A good flight over, although it felt quite long! We arrived around 3pm. The SAS hotel is great. Very modern (Widescreen TV and DVD player in the room) and very nice furniture and fittings. We took a quick walk around the immediate area to get our bearings. Had a great meal in a local restaurant …
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Family Lunch (Easter Sunday)
Mae and Denis came down for Lunch today. Neil rang to say he’d fixed the PC, and it was ready for pick up tomorrow
PC Diagnosis Blog
Neil reckons the PC overheated due an excess of cat fluff inside the PC itself. Major corruption on the hard disk, but it looks as though most of the REALLY important stuff was backed up by me anyway (phew!) Neil is going to reinstall XP and with any luck, I’ll pick it up on Easter …
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Family Blog (Good Friday)
As I was feeling a bit rough, Ann picked up Mum for Easter. Brainwave! Drop off the dead PC at Mum’s and ask Neil to see if he can sus what’s wrong with it
New PC
It looks as if the PC is very ill. Forced to buy a refurbished one. Chose Dell, based on past experiences
PC Two Blog
Hhhhmmmm…a stressful week. My voice is no better plus one of the PCs in the office (the main one) crashed rather spectacularly. Now it won’t boot!
Hoarse Blog
Lost my voice today…completely! Not much warning…tickly throat…then a very quiet world (for everyone else!). Had to postpone the work I was doing for my client!
Ice Age Blog
We went to see Ice Age 2 – The Meltdown at the local Odeon. Excellent film! 11/10. As good as the original Best secene for us was the Vultures singing, “Food Glorious Food!”
Garden Blog
We spent a large part of Saturday and Sunday tackling some of the bigger jobs around the garden. Trimming the Honeysuckle above the pergola, pressure washing the pathway out front and generally pruning the back garden. Also dumped the large PC monitor from PC ONE in favour of a sleek new widescreen LCD version courtesy …
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5ive Blog
Met up with the orginal 5ive – that’s Carey, Antoinette, Angela and Philip – at ‘EV’, a sister restaurant to TAS near The Cut in London. It was great to catch up with everyone, as we haven’t done this for a while.
Birthday Blog
Off to Newcastle today by train to celebrate Ann’s Birthday. An early train – 7.06am from Peterborough!!! …and then round to Rosi and David’s tonight for a meal with Paul and Karen. Rosi did a superb Indian meal – all prepared from scratch. We had such a good time!! Didn’t get home until 2am!!!!
Mondeo Blog
Well, Ford took a look at the Mondeo and couldn’t find the problem. They fitted a new alternator, and although the car is running again, I’m not convinced! This is the THIRD alternator in six months Strange….
Social Blog
Gill, Chris, Denise and Steve came round tonight. It was great to see them all again – it’s been a while! Ann performed miracles in the kitchen, and we enjoyed a FANTASTIC meal!!!
Mondeo Blog
Uh-oh! The ‘old’ problem with Mondeo has returned! I was on my way to Peterborough when the red battery light sprang into life on the dashboard. Car was recovered to Ford at Irthlingborough. Bugger! That’s really screwed up my Saturday!!
Brighton Blog – Day Two
We spent the whole morning exploring the shops in Brighton – they were excellent! We also revisited the Royal Pavilion having not been there for over 15 years. It was in fine condition and it look like they’ve restored some new rooms upstairs. Lunch was at Momma Cherris – made famous by Gordon Ramsey’s visit …
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Brighton Blog – Day One
We had a good journey down and after parking the car, took a walk round the town. The shops look superb – a good mix of independents and familiar faces. Every other shop seems to be a restaurant – shame! 🙂 We checked into the hotel, The Old Ship Hotel, Brighton, a four star establishment, …
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Birthday Blog – The Cats; 1 year old today
The cats celebrated their first birthday today. In human years, we’ve read that makes them 16 years old – adolescent teenagers! In the months we’ve owned them, we have seen their behaviour change quite considerably. Whether this is due to them being spayed or a part of their natural growing up process, we don’t know …
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Clean Cats Blog
Found a cat grooming place not too far away in a village called Brigstock, so the cats went in for a wash-and-brush-up today
Chinese Blog
We tried out the ‘Royal Bento’ in Wellingborough with David and Val on their recommendation. Great food!
NEC Blog
Took a drive up to the NEC in Birmingham for the ‘Travel and Destinations’ exhibition (only because we were sent some free tickets!) Very disappointing! – Ironically, for a ‘travel’ exhibition it was a nightmare to find the right hall from the car park
Jaguar Anniversary Blog
I’ve owned the Jaguar for exactly a year now. It’s probably been the most satisfying car I’ve ever owned
Angel Blog
Took the car to the Jaguar dealership at Coventry today to have the Road Angel Plus hard wired into the car.
Alloy Blog
Richard from Wicked Wheels came round to refurbish the alloy on the Jaguar. An excellent job!
South African Lunch
Kay and John came round for lunch. We decided we’d replicate a meal we’d had in South Africa when we were on holiday there. Butter-nut squash soup, Lamb with pureed vegetables, and some saucy, sweet desserts. Marvellous! Kay is off to India on business soon and John returns to Rhodesia in a fortnight’s time for …
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First 3g connection
OK, I know it’s a bit geeky, but I managed to get a 3g connection whilst I was in Croydon today. 3g is not available where I live, so it was good to try out the increased speed for surfing and email. Bugger! The Jaguar went into ‘limp home’ mode today showing ‘gearbox fault’ on …
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Angel Blog
My new Road Angel PLUS arrived today courtesy of thos very nice people at BlackSpot Interactive. Mind you, the previous version was good but now that the PLUS shows the advisory speed limit too, that for me, made it well worth the upgrade. My 6 penalty points have been because I THOUGHT I knew what …
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3g Blog
Ahh…the joys of trying to stay at the cutting edge of communication 🙂 Finally got all the software installed on my new 3g O2 XDA Executive, only to find that… 1. There’s no 3g coverage where I live2. There’s not likely to be in the near future3. O2 sent me the wrong SIM card so …
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PowerPoint Blog
Off to Sally’s today to bring her up to date with her PowerPoint skills. I managed to scuff an alloy on the way out on the Jaguar (again!). 🙁
Family Blog
Ann and I picked up Mum and met up with Neil, Debbie, Alfie and Frankie at ‘The Papadom’ in Bromley. Excellent food and it was good to catch up! Last time we all met there was almost 8 years ago!!!
Stitched Blog and Steve’s new toy
Ouch! – Took the cats in to have their stitches removed. They didn’t flinch at all – but I did! My new ‘XDA Executive’ arrived today from those very nice people at o2