The three cultures of Alex de Bennee

Posted on Tue 31 July 2007 in general • Tagged with films

The weekend involved several brushes with the arts (of sorts). Saturday saw me join Mikey and co to see the robot movie Transformers. Friends reviews have been quite varied. My personal take on the film is if you turn your brain off for the plot and want to see giant …


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Pictures

Posted on Sat 28 July 2007 in general • Tagged with website

I've finally pulled my finger out and uploaded the pictures from this years trip to Canada. I didn't take my compact camera in the end so I took them all with my mobile phone. I'm quite pleased with how some of them came out. Any loss of quality due to …


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Flashing Blue Lights

Posted on Thu 26 July 2007 in general

Yesterday's Wednesday Meal provided excitement as TJ "The Black Widow of Knutsford" fed us a Pea and Asparagus soup for a starter. The bread and cake had already been checked and alerted as not Ste safe although who'd of thought that ASDA's Extra Special soup would contain traces of nuts …


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Fast Forward

Posted on Mon 23 July 2007 in general

Some sales people deserve shooting. There is no justification for selling gold plated 1.5m HDMI cables for ?60-100 and if an "inferior" cable was giving me "lower than VHS quality" I'd take it back because obviously some of the bits are jumping across air to get to my TV …


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Road to Montreal

Posted on Thu 12 July 2007 in general

We decided to drive to Montreal in one big lump. Driving as a couple is the ultimate test of patience and the strength of your relationship. I've been trying my best to avoid commenting after rebukes for my right hand seat driving earlier on. I was however woken up by …


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