I took the early train to London with Ann this morning. I met up with Anthony from A2O to discuss display stands for the OCA (err, that’s enough abbreviations!). We kicked off early and were finished by 11.15. I then jumped on the Tube and headed for London Bridge to meet Keith from the OCA – …
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Wire-free!
I’m not sure why it took me so long to sort this out – I’d been thinking about the advantages of buying a router-modem that had wireless capability ever since, well… forever. With three PCs and a and a laptop already wired in to my existing wired-router, I had run out of Ethernet ports. Daft …
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Busy…Busy…
I really must allow more time for actioning things after attending OCA committee meetings. I promised myself that I’d leave yesterday’s meeting with hardly anything to follow-up on – some chance! I was up at 5.15 this morning (and that’s crazy on a Saturday! – even for me!!). I worked on stuff like follow-up letters …
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OCA Committee Meeting
I travelled down to the BRIT School for an OCA committee meeting today. It’s over 100 miles, so I left early – really early (4.45am)in order to miss the traffic round the M25 and especially the south-side of the Dartford Bridge. The meeting was originally scheduled fro 13th February, but the snow and the general …
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The Cats are four years old today
Bon-Bon and Biscuit are four today! Compared to their previous Birthday, both are now equally affectionate to us – Bon-Bon had always been a little ‘stand-offish’, but she’s now much more chilled. Biscuit has even strayed onto my lap VERY occasionally! No chance with Bon-Bon though!!! Since discovering Patsy the cat-groomer over in Rushden, their …
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Biscuit and Bon-Bon for a bath!
We took the cats over to see Patsy of Rushden Persian Rescue for their six-weekly ‘bath-and-brush-up’. This is only their second visit there. Their first, back in January was because the previous groomer had been arrested for cruelty to animals after an RSPCA raid late last year!!! We made good use of time today, popping …
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Laptop Battery
I suppose I should have realised that the original battery on my Dell Laptop was ‘on its last legs’. Symptoms such as the battery only lasting 5 minutes after a full-charge and arriving at my Accountant’s today to find that it wouldn’t even boot-up on battery-power! Bugger! A quick search using Google found a suitable …
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TV: BBC Trailer for ‘Being Human’
Ahh, found it! The original trailer for Being Human on YouTube. The series has just finished on BBC3, but the good news is that they’ve commissioned a second series – great!
TV: What? What?
Fans of Doctor Who, listen up! Digital Spy has some exclusive photographs of the next ‘Special’ (Easter 2009). What do we know so far about the story-line? Not much actually – We know that the title will be ‘Planet of the Dead’ (more info here) and that comedian and actor Lee Evans is in it. …
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Ann’s PC
I had a productive morning revamping an old Course and fine-tuning one for later this week, so I was well-ahead. I used the time to start work on trying to solve the problem with Ann’s PC. It’s been suffering from random re-boots and ‘forgetting’ drive ‘e’. I know for certain, it’s not a software problem, …
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Dubai and Oman photographs ‘re-done’
I realised that the photographs I’d uploaded to my site whilst we were in Dubai were too small to be fully appreciated on some large-screen monitors so I re-coded all the html. They’re a lot larger now. See them HERE
Roy and Susan’s for the weekend
We drove over to Roy and Susan’s Saturday afternoon. It was Roy’s birthday yesterday and we’d been invited to theirs to help him celebrate! We stopped of in Huntingdon on the way through and picked up a new cat-carrier. We were a little too early for Roy and Susan’s so we remained in the car-park …
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David and Val here for Lamb!
David and Val joined us for our normal monthly dining get-together. This time it was our turn to cook and Ann rustled-up a rather tasty leg-of-lamb and really good selection of vegetables. It was excellent! Ann had tried a new way of cooking it – a cross between roasting and steaming and it certainly paid-off …
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TV: Being Human
Ahh ha! As I’d hoped, BBC3’s ‘Being Human‘ has been commissioned for a second series! – That’s excellent news!
The final countdown…?
Dah-Dah-dah-da, Dah-Dah-dah-da-da… Well maybe it’s not so dramatic, but it sometimes feels like it. 27 years’ service and 199% loyalty has counted for nothing when the smelly-stuff-hit-the-fan. Ann has now had her second and final 1-to-1 with her boss – Her last day at work will be 15 May 2009. That means that her last …
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It’s Lent
It’s Lent today – what am I giving up? It’s the 3 Cs… Chips… Chocolate…Ice Cream. So that’s no chocolate-chip ice-cream then!! Let’s see how I get on! Update: 18 March 2009. No problem so far (surprisingly!)
New Blog
I created a new blog for my business-site today in preparation for its major re-design later this year.
PC Wizard!
I popped round to Joan’s (a friend of David and Val’s) to sort out some niggles with her laptop. There was nothing seriously wrong with the machine although it was suffering (performance-wise) with a lack of RAM (only 512 Mb). I ran a number of diagnostics and generally cleaned up the machine. I wouldn’t say …
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TV: Being Human
I don’t normally feel compelled to comment on a TV series when they’re mid-season, but Being Human is an exception in my book. We’re now up to episode 5 – the final episode is next week – and the BBC ‘Being Human ‘Blog is buzzing! Here is what one blogger said: This is the best …
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Chinese ‘blow-out’ with Jo and Janet
In preparation for giving-up something for the period of Lent, we were invited to Jo and Janet’s for a mega-Chinese meal! I’m aiming to give up chips and ice-cream (and possibly chocolate too) for forty days! (Cue soundtrack from Mission: Impossible!) Ann is giving up wine and chocolate! The Chinese-food was probably the best …
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YouTube: Watch this…
If you like time-travel stories and a bit of a laugh, check out this short movie…
A Productive Sunday!
We started the day with a bacon sandwich and coffee – perfect! We then caught up with episode two of the excellent Edge of Darkness DVD. It’s amazing how well the plot has stood up to the passage of time. So much stuff from TV in the 80s looks horribly dated crap when watching it …
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Bev’s new hair-do
Bev had her hair restyled today! Nice!!!
Angela’s 60th
Although it was a few weeks ago, some of ‘the old team’ met up in London today to celebrate Angela’s Birthday. We all planned to meet at the Thistle Hotel, Lancaster Gate for a few drinks before heading off for Halepi’s, the Greek restaurant opposite. We used to frequent this restaurant quite often when we …
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Jobs, Jobs
Ann got some disappointing news today. The merchandising job she’d applied didn’t even get her a first interview. The senior manager vacancy got her to first-base (of three) – a case-study exercise, but she got the thanks-but-no-thanks letter today. Personally, I thought the rejection letter was dreadful, straight out of the file marked ‘standard letters …
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Val’s PC and MAC
I tried to help Val set-up her Mac laptop so it would talk to her Netgear wireless router. What I hadn’t realised was that you don’t necessarily need a PC connected to the router in order to access the router wirelessly from elsewhere – you just have to configure the router correctly in the first …
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Lucky Escape
Watch this, it’s hilarious!!! The moral of the story – never let someone else dominate the conversation! Lucky Escapehttps://media.mtvnservices.com/mgid:hcx:content:atom.com:2f30fb31-a65f-45e6-8c8e-278964fcd24e Atom.com: Funny Videos | Love Sucks | Psycho Chicks & Total Dicks Warning: Contains some strong language Courtesy of atom.com home to a great selection of comedy films
Take-away with Ian and Sharon
Ian and Sharon are on a week’s break and were not too far away in St Neots. So, we drove over there catch-up with them and sample a local take-away! They were staying at Paxton Hill House which contains three self-catering units in the grounds of a large privately-owned country house. We arrived around 6.40 …
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TV: Whitechapel
I just finished watching the third and final episode of Whitechapel from last night. What a gripping mini-series this has been! London 2008. A series of horrific crimes suggest someone is carrying out copycat Jack the Ripper murders 120 years after the killer struck. The clock is ticking as the case turns into a hunt …
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Ralph’s Dad
Karen emailed us to let us know that Ralph’s Dad, Doug, had died. We didn’t know him personally, but Ralph had often spoken about him. He would have been 95 this year – a great innings! RIP Doug!