So, here we are on our final full-day here. The weather forecast is excellent (again), and so we’re going to drive up to Belfast and explore the city. 9.30am: As usual, there’s nothing on the roads, so it was a straightforward journey to Belfast. We parked in Castle Court car-park and that gave us direct …
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Holiday in Ireland – Day 5
Here we are then, approaching the end of the holiday – with just one more day to go! The weather forecast is for a hot day (again!), something like 20-21 degrees, so we’re going to drive south, down to Newry and then onto Kilkeel on the coast and then follow the coast road up to …
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Holiday in Ireland – Day 4
After what felt like yesterday’s circumnavigation of the globe, we’re taking it a bit easier today! So, we’ll spent most of the morning at the apartment, catching-up with our reading. 10.45am: It’s the warmest day so far – 19 degrees – so we’re heading out to National Trust’s Rowallane Gardens. What a beautiful place …
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Posting problems
For some reason, none of my (holiday) blogs containing photographs can be posted whilst we’re away. It might be something to do with the extremely slooooow internet connection here, or, something more complex than that. Anyway, it’s Wednesday, and normal (blogging) service will continue once we get back on Saturday, when I’ll hopefully post some …
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Holiday in Ireland – Day 3
Up at 7, as it’s pay-day and I wanted to square the money before we went out today. It’s the great trek northwards today, hopefully to include a scenic route offered by Peter at The Cuan last night. We’re planning to visit The Giant’s Causeway. As things turned out though, it was a day of …
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Holiday in Ireland – Day 2
I was up around 7.30. and looking out of the window, it looks like a fine day ahead – and it’s a Bank-Holiday too, surely that’s not right! Having travelled around the south-eastern part from our apartment yesterday, today we’re going to head west and then north. It’ll also give us an opportunity during …
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Holiday in Ireland – Day 1
A lie-in… unbelievable. Until 8.30… even more so!!! Weather-wise, it looks like a fine day although there’s a strong wind blowing that gave it a wintery feel every so often. 10.15am: Today, we decided to explore the ‘south-eastern’ corner from where we are. So, after a quick breakfast, we set off heading off in the …
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Holiday in Ireland – Travel Day
9.55am: We’re off to Ireland – Belfast – Strangford Lough to be precise. It’s a self-catering apartment in an idyllic spot, about an hour’s drive from the George Best Belfast City Airport and very close to the water. We left home just before 10am and 50 minutes later, we were at Birmingham T2. Initially, the …
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Techy Day II
I popped round to Lee´s to fix her printer/photocopier and install DropBox onto her PC so it networks with ours. Related articles Dropbox icons now respect your global theme (no more manually replacing them!) (omgubuntu.co.uk) Want to email files to your Dropbox? Send to Dropbox does just that. (thenextweb.com) Send to Dropbox Adds Files to …
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Techy Day
A bit of a techy-day’ today. Great – I love days like this! I spent the morning over at Julie’s helping her to add some apps to her new shiny new phone, the excellent Windows mobile OS HTC Touch 2 and install the 16Gb micro SD card. Unfortunately, I couldn’t help much with Tom’s new …
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Film: Salt
We went to our local Odeon today and saw the 6pm performance of Salt starring Angelina Jolie. With the next James Bond film on-hold because of financial difficulties, this film was marketed as having the potential to fill the action-movie gap and spawn at least one sequel, if not, a whole series of sequels! The …
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Where were you in 1984?
Found this on You-Tube. As a spritely 28 year-old who was into MIke Oldfield, Rick Wakeman and the like, ‘Camel’ was also one of my fave bands at the time. This was filmed at the then, Hammersmith Odeon on 11th May, 1984, as part of their live stationary traveller tour – I (think) I was …
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Lunch with Steve S
Image by Steve Palmer (UK) via Flickr Steve popped over for our normal three-monthly get-together and we went for lunch at our standard haunt: Hobson’s Choice. Actually, it’s been slightly longer than three months, as I noticed we last saw each other back in March. Steve brought a selection of wedding pictures with him showing-off …
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‘Biscuit’ goes walkabout…
Image by Steve Palmer (UK) via Flickr I was working from home all day today, and Biscuit kept coming into the office and whingeing – and that’s unusual. I gave her a cuddle and seemed to quieten her down, but an hour later, she was at it again. At around 4.30, just when I decided …
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Productive Meeting
I took the 9.57 train to London today to meet-up at St Pancras International with Peter and Isabel from The Old Croydonians’ Association. We met upstairs by the famous clock and the statue – ‘The Lovers’. For us to meet anywhere other than the school was a first for us, but the aim was …
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Take a Flyer
Trish popped round and we worked on a flyer today for John.
Spotify
This program looks quite cool – Spotify. It’s a small program that’s free. You install it on your PC and it allows you to search for music online and listen to it (with a occasional adverts). Best thing of all, it lets you share your music (including any music you have on your PC already) …
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Party, Party..!
So, here we are, the day of the party has finally arrived. It’s a Mexican theme this time and we’ve laid on quite a spread – and invited most of our neighbours. We’re praying for good weather, but the signs aren’t good – rain, rain and more rain punctuated by short bursts of sun! …
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Lunch with Sally B
I met up with Sally at our normal haunt Brown’s in Cambridge – just before 12.30. The atrocious weather and frightening on-street car parking prices (50p for 15 minutes!!!) was more than made up for by the excellent service and quality of the food at Brown’s – that’s my starter on the left – …
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Tweak Tweak!
I just can’t leave it alone! I’ve made a few more tweaks to my Blog. https://blog.stevepalmer.com
Mexican Rave!
We’ve just finished shopping at Sainsbury’s Kettering, for the ingredients for Saturday’s Mexican party at ours. Phew! that’s emptied a few of their shelves!!!!
Centenary Book
I drove down to see Isabel today. We worked out the best way to design the Old Croydonians’ Association Centenary Book due for distribution to Members in 2011 and clarified a few techy issues relating to her scanner.
No S***
BBC’s Sherlock was the most watched programme on Sunday – around 7.3 million viewers. That’s pretty respectable and if they don’t commission another series, I’ll eat my deerstalker! https://www.youtube.com/v/cSQq_bC5kIw&hl=en_GB&fs=1?color1=0xe1600f&color2=0xfebd01&border=1&hl=en“;” src=”https://lh6.ggpht.com/_xEp-Etxr6ic/TGDjiBSR1CI/AAAAAAAAFS0/BfF0uInpsZU/video1fcb7c4a656b%5B3%5D.jpg?imgmax=800″ style=”border-style: none;” TV ratings: Sherlock ends with 7.3m viewers (guardian.co.uk) The mysterious case of the unknown Moriarty: how Sherlock Holmes will reveal all (guardian.co.uk) …
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One Year Today…
Hard to believe, but Ann has been in her new job for exactly ONE YEAR today!
The Cat’s away…
Ann’s away on business for a few days. Riotous parties, excessive drinking, late nights then..? Well, maybe not – I’ll leave that until the Party on Saturday!!!!
Redesigning my Blog
It’s certainly been a ‘tech’ weekend! Thanks to Google, I’ve had an opportunity to utilise some of their free blogger-gadgets to add some sparkle to my Blog. I can now automatically get my Twitter feeds to show on the page, and I’ve tidied up the archive section so it doesn’t take up so much screen …
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Test Blog using Zemanta plug-in beta for WLW 2010 Beta
For those, who blog, or maybe are thinking of starting, I’d recommend a plugin for Windows Live Writer (and many other blogging platforms) called ZEMANTA. In short, this plugin will scour the text content of your blog and suggest (via a side panel) links to various related content from around the web-o-sphere. It even provided …
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Ann and Lee go Shopping
Ann and Lee went to Leicester today shopping, leaving me to get a haircut and faff-around at home. Suits me!!! Advice to shop-keepers there: ‘Start taking the medication NOW!’ – you’re in for a busy morning!!!
‘Han’ Restaurant with Ian, Mags and Alan
I drove over to Market Harborough to my fave Chinese restaurant ‘Han’ tonight. It’s the normal three-monthly catch-up with Ian and Mags. This time Alan, Ian’s friend came too, as he’s supporting Ian on his sponsored bike-ride from Land’s End-to-John-O’Groats this week and next. The table was booked for 7.30 and as usual, I was …
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Lee’s here…
Lee arrived this afternoon. She’s getting prepared for the shopping marathon with Ann in Leicester tomorrow!! Is that the smell of melting plastic again???