It’s Jo’s birthday today! We went to The Old Bakehouse in Rothwell for our table at 7.15pm. I think this is the third or fourth time we’ve been there. Service was excellent (as normal) – and so was the food! We got through two bottles of red wine plus a bottle of sparkling water …
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Losing the network – Finding the Network – Losing the Network?
Hhmmm…this is strange. Over the last few weeks, I’ve noticed that randomly, I seem to be losing the ability to connect to other PCs on the network. The biggest problem is that it is random! I thought I’d narrowed it down to a faulty router-modem, but having taken delivery of a new one today, it …
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Meal with Mags and Ian
We met up at Georgetown in Stratford-upon-Avon. I’d been round at Mags’ helping her set-up her new laptop in readiness for her six-weeks of work in India. I’d not heard of the restaurant before and the decision to go there was based on Ian discovering it was 3 meals for the price of two! It’s …
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Felt Tip Thieves
Nick, our neighbour’s son, is playing bass for The Felt Tip Thieves. Check out their page on MySpace! Some great tunes especially ‘Lovelife’.
Charity event
Last night’s event on behalf of the United Foster Carers’ Association was great! – Sharon’s on the Committee. We met Pete and Diane, who were part of our table and we had a good laugh for a worthy cause. The event was based around a three-course meal (good food for 12 quid!) and a disco. …
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Trip to Worthing
We drove to Worthing today too have lunch with Ian and Sharon and to attend a ‘charity do’ that they’re involved in. We didn’t visit Mum on the way through as she’s got some sort of bug and so have we. None of us wanted to share! We stopped off at Pease Pottage Services at …
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Meal with David and Val
We drove over to Wollaston tonight to the ‘Wollaston Inn’. A short journey of about 30 minutes got us there in plenty of time. It was an unusual setting with the Restaurant ‘bolted on’ to the side of the Pub. It looks as if the restaurant may once have been a Bank or something similar. …
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Julie – Promotional Leaflet
Julie popped round. She wanted some help with the pdf promotional leaflet for her web-site.
The Laptop lives…
I ran all of the spyware software I could get my hands on overnight – and they found nothing – so it looks as though we’re back up-and-running. Thanks Dell!
The Laptop dies…
Bugger! The laptop started playing up today – very slow and then it wouldn’t boot at all! Those very helpful people at Dell helped it to boot again, but it was still very sluggish when loading programs. I also found some suspicious activity in the start-up routine (various dll files with random letter-strings as their …
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DVD: ‘Journey to the Far-Side of the Sun’
Finally got round to watching this today. It’s just been released on DVD and I remember it well from the few times it’s been shown on the TV in the past. A Gerry and Sylvia Anderson Production with some great special effects! You’ve probably got to be a ‘GA’ fan to really enjoy it…so it …
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Jeff Wayne’s: War of the World’s Tour 2009
Lucky us, we were able to get tickets for Jeff Wayne’s 2009 War of the Worlds Tour. We’re seeing it at the O2 Arena in London! There’s a good animation/video doing the rounds that’s worth a watch. It later appeared on YouTube. To coincide with this Tour, ‘The Spirit of Man’ single and video were …
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Lunch with Sally
Met up with Sally at Brown’s in Cambridge today. I can’t believe it’s almost a year since we saw each other. Sal had a crappy journey because she was stopped by the Police over some confusion with her insurance documents – Poor Sal!! Anyway, we had a good lunch and got to talk about Sal’s …
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The Alan Parsons Project – Remastered Set
Being a bit of a ‘completist’, this was very satisfying! I finally got hold of the remaining remastered Alan Parson’s Project Albums – so, I have them all now. From the first – ‘Tales of Mystery and Imagination’- originally released in 1976 right up until ‘Gaudi, his last in the Project series, released in 1987. …
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Rosi’s for Dinner
We were invited round to Rosi’s tonight for a meal. An early start – 4pm, mainly to make best use of the sunshine! Most of the gang were there, although Karen was away sailing; Tom and Julie and Georgina; Debbie and Stefan. And, as it turned out, it looked like everyone had heard about Rosi’s …
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Bye-Bye TV, Hello TV
We drove over to John Lewis at Peterborough today to buy a new TV for the bedroom. We’d done lots of research (as usual!) and in the end settled for the Sony Bravia 20 inch LCD, Model KDL20S3000. Best news of all was the price we paid was cheaper than the one shown on display …
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Happy Birthday to me!
Here we are at 52 years young. Just like last year, I’m celebrating my Birthday at home, as I’ve scheduled not to work today. We’re out this evening to Han, our favourite Chinese restaurant in Market Harborough. An excellent meal and superb service – and they were very busy too! I received a GREAT range …
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Manchester
I travelled up to Manchester today for work with a client tomorrow. I met up with Dave B who was on his way to a friend in Leicester. We had a good lunch in Pizza Express and then sat outside Café Nero in Piccadilly Gardens and put the world-to-rights! What a great time. Weather was …
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Car in for Warranty work
The car went into Ford’s today to see if they can solve the problem with the front parking sensors. They only seem to work if ‘reverse’ is engaged followed by ‘drive’ – Not much use if you’re heading for an obstacle in a forward direction! Having heard from Ford today, it seems like it’s supposed …
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Major new BBC Series – ‘Merlin’
A major new series – Merlin – started last night on BBC1. Because we had friends with us, we watched it on Sunday. We enjoyed the first episode very much – Far better than BBC’s ‘Robin Hood’. A good story-line and good special effects (by ‘The Mill’ – who also do them for Doctor Who). …
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Surprise Visit
Ian and Ann had spent the night in Peterborough and popped in on their way back to Stratford-upon-Avon. We had coffee outside as the weather was so good. It was good to catch-up, as we haven’t seen them for a while.
Roy and Sue here for Dinner
Well, Plan A was to have Roy and Sue stay-over for the weekend, but it looks as if events have overtaken them this week and they have to get back for Sunday to deal with their horse. Still, it was good to see them and they stayed until about 10.30. We started to clear up …
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New James Bond Theme
Alicia Keys and Jack White have recorded the theme tune for the next James Bond film, ‘Quantum of Solace’. I normally like the Bond themes…but not this one…no-way…ever…ever. I actually think it’s the worst song I’ve ever heard!! I’ve listened to it twice now. The first time was yesterday, where I thought: “hmmm, maybe it’ll …
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Eric Woolfson Album downloads
I discovered that (at last!) Eric Woolfson has made a couple of his Albums available for download as mp3s. This Album is of the Theatre Production. The world premiere of GAMBLER took place in October 1996 in Monchengladbach, Germany where it ran for 18 months. In 1999 the leading Asian Theatre Production company Seensee premiered …
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Evening Walk
We re-started our short evening-walks tonight. We were only out for around 25 minutes – but we felt good to have got back into the habit!
Day 8: Holiday in France
We travel back today. Weather is a cool and breezy 15°C. After checking-out, we jumped in the C4 and headed in the direction of Toulouse Airport but stopped off at ‘Castelnaudry’ a few junctions up on the motorway. A bustling town with an impressive war memorial. We had a quick walk-round and then stopped for …
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Day 7: Holiday in France
We were up at around 8 and had brekky about 9 (as normal!). It’s much colder today and windier. Initially the temperature was 16°C – brrrr! We went exploring in the car again. Initially we headed for ‘Trèbe’ – another ‘one-horse-town’ (where the horse was away on holiday!). What we did notice was, that it’s …
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Day 6: Holiday in France
We were up at 7.45 having both slept really well. The weather forecast today is for a high of 29 degrees – lovely! After breakfast, we drove to ‘St Hilaire’. There is an Abbey there which is worth a look. It was an impressive place and well preserved. Although it’s now 24 degrees, there’s some …
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Day 5: Holiday in France
Ann had the best night’s sleep of the holiday whilst I had a restless night As a result, we didn’t get up until 8.15. The hotel’s theme of ‘no-lights’ continued into the breakfast area – maybe it was built in the ‘dark-ages’ (arf-arf!). Talk about ‘romantic’, I think I’ll take a torch tomorrow!! 🙂 After …
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Day 4: Holiday in France
We were up at 8 and in breakfast by 9. We were especially hungry as we’d not had any food since yesterday lunchtime and restaurant was closed last night! We’re leaving this morning for our next venue – ‘Chateau de Cavanac’ in er, Cavanac. So, we said our good-byes and ‘fired up the Picasso’. We …
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