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???
Carpets – Phase I
In all the years we’ve lived here, we’ve only ever had the carpets cleaned once. Not surprising then, that over time, they’ve all become a bit grubby – especially the beige ones. Step forward, Nigel, the Cleaning Doctor who we met-up with a few weeks ago after seeing an advert in a local magazine. He …
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Shower sorted!!!
Ralph has sorted out our leaking shower tray – nice one Ralph!!! Facilities have now been restored at Pemberley Grange!!!
Camera Lens
Excellent! – My new 45-200 zoom lens turned up today courtesy of Amazon. 45-200 in digital terms makes it a 90-400 in ‘normal’ camera lingo – that’s l-o-n-g!For its zoom capability, it’s incredibly small, and I’m going to use the next few days whilst I’m at home to test it out.
Ralph’s here…
Ralph got to ours around 10 minutes before me (I’d been in Canterbury for most of the day). We’re having a ‘techno-chat’ tonight and then tomorrow, he’s going to sort out the leak in the shower-room.
Sunday: Johnny and Mel/Lee for Lunch/David and Val popped round
Everyone was up a little earlier than planned mainly due to me getting Lee’s ‘mayday’ call just before 7am and then heading for her place. By the time I got back, Ann was already preparing the ‘breakfast feast’ – a Full English! We sat down around 9.30 and tucked-in. By the time we finished the …
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Early Riser (Nothing New!)
6:58. Lee rang – she’d had one of ‘ear attacks’ rendering her completely immobile and feeling rotten. Luckily I was already up. I drove down there and spent an hour or so with her. We called NeneDoc who advised that she starts to REtake the tablets she’s been trying to ‘get-off’ (because it gave her …
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Saturday: Johnny and Mel
A lazzzzzy day! 👍💤 The weather was indifferent, so we had a leisurely breakfast and then read the papers and chatted. That took us up to lunchtime. The sun came out (sort of!) and so we took advantage of the situation and had a light salad lunch in the garden. 2.45pm: Then, it was off …
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Mel and Johnny – Here for the Weekend
Mel and Johnny joined us today for the weekend. We haven’t seen them since we were down in Portsmouth in July last year. Before that, it was April 2007 when they stayed with us last. Johnny had had a ‘store visit’ so they didn’t get to us until around 7.15pm (the original plan was for …
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Wilf!
We popped down to Jo and Janet’s primarily to wish Jan a happy birthday. That’s when we ran into their two gorgeous kittens – ‘Wilf’ and ‘Oscar’. What a couple of sweeties (in spite of them both using my leg as a climbing frame! – ouch!!!) Wilf
Family Lunch
Well almost! We drove down to Roger, Jane and Oliver’s for the gathering of the clan. When I say clan – it was more of a clan-lite!, No, scrub that – clan-super-lite! The original plan had been to get everyone together, simply because we don’t do it that often. We’d not expected my Mum to …
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Cat Service and Stoops to Conquer
Image by Steve Palmer (UK) via Flickr The day started with us taking the cats over the Patsy’s for their six-weekly bath and grooming session. It’s always a challenge – they just seem to know when it’s that date, making the ‘capture process’ shall we say, a little more challenging! I’m still not sure which …
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Posh Houses and Foxton Locks
I took the train down to London today – Gloucester Road area to be more precise – to help out Val H with her computer. Wow! it’s posh round there! I counted THREE Bentleys and TWO Maseratis parked in the street between the Tube station and my five minute walk to Val’s flat – hmmmm …
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The Final Touch
We popped down to Lee’s to put up the picture she’s been waiting for. It had been on order, but out of stock at Laura Ashley‘s. But luckily, Ann spotted it in the local Laura Ashley last week and snapped it up. Good job she she did, because it’s now discontinued!!
Busy Saturday
We’re planning to go to Kelmarsh Hall later today to see English Heritage’s ‘2010 Festival of History’. Ann’s friend Nicki joined and we just had time to whizz down to Lee’s to assemble her new bed and then returning home for a quick lunch. By 12.30 lunch was almost ready, however, the weather still looked …
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Useful Software: ‘SugarSync’
I’m putting ‘SugarSync‘ through its paces over the weekend. It’s a piece of software that keeps multiple PCS in synch with each other – in short, you change a file on one PC and the changes are copied across in real-time to other PCs on your network such as your laptop. Great for when you’re …
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5ive go mad in London
Well, maybe not quite! I set off for London around 2ish and got into town around 3.30. After a quick walk to the Circle Line, I was soon at the Embankment, heading across Jubilee Bridge, heading for the South Bank. It was hot muggy day and perhaps as expected, the place was very busy with …
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LNG Meeting in London
I took the train down to London for one of our regular Learning Network Group self-development meetings. I cut the timing a bit tight for the 11am start, but on arrival, I noticed so did half the others! Six members attended in total where Philip P ran a very interesting session on Gender Dynamics. I …
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Long Weekend Away – Day 3: Final day, shopping
For our final day in Chester, we took a drive to Cheshire Oaks, a massive out-of-town designer shopping outlet about 15 minutes from the hotel. It’s massive – certainly the biggest we’ve ever visited. Ann thinks it’s the largest in Europe. Literally hundreds of shops and even some more outlets at the Coliseum just down …
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