Off to my new Dentist for ‘part 2’ of my ‘deep-clean’. Cripes…NINE injections in my gums and a hypodermic the size of a shotgun. Ouch! Paul and Karen came round for one of our Fish and Chip suppers. Followed by far too much ice-cream for everyone! Got to bed around midnight..
Life on Mars – Series 2
Hurrah! Life on Mars – Series 2 began tonight…
The Cats – Bath and Brush-up
We took the cats to their normal bath and brush-up today… Bon-Bon had become very knotted in places. we had gone slightly over the six-weekly cycle – by a mile (last time we took them was 2 December 2006). They had to take quite a bit of fur off Bon-Bon and now she looks a …
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Dentist/Tom and Julie round for Dinner
My first visit to my new Dentist. Mr Nagpal. He decides I need a ‘deep clean’ and then produces a hypodermic that would rival the Saturn V rocket in size! Five injections later, I’m ready for the excavation to begin. I’m sure I felt his foot on my back at one point whilst he tried …
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The White Stuff
The ‘White Stuff’ is back. Predicted by the weather forecasters yesterday, but at 5am there was none and by 6am there was lots! The cats loved it and wanted to stay out…I don’t think so!!!
Wedding plans…
No not ours! We’re off to Stratford-upon-Avon today to meet Dermot and Caroline (Ian’s daughter) and then visit the Registry Office and the Reception venue in our capacity as ‘official wedding photographers’. The Registry Office was ghastly…so was the woman who met us – Hey! it’s their special day, try a be a little more …
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MyBook x2/Out with Val and David
Installed a couple of ‘MyBook’ external hard drives on the network today. Each has a capacity of 500Gb – so that should solve my storage needs. They replaced the Maxtor drives (250Gb and 320Gb) externals which I’ve had for years! I bought them from ebuyer.com at 234 plus VAT (a good price!!!) The old …
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XDA problems – again (again!) (again) (again) (again)
Not again! Alarms stopped working tonight – but they WERE OK this morning. Hard ResetRestore yesterday’s full backup (excluding the PIM data)Cleared out ‘Notification Queue’Kept the device name the sameResynced with the desktop All working now..!
Roger, Jane and Oliver here for lunch
Roger, Jane and Oliver dropped in for lunch on their way back from Chester. It’s Oliver’s third Birthday today and you can see photographs HERE
Chill-out Saturday/Escaping Cats
It’s been a busy few weeks since Christmas and today was an opportunity to do not-very-much-at-all! Ann and I temporarily fixed the fence down the side of the house (the recent gales had brought the whole lot down – but at least they’re not ‘ours’!) ..that allowed us to let Biscuit and Bon-Bon out in …
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XDA problems – again (again!) (again) (again)
Well, this is becoming a regular weekly occurrence! Got up this morning to find that alarms weren’t sounding again on my diary. It was all OK last night. Here we go again… – Hard Reset– Restore an old backup– Delete all the PIM data from the restored data– Delete all the diary-related stuff in the …
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The first snowfall of 2007
Woke up to the first snow of the year! No doubt the country’s transport mechanism will descend into chaos in the next few hours!
XDA problems – again (again!) (again)
Bugger! Got up this morning to find that the alarms aren’t sounding again on my XDA. Here we go again! Update 4pm. Restored a backup from a few days ago – deleted all the PIM data using SKTools – renamed device – resynced with desktop. All is working fine now but there is high count …
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Traffic Chaos
The strong winds created havoc on the roads today. I left Solihull at 4.15 and at 7pm, I was still queuing on M6 waiting to join the A14. I finally got home at 8.30
Lee and Bertie return…
Lee and Bertie joined us for a few months whilst their caravan park is closed
We’re going green(ish)/Gill and Chris for Dinner
We changed most of the light bulbs around the house to low-energy ones today! We went to Gill and Chris’s in Northampton for Dinner tonight. An excellent meal!
XDA is OK now (probably)
OK – All the essential applications have been installed including an upgrade to Agenda Fusion. It all seems to be working fine (touch wood!) After various tests, I’m convinced everything is now working. One of the frustrations associated with the recent ‘alarms-not-sounding’ was the fact that I couldn’t use a working backup file and restore …
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XDA problems – again (again!)
So, having spent a good two hours yesterday reinstalling everything, I get up this morning to find that the alarm function isn’t working AGAIN. I’m positive it was functioning properly last night. OK, OK, this now requires some serious thought! In between all the other work I’ve got to get through today, I’m going to …
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Another problem with my XDA Executive!
When it’s working it’s a fantastic piece of kit..but when it starts to go wrong – it’s a nightmare! Over the past few weeks, the alarm function has been very unreliable – sometimes working, sometimes not. See blog HERE Even using Bruce Jackson’s ‘pmclean’ tool (which initially solved the problem) didn’t seem to work its …
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Drop into Mae and Denis’s/Meet Bev for lunch
We dropped into see Mae and Denis on our way over to meet Bev for lunch in Lincoln. We at at Chimi Changa’s by the riverside. We haven’t been to a CCs for about 20 years. The previous time was in Newcastle. We then had a quick look round the shops. Ann bought THREE pairs …
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XDA alarm problem solved (for good?)/Nicki staying over/Medication Review
Bugger! Looks like my XDA is playing up again – the alarms aren’t sounding. This time though I’ve got it sussed… – Sync all diary data with Outlook– Hard reset the XDA – Restore last known good back up (but not the PIM data) – Sync with Outlook – Run Bruce Jackson’s EXCELLENT utility ‘PMClean’ …
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Jaguar Blog
Took the car back to the Dealership in Coventry today to see if they could fix the electrics problem. It turned out that it was the same problem as last time – a broken cable in the front (electrical) harness. They also fixed the glove-box (that wouldn’t stay closed) and a sticky heated-rear window switch.
Torchwood
Watched the last two episodes of Torchwood on Sky+ today (Episode 12: ‘Captain Jack Harkness’ and Episode 13: ‘End of Days’). What a fantastic series this has been. I only recall a few naff episodes in this first series. I can’t wait for series 2!!! We took the Christmas tree down tonight.
Lunch with Val and David
Well, we both felt shattered this morning! I got up around 9am – late for me, but I couldn’t have got up any earlier! We’re starting to ‘de-christmas’ the house today – starting with taking down the cards. It felt like we didn’t receive as many cards this year but we actually received 130 (116 …
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New Year’s Eve Party at Rosi’s
We had a lazy day today as we need to get into training for the party tonight! 🙂 We picked up Paul and Karen and drove around to Rosi’s around 7.35pm. Rosi’s food was always SUPERB and it was good to catch up with the neighbours too. We saw the fireworks in London on the …
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Mum returns home/Lunch with Roger, Jane and Oliver/Cinema with Jo and Janet (Almost!)
We took Mum home today after her stay with us at Christmas. On the way, we stopped off at Roger, Jane and Oliver’s for lunch. After dropping Mum off we headed home. We planned to meet Jo and Janet at the Odeon to see ‘Deja Vu’ starring Denzel Washington, but the journey from Roger’s to …
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Jaguar Blog
Oh dear! The ignition light came on on the dashboard today – and stayed like it! I called out Jaguar Assist who diagnosed it as an ‘alternator fault of some kind’. Luckily, I’m taking the car in for some other warranty work on Wednesday, although I reckon it’ll take most of the day to fix …
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Lee and Bertie – depart…
Lee and Bertie returned home today. We’ll be seeing them for an extended stay in mid-January
At the Races
Ann and I went to Huntingdon races this afternoon and met up with Nick and Celina. Nick did well, whilst I was 20 quid down on the day. Ann won a fiver!
Christmas Day
Merry Christmas! We heard yesterday that Mae wouldn’t be joining us as she’s come down with a bug. 8.03 this morning, Denis rang to say Bev wouldn’t be joining us as she had come down with a bug too! We had a great lunch and then caught up with stuff we had recored on Sky+, …
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