I’ve been sitting with this blog entry for quite a few weeks now, but having come so far, I don’t want to leave it out, so here goes…
On the recommendation of a friend, we left on our Oban road-trip at 06h00… Which gave us plenty of time to see the sun-rise as we whizzed [...]
Last night, I was in a dicussion about novel solutions to transport problems when the conversation turned to a spoof article I once wrote entitled Tube to be converted to underground cycle network.
Sadly the Brains Trust, the web site that published the article, seems to have vanished. I see the article itself has been [...]
This week, the peaceful citizens of Westwick Gardens were shocked by a heinous felony. Some time between the afternoon of Sunday 22 October and the evening of Thursday 26 October, this VW polo was broken into and ransacked.
Stunned owners Tom & Julie Brazier were just popping down to the local for a quick half, [...]
We’ve enjoyed Google Earth and Google Maps for a long time now. Having exhausted the amusement of finding our house (and the table in our back yard!) and other diverse landmarks, they’re now back in the position of useful tools.
But it’s always fun when they add a new series of photographs for an [...]
After getting the coffee grinder for my birthday, cappuccino for breakfast has become a something of a staple. There comes a time when an aspiring amateur barista starts to think about presentation. Having passed that point some time back and finding ourselves in Oxford street on other business, we popped into Selfridges a couple of [...]
This morning we awoke at 06:00 (wincingly early for a Saturday ) to drive up to Stoney Cove to attempt our last practical test in the BSAC Sport Diver qualification. We started with a dry run so Frank, our instructor, could spot all the bits we were bad at and give corrective guidance. [...]
Tomorrow morning, early, we’re setting off on our longest UK motor trip to date.To Oban on the west coast of Scotland which is just under 510 miles, or 815km, away.
The AA’s website reckons it can be done in 9 hours and some change, Google’s direction finder seems a little more realistic with about 11.5 [...]
Something we’ve been doing increasingly often since getting our first digital camera is creating panoramic images. This is a great time waster, but much fun. Here follow some of the images we’ve created over the last two years. If you click on them you’ll get larger versions of each image.
Hottentots Holland, Western Cape SA [...]
The plans for our new kitchen are slowly maturing. Yesterday we had builder Des round to give us a quote for the installation. We were very happy with our conservatory work which Des did last year. Des is extremely Irish and a joy to listen to. He’s one of the few people we’ve met who [...]
Our company office move, which has been on the cards for about, oh, a year at least, is finally getting started this week.
It’s going to be fun moving into a brand-new building specially commissioned for us, but it’ll also be sad to leave the current buildings, especially our main building, One New Change.
Many years ago. [...]
