Archive for August, 2006

Long weekend of diving

Thursday, August 24th, 2006

This coming Monday is the “Late Summer” Bank Holiday. The last of UK’s organised bank holidays for the year. *sniff*
Our dive club is making use of the opportunity to do a 3 day dive trip to Anglesey up in Wales – so lets hope the weather bucks up, it’s been raining [...]

Soooo many onions

Sunday, August 13th, 2006

I ventured back onto the online supermarkets for another round of grocery shopping last week. This time it was Tesco who got the business. They offer cheap (not free) delivery, but in their favour they stock some very specific items that we were after.
It all went swimmingly. Two days later, [...]

Upgrading

Saturday, August 12th, 2006

After suffering through quite a lot of low-key chafing about my slow computer, the Minister for Finance (aka Tom) eventually came round to the idea that we could start looking at upgrading my hardware!
In the past, we’ve always practised home computer engineering. Building new machines and upgrading old ones by [...]

Getting back into the swing of things

Saturday, August 5th, 2006

It’s been a fairly relaxing 10 days since we got back to London. In between getting early nights during the week and catching up with our monthly DVD Rental subscription, I haven’t even managed to finish sorting all the photos we brought back from SA!
Today is another lovely day, and this morning I got [...]