As it tunred out, it wasn’t quite such a disaster area as we both thought and everything was cleared up in just over an hour. Caught up with a few Sky+ recordings and then spent a couple of hours wrapping …
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Lights – 1!
At last, we go the lighting track replaced upstairs! The previous version never looked right, and some of the bulbs failed to work. This one is HEAPS better. Mick and Roger did a great job!! The next phase is to have a scurity floodlight fitted outside and then all the outstanding electrical jobs are completed… …
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A patter of tiny ink-tanks!/Meal with David and Val
I managed to purchase a Canon Pixma 5200 from Amazon for less that 40 quid! OK it’s a discontinued model, but its print quality and speed is excellent! Perfect for Ann’s office downstairs. This means that she’ll be able to print stuff without having to go upstairs to retrieve the document (that’s where the other …
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New carpets
Our carpets that we ordered from John Lewis came today came today. Steve and Jaimie did a great job at fitting them and it took them from 9am until almost 3pm to finish the job. The beige carpets have served us well – 11 years! But what with the human traffic and muddy paws from …
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Decorating!
Bernie and Honor finished the decorating today. A splendid job!!! And so tidy too!! 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 …
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Decorating!
Bernie and Honor arrived to begin the decorating of the hall, stairs and landing. Looks like 3-4 days work! 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 …
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Christmas Cards…
Well, there we are then. it’s 11.10 and we’ve finished 99.9% of the cards. Just a few odds and ends to sort out with changes of address etc. We spent the rest of the day in the garden, getting it ready for Winter. Steve PalmerI got into blogging quite late in life, not publishing my …
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A productive day!
Ann spent most of the day cooking whilst I continued writing the Christmas cards. Lots of great food for the coming week plus, between us, we’ve written about 250 cards so that only leaves around 50 to do! Steve PalmerI got into blogging quite late in life, not publishing my first post until 2004 – …
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Laptop reinstall complete/Cooking/Lenny Henry
Added the last few programs to the Laptop. Job done!!!! If anything, it’s slightly faster than before the crash! I’ve also tweaked the backup strategy to include more stuff from the Laptop. I gave both cars a really good wash and clean out today, whilst Ann spent most of the day cooking. Ann managed to …
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Car through MOT/LapTop reinstall continues…
Well that’s good news! Ann’s car got through the MOT – not bad for a 105,000-mile Mondeo!!! I continued to reinstall everything back onto the Laptop. I reckon I’ll finish it by today, although I did have to cancel my visit to Jackie’s to give me more time to focus on the PC. Other than …
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Toasting Blog
We finally got aorund to replacing the toaster! We found a reaaly good one from John Lewis that does four slices at a time. Just right for our home-made bread. Helped Julie make some changes to her freiends web-site using DreamWeaver. Helped Phil P get his pop3 emails set-up in google-mail. Steve PalmerI got into …
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The Globe Theatre with Ralph and Karen
We took the 9.23 train to London today to do a little shopping (an electric knife and a replacement mini-blender from John Lewis). We then met up with Ralph and Karen to see ‘Othello’ at the Globe. Great performances all round especially from Tim McInnerny (Lord Percy/Captain Darling from the Blackadder series) Cor, what a …
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Bread Maker Blog!
Our new super-duper bread-making machine arrived on Friday, but I didn’t get a chance to work out how to use it until today. Made by Panasonic, it seems to do everything and will make an extra large loaf too! It’s even got a separate chamber for adding fruit, nuts etc that get added automatically. Tried …
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National Trust/Denby/Jan update
We took a drive to ‘Calke’, a National Trust property in Derbyshire. What makes this one different is that it’s been left exactly as it was found – in a semi-ruined state. Apparently, the owners gradually ran out of cash and it was handed over to the NT in 1984. The Harpur-Crewes were very eccentric …
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Beautiful Saturday
A beautiful day today. It must have been into the mid-twenties. Hot or what? Ann sorted out the garden whilst I gave both the cars a major spring clean. We went to Karen and Paul’s for dinner. Debbie and Stefan were there too. Karen created a chicken and fig main course and Ann produced her …
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Weekend Away – Day 2
A really lazy day today, helped by the fact that it rained ALL day! We took a short drive to ‘Van Hage’s’ a local gigantic garden centre nearby. For the rest of the day we just ate, drank and caught up with the newspapers. We watched ‘Black Book’ on DVD. It’s about Nazi occupied Holland …
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Biscuit in for a Bath/Loft sorted/Knackered TV/Gardening
We took Biscuit along for her regular ‘wash and brush-up’ today. I finally finished tidying up the loft. We dumped the CRT TV in the kitchen, as it hasn’t been working for ages and it gives us an excuse to look out for a cheap flat-screen TV with Freeview some time later this year. Ann …
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Loft Handed – Part III
Bob returned to carrying on boarding out the loft. An excellent job, but I think we might need even more of it boarded-out after last Sunday’s mega-tidy-up Still, as it currently is, it allowed me to moved all my techy hardware from the top of the wardrobe into the loft as well as all the …
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Loft Handed – Part II
As planned, I spent the morning in the loft, tidying up, throwing out and generally tidying up in preparation for Bob’s visit sometime this week coming to complete the boarding job. They started the job last Thursday. It looks 1000% better already – and that’s with only half of it boarded out! We can see …
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