17 out of several hundred

Posted on Tue 07 November 2006 in general

I did manage to find a poppy this year when I went to B&Q on Sunday. I haven't seen anyone selling them on the streets in the last few weeks. I did a quick count as I walked around St Anne's square for lunch and saw 17 poppies and …


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No-score draw

Posted on Sun 05 November 2006 in general

I should of stayed watching TV but I instead attempted to tackle the DIY. I'm now up one working extractor fan but it seems I exceeded the weight tolerance on the toilet bowl. As Aidan keeps mentioning it was cracked anyway but it's obviously not meant as a Workman's platform …


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Winter is here, the TV beckons

Posted on Thu 02 November 2006 in general

I'm testing out the limits of NTL's usage policy over the next few days. I'm currently 2 episodes of Lost behind (and despite PA's take I'm still hooked). I'm also catching up on Spooks having played catch up to sync with the broadcasts I've fallen back again because watching the …


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Making travel plans

Posted on Mon 30 October 2006 in general

Yesterday was the cause of much frustration trying to book various tickets for travel. It seems that travel systems aren't cut out for this sort of thing on Sundays. However I have now booked train tickets to visit Jay and Roo at the end of November and I'm also joining …


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Not pissing in the wind

Posted on Tue 24 October 2006 in general

It's good to know that when I make comments about the problems with proprietary codecs to the BBC I'm not alone. Out of 6 comments on the BBC's use of technology to deliver news to it's users 3 mention the problems we have accessing it on free software systems.