Picked up the Jaguar today – looks like they’ve managed to fix the air-con. Touch wood they’ll be no more problems, although the clock is still losing time even though it’s supposed to be connected to the GPS circuit. Strangely, the s-type diesel I had out on loan performance-wise was so much better – almost …
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XDA – Here We Go Again..
That’ll teach me to get smug about the alarm problems sorting themselves out on my PDA. Today, for no reason, the alarms stopped working again. The last time this happened was on the 30th January and I was convinced that the original problems had been down to my faulty PDA back-up program. Obviously not! Still, …
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Lebanese Blog
Met up with Ian at Coventry University today. We decided to try out the local Lebanese restaurant just up the road for lunch ‘Aqua’ – excellent food!!
Musical War of the Worlds DVD
This has to be the about the best music DVD I’ve ever seen! Live orchestra, actors, big screen back projection and a 3D reconstruction of Richard Burton doing the narration. filmed in HD and DTS sound last year at Wembley Arena. Well done Jeff Wayne – truly outstanding!!!! I thought the Album was good, but …
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Lee returns from hospital/New bedroom furniture
David our neighbour was kind enough to drive all the way to the hospital (200 miles round trip)today to bring Lee back. What a super guy! Although Lee is a bit frail, she was happy to be back ‘home’. We now have to feed-her-up to help her gain weight. We popped into town to begin …
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Birthday Blog – The Cats, Two years old
Biscuit and Bon-Bon celebrated their second Birthday today. Although, unlike us humans at the equivalent age (24), they aren’t living in their own place, ‘going steady’, thinking of getting married nor pressurising their parents for money! They are, however, still using Mum and Dad as a taxi service!! Biscuit tends to be the more sociable …
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Rick and Sam’s new place
We held the LNG at Rick and Sam’s new apartment in Bermondsey. Nice place! We could see Tower Bridge and ‘The Gherkin’ from the front room. It cost them somewhere in the region of 300k plus 100k for renovations and improvements.
Fish and Chips Supper/Knackered Jaguar
David and Val came round for a fish and chips supper. A busy day all round for all of us. I ran late, Ann ran late and David’s brand new car broke down! Phew! I’ve got trouble with the Jag again. This time, the heating system has decided to go into meltdown – well, it …
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Oven Clean
Kevin from OvenU made his regular yearly visit to our encrusted oven today. An excelent job. Looks better than brand new! OvenU uses a non-toxic formulation that is just amazing! No fumes, no fuss, just a bright and shiny oven inside and out!!!
“Loadsa Money!”
Well that’s a pleasant surprise! Thanks to our neighbour, David. He alerted us a month-or-so ago that it is now possible to check your Council Tax banding online and compare it against similar properties. When we logged on, we found that our house was a band HIGHER than similar properties in the area. You can …
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Chinese Blog/Lee goes to Hospital
Joined Ian and Mags at ‘Han’ in Market Harborough for our normal three-monthly get-together. It was good to catch-up! Lee was admitted yesterday for her small operation. A very stressful morning waiting for the hospital to ring to let her know if they had any beds!!!
Film: – The Good Shepherd
Jan and Jo invited to the local Odeon to see ‘The Good Shepherd’ starring Matt Damon, Robert de Niro and Angelina Jolie The GOOD Shepherd?…more like the most boring shepherd in the world…ever! What a rubbish film! Strange really as the cast was good but the film lacked structure and was far too l-o-n-g at …
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Roasted Jaguar
On the way to the clients this morning, I noticed the temperature inside the car was a little warm. It was a cold day, so I didn’t think much about it. However, on the way back, the interior turned into an oven. None of the temperature settings seem to work, and putting it on ‘Lo’ …
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Book Blog
I’m not a great book reader (for pleasure that is), but I’ve just finished reading Robert Sellers’ 288 page paperback on ITC’s cult TV series of the 50s/60s/70s and early 80s. The man behind all these was of course, the late, great Lew Grade. If you remember and liked series such as ‘Danger Man’, ‘The …
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Stamford for Tea
We took a drive up to ‘The George’ in Stamford with Lee and Bertie. We also had a quick look round the town. The service in The George was very poor, but it was good to chill out!
Dentist/Paul and Karen round for Dinner
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