Angier merged blogs

My Tribute.

We have had a very sad time this last few weeks. My mum inlaw passed away very suddenly and we are all finding it very hard to accept at the moment. My dad inlaw has written a wonderful eulogy to her which you can read on her blog. Just click on the outlaws [...]

Anniversary

We celebrated out 10th wedding anniversary in September and treated ourselves to a meal out in London at Jamie Oliver & #8217;s 15. We went last year and thought we would go back again. Dave and Sonia our friends also came with us as their anniversary was the week before ours. We often go [...]

Australia

I was 40 this August much to my disgust (kidding), and was treated to a very special holiday to Australia. FANTASTIC!! That & #8217;s all I can say!! No really, it was fabulous!! The flight was very long and very exhausting, but I was determined not to get too affected by jet lag. Luckily [...]

Yes I know it?s been a very long time!

Well so much has happened I don & #8217;t really know where to start. February was the last time I even looked at my page let alone write on it. I don & #8217;t really know where to start, so I will give it a go & #8230;. I will have to write different entries as it will be far [...]

Goodbye Val

My Eulogy To Val Val and I met 50 years ago, teenagers both.� I could never forget that day on Shephall Way in Stevenage.� This gorgeous girl was talking to a friend of mine.� On seeing her, I had to stop to talk!� Artie, my friend, wanted Val for himself. That was?t what Val had in [...]

There and Back Again

Well, we & #8217;ve been to Spain and have now been back in the UK for over a week and what a wonderful relaxing time we had with Sally, Matt and Rob. After an early morning start we arrived at the villa at lunchtime, unpacked, gave the terrace a quick clean, unearthed the sun beds and parasols [...]

What?s new

Gosh time flies so quickly then I realise it & #8217;s a good while since I did �blog update & #8230;..so here goes & #8230;. First of all medical update. I have finally finished my 6 months of Chemo treatment and am happy to say that I got through it very well. I had a CT Scan 2 weeks ago which showed [...]

Back in Blighty!

Our 18 days at our beautiful villa came to an end far too quickly.�After the first 3 days the temperatures really notched up and we were enjoying and enduring temperatures in the mid 30 & #8217;s which meant we just chilled out to keep cool most of the time. We�had a lovely relaxing time, lazing in the [...]

Moving

As the blindingly red box above says & #8230;. Goodbye cruel server. I am off to SquareSpace where I hope to breathe fresh life into writing about aspects of life that interest me, but probably no-one else.

Back to Bliss

Well here we are back at our beautiful villa in Spain, albeit only for 18 days but we will make the most of the lovely weather, warm climate, lovely views and lots of socialising and eating out for the short time we are here. We had a good journey over on Sunday. Pam and Bob picked [...]

Fed up to bust!

No I & #8217;m not down and fed up, just fed right up with too too much food as we have had so many meals out over the last week.! Tuesday we went to Letchworth and lunched out with our friend June at the Three Horseshoes in Norton. Meal was a bit disappointing but the company was good. [...]

What we have been up to lately

We had a lovely time when we met up with Ann and Jim and Ann and Norman for lunch last week. It was lovely to catch up with old friends who we had not seen for a year and as usual we had loads to talk about. We went to Peter & #8217;s Aunt Bett and Uncle Chas & #8217;s [...]

More Ramblings from Val

Hi again from Val and Peter in Warboys and welcome to another update on our lives. Peter has finished his major works in the garden and the new beds are all planted and ready now to give us much pleasure through the summer months. The oil tank has gone to who knows where but it & #8217;s removal [...]

Diary Update

2 weeks back in the UK and it does not feel as though we & #8217;ve been away! Peter is back on working in the garden & #8211; Warboys this time! He has widened the flower bed along the width of the garden at the back and after an expensive visit to the garden centre he & #8217;s planted the [...]

More Learning!

For some months I have resisted David & #8217;s urging to move over from my Windows PC to an Apple Mac. David is an Apple advocate but then he does have shares in them! I survived the temptation when he recently upgraded and he successfully sold his & #8216;old & #8217; one on EBay. Peter sighed with relief! However, his wife [...]

Deary me what a long time!!

Yes it has been a while I know & #8230;.. Well so much has been and gone since I last wrote. Too much to mention really.. I got into a new hobby with the help of my mum in law. She is so good at craft and making cards that I found it very interesting and [...]

New hard drive

After 18 months of having my MacBook Pro, I started outgrowing the hard drive. My laptop has to be a desktop replacement for me, since I am away from home so much. So, it has 1000 & #8217;s of photos in RAW format, hours of camcorder footage, all my development environments, all my iTunes music, scans of every bit of post I receive and so on. I knew I was at the limit when I was having to offload stuff onto an external HDD in order to be able to keeping doing things I wanted to do.

External HDD & #8217;s are great, but fiddly as hell when your laptop is a mobile system. So, it was time for an upgrade, and I bought a Western Digital Scorpio 250GB 7200rpm drive.

Unlike the humble MacBook (where you can access the HDD from the battery bay), the MBP requires quite a strip down to get at the drive, and I needed a couple of extra tools for the job (a & #8220;spudger & #8221; and a Torx screw driver).

iPhone demand crashes o2 website

The iPhone 3G demand has been predicted by various pundits to be poor, as it adds so little to the original iPhone.

Well, it is so poor that on the day the O2 make it available as an upgrade, in fact within the first 30 minutes of availability, it has crashed their upgrades website:

Claymation

James and I enjoyed a day out together at Signals in Colchester making clay models for a short video. We had to come up with ideas of a storyline and then build models from plasticine and also make a film set with paper and pens and chalks. It was actually very time [...]

London Eye

We went to the London Eye the other week, and I managed to get a few nice sunny photos during a break in the rain, you can see them on my SmugMug gallery

I was browsing the MacRumors forum and saw a thread for Junes photos, and there was a lovely picture of Westminster. I realised I had a similar picture from my London Eye trip, which I had felt was too poor to publish. But, I applied a similar post-processing treatment that the other guy had done, and voil�...