7.00am. What a right pain in the posterior! Just when I was getting ahead and I had nothing pressing to do work-wise, I discovered that for some unknown reason, my NetBook was booting-up and then freezing. Several re-boots later, nothing much had changed, so it was obviously something serious! After a bit of detective work …
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Let’s Dance (Week 3 of 7)
Thankfully it was a lot cooler tonight so that made the activity more a little more enjoyable! So, just call me ‘Matilda’ as tonight we practised our waltz. The good news was that I didn’t pulverise Ann’s feet as much as last week; the bad news, I still haven’t quite perfected the moves. More especially, …
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DVD: The International (Blu-Ray)
We watched The International tonight and it was excellent! It’s also the first DVD we’ve bought that features ‘BD-Live‘ (more about that later). Starring Clive Owen and Naomi Watts, the story centres around a group of internationally corrupt bankers (very topical!) and Clive Owen’s attempt to bring them down. Initially a bit of a slow-burner, …
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Nice Kitchen
We had a look at David and Val’s new kitchen. It’s coming on a treat!
Walkies…
Shock horror, I joined Ann and Jo for walk tonight. I’ll be going to dancing lessons next…oh that’s tomorrow!
Gill’s 50th
We drove over to Gill’s for her 50th lunch buffet and got there about 12.45. About 40-50 people came in total, but we only really knew Steve and Denise. It was a good lunch spread with plenty of variety. We met Gill’s Mum, Joan, who I’d met many years ago- but couldn’t remember where or …
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Oundle Festival: The Bootleg Beatles
Nicki drove up to us in the morning and got to us around 11. The weather was a bit unpredictable, but hey, as Jo said: “what’s the worst that can happen?”. Mum decided to stay at home, because of the threatened bad weather. So, Jo, Janet, Nicki, Ann and I, stocked-up with enough food for …
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TV: Doctor Who trailer – ‘The Waters of Mars’
Here we are then…. ..and I’m sure the title is an anagram featuring the word ‘The Master’ – ooo errr!
TV: Torchwood – ‘Children of Earth’ (Episode 5 – Final episode)
A great final episode to the series. It was full of some truly suspenseful moments as well as some very sad ones – Imagine the moral dilemma – you have to kill a young child to save the World. Difficult choice ehh? Now imagine that the child is your grandson! Surely the hardest decision ever?, …
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Cats in… Mum out…Jo & Janet up
Biscuit and Bon-Bon went in for their six-weekly service with Patsy today. We popped into Waitrose on the way back for a few bits for the picnic tomorrow. We took Mum down to The Star at Geddington for lunch. Once again the portions were massive and none of us could manage dessert nor coffee! The …
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TV: Torchwood – ‘Children of Earth’ (Episode 4)
Oh yes, very good – and the scene inside the aliens’ ‘cubicle’ was particularly spooky! …but it looks like they’ve killed off Ianto (you wouldn’t want to work for Torchwood – 60% of the staff have been killed recently!)
TV: Torchwood – ‘Children of Earth’ (Episode 3)
Mmmm…not quite up to the action-packed style of the previous two episodes – but good special effects.
At last, we bought a camcorder!
After a shed load of research, we settled for the Panasonic HDC-SD200. We tried John Lewis, but they wouldn’t match the internet price we’d found. Another quick search revealed that Photobox had suddenly become the cheapest by a mile! Key Features: Full HD recording Dolby Digital 5.1 sound Records to SD and SDHC cards Smaller …
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Let’s Dance (Week 2 of 7)
Luckily, it was lot cooler this week, but the room was still quite hot. This week, we did a little cha-cha and then Bob attempted to teach us all the waltz. Our initial thinking was that this would be a ‘piece-of-cake’ compared to the cha-cha – how wrong we were – and it was good …
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TV: Torchwood – ‘Children of Earth’ (Episode 2)
Excellent – very watchable – an action-packed episode!
Kitchen Plans v2
That was quick! John Lewis emailed through the revised plans for the kitchen. Nice….!
TV: Torchwood – ‘Children of Earth’
“When every single child on Earth stops, Torchwood is thrown into terror…” Torchwood began on BBC1 last night and made its transition seamlessly to the main channel. Unusually though, the series is being shown over five consecutive nights and there has already been speculation in some newspapers that the cast were very unhappy with the …
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Camcorder and the Kitchen Project
We took a drive to John Lewis in Leicester today to see the results of their plans for our kitchen. We were very impressed – they’ve interpreted our wishes and added some creative touches too – a really great job. After going through the plans in detail – we must have been there for over …
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Useful software – Dashwire
This appears to be pretty useful! It’s also completely free too! It’s a piece of software that installs to your mobile phone. You go to the web-site – www.Dashwire.com – and set up a FREE account and then download a piece of software to your mobile phone. Once that’s done, your phone automagically backs-up all …
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Tolethorpe Hall – Midsummer Night’s Dream
Tonight we three drove to Tolethorpe Hall to see ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’. David and Val did to, but we needed to take separate cars because of the number of people and the amount of food! The weather was perfect so we’d planned a picnic. The secret with getting a good picnic spot at Tolethorpe …
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Travel to Mum’s/OCA Summer Reunion
We set off for Mum’s this morning after Ann signed-on. Wed had a really smooth journey down – just under two hours. It had been a hot week – in the thirties – but today, thankfully, started off much cooler. Mum fed and watered us and around three-ish I set off for the School, leaving …
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Let’s Dance… (Week 1 of 7)
…or in my case, let’s stumble around the room with all the grace and co-ordination of a hippo housebrick lump of concrete …err, me! You get the picture. Given enough time, I should be able to master the ‘moon-walk’, the salsa, foxtrot and waltz…but not for a few years yet! Rosi had encouraged us to …
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David round for Supper
Val is working away so Ann invited David round for supper. Ann created one of her home-made pizzas. The weather was so warm, we ate outside – it was a beautiful evening.
Up and Down…
The electric garage door has recently taken on a life of its own. I don’t recall any stories of garage-doors being possessed – however, mine was opening and closing every time I approached it! (Ann’s was fine). Even more bizarrely, if I switched on the interior light in the garage, that triggered the doors too. …
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Pemberley Grange II Router is REALLY live!
After a load of false starts because the router refused to ‘talk-to’ the internet, we can now connect our whizzy new DVD Player to the Internet using our O2 router. Why? Apart from an extra internet connection capability, we can now access YouTube and Picasa Albums through the TV – How cool is that?
Ralph and Karen – here for the weekend
Saturday We drove down to Bicester Shopping Village to meet R and K. The girls did a little some shopping, (but didn’t buy much) whilst Ralph and I pursued more manly activities by like heading to the BOSE shop to see the latest kit. Ralph and I then headed back to ours to chill-out and …
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TV: Torchwood – ‘Children of Earth’
A new series of Torchwood hits our screens on Monday, 6th July. Unusually, the BBC have taken the initiative risk of showing the five episodes all in the space of one week – one episode per night and moving it to prime-time BBC1.
Sub-committee Meeting
Michael Jackson is dead!
I wasn’t his biggest fan, but like most of the population I do own a copy of his album, Thriller and I respect him for the impact he had on the pop-music scene. Singer, songwriter and dancer – what a talent! I can remember back in the early 80s, going to a business meeting at …
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Kitchen thoughts…
Lee from the Kitchen Department at John Lewis (High Cross, Leicester) arrived today to take our briefing for a revamp of the kitchen. Two plans: the first, to go completely bonkers and have the whole space redesigned. The second, a design that just concentrates on the essentials. It much depends on the final price, but …
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