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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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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