Out with David and Val tonight to the Montagu Arms to sample their excellent menu!!! Picked up the repaired lawn mower today – all sorted and it only cost £30 to put it right!
Mower Man
Took the lawn mower to get it repaired today. Cripes, it won’t fit in the Mondeo boot either! Looks like it’ll have to go on the back seats. Should be fixed by Friday.
Lawn Mower
The new petrol lawn mower arrived! Hurrah!!! I quickly assembled it and filled it up with oil – that’s good! 👍 Err, …in the PETROL tank – that’s bad! 😟😟😟 Luckily, I found a local company to fix it. I’ll take it down there tomorrow as it’s too big to fit the boot in the …
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Clean Cats – Second Visit
Took the pussies back to the cat grooming place in Brigstock for their second wash-and-brush-up. See HERE for their first visit. Apparently they were quite aggressive whilst being washed and combed out (they hate it – that’s why WE don’t do it!)
Nicki…
Ann’s friend Nicki came to see us today. Great to see her, as always – and her chocolate brownies always get a great reception!
Karen’s 50th
We all got together at Lui’s in Montagu Street to celebrate Karen’s 50th birthday. Food was out of this world – Probably the BEST steak I’ve ever tasted! Rosi, David, Julie, Tom, Debbie and Stefan, Paul and Karen were there. We all went back to Karen and Paul’s afterwards for a few drinks. Good to …
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Monitor Blog
The new 20 inch widescreen monitor manufactured by BenQ arrived today from eBuyer. An excellent piece of kit with a very bright and sharp image.
Sorted! Blog
Wow! Got the car back yesterday! excellent news! They had carried out a really good job on the dent/scrape. Almost 1600 pound’s worth of damage was caused by the accident a week-or-so ago. Glad I wasn’t paying and thank heavens for ‘protected no-claims bonus’ too!!! Finally got everything working again on my XDA. Had to …
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A Stressful Friday!
The Jaguar should have been repaired by today…but it hasn’t been as they’re still waiting for parts. Hopefully it’ll be ready by Monday. Finally installed the last piece of software on the new PC – Phew! Still can’t get Calendar to sync with Outlook though! Bugger! We seem to be suffering from random power cuts. …
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PC Rebuild
I’m spending most of this week re-installing software on the new PC. it’s all gone very smoothly except that i can’t get my Calendar to sync with Outlook 2003. tasks, Contacts, Notes and Files are fine, just Calendar. Looks like I’ll have to wipe the XDA and start again!
Jaguar repair
Took the Jaguar to the Doctors 🙂 today. Should get it back by Saturday!
Long Weekend with Roy and Susan
We travelled over to stay with Roy, Susan and their kids Lauren and Janine in Ramsey. It was great to see everyone again and they’ve bought themselves a very nice house there. Popped into our favourite pub/restaurant at Keystone on the way. We travel back tomorrow – Sunday.
Bashed Jaguar Blog
OUCH! The Jaguar got hit by a car on the A4 roundabout where it joins the M4. Looks like the third party was in the left-hand lane going right! – across in front of me!!! More-or-less the whole of the passenger site has a scrape on it and it looks like it’ll be ‘away’ for …
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Vienna – Day 3
A gloriously hot day today. Probably the hottest day in Europe. It must have reached 23-24 degrees. We did more site-seeing today taking in the Parliament and Council buildings. We also looked around the Sisi Museum and the ‘Kings Apartments’. The famous horse stables was fully booked so we had to miss that out this …
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Vienna – Day 2
A great night’s sleep and up for breky around 9. Met up with Adrian for a coffee next door to the hotel. Adrian acted as tour guide and we got a good feel for the local area (and a superb ice cream parlour). We also found out how the tram system worked! Tonight we’re going …
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Vienna – Travel and Day 1
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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