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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TV: ‘Ashes to Ashes’ – Series 2, Episode 7
This was a much darker episode than previous ones – and for me, that made it a more enjoyable and satisfying episode. The character of Martin Summers as a young PC (the character who seems to know all about Alex’s predicament) meeting-up with his older-self gave the episode plenty of dramatic potential. Shame then that …
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Bye-Bye David Tennant
One of the many (and probably one of the better) tributes to DT as the 10th Time Lord. It’s all home-made and deserves an award just for the editing! …lump-in-the-throat time??
No Internet!
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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Downtown to meet up with Denis and Mae
Nick and Celina left after breakfast; we had a quick clear-up and then headed up the A1 to Downtown. It was another gorgeous day here – just like yesterday – and it seemed to keep the roads pretty empty, so we were there in no time. It’s Mae’s 65th today and we met there because …
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Nick and Celina here…
Nick and Celina are joining us today – they’re here all day today and are leaving after brekky tomorrow – we’re really looking forward to seeing them again. Just after 1pm they arrived in their shiny new Honda. What a gorgeous looking car! We caught up with all their news including Celina’s ‘little project’ involving …
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TV: Doctor Who’s companion announced
Digital Spy has announced who the new companion will be for Matt Smith’s first series as Doctor Who. It’s Karen Gillan – a 21 year-old actress from Scotland. Nope, I’ve never heard of her either!
Meal with David and Val
We went to The Old Bakehouse in Rothwell tonight. The service is always good and they’ve just updated the menu too! It was already busy when we arrived but the service was, as we expected, so we didn’t have to wait long for the menus. It was a warm evening but they’d thoughtfully opened the …
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Blu-Ray DVDs: Australia & Quantum of Solace
Having picked-up the new HDMI cable from Richer Sounds after yesterday’s error, I got it all connected up to our new Blu-Ray player and existing TV without any problems at all. At £89.95, the cable felt expensive, but apparently, it’s one of the best you can get. The blurb for the cable boasts: Apparently, all …
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Our new Blu-Ray DVD Player/Great Shopping Trip
It’s time to pension-off our trusty Sony DVP-S735D DVD player which is now more than 15 years old. Technically, there is nothing wrong with it – it still attracts good reviews on-line, but technology marches on!! After lots and lots (and lots) of research, step forward the snappily titled Panasonic DMPBD80, the most technologically advanced …
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TV: Doctor Who in September?
Good news for Who fans! Digital Spy reports that David Tennant will reprise his role as The Doctor in episodes five and six of season three’s ‘The Sarah Jane Adventures’. Excellent news!
TV: ‘Ashes to Ashes’ – Series 2, Episode 6
OK, we’re getting very close to the end of the series now (only two more episodes left) and things really should be shaping-up in resolving Alex’s predicament. Having watched this episode, I feel they’re not! Although it was a pretty good story – the one about them discovering a dead-body in a canal – it …
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A Very Productive Day…
It’s Bank Holiday Monday, so time for a lay-in and a lazy day – yeah right!!! I was up at 6.30 and Ann, not long after, at 7.15. We’ve got plans to plant all the err.. plants bought from Bosworth’s yesterday AND to get a coat of emulsion on the kitchen ceiling. Add to that, …
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A Week as a Statistic
It has been Ann’s first week as part of the unemployed ranks – and boy, does the State like its red-tape or what! It started on Monday when Ann thought she’d ring the Employment Office to check her eligibility for Job Seeker’s Allowance – she wasn’t expecting to get anything, but it was worth a …
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Journey back from Nicki’s
We left around 10.30 after a great breakfast (although we postponed the ‘big fry-up, because were were all still stuffed from last night’s curry!) We took the route towards London on the M4, turned off at the next junction and picked up the route through to the M40 via Maidenhead. In spite of me going …
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Saturday at Nicki’s
I was up first at 7.15. Although I slept well, I seemed to be suffering from sort of sinus problem (which began earlier this week), so I was totally bunged-up. Nicki was up next, closely followed by Ann. It was a gorgeous day here and so we still planned to go to Windsor Castle. We …
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Nicki’s for the Weekend
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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Chelsea Flower Show 2009
We went to the Show today. It’s been a few years since we last went, so we weren’t sure what to expect! All the omens were against us! Firstly, just as we parked at the station, the heavens opened – good job Ann packed an umbrella! Next, the train was late leaving Kettering because it …
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TV: ‘Ashes to Ashes’ – Series 2, Episode 5
This is the episode where Alex finally meets the ‘mystery man’ who has been randomly sending her single red roses – according to the BBC1 blurb. After last week’s five-star episode, I’m hoping this one will be just as entertaining. Having now watched it, it wouldn’t be the episode that you would encourage casual viewers …
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Ann’s Web-site
I completely revamped Ann’s web-site. You can see it HERE Creating it using Serif‘s WebPlus software made it a breeze to set-up and publish. The whole job took less than 4 hours!
A Quiet Lunch for Two…
Well, not really! As far as Ann knew, we were going ‘somewhere’ for lunch – just the two of us. In reality, I’d booked The Pheasant at Keyston for 12.30 and the surprise for Ann was going to be 12 others joining us for lunch. So, when I planned it all those weeks ago, I …
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Lazy Saturday
The plan is… not to plan anything today – just chill-out and do mainly nothing. I popped round the Stefan’s for some professional advice about the School Magazine production process – and that was a very worthwhile exercise! Cheers Stefan!! Ann spent a large part of the day, ‘liberating’ lots of JS paperwork and files …
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Trip to The Pheasant
Ann and I decided to go to The Pheasant at Keyston to celebrate Ann’s new-found freedom! 🙂 Weather-wise, it wasn’t a particularly nice evening (it was raining again), but was good to mark the event!!! We arrived just before 7.30 and unusually, it was difficult to find a parking space! Strange! When we got inside, …
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