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.
Mr and Mrs Normal…
We both agreed that it feels weird normal weird normal…no..WEIRD with me out earning and Ann at home cooking and cleaning!
Biscuit and Bon-Bon – Four years on…
We’ve now had the cats for four years. Biscuit now sleeps on the chair in our bedroom and Bon-Bon who used to sleep at the foot of the bed on Ann’s side, now sleeps on the floor. The initially amusing habit of Bon-Bon jumping on the bed at 3.30am and tapping me on the head …
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Lee and Bertie return home
Lee and Bertie left us around 10.30 today, returning home. We’ll be catching-up with them in a few weeks’ time.
Router problems
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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Jo and Janet popped round
The girls popped in to see Lee and Bertie and we forced cheese and biscuits on them – it wasn’t too difficult!!!
Kitchen and Utility Room re-painted
Ann finished painting the remaining bits and pieces in the kitchen and utility room – it all looks great! 👍👍
TV: Ashes to Ashes – Series 2, Final Episode
Tonight was the night for the final episode. Just before I posted this blog, I learned that there WILL be a third series. I’d guessed there might be as there seemed just too many loose-ends to clear-up in the final episode. Things took an interesting turn when I accidentally deleted the recording from our sky-box …
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Val and David pop-in…
Val and David popped round to see Lee and Bertie – a perfect excuse for a cuppa and some cake!
“Konbanwa” – Japan is sorted
Ann finalised the details for our holiday to Japan later this year.
Lee and Bertie enter cyber-space!
I sorted out internet access for Lee and Bertie and got them a really good deal with PlusNet – £5.99 a month including: 10GB usage allowance Up to 8Mb speeds Free wireless router Free connection 24/7 support I’ll wire it all up and get them on-line when we see them next month.
Kitchen Repaint
Whilst I was out this morning, Ann got stuck into repainting the walls in the kitchen and utility room. We’d chosen Wickes’ ‘Devon Sun’ – a slightly lighter shade of what was there already – nice job!! 👍
Film: Angels and Demons
We picked up Jo (Janet was working) to see the 4.30 performance of ‘Angels and Demons’. There had been mixed reviews in the Press – some were saying it was better than the first film: ‘The Da Vinci Code’, whilst others were saying it was a lot better. When we arrived, the car-park was already …
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Local Heroes…
Tom and John came round this morning to paint the kitchen and utility room ceilings. What a couple of real heroes, stepping in at short notice after yesterday’s disaster – that’s what friends are for! Thanks guys! – hope you can make it next Saturday for the party!
TV: Primeval, Series 3 – Final episode
It’s the final episode of ‘Primeval’ tonight, ITV’s ever-improving fantasy-drama series. Having taken the courageous decision to kill off the main lead character, Professor Nick Cutter (played by Douglas Henshall) earlier in the season, and darken the story-lines, episodes have gone from strength to strength. It’s becoming a real competitor to the traditional BBC Doctor …
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Cats in for their ‘six-weekly service’
We took Biscuit and Bon-Bon over to Patsy‘s today for their routine ‘wash-and-brush-up’. Bon-Bon went and hid as soon as I retrieved the cat-carrier from the loft! Smart cat! As always, Patsy did great job – Bon-Bon is now ‘whiter-than-white and Biscuit is, well…more biscuit coloured.
Ooh, a white ceiling..and a white floor…and a white cardigan!
Today we decided to give the heavily-hyped ‘Paint Wizard Pro’ a second chance after my disastrous inaugural event, where I painted part of the ceiling and then part the blue carpet in the dining-room after the device ‘fell-apart’. So with all that firmly in our mind, we took extra care this time. We also took …
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Brown’s for lunch
I met Sally B today at Brown’s in Cambridge for lunch. Because we’ve both been busy, we haven’t done this since September last year! It was great to catch-up and Sal is certainly enjoying her work at the moment. We chose to sit outside as the weather was so good, but an hour later it …
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Pemberley Grange II Router is live!
…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 join us…
Lee and Bertie have joined us for a week of R and R
Bosworth’s
We dropped in to Bosworth’s to choose some pots and plants for the back garden. Cor, what a scorcher!…it must be mid/upper 20s today!
Faster, faster!
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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