We took a drive to John Lewis in Leicester today to see the results of their plans for our kitchen. We were very impressed – they’ve interpreted our wishes and added some creative touches too – a really great job. After going through the plans in detail – we must have been there for over …
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Useful software – Dashwire
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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Tolethorpe Hall – Midsummer Night’s Dream
Tonight we three drove to Tolethorpe Hall to see ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’. David and Val did to, but we needed to take separate cars because of the number of people and the amount of food! The weather was perfect so we’d planned a picnic. The secret with getting a good picnic spot at Tolethorpe …
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Travel to Mum’s/OCA Summer Reunion
We set off for Mum’s this morning after Ann signed-on. Wed had a really smooth journey down – just under two hours. It had been a hot week – in the thirties – but today, thankfully, started off much cooler. Mum fed and watered us and around three-ish I set off for the School, leaving …
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Let’s Dance… (Week 1 of 7)
…or in my case, let’s stumble around the room with all the grace and co-ordination of a hippo housebrick lump of concrete …err, me! You get the picture. Given enough time, I should be able to master the ‘moon-walk’, the salsa, foxtrot and waltz…but not for a few years yet! Rosi had encouraged us to …
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David round for Supper
Val is working away so Ann invited David round for supper. Ann created one of her home-made pizzas. The weather was so warm, we ate outside – it was a beautiful evening.
Up and Down…
The electric garage door has recently taken on a life of its own. I don’t recall any stories of garage-doors being possessed – however, mine was opening and closing every time I approached it! (Ann’s was fine). Even more bizarrely, if I switched on the interior light in the garage, that triggered the doors too. …
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Pemberley Grange II Router is REALLY live!
After a load of false starts because the router refused to ‘talk-to’ the internet, we can now connect our whizzy new DVD Player to the Internet using our O2 router. Why? Apart from an extra internet connection capability, we can now access YouTube and Picasa Albums through the TV – How cool is that?
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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TV: Torchwood – ‘Children of Earth’
A new series of Torchwood hits our screens on Monday, 6th July. Unusually, the BBC have taken the initiative risk of showing the five episodes all in the space of one week – one episode per night and moving it to prime-time BBC1.
Sub-committee Meeting
Michael Jackson is dead!
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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Kitchen thoughts…
Lee from the Kitchen Department at John Lewis (High Cross, Leicester) arrived today to take our briefing for a revamp of the kitchen. Two plans: the first, to go completely bonkers and have the whole space redesigned. The second, a design that just concentrates on the essentials. It much depends on the final price, but …
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Live Mesh 0 : Live Sync 1
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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You dancing? You asking?
Rosi rang to remind us about the new local dance-class – but it had totally slipped our mind. Embarrassingly, Rosi had reminded us a few weeks’ back too! Still, on the positive side, the World is spared (for a week at least) from the man with two left feet and all the rhythm of a …
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Strimmer and Shopping
The Ryobi RLT30CET petrol strimmer arrived today courtesy of Screwfix. It was on special offer there and came with a free pruning attachment, so it was exceptional value (the pruning attachment alone was worth around £40). What a beast-of-a-tool – now all I need to do is assemble it! Update 17.45: David popped round (at …
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Ahh, that’s nice!
I don’t normally cross-post comments from my business blog, but a delegate on one of my recent Workshops was moved to email the client and pass a comment about me: “I would just like to commend Steve Palmer on the course he ran on 9/10th June. I think this was a highly motivational, useful and …
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Walkies – again
This could become a habit – we went out for a walk again tonight!
London for the weekend – Sunday
We were knackered! Although we didn’t get up until about 8ish, last night’s events meant we only got around seven hours’ sleep – it should have been enough…it obviously wasn’t! 🙂 We headed for breakfast and fortunately it was less busy than yesterday so we were seated quickly. After chasing tea and coffee – twice …
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Wow! – The O2
Well, what a surprise The O2 turned out to be! We haven’t been there since it was called The Millennium Dome back in 1999 – 10 years ago! The interior has been completely transformed. It now houses dozens of restaurants; a cinema; a theatre and major concert arena. Not to mention the dodgem cars!! It …
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London for the weekend – Saturday
Today’s the day when we head to The O2 to Jeff Wayne‘s, The War of the Worlds 30th Anniversary concert tour. The tour, updated for 2009, will feature a 3d hologram of Richard Burton and a 30ft Martian fighting machine descending from the ceiling – more details later on… We had a rare lie-in. …
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London for the weekend – Friday
We left for London this morning. We’re staying in London overnight because we’re going to The O2 on Saturday night to see Jeff Wayne live in concert performing The War of the Worlds. We took the 11.25 train out of Kettering (it arrived early – shock horror!) getting into St Pancras International at 12.35. We …
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TV: ITV’s ‘Primeval’ is extinct!
This came as a surprise – Primeval, ITV’s Saturday prime-time fantasy series, (that did very well in the ratings), is NOT coming back for a new season. That’s the bad news – the good news is that it may be returning as a one-off film. Related articles Primeval axed after three series (news.bbc.co.uk) Is Primeval …
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No more ‘Lui’s’
We had it confirmed today – our fave Italian Restaurant in Kettering – Lui‘s has closed down!!! We’ll miss your excellent steaks!
Walkies!!!
It was such a nice evening, we went for a short walk. Hard to believe it was 8.15pm – beautifully still and quite warm. Beautiful!!!
What do points make…?
For people of a certain age it makes ‘prizes’ – for me, it also makes for a complete pain-in-the-bottom having acquired nine points on my driving licence over recent years. So, a special day today then, where I say good-bye to three of them – sorry, I won’t miss you…. If I can get through …
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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)
CDs: Chill out…
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
Party Party!
The neighbours came round for our ‘Italian Evening’. Tom and Julie; Jo and Janet; John and Trish; Stefan and Debbie; David and Rosi and Paul and Karen were all there. We hadn’t got together like this round here for quite a while! Ann had spent most of the week getting prepared for today by scouring …
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“Ohh…We’re going to Barbados”
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.